#paragraphs. Global gay: 12 excerpts and music videos of LGBTQI life around the world
Extracts taken from the book Global Gay. Comment la révolution gay change le monde. Martel, Fréderic (2013). Paris: Editions Flammarion.
We are passing, in Europe and America, from the criminalization of homosexuality to the criminalization of homophobia. In times gone by it was difficult to be openly homosexual, but today it is difficult to be openly homophobic.
La Nueva Guardia - Nadie podrás decirnos que no. Buenos Aires, 2014.
The gay question becomes a good criteria for judging the state of democracy and the modernity of a country.
La Evolución del Hombre al Pájaro - Barba de tornado australiano de fuego. Madrid, 2015.
The defense of gay rights is becoming the new frontier of human rights.
Julieta Venegas - Te vi. Tijuana, 2013.
For a long time, left wing politicians in general, and homosexuals in particular, believed that the gay liberation would come from socialist regimes, whether he was communist, Trotskyist Maoist or Castro. And then one fine day, everyone realized that they were very homophobic dictatorships.
Austra - Beat and the Pulse. Toronto, 2011.
Gays may enter globalization, gay capitals become Americanized, gay middle classes emerge at full speed, but homosexuality often continues to be lived in a crazy way. It is steeped in national culture and regional specificities. Gays are global and local.
Alex Anwandter - ¿Cómo puedes vivir contigo mismo?. Santiago, 2012.
In post-gay neighborhoods, Do they actually talk about homosexuality?
The Oaths - Distinto. Guadalajara, 2016.
Although homosexuality is universal, its recognition isn't. The gay question remains fractured; not so much between East and West, as is often thought, not even between the North and the South, but within every civilization, within every continent, and sometimes, within each country. There are not two homosexualities, the western one and the eastern one. There is no clash of sexualities. There is no gay clash of civilization.
Alexis Blair Penney - Lonely Sea. San Francisco, 2011.
There is a class of homosexuality which, in high society, is tolerated by the regime whenever it is discreet or even secret. The very nature of the system demands it, because Sunni dogmatic Islam forces Muslims to be non-heterosexual before marriage.
Furfriend - Geck. Berlin, 2012.
In Amman, as in Havana, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh, Cairo, Mumbai or in Beijing, gay life is an underground, anti-conventional, risky, and a wonderful counterpart.
Former Ghosts - New Orleans. Los Angeles, 2011.
Everywhere gay nightlife is elastic, ephemeral locals and gays live daily. Or rather, they live nightly.
The Kills - Baby Says. London, 2011.
Is it possible to be so young and look so tired? And have nothing but the history of your life?
Vanity - Arca. Caracas, 2015.
Globalization does not erase the differences within the homosexual world, but rather it enshrines them. Therefore,there is a more powerful value than that of diversity: that of differences within the minorities themselves. The diversity of diversity.
Perfume Genius - Queen. Seattle, 2014.
