Gay Couple Sue Taipei City Government for Rejecting Marriage Registration; City Gov’t Urges Central Gov’t to Legalise Same-Sex Marriage (2012-03-29)
The headline below reads, “Same-sex marriage lacks legal backup; Department of Civil Affairs, Taipei City Government: We feel sympathy but cannot offer help.”
同婚無法源 北市民政局:愛莫能助 (Lih Po Daily, 2012-03-29)
【記者史倩玲整理報導】針對媒體報導同志伴侶向戶政事務所申請登記同志結婚,遭北市中山區戶政事務所拒絕其申請事件,台北市政府民政局表示,同志結婚無法令依據,但北市民政局已向內政部請示政府研究同志婚姻合法化。
民政局表示,依據現行民法規定婚姻係以終身共同生活為目的之「一男一女」適法的結合關係,因此法令上不允許同性結婚。但民政局為了協助同志伴侶爭取婚姻登記權利,特別援引總統府國家人權報告撰寫小組報告,向內政部請示政府應朝同性戀婚姻合法化努力及研究,而法務部表明尚在研議中。
民政局長黃呂錦茹同時強調,市政府始終與同志朋友站在一起,因受限於法令規章,致無法受理同志伴侶的結婚登記,希望同志朋友能加以體諒。另外,對於同志朋友要正名爭取其應有的各項權利,而向台北高等行政法院提出訴訟,台北市政府民政局表示理解並予以尊重。
Hong Kong Sex Cultural Festival Features Intersex Issue (2012-03-11)
Taiwanese intersex activist, Hiker Chiu, visited Hong Kong Sex Cultural Festival and urged local doctors not to perform sex assignment for intersex babies.
The headline below reads, “Get to know about intersex persons at Sex Cultural Festival”.
性文化節認識陰陽人 (Sing Po, 2012-03-11)
【記者譚淑貞、本報靜態組報道】被人以有色眼鏡看待的「陰陽人」,甫出生就同時擁有男的性器官和女的性器官;台灣的「陰陽人」丘愛芝,六歲時進行性別指定手術,割除陰莖,但「又男又女」的真身,曾經帶對他造成痛苦
,上女廁硬是被趕出來,上男廁又招來異樣的眼光。經過20多年的掙扎,始終認為做回自己才是最珍貴,「現在我不想當男生,也不想當女生。」
「國際陰陽人組織」首次參與香港家計會舉行的香港性文化節,「陰陽人」丘愛芝親身分享,並且表明:「讓人知道天生的陰陽人的確存在,香港大概有2,000多人,估計現時每2,000人就有1人是陰陽人。」
盼尊重選擇性別自由曾到台灣的醫學院作為被研究對象,丘愛芝希望醫生能夠尊重「陰陽人」,不要甫出生就替嬰兒做手術,令其長大後沒有辦法選擇自由性別的機會。」「自己,也會喜歡人,也好想談戀愛,但喜歡的對象的性別可以是男、女、女同性戀者或男同性戀者,現在沒有想做一個男生或是女生,就是接受了自己天生的這個遺傳性中可能會發生的結果:一名不折不扣的陰陽人,這就是我。」
此外,近日香港大學男女生同層同宿的「偉倫堂」,因為一宗法庭新聞而令人關注。中大人類學學系學生劉璧嘉於席間的一個論壇上直指,大學裏性慾被抑制到一個嚴峻的地步,她認為大學可能建立一個求同存異,性別友善的宿舍,不要設立有性別的盲點的宿規。
一名男生提問時質疑,這樣做會否將大學變成「炮房」(用作進行性行為的地方); 劉璧嘉回應指,只要雙方是有informed choice(有根據的決擇)就可以了。同場的中大人類學副教授譚少微亦贊成,擴大學生對情慾討論的文化,但卻很少學生有勇力去討論。以「色放•釋放 ─ 社會、親密關係、性空間」為主題的性文化節,今日繼續假香港兆基創意書院舉行,歡迎市民參加,費用全免。
Hong Kong Gets Its First Intersex Organisation (2012-03-24)
After the intersex issue hit the headlines during the Sex Cultural Festival, another good news comes – the first organisation for intersex persons has just been set up by a local social worker. More about the group on its Facebook page, in Chinese, at https://www.facebook.com/concerns.IS
The headline below reads, “Taiwanese intersex person received help request from two Hongkongers”.
台灣陰陽人接兩港人求助 (Eastweek, 2012-03-24)
撰文:歐陽玲 攝影:黃德堅
台灣陰陽人丘愛芝,上周六來港參加第五屆性文化節,擺設攤位宣揚「擁抱陰陽人」行動。原來去年接受本刊專訪後,丘接獲兩名港人求助,他們都是長大後才發現自己是陰陽人。
「一個自小以女性身份生活,但長大後生殖器官卻變得男性化,心底也渴望做男人,結果入大學前做了變性手術;另一個是一名已婚男士,三十多歲忽然有月經,方揭發其染色體本身是女性,幸好太太仍然接受和支持他。」丘
愛芝說,不少陰陽人對身體出現模糊性徵感困惑和自卑,害怕被人當作怪物,只能把秘密收藏,丘寄語同路人要肯定自我。「沒甚麼羞恥,不要太介意自己是男還是女,最重要學會欣賞和愛惜自己。」曾為陰陽人進行心理輔導的
註冊社工陸月明,上月底也成立本港首個陰陽人組織「藩籬之外」,向本港陰陽人提供支援。
Make War, Not Plays
Fee: HKD150/HKD120* *Senior Citizens, Full-time Students, People with Disabilities, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Recipients
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Synopsis – Make War, Not Plays
Two fourteen-year-old Jewish girls in a concentration camp, a pair of twin sisters living in China and Japan, the pair of “weapons of mass destruction” that killed to stop the killing…
We have all heard of WWII, the collective painful memory of so many. Despite the pain, we keep on telling the story and making sure it will be told and retold again. We believe there is a lesson in the past that holds the key to world peace. And yet, ultimately what is the inherent goodness of world peace?
W.W.II is not a play. It is an experiment of an experience. The hypothesis being that we all crave for peace and we truly need what we crave. The process includes forcing everyone to have a taste of an imaginative war. The result? Hopefully world peace. If not, at least peace of mind – there is nothing else we can do. Grim, yes. But rainbows are not meant to appear everyday.
*The play includes a photo exhibition with the same theme showing works by photographers from three different cities (Hong Kong, Taipei, and Madrid).
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