Russia is trying to spread its homophobia more and more, especially in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Asian states. Among them, Kyrgyzstan is discussing these days a package of…
Michele Benini29 July 2014
It wasn't easy to write a history of gay porn and its evolution between the decades since Andy Warhol's time till the present time. It was necessary an extraordinary documentation,…
Michele Benini4 December 2013
Someone acclaims Hicham Tahir, someone else attacks him: this young Moroccan writer, 24 years old, has recently published his first personal collection of short stories, "Jaabouq" (Casa Express 2013, 128…
Michele Benini16 October 2013
Teenagers who are insulted, humiliated, beaten, tortured. Men who are chased on the street, threatened with death, stripped naked, forced to use sex toys. Sons in underwear forced to describe…
Michele Benini10 September 2013
Brazil is large as a continent and, even without considering the size, contradictions don't seem to lack. Or at least this is the image you get by the news, that…
Michele Benini26 July 2013
Bulgaria is one of the less mentioned European Union's countries and even the protests that started in the beginning of the year can hardly reach the front pages of newspapers, although…
Michele Benini24 July 2013
The history and the pictures of gay life and safer sex campaigns since the HIV virus and AIDS came into the LGBTQ* movement are the matter of the new Bruno Gmünder’s…
Michele Benini9 June 2013
On August 16, in the Town Hall Square of Copenhagen, the winner of the competition "Mr. Gay DK" (which goes through the Danish summer and ends during Pride week), has…
Michele Benini1 September 2012
In the heart of Middle East, bordering Palestine, Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, there is a country which is world famous for... civil war, terrorism, white phosphorus bombs, religious fundamentalism? No, this…
Michele Benini8 August 2012
"Azad" comes from Iraq and has been in a relationship with a Norwegian citizen since 2006, but the High Court of Oslo sentenced him to deportation (forced exile) which would…
Michele Benini1 January 2012
