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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Gay & Lesbian Events in Indonesia

Q! Film Festival

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When:
Aug 2009 (annual)
Where:
Jakarta
Jakarta's annual Q! Film Festival
One of its kind in a Muslim country, the Q! Film Festival showcases films with a gay, HIV and AIDS theme. Each year the schedule gets bigger and better inviting international filmmakers, distributers and thousands more spectators to Jakarta venues.
The festival was launched in 2002 to raise awareness of homosexual issues through the use of the film medium, whilst at the same time introducing alternative cinema. Over 75,000 spectators have turned up to watch 500 films over the years.

Screening locations include Blitz Megaplex, Goethe Haus and Kineforum. Please check the festival website for more details on 2008's venues and schedule information.

source : http://www.istc.org
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Indonesia embraces first gay screen kiss

A locally-produced film has proved an unlikely box office sensation in Indonesia.

Arisan, a satirical comedy, takes its title from the name given to a social get-together where friends chip in money to be won later through a lucky draw.

Scene from Arisan
Arisan explores cultural taboos among the country's elite

The theme is used as a vehicle to introduce the film's central characters - all wealthy, fashion-conscious 30-something Jakartans.

There is the successful interior designer who discovers she is infertile; an adulterous housewife who has to be bailed out of prison after a drugs bust; and their gay friend who tries and fails to resist his homosexuality.

The screenwriter, Joko Anwar, said his team wanted to tackle something a bit different from the usual Indonesian fare.

"Movies that were exported abroad in festivals or to commercial circuits, they all feature poor society in Indonesia. We think that it's time to present something new about in the Indonesian image, and this society exists and it happens to be the society that's close to us as film makers," he said.

In essence, Arisan is a satirical swipe at Jakarta's high society, and that has certainly gone down well with audiences in the Indonesian capital.

But it is the gay kiss in the middle of the film which has really got tongues wagging.

A ripple of nervous giggles spread through the cinema when an image of two men locked in a passionate embrace fills the screen.

Director Nia di Nata
Director Nia di Nata has broken new ground

Not everyone has been comfortable with the openly gay subject matter. But the critics have loved it, and so far, religious conservatives have remained uncharacteristically silent.

Veven Wardhana of the Institute of Media and Social Studies, thought he knew why.

"Religious leaders often object about things to do with sex and sexuality. But I think maybe they haven't seen this film because they'd have to pay to see it. If they showed it on TV, then you'd probably get protests."

The use of humour may also have helped made the film's sensitive themes more palatable. But movie-goers in Jakarta seemed to have recognised the grain of truth hidden behind the jokes.

"It's very accurate because I've got friends like that and gay is not something that is very unusual in Jakarta. Everybody knows that," said one viewer.

"I come from Jakarta, so I can identify with the places that they visited, although I'm not part of that group but still, you can identify with it. People find it just entertaining. People don't have to find it that serious," said another.

Arisan has been hailed as one of a crop of new films which promise to take the Indonesian movie industry into a golden new era. After years of sticking to a staple diet of action and horror, Indonesian film makers are beginning to branch out.

It may not be long before movies like Arisan are playing at a cinema near you.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3399413.stm





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GAYa NUSANTARA

GAYa NUSANTARA provides services to gay men (and to a lesser extent to waria and lesbians), such as sexual health education, counselling (through a telephone hotline), a monthly magazine (circulation 500-800 copies) and correspondence by e-mail and letters. It also carries out mass media advocacy by making activists available for coverage of activities. The NGO also builds alliances with pro-democracy, human rights and feminist organisations. Communicating through the media has made it possible for a small organisation like GAYa to educate society at large about gay sexual health issues.

GAYa's work within Indonesia's gay movement has been challenging. From 1993-99 government programmes marginalised GAYa due to strong heterosexism and homophobia in government circles. But the situation has been slowly improving. Recently, after a long hiatus in which male sexual health programmes did not have priority, GAYa has been invited to work as a partner within the Aksi Stop AIDS (ASA) Indonesia programme, sponsored by Family Health International and the Indonesian Department of Health and Social Welfare. GAYa will start with a sexual health clinic, which will also provide psychosocial counselling and community development activities, including work around human rights and legal education. Attention will also be given to a political agenda that focuses on issues such as legal reform and work within trade unions. GAYa's hard-fought results in the fight for gay human and sexual rights encourage us to continue to play a leadership role in this field.

Dédé Oetomo, Coordinator GAYa NUSANTARA; Jalan Mulyosari Timur 46, Surabaya 60112, Indonesia; Tel: +62-31-593.49.24; Fax: +62-31-599.35.69; e-mail: gayanusa@ilga.org; web: http://welcome.to/gay

source: http://www.kit.nl/exchange/html/2001-3-claiming_gay_persons.asp

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Claiming gay persons' sexual rights in Indonesia

Dédé Oetomo

GAYa NUSANTARA was founded in 1987 as a gay support organisation. Its initial activities focused on publishing a magazine, gay peer counselling services and coordination of an Indonesian network of gay and lesbian organisations. With time, however, the NGO has taken up a leadership role in public advocacy, organising campaigns to raise society's awareness on gay and lesbian persons' sexual rights and emancipation. Its approach has been different in that it is more open and honest about sexuality and sexual health, without moralising the issues.

Discrimination against gays

Throughout Indonesian history, sexual and/or emotional relationships between men have been common in different communities and settings, such as in the context of intergenerational relationships, religious learning, the search for prowess, shamanism or medium priesthood and initiation rites for young men.

Homosexual identity also has a place in modern Indonesian society. Homosexual acts between consenting adults and cross-dressing are not criminal offences, and gays seldom are the targets of violence. Nevertheless, discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) persons does take place – usually in more subtle ways and mainly in the family. Strong social pressure to lead a heterosexual married life means that many gay men and women, and their spouses, suffer throughout their lives.

A more open form of repression is found in proscriptions from some coercive religious leaders, who make insulting pronouncements that hurt many gay and lesbian Indonesians, precisely because they are religious. The silence and invisibility surrounding GLBT people in social life is another aspect of discrimination. The mass media scarcely address issues important to GLBT people; when they do, they treat gays as curious objects that can increase the media's circulation.

Organising the GLBT community

Against the background of this open and hidden repression of GLBT persons, strong leadership was needed to organise and defend gay rights. The first openly gay organisation, Lambda Indonesia (LI), did not appear until 1982. The expansion of the Indonesian gay movement took place when media attention was focused on issues around homosexuality, especially with the founding of GAYa NUSANTARA in 1987. The number of organisations increased from two in the late 1980s to more than a dozen in 1993, when the First Indonesian Lesbian and Gay Congress was held in Yogyakarta.

Beginning in the early 1990s, the public discourse about HIV/AIDS became more prominent. Since 1996, the new socialist Democratic People's Party (PRD) has also explicitly put the struggle for ‘homosexual and transsexual rights' on its political agenda. With the party's legalisation in February 1999, the number of gay organisations in various parts of the country has increased. The development of gay organisations can thus be traced according to three phases: the phase of mass-media controversy, the phase of empowerment through HIV/AIDS programmes, and now the phase of political alliances.

Organising lesbian women has been more difficult. The few existing lesbian organisations have not been open to the mass media. They are also hit twice by oppression: that of discrimination against women and discrimination against people with an unconventional sexuality. In December 1998, however, lesbian issues were discussed at the Indonesian Women's Congress, and an openly lesbian woman was elected to sit on the presidium of the Indonesian Women's Coalition for Justice and Democracy, formed at the same Congress.

A significant phenomenon in Indonesia's GLBT history was the appearance of waria (male-to-female transgender) organisations as early as the late 1960s. This seems to be an effect of the brief liberalisation period at the beginning of the Suharto regime (1966-98). Waria have traditionally met a relatively high level of tolerance and acceptance in Indonesian society, although mainly through ghettoised occupations, such as entertainers, beauticians, wedding consultants and psychics.

source: http://www.kit.nl

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Milestone for gay rights as Indonesia gets first pink guidebook

For decades, gay venues in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore were forced to operate secretly because of official disapprobation and cultural-religious sensitivities.

But now the acceptance of a homosexual lifestyle in the region has passed a major milestone with the publication of the first gay guidebook to the three countries.

The Utopia Guide to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia seeks to "shine a light on an aspect of society that exists in every country around the globe, but has been mostly in the shadows here in Asia", according to its publisher, John Goss.

The book features everything from gay bars in Indonesia to bathhouses in Malaysia and an array of clubs, massage parlours and cultural attractions.

Gay activists are confident there will be little backlash. "In recent years we've been more and more open," Dede Oetomo, an Indonesian gay activist, told the Guardian.

"Conservative religious groups know where to find us and they leave us alone. I think, if anything, the bigger problem will be cultural because many families still don't accept a gay lifestyle."


source: http://www.guardian.co.uk

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Gay Language and Indonesia: Registering Belonging

Tom Boellstorff
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Many homosexual men in Indonesia speak what they call bahasa gay ‘gay language’,
a linguistic phenomenon based upon bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Indonesia’s national
language. Bahasa gay involves derivational processes including unique suffixes
and word substitutions, and a pragmatics oriented around community rather than secrecy.
Although mainstream knowledge of gay men’s existence is limited, bahasa gay
is increasingly being appropriated by Indonesian popular culture. By examining bahasa
gay in terms of state power and register, the article asks how this form of speaking might
contribute to better understanding how gay subjectivity is bound up with conceptions
of national belonging. Gay Indonesians might seem to epitomize difference; they seem
to lie radically outside the norms of Indonesian societies. Within gay communities and
in popular culture, however, bahasa gay appears as a register of belonging, not one of
hierarchy or distance. [Indonesia, gay, nation, register, belonging]
Imagine, then, a linguistics that decentered community, that placed at its centre the operation
of language across lines of social differentiation, a linguistics that focused on modes and zones
of contact between dominant and dominated groups . . . that focused on how such speakers
constitute each other relationally and in difference, how they enact differences in language.
Mary Louise Pratt, “Linguistic Utopias”


source: http://www.anthro.uci.edu
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"list Artis Indonesia Gay-lesbi-tante Girang-om Senang". Jepret

The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia

A pioneering ethnography of the national landscape (read Archipelago), Tom Boellstorff offers a new spin on the local and the global, supplies a refreshing new reading of gay subjectivities, and through metaphor, delivers a richly embroidered, linguistically textualized contribution to the literature on sexuality in one Islamic nation
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Festival Film Gay-Lesbi di Jogja


Dengan tujuan untuk menciptakan sebuah ruang dialog bagi keberagaman seksual melalui media seni, Q-Munity menyelenggarakan Q!FFest 2008 di Jogja sejak 20 - 26 april 2008.

"Diharapkan event ini mampu menjadi ruang dialog tentang keberagaman seksual khususnya di Jogja melalui media seni," kata Direktur Festival Q!FFest 2008, Nino Susanto dalam jumpa pers Q!FFest 2008 di Kinoki (18/04).

Selain pemutaran film mainstream, indie, lokal maupun mancanegara, festival ke-4 ini juga akan diisi dengan forum dan workshop tentang isu keberagaman seksualitas dan HIV/AIDS, pameran sastra dan seni komunitas Queer (komunitas q-munity,red), dan lomba karaoke.

Festival film yang sebagian besar terdiri dari film dengan tema keberagaman seksual ini diselenggarakan di lima venue di Jogja yakni Kinoki, Moviebox Gejayan, Lembaga Indonesia Perancis (LIP), Universitas Sanata Dharma, dan V-Art and Gallery Yogyakarta.

Penyelenggaraan festival yang akan memutar sekitar 58 film ini utamanya ditujukan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran berkenaan dengan isu-isu keberagaman seksual dan HIV/AID, meningkatkan potensi dan kontribusi komunitas "terpinggir" di Yogyakarta, serta mewadahi keberagaman seksual dan toleransi lewat gambaran kehidupan sehari-hari homoseksual lelaki, GAY dan wanita, para biseksual, para transgender, heteroseksual, dan ODHA.

Q!FFest berdiri sejak tahun 2005. Pada penyelenggaraannya tahun kemarin ternyata mampu menarik minat banyak penonton dengan dihadiri sekitar 2200 penonton dalam satu minggu penyelenggaraannya. Diharapkan, festival yang tahun ini mengangkat tema "Youth Attack" akan mampu menarik minat penonton yang lebih besar dari penyelenggaraan sebelumnya.

source:  http://www.filmpendek.com

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Sunday, March 1, 2009

GAY RAME JUGA

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Tapi nih, apa benar kalian mau terjun di dunia GAY..??
ya itu kembali ke diri kalian masing-masig. yang penting kamu sudah
mempertimbangkan sisi baik dan buruknya. Ha..!? emang ada sisi baiknya ya???.
oke deh, itu terserah kamu aja.Terpenting Loe bisa tanggungjawab atas diri loe sndiri. Otree
THNX
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