It wasn’t that I was keen to see how director Drew Barrymore had turned her skills to the other side of the camera. The women, dressed in white headscarves and clothing, did not cry or scream but “showed remorse”, said Muslim Lawyers’ Association Deputy President Abdul Rahim Sinwan. It would have been easy – understandable even – to make the central character queer and have her discover that through roller derby.

The roller derby team would be made up of bisexual and lesbian women, coexisting and laughing together, and while my heart breaks that I didn’t get the film I deserved as a teenager, I am so glad that the queer teens of the present and future don’t have to live off scraps. Legislator Charles Santiago said the government must repeal all laws that criminalise homosexuality. While I turned out to be a bi teen rather than a lesbian one, I wasn’t so sure in the '00s, and would have killed for such a positive storyline to identify with. The two women were fined by the sharia high court on 12 August, after they pleaded guilty to committing musahaqah, or sexual relations between women.Some aspects of the film, like Bliss (Page) and Pash’s (Shawkat) very close friendship, or seeing women skate and laugh, covered in blood on the floor together, made me feel understood in a deep way. Members of 'Omnium Cultural' celebrate the 20th 'Festa per la llibertat' ('Fiesta for the freedom') to mark the Day of Catalonia in Barcelona. More than 100 people witnessed the caning in an Islamic court in the conservative northeast state of Terengganu. The caning occurred amid a climate of fear and discrimination against Malaysia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. It’s only when she and Miss Bradshaw get to the motel that she starts to think it might be a set up, but there’s nothing she can do as one room is booked for them both.

Only a deep and unnatural love of vaginas could ever cause you to have priorities other than a boyfriend? Lawyers and activists said the women, aged 22 and 32, were seated on stools facing the judges and given six strokes from a light rattan cane on their backs by female prison officers.A woman looks on from a rooftop as rescue workers dig through the rubble of a damaged building in Beirut. The Malaysian prime minister has said the public caning of a lesbian couple had “tarnished Islam’s reputation”. which played such an integral part in realising a perhaps unfamiliar but always compelling sensual landscape. Two Malaysian Muslim women convicted of attempting to have sex in a car were caned on Monday in a rare public whipping that was denounced by some politicians and rights groups. Thilaga Sulathireh, from the group Justice for Sisters who witnessed the caning, said she was shocked by the public spectacle.

Sharia law enforcement officers in Terengganu identified the two women attempting to engage in sexual acts in a car in April. Carly’s Televisionary is up (in which even vodka couldn’t numb her feelings about Grey’s Anatomy), and also, we have your Autostraddle 2009 Fall Style Guide! Malaysia religious minister Mujahid Yusuf later said the government does not support the promotion of LGBT culture. She’s an adolescent who likes to be different, is experimental and puts a boyfriend second to roller derby. The story was fun, interesting approach but who doesn't like a fun Lesbian story line that is mostly about sex.Rights groups had previously urged the Malaysian government to drop the case, which they argued constituted torture under international human rights law. She said Malaysian laws were inconsistent because civil laws prohibit corporal punishment against female prisoners. This case shows a regression for human rights,” she said, “Not only for LGBT people but all persons because corporal punishment affects all people. I watched The L Word, dedicated to its characters despite their blatant biphobia and mistreating (or relabelling) of bisexual characters Jenny and Alice. I thought there was some possibility of a queer storyline but I came out of the cinema feeling at once thrilled and exploited.