A gay club in Helsinki has closed it’s dark room. According to my newspaper the authority that issues licour licenses had contacted the club after a newspaper story that featured the dark room. in the beginning of May. It seems that some civil servant has taken the stance that a dark room is against good […]
I have often wondered why guys seem to engage in unsafe sexual practises despite all the information to the contrary. Recently I heard a presentation at a congress that I thought would explain at leas some of it. It is all in how our thinking works. Often we use simpler ways of thinking, ‘intuition’or ‘emotion’, […]
One recent topic in Finland has been Johanna Korhonen, who was appointed the editor of the newspaper Lapin Kansa. She was later fired before she had time to start in her new position, allegedly because her domestic partnership with another woman. A statement that an out lesbian can not work as editor of Lapin Kansa […]
I saw in Gay Times a short report that Ahmet Yildiz, an openly gay 26 year old physics student was shot as he left a cafe near the Bosphorus Strait this week. He tried to flee from the attackers in his car, but lost control of the vehicle and crashed. Yildiz died shortly afterwards in […]
A recent news story tells of a Swedish research team’s conclusions about physical causes of homosexuality. According the study conducted at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm sexuality is a biologically fixed trait demonstrated in physical brain differences. The researchers, Ivanka Savic and Per Lindström, studied 90 persons, 25 heterosexual and 20 homosexual men and women […]