g_b Nurture a loving heart from young

[dunno76]

LOVE QUOTE OF THE DAY

Nurture a loving heart from young, so that they will not grow up to have
a deviant character easily, and thus creating problems in
society.-Master Cheng Yen (more great wisdom from Master Cheng Yen
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Education starts from the heart and the young; the young will only
follow what we do and thus we must cultivate ourselves to have a loving
heart. Our young ones will see what we do and follow.

  [Photo: Nurture a loving heart from young, so that they will not grow
up to have a deviant character easily, and thus creating problems in
society.- Master Cheng Yen (more great wisdom from Master Cheng Yen:
http://lovequotes.symphonyoflove.net/category/c/master-cheng-yen)Educati\
on starts from the heart and the young; the young will only follow what
we do and thus we must cultivate ourselves to have a loving heart. Our
young ones will see what we do and follow.Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadieshihtzu/3219439438] 

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OTHER QUOTES & POSTS IN SYMPHONY OF LOVE

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you
can. In all the places you can. At all times you can. To all the people
you can. As long as ever you can.-John Wesley (more great quotes
 )

A fabulous way to live life!

  [Photo: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the
ways you can. In all the places you can. At all times you can. To all
the people you can. As long as ever you can.- John Wesley (more great
quotes at: http://lovequotes.symphonyoflove.net)A fabulous way to live
life! <3Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/safetylast/3917154054] 

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A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares
to live.-Lao Tzu (more wisdom from Lao Tzu
 )

  [Photo: A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner
courage dares to live.- Lao Tzu (more wisdom from Lao Tzu:
http://lovequotes.symphonyoflove.net/category/l/lao-tzu)Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenny-pics/5229255248] 

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Gratitude is a twofold love - love coming to visit us, and love running
out to greet a welcome guest.- Henry Van Dyke (more great quotes from
Henry Van Dkye
 )

  [Photo: Gratitude is a twofold love - love coming to visit us, and love
running out to greet a welcome guest.- Henry Van Dyke (more great quotes
from Henry Vam Dkye:
http://lovequotes.symphonyoflove.net/category/h/henry-van-dyke)Photo
credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/katewares/8091796719] 

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Sometimes you don't appreciate what you have because you're too focused
on what you want.- Author Unknown (more great quotes
 )

I believe that many of us experience instances whereby we are here at
present and yet our minds are somewhere far away in another distant
place or occupy with some thoughts ... and we simply miss appreciating
this particular moment in our lives.

The images through our eyes, the sounds through our ears, the smells
through our noses or could it be the taste of the food we are savouring
here and now or the hands we are holding in our hands or very simply ...
the breaths that we are taking ...

  [Photo: Sometimes you don't appreciate what you have because you're too
focused on what you want.- Author Unknown (more great quotes:
http://lovequotes.symphonyoflove.net)I believe that many of us
experience instances whereby we are here at present and yet our minds
are somewhere far away in another distant place or occupy with some
thoughts ... and we simply miss appreciating this particular moment in
our lives.The images through our eyes, the sounds through our ears, the
smells through our noses or could it be the taste of the food we are
savouring here and now or the hands we are holding in our hands or very
simply ... the breaths that we are taking ...Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-i-k-e/2541127073] 

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g_b Thursday's Tune

[asfan]

A little old lady was running up and down the halls in a nursing home.

As she walked, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and say "Supersex."

She walked up to an elderly man in a wheelchair.

Flipping her gown at him, she said, "Supersex."

He sat silently for a moment or two and finally answered, "I'll take the soup

g_b 24 Hours: Coming out of the closet (Aired: January 2006)

[gay_bombay moderator]

http://www.ndtv.com/video/special/24-hours-coming-out-of-the-closet-aired-january-2006-879/277944?page=2&pfrom=home-topstories

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Re: g_b any cursing places in antophill or wadala

[asfan]

They are all cursed :-)
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g_b How to reduce pain element during Tatto process?

[Tintin Mumbai India]

Hello Guys,

When I read this chain about Anesthetic Lubricant, I thought of asking my
question also, on the flow...
Does such Lube work on other parts of skin too (for local anesthesia)?

I am planning to get a Tattoo on a sensitive area of body (no... not on
cock or so)...
And I have not got a tattoo before... So bit scared of pain...

And I am determined to get that Tattoo done, if it is done, on that part
only.

So any help on how to manage pain during the tattoo process?
Abhay

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g_b No country for gay men? (Shiv Obit)

[Aditya Bondyopadhyay]

http://thehoot.org/web/No-country-for-gay-men-/6831-1-1-19-true.html

No country for gay men?
The deafening silence in the mainstream press, even as blogs and HIV/AIDS 
alliance NGOs buzzed with obituaries, stood in stark contrast with the media 
frenzy a decade ago. DHRUBA JYOTI PURKAIT on SHIVANANDA KHAN's passing.
Posted/Updated Tuesday, Jun 04 12:55:57, 2013


It has almost been a fortnight since the founder of Naz Foundation 
International and a pioneering gay rights activist OBE (Order of the British 
Empire) Shivananda Khan died in his Lucknow home under mysterious 
circumstances. In this entire period, with the exception of an error-ridden 
report in the Times of India, the mainstream English press has blocked out any 
reference to the death of a stalwart in both HIV/AIDS activism and queer 
rights. 

Shivananda Khan, born Duncan George Khan in 1948, spent his childhood in 
Calcutta. Moving to England with his parents when he was ten, Khan went to 
college in Manchester. By his own admission, he was the first South Asian gay 
sex worker in Manchester, working to supplement his college grant. 

Deeply angered by the treatment of sexual minorities from South Asia in the 
West, Khan founded Shakti, a collective for South Asian gay and lesbian people, 
in 1988. He was also very perturbed by the treatment of HIV positive South 
Asian diaspora and took up HIV/AIDS and gay rights activism as his life-long 
profession. 

Khan was pained by the treatment that the HIV positive South Asian diaspora 
received, and volunteering for a charity, he elected to take care of a gay man 
called Nazir. From the experience was born the Naz Foundation. 

Over the years, Khan developed into a path-breaking gay rights activist and 
HIV/AIDS crusader and an authoritative voice on alternative sexualities in 
South Asia. As founder and executive director of the Naz Foundation, he 
frequented conferences and chaired discussions, inspiring a whole host of young 
activists. “His research and study on MSM and their socio impact were one of 
those early materials for us to know and understand about LGBT activism,” says 
Vikranth Prasanna, founder of Chennai Dost, a popular GLBT collective in 
Chennai. 

“One of his enduring contributions to the development of queer theory is his 
rejection of western labels of ‘gay’ and ‘straight’, saying that they have no 
relevance in the South Asian context. He instead coined the term “MSM” (Men 
having sex with men) which imposed no alien identity. He set up 
institutionalised health interventions for men who desire other men in a South 
Asian context. He will be deeply missed and mourned by all who care for the 
rights of this stigmatised minority,” says Arvind Narrain, founder of the 
Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. 

In his long activist career, due to which he was made an OBE in 2005, he 
founded several organizations apart from Naz, including the Bharosa Trust in 
Lucknow in 1997 and the Asia Pacific Coalition for Male Sexual Health. “He was 
a magnificent interpreter and an incredible fundraiser. He will be missed,” 
says Ashok Row Kavi, founder of Bombay Dost and the Humsafar Trust. 

However, the media’s response in light of his death hardly reflects any of the 
aforementioned sentiments. In fact, the black-out and deafening silence in the 
mainstream press, even as blogs and HIV/AIDS alliance NGOs buzzed with 
obituaries, stood in stark contrast with the media frenzy a decade ago. 

When members of the Bharosa Trust were arrested in 2001 and 2006 for  “aiding 
and abetting activities prohibited under Section 377”, the regional media 
especially, had gone overboard, implicating AIDS activists distributing condoms 
for “spreading gay culture” and “destroying our youth”, ably chronicled in a 
paper by  Narrain. 

While on the surface, 2013 seems eons away from 2001, there has not been much 
substantive difference in the response of the press. On the day Khan died, most 
newspapers chose to carry a report of New Zealand’s legalization of gay 
marriage, hailing it as a testament to liberal and enlightened values. In the 
same breath, they chose to ignore the death of India’s premier gay rights 
activist as if it was no news at all. 

The Times of India carried a report from Lucknow, which the author accessed 
electronically. The report misspelt Khan’s name, calling him Shivanandan 
instead. While the story was reported as the “death of an NRI”, at no point in 
the story did the reporter make the connection that this was also the famous 
founder of Naz. In addition, the report mentioned a “foster son” with whom Khan 
was living. The name mentioned is suspiciously close to Khan’s live-in partner. 

The episode is reflective of a trend witnessed worldwide. As publications and 
newspapers become increasingly “enlightened”, embracing notions of “liberal” 
sexuality, coverage of queer issues gets increasingly class privileged, since 
publications cater to that demographic. Thus, coverage of

Re: g_b Alternate lives scorch silver screens this season

[Tintin Mumbai India]

I heard of this movie from a mallu str8 friend of mine. but he did not
mention that there is a gay tint in the movie.
Anyways...
I would like to go for the movie with some mallu guy... (as I am huge fan
of Prithviraj Sukumaran). I heard there is no version of the movie with
English subtitles.

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> Over the years, Malayalam film viewers have grown up watching crimes,
> including murders and heinous rapes, onscreen. And, they have been
> accustomed to watching every possible human emotion, ranging from wild
> passion to vehement hatred to unruly violence, through these films. The
> contours of human psyche have always been a favourite topic for the
> directors. But curiously, our mainstream filmmakers have always shied away
> from helming films that speak about the life and relationships of
> homosexuals, while stories and articles about them frequently appear in
> newspapers and books.
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> Except in Sancharam, a film by Ligy J Pullappally released in 2004 which
> portrays the story of two lesbian lovers, and some fleeting glimpses and
> indirect hints in some movies, the subject has rarely been a choice of our
> filmmakers. But, if indications are anything to go by, the trend in
> Malayalam films is definitely changing. Some of the recently released films
> like Mumbai Police and English chose to travel on different path. Though in
> totally different contexts, both these films have shown an audacity to give
> space to a subject which was hitherto considered a taboo.
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> “Homosexuals have always been there in this society. But our film makers
> either don’t make films about such people, or picture them in a ridiculing
> way,” says director Shyamaprasad. The director who has shown glimpses of
> the lives of gay people in his two films, Ritu’ and English says, “I have
> not taken films that directly focus on the lives of homosexuals, but there
> are shades of such people here and there. It was not a deliberate attempt,
> but was added because of the requirement of the story. The existence of
> them is a social reality, but even if we don’t make film about them, we
> should at least stay away from jeering at them.” He says that it is a big
> social mistake to portray them as funny characters, indirectly mentioning a
> Malayalam movie that was about an effeminate man.
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> Mumbai Police has been noticed for its audacity to introduce a gay hero
> for the first time in Malayalam cinema. Scenarist Sanjay, who scripted the
> film along with his brother Bobby says, they had zero per cent apprehension
> while thinking about such a climax. “After all ours is an industry that had
> welcomed films like Randu Penkuttikal and Deshadanakkili Karayaarilla,
> though in those movies the subject was discussed in a subtle way.”
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> Discussing how the idea came their way, he says, “While penning the story
> of a policeman, we wanted to present him in a different way, unlike the
> usual cliched ruffian image. And that lead us to think about the reason
> behind the ferocity of men. According to the theory of Sigmund Freud, if a
> man shows extreme masculinity, he is concealing something about his
> character. We developed our character based on that theory and that was
> instrumental in shaping ‘Antony Moses’.”
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> The scenarist says that Prithviraj who played ‘Antony Moses’ had no
> apprehension in playing such a character. “He was extremely excited after
> hearing the storyline. Both Prithviraj and Nihal Pillai, who enacted gay
> pairs in the film, had researched about such characters and enacted their
> roles brilliantly,” says Sanjay.
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> While Shyamaprasad says that it will take  five to ten years for the
> Malayali society to accept such people and movies about them
> wholeheartedly, Sanjay says that a certain section of the society will
> never accept such themes.
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> “We should make films based on our own convictions. There were people who
> were skeptical when we took Notebook based on the pregnancy issue of a
> teenage girl, and Ente Veedu Appoonteyum that was about a small boy who
> kills his younger brother.
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> A section of people may never accept such themes, but film makers should
> have the courage to bring out realities.”
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> Citing the example of 22 Female Kottayam, he says, “There are a bunch of
> directors who are ready to experiment, therefore, even if some attempts may
> be failure, more and more films with bolder themes will come out.”
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g_b Fwd: :D

[Tintin Mumbai India]

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/15-things-gay-men-need-to-stop-doing/

Someone shared it with me, so I am sharing it with you all... I found it
worth reading.