AND ONE LAST THING saying that Bliss’s dumping her boyfriend without lasting trauma is “suspicious” and implying that she must be a lesbian because she puts roller derby first is actually pretty offensive to all women, including straight ones. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! Two women found guilty of attempting to have sex have been caned in Malaysia’s conservative north-eastern state of Terengganu, in the first punishment of its kind.

Thilaga Sulathireh, from the group Justice for Sisters who witnessed the caning, said she was shocked by the public spectacle. He talks like he thinks he invented queer subtext, and he sounds like Jack Hanna observing lesbians in the wild when he talks about the way Bliss behaves. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Police officers block and detain protesters during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus.

The caning was carried out in the courtroom and was witnessed by up to 100 people, including the public. 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. To inflict this brutal punishment on two people for attempting to engage in consensual, same-sex relations is an atrocious setback in the government’s efforts to improve its human rights record.

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