LGBT and Human Rights - Day Two - Culture and Resilience

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Jun 04, 2013
by Louise Hallman
LGBT and Human Rights - Day Two - Culture and Resilience

Fellows share their artistic work inspired by lives as members of the LGBT community

Fadi Zaghmout, author and blogger from Jordan, reads an English translation of his Arabic novel Aroos Amman

In a change to the regular Salzburg Global Seminar panel discussions, Fellows were invited on Tuesday to share their artistic sides with an Open Forum on the topic of ‘Culture and Resilience’.

Hosted by UK-based American cabaret artist and broadcaster Amy Lamé, Fellows from across the world showed films, read poetry and novel excerpts, sang songs and gave short presentations inspired by their work with and identity as LGBT people.

Fadi Zaghmout, author and blogger from Jordan, read an English translation of his Arabic novel Aroos Amman.

Elizabeth Khaxas from Namibia and Jo Shaw from the UK both shared their poetry about being a lesbian and a woman with a trans past, respectively, and a number of short video clips and photoreels were shown, including a cartoon about embracing diversity in Burma, oral histories of 'gay elders' in Hong Kong, and a lesbian theater project in El Salvador.

Below are some examples of our Fellows work.

Hella...hella

Our daughter has come home

Hella...hella

The one who has been cast away is home

let us dance and rejoice today

Shame on those who do not acknowledge

my daughter's homecoming

The African!

Shame on those who treated my daughter

as the stepchild of this continent

Lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual, bisexual, heterosexual...

The image of the goddess, all of them...

Sons and daughter of Africa

Gods and goddesses!

Much beloved, know that nothing will separate you

from the love which is you

No homophobic dictators

No rejecting parents and siblings

No religion

No sodomy law

What took you so long to find your way home, daughter?

We have prepared a feast for you

Let all the world behold

Our daughter has arrived

The lesbian

The African lesbian

Sela...sela...

Africa rejoice!

- Elizabeth Khaxas

I am You, a trans ally video from Malaysia

The Riddle, by the UN Human Rights Office