Gay monk
Monk’s book supports LGBT people through a Buddhist’s eyes
While other religions and cultures tutor that homosexuality is sinful, Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura is spreading the word that Buddhism preaches that all people can be liberated equally with no exceptions.
So, Nishimura, 33, who is also a makeup artist and an LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and others) person himself, published a book in English titled "This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are" in February. He wants to share with the world "things only I can tell because I'm a homosexual monk."
"In Japan, it is not common for people to be torn apart over coming out as an LGBTQ+ because it would go against religious teachings, is it? But things are different outside Japan," the monk said. "I hear that there are about plus countries where LGBTQ+ people are criminalized because of religious reasons. That's why I want to transport my message to all kinds of sexual minorities outside Japan through the book."
LIVE LIFE AS HE IS
Nishimura grew up at a Tokyo temple of the Jodo sect of Buddhism.
After gradu
There has been a lot of interesting work recently on medieval male sexuality that takes into account the existence of gay men in the past, and has started discussing medieval texts from a rather broader viewpoint. I&#;ve recently come across the work of Albrecht Diem, for example, who is looking at how understandings of male chastity changed in the sixth century West, building on Mayke de Jong&#;s studies of oblates (Mayke was Diem&#;s PhD supervisor). Diem&#;s ideas about how chastity was institutionalised (e.g. via common dormitories) and made into a collective more than an individual enterprise has an impact on wider issues of early medieval masculinity.
However, I&#;ve also read several recent studies which, despite all their new framework of gender and power, still seem to display some strangely old-fashioned attitudes about men. Take for example, Stamp Masterson, &#;Impossible translation: Antony and Paul the Simple in the Historia Monachorum&#;. In The Boswell thesis: essays on Christianity, social tolerance and homosexuality, edited by M. Kuefler. Chicago: University of Chi
Gay people can make good monks too, says openly gay Thai Buddhist monk
LGBT Weekly, April 25th,
Bangkok, THAILAND -- A Thai Buddhist monk who is gay and a former cross-dresser has gone on public television to say there is nothing erroneous with gay people becoming Buddhist monks, causing much controversy in Thailand where Buddhism is the primary religion and has extraordinary status, reports
“I am who I am, and I’m not going to pretend just to fit in,” Venerable Tanaisawan George Chandha-dhammo,28, told Woody Talk, the popular MCOT talk show. “Gay people can make good monks too,” the Buddhist monk said.
His interview had led Thai censors to stop that segment of the popular television talk exhibit from broadcasting that interview last month. However it was finally allowed to air on television recently, announced
The popular MCOT talk show host had revealed on Facebook that they had to postpone its “Gay Monk” interview segment because censors had objected:
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