[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: London play, Cameroon refugee, leather, Transnistria, Indonesia

[rfmcdonald]

• The school boards of London, it turns out, will now fund a play that features a gay student's struggle to bring his date to a prom. CBC reports.


• A woman from Cameroon claims--credibly, I think--that she will face persecution on the grounds of her sexual orientation if she is deported back to her homeland from British Columbia. Global News reports.


• VICE reports on how one man is now finding acceptance and even welcome for people of colour in the leather scene, looking at his experiences in the recent Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend.


• Katya Myachina reports on one documentary photographer's efforts to document LGBTQ life in the Russian-dominated exclave of Transnistria, and the effect these photos and their display have had, over at Open Democracy.


• The Jakarta Post notes that, while Indonesians are willing to accept their LGBTQ fellow citizens as citizens, they are strongly opposed to their exercise of civil and human rights.