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erg"The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) seeks to honor an organization or an individual that has made significant contributions toward securing the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status, anywhere in the world.
I call this place, the "Eagle -Ark" for IGL-HRC. The staff actually pronounces it, "Eaglehirk"
The awards are tonight & last year I volunteered at the event. This year they just guest listed me, which I thought was kind as my volunteer assignment hasn't even started yet.
Through this award, we hope to bring about public recognition to an organization or individual committed to the struggle for human rights. We seek nominations for organizations and individuals from all regions of the world and from as wide a range of communities as possible. We welcome nominations for younger as well as more established organizations and individuals."
2004 Felipa Awardee - Gender/Sexuality Rights Association of Taiwan
IGLHRC is proud to present this year’s award to the distinguished Gender/Sexuality Rights Association of Taiwan (G/SRAT). G/SRAT has been a primary public voice of the LGBT community in Taiwan for many years. From its history rooted in Taiwan’s vibrant women’s community, G/SRAT has branched out to fight numerous diverse battles on behalf of LGBT people and sexual minorities in Taiwan. Some of the issues G/SRAT has confronted include:
- Police harassment and discrimination in Taipei
- Homophobic representations in the Ministry of Education “dictionary for youth and foreigners,” and media stigmatization of LGBT people
- Privacy infringements caused by issuance of computerized health cards that make complete health records immediately available to medical providers and government institutions.
Part legal advocate, part media watchdog, part information disseminator, G/SRAT has been a full-time community builder connecting the LGBT community with each other and creating alliances with sexuality, women’s, youth, healthcare and other human rights NGO’s.
More about G/SRAT:
WANG Ping, Secretary General
Wang Ping has actively participated in the women worker's movement, the women's movement, as well as the Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Transgender movements of Taiwan since the late 1980's until the present. She is founding member and principal architect of Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan as well as indefatigable organizer and fighter for the rights of gender and sexual minorities on all fronts in Taiwan. Wang's work includes training and organizing of activists and activist groups, planning for events and actions; she works with several LGBT and AIDS human rights groups. Wang is a frequent speaker on gender and sexual rights issues in government and NGO sponsored classes, as well as on media news discussion panels and talk shows. Wang also writes in the news media intervening in the public discussion of controversial gender and sexual rights events. In recognition of her work for women's and LGBT human rights, on November 19, 2002, she was one of fourteen Taipei citizens awarded an "Honorary Citizen of Taipei City Commemorative Badge." In 2003, she was also one of four Utopia Awards (Bangkok, Thailand) recipients, in recognition of her longtime contribution to Taiwan lesbian and gay human rights struggles.
CHEN Yu-Rong, LGBT News Agency Director
Chen Yu-Rong has participated in the women's movement and the Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Transgender movements in Taiwan since the early 1990's until the present. A founding member of G/SRAT, Chen has been and continues to be the main strategist and scriptwriter-director-actor for drama-action-events for the G/SRAT. Chen has worked on the editorial staff of the G & L Magazine (one of the first commercially published gay and lesbian magazine in public circulation in Chinese speaking East Asia) . Chen initiated and directs the LGBT News Agency since June 22, 2000. Subscribers to the LGBT News Agency include activist groups, cultural workers, gay rights scholars, university professors, LGBT groups, and media personnel. This online news source is often cited as reference for LGBT movement actions and in the formulation of progressive pro-LGBT agendas.
NI Chia-Chen, International Liaison Director
Ni Chia-Chen has taken active part in the women's movement and the Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Transgender movements in Taiwan for more than a decade. She has long worked with university and high school lesbian youth groups in their process of forming organizations, and is also a lecturer for the Gay and Lesbian Hotline volunteer training course. Ni Chia-Chen's work focus is in the area of women and AIDS, LGBT issues, LGBT peer group work and counseling; she has also edited Taiwan's first handbook on Women and AIDS prevention. She is presently G/SRAT's international liaison officer and maintains contact with LGBT human rights groups worldwide.
DING Nai-Fei, Translator
Ding Nai-Fei is a feminist scholar and has long supported the women's movement and sexual rights movements in Taiwan. Ding is presently a member of the Center for the Study of Sexualities while teaching at the National Central University (Chung-Li, Taiwan). She has written on issues of feminism and sexuality and has published a book (Obscene Things: Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei, Duke University Press, 2002).
Who was Felipa de Souza?
In 1591 the Inquisition began its notorious "confession sessions" in the northeast of Brazil, basing their operations in Salvador, then the capital of the Portuguese colony. The aim of these sessions was to search for and arrest those accused of sins and crimes against the faith and sexual morals. Amongst the first to confess was Paula de Sequeiro who, on August 20, accused a widow named Felipa de Souza -- from whom she had been receiving love letters for two years -- of having shared many moments of physical pleasure.
As the "nefarious and abominable crime of sodomy" was punishable by death, and knowing that the Inquisitors were sympathetic to those who volunteered confessions, many panic-stricken women came forward and admitted to intimate relations with Felipa.
Felipa had previously been expelled from a convent in Portugal for the crime of sodomy. She must have caused a good deal of apprehension in the small Salvador, as she was the only one of the accused women to face the Inquisition's court. During the trial, she admitted to having had intimate relations with the woman mentioned, brazenly stating that "all those communications provided her much love and carnal affection."
Found guilty, Felipa's sentence was less severe than that doled out to other women accused of the same crime in Europe at the time. On January 4, 1592, she was condemned to exile. Holding a lit candle, barefooted and wearing a simple tunic, she was viciously whipped while walking the streets of Salvador so she could serve as an example to all the inhabitants. As spiritual penance, she was forced to fast on bread and water for 15 Fridays and 9 Saturdays. She was then expelled from the state of Bahia, taking with her "her vices and ill reputation." Besides the shame and public humiliation of her punishment and exile, Felipa de Souza had to pay for the trial costs: 992 reis, at the equivalent of a sailor's monthly salary, or three months of a manual laborer's pay.
Based on an extract from O Lesbianismo no Brasil, by Luiz Mott (Mercado Aberto, 1987).
I call this place, the "Eagle -Ark" for IGL-HRC. The staff actually pronounces it, "Eaglehirk"
The awards are tonight & last year I volunteered at the event. This year they just guest listed me, which I thought was kind as my volunteer assignment hasn't even started yet.
Through this award, we hope to bring about public recognition to an organization or individual committed to the struggle for human rights. We seek nominations for organizations and individuals from all regions of the world and from as wide a range of communities as possible. We welcome nominations for younger as well as more established organizations and individuals."
2004 Felipa Awardee - Gender/Sexuality Rights Association of Taiwan
IGLHRC is proud to present this year’s award to the distinguished Gender/Sexuality Rights Association of Taiwan (G/SRAT). G/SRAT has been a primary public voice of the LGBT community in Taiwan for many years. From its history rooted in Taiwan’s vibrant women’s community, G/SRAT has branched out to fight numerous diverse battles on behalf of LGBT people and sexual minorities in Taiwan. Some of the issues G/SRAT has confronted include:
- Police harassment and discrimination in Taipei
- Homophobic representations in the Ministry of Education “dictionary for youth and foreigners,” and media stigmatization of LGBT people
- Privacy infringements caused by issuance of computerized health cards that make complete health records immediately available to medical providers and government institutions.
Part legal advocate, part media watchdog, part information disseminator, G/SRAT has been a full-time community builder connecting the LGBT community with each other and creating alliances with sexuality, women’s, youth, healthcare and other human rights NGO’s.
More about G/SRAT:
WANG Ping, Secretary General
Wang Ping has actively participated in the women worker's movement, the women's movement, as well as the Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Transgender movements of Taiwan since the late 1980's until the present. She is founding member and principal architect of Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan as well as indefatigable organizer and fighter for the rights of gender and sexual minorities on all fronts in Taiwan. Wang's work includes training and organizing of activists and activist groups, planning for events and actions; she works with several LGBT and AIDS human rights groups. Wang is a frequent speaker on gender and sexual rights issues in government and NGO sponsored classes, as well as on media news discussion panels and talk shows. Wang also writes in the news media intervening in the public discussion of controversial gender and sexual rights events. In recognition of her work for women's and LGBT human rights, on November 19, 2002, she was one of fourteen Taipei citizens awarded an "Honorary Citizen of Taipei City Commemorative Badge." In 2003, she was also one of four Utopia Awards (Bangkok, Thailand) recipients, in recognition of her longtime contribution to Taiwan lesbian and gay human rights struggles.
CHEN Yu-Rong, LGBT News Agency Director
Chen Yu-Rong has participated in the women's movement and the Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Transgender movements in Taiwan since the early 1990's until the present. A founding member of G/SRAT, Chen has been and continues to be the main strategist and scriptwriter-director-actor for drama-action-events for the G/SRAT. Chen has worked on the editorial staff of the G & L Magazine (one of the first commercially published gay and lesbian magazine in public circulation in Chinese speaking East Asia) . Chen initiated and directs the LGBT News Agency since June 22, 2000. Subscribers to the LGBT News Agency include activist groups, cultural workers, gay rights scholars, university professors, LGBT groups, and media personnel. This online news source is often cited as reference for LGBT movement actions and in the formulation of progressive pro-LGBT agendas.
NI Chia-Chen, International Liaison Director
Ni Chia-Chen has taken active part in the women's movement and the Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Transgender movements in Taiwan for more than a decade. She has long worked with university and high school lesbian youth groups in their process of forming organizations, and is also a lecturer for the Gay and Lesbian Hotline volunteer training course. Ni Chia-Chen's work focus is in the area of women and AIDS, LGBT issues, LGBT peer group work and counseling; she has also edited Taiwan's first handbook on Women and AIDS prevention. She is presently G/SRAT's international liaison officer and maintains contact with LGBT human rights groups worldwide.
DING Nai-Fei, Translator
Ding Nai-Fei is a feminist scholar and has long supported the women's movement and sexual rights movements in Taiwan. Ding is presently a member of the Center for the Study of Sexualities while teaching at the National Central University (Chung-Li, Taiwan). She has written on issues of feminism and sexuality and has published a book (Obscene Things: Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei, Duke University Press, 2002).
Who was Felipa de Souza?
In 1591 the Inquisition began its notorious "confession sessions" in the northeast of Brazil, basing their operations in Salvador, then the capital of the Portuguese colony. The aim of these sessions was to search for and arrest those accused of sins and crimes against the faith and sexual morals. Amongst the first to confess was Paula de Sequeiro who, on August 20, accused a widow named Felipa de Souza -- from whom she had been receiving love letters for two years -- of having shared many moments of physical pleasure.
As the "nefarious and abominable crime of sodomy" was punishable by death, and knowing that the Inquisitors were sympathetic to those who volunteered confessions, many panic-stricken women came forward and admitted to intimate relations with Felipa.
Felipa had previously been expelled from a convent in Portugal for the crime of sodomy. She must have caused a good deal of apprehension in the small Salvador, as she was the only one of the accused women to face the Inquisition's court. During the trial, she admitted to having had intimate relations with the woman mentioned, brazenly stating that "all those communications provided her much love and carnal affection."
Found guilty, Felipa's sentence was less severe than that doled out to other women accused of the same crime in Europe at the time. On January 4, 1592, she was condemned to exile. Holding a lit candle, barefooted and wearing a simple tunic, she was viciously whipped while walking the streets of Salvador so she could serve as an example to all the inhabitants. As spiritual penance, she was forced to fast on bread and water for 15 Fridays and 9 Saturdays. She was then expelled from the state of Bahia, taking with her "her vices and ill reputation." Besides the shame and public humiliation of her punishment and exile, Felipa de Souza had to pay for the trial costs: 992 reis, at the equivalent of a sailor's monthly salary, or three months of a manual laborer's pay.
Based on an extract from O Lesbianismo no Brasil, by Luiz Mott (Mercado Aberto, 1987).
