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Without even reading the rest of the article, I already find this statistical claim ridiculous:

http://www.fridae.asia/newsfeatures/2012/03/23/11617.30-of-malaysian-men-are-gay-gay-rehab-needed-malaysian-official

30% of Malaysian men are gay, ‘gay rehab’ needed: Malaysian official

by News Editor

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Without citing any details or source, an UMNO/Barisan Nasional MP told Parliament that three out of every 10 men in Malaysia is gay and called on the government to establish a gay rehab center to 'combat' homosexuality.

Describing the numbers as “scary”, Datuk Baharum Mohamad, an UMNO/Barisan Nasional MP, told the country’s Parliament on Wednesday that three in ten men in the country were gay, and called on the government to establish a gay rehabilitation centre to prevent same-sex relationships from getting rampant in the country.

Datuk Baharum (BN-Sekijang) said the centre should offer suitable treatment and therapy for those involved to leave and avoid homosexual activities.

"We have to find a solution to combat these activities from getting rampant just like the efforts we take to combat drugs.”

“A study has found that, right now, three out of 10 men in Malaysia are gay. This is scary,” he said.

Sources or details of the study was not cited nor identified by local media. It is not clear whether Baharum intended ‘rehabilitation’ to be voluntary.

Responding to a question about what action can be taken against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim said action can only be taken against Muslims under the Syariah Criminal Offences Act 1997. She added that action can be taken for offences such as prostitution, sodomy and pimping. (Watch NTV7 video.)

Section 377 of Malaysia’s penal code however outlaws same-sex sexual relations as well as oral sex between opposite-sex partners.

"Various efforts have and are being made by the government with the cooperation of ministries and related NGOs to support and spread the Cairo Declaration regarding human rights in Islam, which is clearly against LGBT."

"Secondly, to create greater awareness on the edict with regards to LGBT through the media, seminars, forums and also the publication of leaflets," said Dr Mashitah.

Last year, news that the Terengganu Education Department had sent 66 schoolboys with ‘effeminate’ tendencies to a boot camp to intervene before the boys “reach the point of no return” (meaning before they "become" gay or transgender) drew widespread outrage. After running for four years largely without problems, the annual Seksualiti Merdeka festival was banned by the police last November.

"You like who you like lah. Who cares if someone likes the other someone because of their race? It's when they hate them. That's the problem."

Orked (acted by Sharifah Amani) in SEPET (2004, directed by Yasmin Ahmad)

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Well, I'd expect a country like Malaysia to resort to extreme, discriminatory, and religion-justified actions. Not bad, we haven't seen anything ridiculous yet. Yet.

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If 30% of malaysian men are gay, then I think 60% of spore men are gay too.... just look at the proliferation of gays in spore nowadays....

Reminds me of another article survey on gays in china, the gays in china also have quite high %! And now msia also said tht 30% of guys are gay!!! Wondering how true is this? If it is true, how come so many guys are gay?!

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I can't imagine the amount of money they are going to be wasting on this. They would be better off researching about sexuality and contributing to the science community instead of banging their heads against a wall.

True lor, waste money trying to turn a gay into str8?! How come these pple still dun understand gay is not something like illness, something tht can be cureable or change?!

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Tokyo Transsexual Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals at Public “Ham Cybele” Banquet, Police Shrug, “It’s Not Illegal”

“Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen…. I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.”

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On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to six eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal. The genitals had been returned to Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following sex-change surgery on his 22nd birthday in early April during which they were removed.

Sugiyama had originally offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250). But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet, dubbed “Ham Cybele – Century Banquet,” at the Asagaya Loft event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. “Century” in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for “genitals”; “Ham Cybele” doesn’t appear to have any particular significance other than that the initials match Sugiyama’s artist name of “HC.”

The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted, “I’m starting to thaw them out,” and posted this photo (warning: not for the squeamish). A crowd of what appeared in photographs to be at least several dozen diners and onlookers gathered to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.

Although only six servings of the genitals were available, the other diners were served alternate beef- and crocodile-based dishes. The cooking was done by Sugiyama himself, dressed as a chef, under the supervision of a licensed food preparation specialist.

One of the six genital eaters posted a long, detailed blog post on April 14 about the event, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here), but the entire post was deleted on May 19 and a new post appeared stating that the removal was due to privacy considerations. Since Sugiyama himself linked to and seemed to endorse the blog post, we can only speculate that the blog hosting service or the police objected to the post.

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Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals. Sugiyama stated that before his operation he had been tested to be free of any venereal diseases and had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy. He also added that his genitals had been normally functional and that the pre-severed penis could attain an erect length of 16.1 cm (about 6.3 inches).

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Close-up photos of the braised genitals showed a sliced penis shaft with clearly visible corpora cavernosa and urethra, a sliced testicle with the look and texture of sea urchin sushi, and scrotal skin with about 3 mm of pubic hair growth. Rounding out the presentation the chef garnished the genitals with button mushrooms and Italian parsley.

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A spokesman for the Suginami police told CalorieLab that they had received many inquires and complaints from concerned citizens, but that they were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law prohibiting cannibalism in Japan. Nevertheless, the spokesman said, “We’re going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.”

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Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which he’s wearing to help form a feminine hourglass shape as his female hormone therapy progresses. He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and will be available at a later date. He tweets that his sex-reassignment surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $125,000).

The original tweet that started this is reproduced below:

[Please Retweet] I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen [$1,250]. I’m Japanese. The organs were surgically removed at age 22. I was tested to be free of venereal diseases. The organs were of normal function. I was not receiving female hormone treatment. The length at full erection was 16.1 cm [6.3 inches]. First interested buyer will get them, or I will also consider selling to a group. Will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location. If you have questions, please contact me by DM or e-mail.

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[For simplicity's sake, we used the male singular pronoun "he" throughout this post. Update: According to a tweet on May 23 Sugiyama currently self-identifies as asexual.]

Update: Tokyo residents can meet Chef Sugiyama in person on Friday May 27 at the Abilletage corset shop and tea salon from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The shop is on the third floor of the AM/PM convenience store building on Meiji Douri street between the Shinjuku Station Southern Plaza exit and Yoyogi Station of the Yamanote Line. Sugiyama will be cooking and serving waffles certified to be free of genital material. In addition, he will be selling books of his illustrations and demonstrating nail art techniques. (Update: Tweet from Abilletage with waffle photo, and blog post with nail art photo.)

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This entry was posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 and is filed under Food miscellaneous, Foreign stories (non-U.S.), Japan diet, fitness, food.

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Who in the right frame of mind would wanna eat it?

Guess I wont even eat it if being paid a million bucks.

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Ewwww.....

"You like who you like lah. Who cares if someone likes the other someone because of their race? It's when they hate them. That's the problem."

Orked (acted by Sharifah Amani) in SEPET (2004, directed by Yasmin Ahmad)

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Good to serve this to those gals who like to out their male colleagues in public.

While eating, they must be thinking 'Yummy, it just tastes like our bf dicks.

Kimochi!!!!

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Haizz...some people loves it, some doesnt wans it but some been dreaming of having one....I had a lesbian fren who been dreaming to have one so she can become a real man...here we are having someone cooking it as a dish...wad an insult.

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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20608652,00.html

Anderson Cooper has some news to share.

"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," the CNN anchor wrote Monday in an open letter to his longtime friend Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast.

The host of Anderson Cooper: 360, 45, also says that he has waited until now to announce the fact because, "As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter."

Cooper, who also hosts his own syndicated talk daytime show Anderson, addressed the subject after Sullivan – a British writer who is openly gay and Catholic – put the question to him after a cover story in the current Entertainment Weekly focused on how gay people in the public life are currently coming out in understated and matter-of-fact manners.

"Andrew, as you know, the issue you raise is one that I've thought about for years. Even though my job puts me in the public eye, I have tried to maintain some level of privacy in my life. Part of that has been for purely personal reasons. I think most people want some privacy for themselves and the people they are close to," Cooper began.

"It's become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long," he continued. "I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something – something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true."

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Many years back, I read Anderson Cooper's book "Dispatches from the Edge" and was wondering to myself if he were gay. He shared many personal stories in that book and on this point he was curiously silent. Well now we know. For those who wish to read the original article of his reply to Andrew Sullivan, here's the link.

People in the public eye are naturally more cautious about sharing their sexual identity to the world, lest it damages their credibility and affects their livelihood. When they are good and ready, they will share this part of themselves to others.

Another person who came out recently is the actor Jim Parsons, from "The Big Bang Theory". It was mentioned in a matter-of-fact manner in a New York Times article about his latest Broadway performance "Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship, and working with an ensemble again onstage was like nourishment, he said." Here's the link.

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Always love the way he reports

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