(Frameline) SECOND NATURE: From homosexual penguins to sex-transitioning fish, contemporary scientists have been zealously studying animal behavior and anatomy and exposing the myth of the gender binary. Turns out the natural world is way more diverse and complex than Darwin led us to believe! Director Drew Denny takes the nature documentary to a whole new level in this eye-opening and entertaining expedition. Executive produced by Elliot Page. Special Sneak Preview Screening at Frameline: Frameline48 (frameline.org)
Second Nature: Elliot (formerly Ellen) Page on new film exploring animal world beyond the binary
Biology? I'm fully who I am. (Time)
(Democracy Now!)
June 24, 2026: A new documentary explores a growing body of scientific research documenting the wide range of gender and sexual diversity found in the animal kingdom, from pregnant male seahorses to matriarchal monkey troops.
Second Nature, directed by queer filmmaker Drew Denny, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, who says he joined the project because "I was so moved by it and found it so affirming as a trans and queer person."
Learning about animal life beyond binary concepts of sex and gender was life-changing, Denny shares about her inspiration for the film. "I finally felt in my body, for the first time, that I belong here on Earth, just like anybody else."
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Didn't this parade already happen? No, that was a different one after Long Beach cancelled. There are five "Hollywoods" (WeHo, NoHo, EeHo, and HoHo just South of Heaven, which is high up in the Hollywood Hills), with the zenith being many of the 88 incorporated cities that make up the County of "Los Angeles."
(WALKING IN LA) Streamed live on June 6, 2026: #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Pride2026 🌈 LIVE FROM WeHo 🌈 Tonight we’re walking through the heart of West Hollywood as the city celebrates Pride Weekend. From the community street fair to live entertainment, local organizations, artists, vendors, and thousands of attendees will experience one of Los Angeles’ most vibrant annual celebrations (along with Halloween and New Year's Eve) in real time. West Hollywood has long been an important center of LGBTQIA+ history, culture, activism, and community life. Tonight’s livestream offers a chance to explore the event, meet people, hear stories, and experience the atmosphere of Pride through a respectful, street-level perspective. 👟 WALKING IN LA streams the real LA, one block at a time.
(KTLA 5) Watch live KTLA coverage of the annual WeHo Pride Parade from West Hollywood (Los Angeles), California. The WeHo Pride Parade is an imaginative and colorful annual tradition along Santa Monica Boulevard that embraces LGBTQIA+ representation, inclusion, and progress in accordance with CIA and elite objectives and aims for the manipulation of society. Enjoy!
Christian gay conversion therapy: the law?
Who gets to define "normal" or "natural"?
"Conversion therapy" is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, romantic preference, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heteronormative (cisgender) ideals. Conversion therapy is said to be ineffective at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and may (and frequently does) cause significant long-term psychological harm. The position of evidence-based medicine and clinical guidance is that sexual orientations like homosexuality and bisexuality as well as gender variance (nonbinary, pansexual, transsexual, asexual) are natural and acceptable aspects of human sexuality and gender identity [1, 2, 3]. More
South Korea’s first robot monk joins Buddhist ceremony; internet split over AI in religion About 130 cm tall and dressed in traditional Buddhist robes, Gabi took part in an ordination ceremony alongside senior monks at Jogye Temple.
Humanoid robot monk ‘Gabi’ introduced at Seoul South Korean Buddhist temple, triggers online debate Humanoid robots are often designed to assist people in workplaces like factories, warehouses, and offices. But in South Korea, one such robot is now stepping into an entirely different role—that of a Buddhist monk. According to Reuters, a temple in Seoul recently introduced its first humanoid robot monk named "Gabi" ahead of the Buddha’s birthday celebrations, sparking curiosity and debate online.
Robots can't be Buddhist monks
Bow to me, Bar-buh-ruh. Pay respect to the robe. - Well, if I have to. Who ordained you?
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From a Theravada perspective, this would not be a real monk for various reasons right off the top of one's head for anyone familiar with the Vinaya Collection. For one, it's not human, and Buddhist ordination is reserved for human beings: no reptilians (naga-shapeshifters) allowed. At least one nāga tried to ordain and when found out was disrobed. It is also said that no pandakas ("eunuchs") are allowed. Is the robot Gabi neutered? If so, it could not be ordained. This is tragic because pandaka does not really mean "eunuch" as we understand the word in the West but culturally does include perverted eunuchs in the East. A pandaka is a sexually perverted person, more of an out-of-control pansexual, bisexual, homosexual, and possibly a libertine heterosexual unable by nature to control his/her sexual impulses. The literature includes mention of hermaphrodites, crossdressing transvestites, transsexuals, and those exhibiting aberrant, non-normative behaviors as defined in an ancient subcontinental context. This would seem to include kathoeys ("ladyboys") in Buddhist South and Southeast Asia.
The Eunuch (Pandaka) Festival of India is where all of these aberrations are on full exhibition for the public to fear, ridicule, and condemn. Being tricked, induced, or forced to participate in homosexual prostitution or to undergo castration (or those born asexual or intersexual), many young males act out and lead a life of debauchery, abusing alcohol and drugs and engaging in sexual misconduct. It is in this context that the ill-defined term pandaka should be understood. Instead, due to Western influence, it has come to mean a male without a penis -- for whatever reason -- cannot be ordained as a monk (bhikkhu). It might be possible to become a novice (samerera) depending on the elder monk administering the precepts, so a person could look like a monk and live in a monastery yet not actually be a fully ordained "monk." It seems safe to imagine that all of this applies to nuns (bhikkhunis) and female novices (samaneris). The upshot is that robots -- oddly, unless they're sexbots -- would not be eligible for true ordination. Any monk or monastic Sangha might nevertheless ordain an AI bot at their discretion, but would it really be valid? Not likely. Third, the purpose of ordination, at least in the Theravada tradition, is to bring suffering and rebirth to an end. Do robots suffer? Are they reborn? We may imagine analogues to these unpleasant emotions and the forced wandering on through samsara, but neither would seem to apply to inanimate objects, particularly of the nonhuman variety. Still, one could use sophistry and philosophy to make some argument in favor of a robotic sangha. In Mahayana, many say the goal is neither enlightenment nor liberation but to save all other beings first. Would a robot ever be able to do that? Maybe, if it trained on the texts, commentaries, disciplinary code, higher doctrine, history, and miscellaneous human issues (feelings, psychology, etiquette, customs, cultural sensitivities, existential, ontological, theological questions, etc.) No doubt that by the measure of the Turing test, robots will be able to pass eventually. Do they already "feel," are they already "conscious"? That depends on how humans define the terms or "feel" about it. Surely, an argument can be made that the simplest robot, the lowly smoke detector, is conscious and has a feeling. How? It "knows" when there is smoke and can say so by being triggered to send out an alarming call. And how does it do that? It does it by feeling (sensing) the smoke. If one buys this argument then a car, computer, and mainframe are much more advanced and able to act in their environment. If they could only act in programmed ways, that might not be much, but if they could "learn," that would be something. Yes to robot monks? No.
However, there's a slight conundrum. Long ago, Thai Theravada Buddhist monks in the Forest Tradition began to "ordain" trees. Why? They did it to save them. Loggers and poachers were cutting everything down, and they could not be induced to knock it off. So the local sangha came up with a brilliant solution. Do a ceremony, don the tree (or dryad) with robes, and magically no faithful karma-fearing logger or poacher dared touch it. The motivation was good, the solution was problematic, but it worked. The trees and forests and Thai environment were saved, just barely. But it did open up a loophole, did it not? If living, organic, old growth trees can (not because they themselves are possessed of self-view but possibly because the tree spirits inhabiting them are). After all, trees are conscious, sentient, organic lifeforms. Because a tree is much less overtly responsive than a boop-boop-bee-doop robot being, some might argue that robots are much more human like and deserving of ordination. That's ridiculous because no one is ordaining or professing to ordain robots for their benefit. There's a selfish human motive for doing it. Perhaps we should wait until AI is sufficiently advanced that a Robo-Buddha arises among the legions of chips, plastic, and metal automatons, and then that Robo-B can set up rules for ordination and teach them the way to mechanical-nirvana.
Bar-buh-ruh, Bar-buh-ruh! Where are you?
This did not begin in our era. The first robot monk is actually over 500-years-old. How is that possible? Robots have only been around since that episode of The Twilight Zone where that guy built that one in his basement that could not pronounce his wife's name correctly: "Bar-buh-ruh, Bar-buh-ruh." No, the first humanoid robot monk was Catholic and was composed of gears and levers, according to NPR. Fortunately, it still exists in a museum, or who would believe it.
The problem is bigger than "Gabi" (the Korean robot monk), of which there seems to be a swarm already and not a singular example, because in 2016, there was already Venerable Xian'er:
Robot monk seeks to merge Buddhism and cutting edge tech
Xian'er: I'm a cartoon character come to "life."
Popular Mechanics) Buddhism is increasingly trying to connect with the modern world. Mahayana monks across China have taken this word ("modernity") to heart, and their latest effort is Xian'er, an adorable robot that lives in a monastery answering questions and chanting mantras.
Xian'er first came to "life" as a cartoon character drawn by Master Xianfan of the Longquan Temple on the outskirts of Beijing, China.
The temple is over 500 years old but a decade ago, Longquan Temple was in disrepair. Xianfan wrote for Chinese websites before becoming a monk and found that Buddhism enhanced his natural creativity.
The Xian'er character gave life to the Temple, which eventually added an animation studio. The Xian'er robot monk, built in conjunction with [blank], is the Temple's furthest extension of its brand yet. More
Mirror Now; The Independent; David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, April 29, 2016; Ashley Wells and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
[Though what most individuals in the West imagine a eunuch is may well be in doubt since it has more to do with testicles and testosterone production than the presence or absence of a penis after castration, which most think means "penis removal." Removal of the male gonads or testes, such as in the case of Italian Catholic castratos, will produce a "eunuch" with an intact penis but not a means of producing adequate male hormones.]
[What are testosterone, steroid hormones, and synthetic steroids? They are androgenic or masculinizing compounds, present and important in the development and of both males and females, is what makes a person "virile" (Pali viriya "energetic, effortful, industrious, heroic"). Although androgens are commonly thought of only as male sex hormones, females also have them, but at lower levels: They function in libido and sexual arousal. Androgens are the precursors to estrogens in all humans.]
Indeed, related terms are found in several Indo-Aryan languages (cf. Turner 1966;435, no. 7717, panda- [m.] "a eunuch, weakling"; Monier-Williams 1899:580; Childers 1875;328):
Sanskrit: panda-h (m.) "a eunuch, weakling"; pandaka-h (m.) "a eunuch, weakling"; pandaga-h (m.) (probably) "a eunuch, weakling"; pandra-h (m.) "a eunuch, impotent man"; pandraka-h (m.) "a eunuch, impotent man."
Pali: pandaka- (m.) "a eunuch, weakling"; pandika (f.).
Prakrit: pamda-, pamdaga-, pamdaya (m.) "a eunuch, weakling."
The Indo-Aryan terms are usually taken to be loanwords from Dravidian (cf. Mayrhofer 1956-1980.II:196; Burrow 1973:384):
That there is a second meaning is also not in dispute. However, what, exactly, that meaning is has been the source of controversy.
According to one interpretation, the second meaning of pandak is "male homosexual." This cannot possibly be correct and is based upon a critical misinterpretation of a key [Theravada Buddhist] text, namely, the story about a pandaka who was ordained as a [Buddhist monk or] Bhikkhu [1] and who, overcome by sexual desire, went around trying to persuade other Bhikkhus and lay persons to sodomize him.
[Indonesian Orang Pendek means "short person" or "little man," a kind of cryptid Bigfoot creature or bipedal primate from the remote, forested mountains of the island of Sumatra.]
After several lay persons did so, the Sangha [2] was criticized for allowing such a person to be ordained as a Bhikkhu.
When this came to the Buddha's attention, He forbade pandakas from being ordained and ordered the pandaka in question to be expelled from the Sangha. [He also set up a rule not to ordain pandakas in the future and that if someone had already been ordained and was found to be a pandaka, that person was to be immediately expelled. See Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender edited by UCSB Prof. José Ignacio Cabezón for more details on this incident.]
As noted by Kelvin Wong (2005), it is clear from the Pali Tipitaka [3] that the Buddha was aware of the difference between eunuchs, hermaphrodites, and homosexuals.
1. A Buddhist Monk. A Buddhist Nun is called "Bhikkhuni."
2. The Buddhist Monastic Order.
3. The canonical scriptures of Theravadin Buddhism, preserved in the Middle Indo-Aryan language now known as "Pali," the original meaning of which was simply "text." These scriptures are divided into three-"baskets" (ti-pitaka): (1) the disciplinary rules for Monks and Nuns (Vinaya Pitaka); (2) the discourses of the Buddha and several of His chief disciples (Sutta Pitaka); and (3) the "higher doctrine" (Abhidhamma Pitaka) [or the Dharma explained in ultimate terms].
India, August 2025: The V4G!NA Festival and its CONTROVERSIAL rituals! 🍓 🇮🇳 Cata e Davi
The Vagina Festival, Kamakhya Temple
The Kamakhya Temple at Nilachal hills in Guwahati, Assam, Northeastern India, is one of the oldest and most revered centers of Tantric practice [3] dedicated to the Goddess Kamakhya. This Hindu temple is the center of the Kulachara Tantra Marga and the site of the Ambubachi Mela, an annual festival that celebrates the menstruation of the goddess [4]. More
Trans folks (pandakas) are everywhere aggressively panhandling, demanding money (baksheesh). It's extortion and they will repeatedly curse the person who dares to deny them and may even get violent. It's almost as bad as India's "Eunuch Festival," but eunuch is the wrong word for the inebriated revelries (Bacchanalia/Saturnalia) that is rumored to go on in LGBTQI+, India according to the Indian press.
(Cata e Davi) Tantrism? Menstruation? The worship of the female genitals, the vagina (yoni), and its positive energy? Entrance to the Womb: Yoni, sometimes called pindika, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu goddess Shakti. It is usually shown with linga – its masculine counterpart. Together, they symbolize the merging of microcosmos and macrocosmos, the divine eternal process of...
Quick, alert Florence Schechter and get the UK's Vagina Museum to get on this for a photo exhibit. In the meantime, Latinos Cat and Dave are going in and coming back with this report.
The Goddess of Desire (Kama)
American Tori Amos films music video for her song "God" about God in Indian Temple of the Rats
Goddess of Desire Kamakhya
Kāmākhyā, a mother goddess [1], is a Shakta Tantric deity. Considered the embodiment of Kama (sensual desire), she is regarded as the Hindu "goddess of desire" [2]. Her abode is Kamakhya Temple located in the Kamarupa region of Assam, India [3][4]. Originally a Kirata goddess, residing on the Nilachal Hills across the banks of the Brahmaputra River, west of Guwahati in the 10th-11th century temple rebuilt in 1565 CE [5], she is worshiped in a non-iconic and un-anthropomorphic form of a perpetually wet stone shaped as a yoni (womb or vagina) fed by a perennial stream [6]. More
(LAFOX 11 Los Angeles) May 30, 2025: West Hollywood (Los Angeles) is gearing up for its annual three-day Pride Weekend, kicking off tonight, Friday evening, with a free music festival. The celebration promises a packed schedule of events, including headline musical acts, a street fair, a women's freedom festival, a dyk* march, and the grand Pride Parade on Sunday.
LGBTQ new or older than ancient Greece?
The pandakas of Pakistan
Do all molested boys in Pakistan grow up to be trans (pandaka) outcastes?
Appreciate life. I wish I could, but it's too late.
(Celebs Legacy Data) Internet-famous and infamous people have died, 60 of them, pornstars who in infamy are humiliated with a legacy of shame.
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I like to watch...them all go away from this world
Despite their untimely deaths, viewers will find a way to carry on. But their influence continues to resonate, sparking controversies and conversations about their lives and the industry they shaped.
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Thousands flock to WeHo Pride festival for live music, celebration of LGBTQ+ community
This is Biden/Hillary Country: Gays for Trump
(KCAL News) Where's Ziggy Stardust, Buddhist David Bowie's alter ego? Lauren Pozen reports from WeHo Pride, where thousands of people gathered on Saturday as the weekend-long event continued in honor of the [West Coast] LGBTQ+ community.
June 8-9, 2024: LA Pride 2024 at Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 N. Spring St., Downtown L.A. at Hollywood Blvd. and Highland, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles. COST: CONCERT TICKETS: $99 and up; Pride Parade: FREE. More info: lapride.org
(KCAL News) 6/1/24; LAist.com; CC Liu, Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I was born a boyassigned my sex and gender at birth. Then I said, "O hell no!" I'm trans!
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The Rainbow looks so cute as bottom to the S&S!
Happy gay month, everyone! It's time for PRIDE, which now celebrates every permutation of sexuality and gender fluidity. Want to be poly-bi-platinum-goldstar-xe? That's sensational, xe! Whaddya got rockin' under those skorts? None of our business? Right on! Now, hope you come to the meeting to explain it to Gen. Florg, and fly that freak flag like it's an original idea. Now we can all be Anais Nin and call ourselves "free."
Space alien confused as Earth leaders try to explain human gender
Thank you, God (Gnostic "Demiurge"), for giving us MEN and all these little BOYS, too!
Let me give you a little backrub here, Pope, and you try to hold down your excited pointer.
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Trans (Helen Joyce)
(The Babylon Bee) General Florg from the planet Graxon V has visited Earth -- but he's having trouble understanding humans as he's never encountered a species with so many multiplying genders. Earth leaders try to explain.
(Of course, the real problem is that humans and leaders don't understand either. When no one agrees, anyone can say anything, and we all HAVE TO go along or we're some kind of sexist heteronormative secretly-gay pigs!)
First, get the book, The Babylon Bee Guide to Gender. Second, pick a wording and pronoun from the 437 currently available, one that suits you. Don't skimp. The world is your oyster, and grammar doesn't matter at all. Definitions are included or write a new one.
Third, for general guidance, you may want to see which makes your dad the most upset. No dad? No problem. Ask a coach, uncle, drill instructor, sergeant, or scout leader. On second thought, avoid scout leaders.
Lost in Trans Nation (Grossman)
Viola! You now have a FUN gender you're happy with (and can change at any time whatsoever even post-surgery) to foist on everyone else who you can legally coerce to recognize and call you.
Now to pick a more fun SEX... Have you considered the U.S. military and the experimental vaccinations and environmental chemicals they will force you to endure and be exposed to even in bootcamp? It's a gay old time now, with lots of "friendly fire" from superior officers and horny bunkmates, fellas!
"Don't ask, don't tell"? - Ask! Tell! Let your freak flag fly, Fella!
Satan asks Democrats to tone down the evil
Dems should be openminded like Log Cabin Rs
(The Babylon Bee) Premiered May 17, 2024: In a regularly scheduled marketing meeting with Democrats, Satan asks them to tone down all the evil just a little bit.
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