As a groundbreaking film launches, Turkish attitudes to gay and transgender people are slowly improving – in the media at least. Last week was tumultuous for Turkey's gay and transsexual people. A groundbreaking indie movie, Zenne Dancer, finally hit the screens, after winning five major awards at the country's foremost film…

Beijing Queer Film Festival Goes Guerilla   Photos available at: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5aea47cf0100rxed.html   On Sunday 19 June 2011, the Beijing Queer Film Festival successfully closed its fifth edition after 5 days of guerilla-style screenings and talks around the city. 3 days prior to the start of the festival, Chinese authorities…

Today was the last day of the antinormanybody exhibition, curated by Barrak Alzaid with the support of IRN Middle East and Kleio Projects. The exhibition featured experimental video and portraiture exploring gender, sexuality, and the body in the Middle East. antinormanybody was enjoyed by many artlovers in New York and…

A New Take on Body, Sex and Gender by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie In Raed Yassin’s “Final Destination,” a male body plunges into the Mediterranean, his movements slowed down and distorted by the manipulation of a videocassette with magnets. In Marwa Arsanios’ “I’ve Heard Stories,” live action footage and video animation combine…

Negar Behbahani is a video artist and sound designer based in Iran. She holds a BA in Music from Azad Art & Architecture University in Tehran. Integrating elements from different artistic disciplines, her works have been featured at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the White Box Gallery in New…