Halil Ibrahim Dinçdağ, Turkey’s first openly gay football referee, who was sacked wins lawsuit against football federation. In May 2009, football referee Halil Dinçdag, who lived in Trabzon, got sacked […]
There have been some hate crimes and homophobe’s giving speeches (as usual) but 2014 was a good year for Turkish LGBTs. A gay wedding ceremony forced public to confront the “gay […]
Charles F. Hunter, U.S. Consul General in Istanbul will reportedly marry his boyfriend, a Turkish musician, according to reports in the Turkish media. Bülent Cankurt, an entertainment reporter for Daily […]
Belgian news reporter Dennis De Roover interviewed me about the Occupy Gezi Protests and LGBT existence in these movement The Dutch version of this interview is here on ZIZO ONLINE […]
June 30th,2013 was an epic day for Turkey’s LGBTs. Many people from all around Turkey and from abroad became as one in Taksim Square. Taksim Square is the leading place […]
Dear friends, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans movement has reached its 21st year in Turkey. During the past twenty years, while the movement lived through conflicts, divergences, disputes both in […]
Several weeks ago we’ve interviewed “Mother Pınar” as a mother of a transgender and wanted her to tell us her experiences about accepting her child as the way she(former he) […]
Mother Pınar is 52 years old. She was born in Kayseri (Mid Anatolian Turkey) and travelled many different cities of Turkey while growing up as a daughter of a soldier. […]
(This is a chapter from the blogger MURAT RENAY’s first book THE UNSAID-SÖYLENMEYEN) Due to your knowledge about gays, I am sure that from now on you’ll stare at the […]
