Kill the-Gays bill

2012/13 London College of Communication Fda Graphic Design Y2

A-Z Project

Kill the - Gays bill

Cecilia Boasso

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A-Z Research Reserach development Analysis & Subject Knowledge Design as/for/to Message Delivery & Storyboard Technical competences production & postproduction

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A-Z project Week 1-5

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_de·code

\(ˌ)dē-ˈkōd\ Convert (a coded message) into intelligible language.

to recognize and interpret; break, crack, decipher, decrypt

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_erase

erased | eras·ing

> words’ research throught visual exploration of meanings and sinonyms

\i-ˈrās, British -ˈrāz\ abolish, black out, blot out, cancel, clean (up), efface, eradicate, annihilate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, root (out), rub out, snuff (out), stamp (out), sweep (away), wipe out

Eschersimmetry drawingserase/delete to create somethingelse

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_odd

\ËˆĂ¤d\ unmatched, unpaired, strange, unusual, eccentric, occasional, peculiar, singular, fantastic, strange, additional, irregular

find the odd one out

Middle English odde, from Old Norse oddi point of land, triangle, odd number; First Known Use: 14th century

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_or·phan \ˈȯr-fən\

A first line (as of a paragraph) separated from its related text and appearing at the bottom of a printed page or column

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_orphan

lonely

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ODD

“what’s behind”

_decode

interpretation

strange

unusual eccentric

> throught the research words started matching and converged in the concept of ODD as eccentric

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Research development Ideas generation &testing a triangle? origins ♯ What’s

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Pascal’s Triangle

Sierpinski Triangle

"Feminist leader and Illuminati Jew Gloria Steinem makes a Masonic sign and celebrates killing her unborn child. "Change the world" she has, but not for the better."

Pink Triangle (German: Rosa Winkel) was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used to identify male prisoners who were sent there because of their homosexuality.

Pernose Triangle: Impossible/ Infinite Triangle

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Waterfall-M.C.Escher

Idea >1 >2 >3

How to build the Impossible Triangle?

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Impossible gemoetry the “odd type” > the idea has been inspired by concepts such as “infinite” and “impossible”.

The challenge was to create a 3D “odd typeface”using different geometries.

The type would have been readable just from certain viewpoints(like the Pernose Triangle).

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Impossible triangle sculpture as an optical illusion, East Perth, Western Australia

http://illusions.htm

> Starting from the concept of “odd” as unusual, eccentric, bizar(...) the research explores social morality and its boundaries under the concepts of discriminations, perjudices, acceptance and rejection that minorities face.

>discrimination>marginalisation

people” >2 “Odd“odd couples”

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> LGBT

against discrimination and violence toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender

LGBT is an initialism that refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. In use since the 1990s.

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>Q for those who identify as queer and/or are questioning their sexual identity as "LGBTQ", recorded since 1996.[6]

> LGBT > Campaign

• Analysis > International Day Against Omophobia (17th May)

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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/05/17/international-day-against-homophobia-andtransphobia-marked-globally/

BEING ODD

IS JUST A POINT OF VIEW

Collection of cards.

The main message of the collection is based on the concept of “Diversity as a point of view”. Throught combination of images and LGBT people declaration the outcome brakes the barriers of “normality”. The aim is to sesitize the mass about LGBT people and their realities.

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Analysis But where LGBT people are most discriminated?

Adam Knowles on "THE END OF GAY?"

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Adam Knowles, Chair of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association Galha, talked to the Central London Humanist Group

LGBT Rights in the World

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The State of LGBT Rights Around the World

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_ country_or_territory

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LGBT rights in Uganda Same-sex sexual activities illegal: penalty: up to life in prison

> Ugandan gay rights activist murdered weeks after court victory David Kato had faced renewed threats after winning an injunction against a tabloid that called for him to be hanged

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Gays in Uganda 89% of Uganda population is against gay people.

Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association Founded in 1979, GALHA is a democratic, membership organisation based in the UK with members worldwide, promoting Humanism and LGBT equality.

Since 2012 it is LGBT section of the British Humanist Association.

“My activism�

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14th october 2009 the Ugandan Government introduced the AntiHomosexuality law providing a penalty up to life prison.

> “Kill the-Gays” bill - Uganda

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Read the whole article

12th November 2012 “Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said the antigay bill will become law by December since most Ugandans ‘are demanding it’.”

The law will broaden the criminalization of of same sex relationship” introducing the death penalty.

A post about my research on Galha wall on facebook pointed the project on a current issue.

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advert >3 VideoPetiton Days to stop the Uganda anti-gay attack Project challenge: learn Fina Cut

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To President Museveni of Uganda, Members of the Review Committee, Parliament, and donor governments: “We stand with citizens across Uganda who are calling on their government to withdraw the Anti-Homosexual Bill, and to protect the universal human rights embodied in the Ugandan constitution. We urge Uganda’s leaders and donors to join us in rejecting persecution and upholding values of justice and tolerance.”

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www.avaaz.org

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Galha Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association

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Galha provides a voice for the many non-religious in the lesbian and gay community in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and promotes a rational humanist approach to homosexuality and to LGBT rights and gender identity as human rights.

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AIM: to as many possible petition

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Voice over (Victor) Oct 2009 , the Ugandan Government introduced the Anti-Homosexuality law.

It was shelved due to the international outcry.

Nov 2012, the bill was reintroduced with the death penalty and life imprisonment.

David Bahati has said the Ugandan Government should kill every last gay person.

There are roughly 500.000 LGBT people in Uganda.

“and ugandan”

“I am lesbian...”

“...and ugandan”

“I am straight...”

“I am transexual”

“I am bisexual...”

“...and ugandan”

“I am lesbian...”

“...and ugandan”

“I am human...”

“...and ugandan”

“I am gay...”

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The vote could happen any day now.

Help us stop the Kill the-Gays bill in Uganda.

SIGN THE PETITION. www.avaaz.org

Online: BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, Indipendent Locations: Gay Capitals > Sidney, New York, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Copenhagen, Berlin.

Storyboard : who, where and how...

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Nights in Soho looking for my video’s actors

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cuts

sounds

grading

> Editing Technical competence

The most beautiful challenge of this project has been meeting these people, interview them and listen to their story and life.

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message delivery

Final cut

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Thanks for reading!

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