They claimed that she and her organisation were responsible for “spreading” homosexuality, implying that they were also responsible for “spreading” paedophilia.ĭespite facing harassment and stigmatization, Flamer-Caldera did not complain to the police as she was worried she would be arrested. In 20, the Women and Children’s Bureau of the Sri Lanka Police used Flamer-Caldera’s photo and her position with Equal Ground in presentations to assert that the rise of child abuse was mainly due to the “growing homosexual culture”. Since then, Flamer-Caldera has suffered high-profile attacks on her character, and she and her organisation have been subjected to discrimination, harassment, stigmatization and threats of violence by State officials and members of the public, including the press and social media. In its decision published today, CEDAW found that Sri Lanka has breached the rights of Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, the founder and Executive Director of Equal Ground, an organisation defending the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community in Sri Lanka.įlamer-Caldera has been supporting lesbian and bisexual women in defending their rights after discovering in 1997 that the country’s Penal Code, which criminalises same-sex sexual activity, had been amended to include also sexual conduct between women.
That should be a hell of a read when that book hits shelves.GENEVA – Sri Lanka violated the rights of a lesbian and leading LGBTI activist who was subjected to discrimination, threats and abuses due to the country’s Penal Code that criminalises same-sex sexual activity, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has found. (But let’s not rule out a role in Back to the Beach 2, because Avalon is back in the acting game in 2016, so anything is possible.) Interestingly, Lockhart turned down a “small role” in King Cobra, citing his desire to eventually tell the story in his own words. In addition to being caught up in an insane murder plot, Lockhart was also underage when he was performing in his earliest films for Cobra Video, so it’s safe to say that Clayton’s days of being a modern Frankie Avalon are over.
Garrett Clayton stars as Lockhart/Carrigan, and this is a far cry from his performance as Tanner in Disney’s Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2. (Again, it’s a hell of a story and one paragraph hardly does it justice.) The entire story was told in the 2012 book Cobra Killer: Gay Porn Murder, and now it’s being adapted as King Cobra, which stars Christian Slater as “Stephen,” who is based on Kocis, and James Franco as Joe, or Joseph Kerekes, one of the murderers and aspiring porn kingpins. They wanted to make a film with Corrigan that would earn more money than any gay-porn movie in history, but - SPOILER ALERT - they’re in prison for life. Lockhart rose to fame in the gay-porn industry as Brent Corrigan, predominantly starring in films produced by Cobra Video, which was owned by Bryan Kocis, who was murdered by two male escorts and wannabe rival producers in 2007.
The story of Sean Paul Lockhart is a truly bizarre one, which basically guarantees James Franco would get involved in the film version.