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  • This house prefers for queer narratives in popular media to primarily center around the present (ex. Heartstopper, Bottoms, Love, Simon, Twinless) rather than the past (ex. Boots, Queer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback Mountain).

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that gay rights movements should denounce entertainment contents which feature same sex relationships produced by non-LGBT producer (e.g., BL comics produced by heterosexual woman).

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · ラウンド1 · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that the queer movement should platform individuals who choose to detransition

    Infoslide

    Gender detransition is the act of stopping or reversing the social, medical, and/or administrative changes achieved during a gender transition process.

    Malaysia Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-18

  • This house believes that LGBTQ movements should actively disassociate with drag culture

    Infoslide

    Drag culture refers to a performance culture where individuals, often men, dress and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. In modern times, drag culture is associated with gay culture. It is often celebrated as a form of queer expression and art.

    Autumn Tournament 2025 · ラウンド1 · 2025-10-18

  • This house, as Cronaldo Lessi, would come out of the closet.

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, Cronaldo Lessi has been a prominent professional footballer since the age of 12, having already won many titles and Ballon d’Or awards, and being considered by many one of the best players of the century, even though he has already reached the sport’s usual retirement age. Despite being a public figure, no one knows that Cronaldo Lessi is homosexual, and the footballer has never publicly acknowledged a girlfriend.

    Open Estou Além 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-10-17

  • This house supports the creation of groups similar to TQILA in Latin America.

    Infoslide

    The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA) was formed in July 2017, in the context of the war in Syria, fighting against the Islamic State and other jihadist groups. With an anarcho-communist ideology, the group advocates social revolution for queer liberation, the abolition of all forms of oppression (sexism, racism, homophobia), and the overthrow of structures such as patriarchy and capitalism.

    Open Estou Além 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-10-17

  • This house believes that Drag Race Philippines should abandon the versus-the-world format and instead exclusively cast Filipino drag performers for an all-stars format

    Infoslide

    Drag Race is an international franchise which features drag performers who compete to win. For the non-regular "All-Stars" season, producers have the option to exclusively cast returning drag performers who previously competed in the same local franchise (e.g., Drag Race Espana) or adopt a versus-the- world format which would cast drag performers from different international franchises who largely represent their own home franchises (e.g., Drag Race UK versus the World, Drag Race Philippines Slaysian Royale).

    Cebu Debate Open · Round 4 · 2025-10-17

  • This house believes that it is in the queer community’s interest to point out the Manosphere’s homoaffectivity.

    Infoslide

    The manosphere is a masculinist subculture composed exclusively of men who, in turn, promote masculine personal development, whether through criticism of feminism (strong or moderate) or by advocating that men invest their time in themselves without the need to seek a romantic relationship or build a family. It is a community centered on masculinity and men’s communities, espousing ideas such as “only men know how to love.”

    Open Estou Além 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-17

  • This house, as a transgender individual in Iran, would cooperate with the government’s legal pathway for transition

    Infoslide

    In Iran, both trans men and trans women can obtain legal recognition only through a state-controlled and deeply invasive process that mandates psychiatric evaluation, court approval, and gender-affirming surgery—often involving sterilization. While the government may subsidize some of these procedures and recognized individuals receive updated documents and face less police harassment, the system reflects a long-standing institutional approach that treats trans identity within a medicalized and corrective framework.

    Kamalig Pre-NDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-04

  • This house, as an up and coming gay Mangaka, would write a Yaoi manga rather than a Bara manga

    Infoslide

    In Japanese Manga (comics), Yaoi refers to a genre of gay fiction that features young and attractive male characters, often in the "bishōnen" (beautiful boy) archetype. Usually the stories are marketed to and read by straight female audiences. Bara, by contrast, is a genre of fiction made largely by and for gay men. It tends to portray more muscular, rugged, or realistic male bodies. A Mangaka is a Japanese Manga (comic) artist.

    UCLA IV 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-27

  • This house would choose to be born in Fluidum.

    Infoslide

    Fluidum is a fictional world where everyone is born with two bodies, one male and one female, which grow simultaneously and can only be inhabited by its owner. A person may switch freely between them but can only inhabit one body at any given time. On their 20th birthday, the currently uninhabited body will permanently disintegrate. For the purpose of this debate, Fluidum’s effects only apply to those born within the realm of Fluidum and society always treats both bodies as fundamentally the same individual.

    Vanguard Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-26

  • This House opposes the mainstreaming of high-risk sexual activities in queer spaces

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, high-risk sexual activities are practices that carry an elevated risk of stigma, policing, or personal harm. Examples of this include but are not limited to: 1\. Cruising, the process of seeking anonymous, casual sexual encounters in public or semi-public spaces, 2\. Chem-sex, the act of engaging in sexual intercourse while under the influence of hard drugs, 3\. BDSM, a set of sexual practices involving bondage, domination, sadism and masochism, and 4\. Unprotected sexual intercourse with multiple sexual partners

    tabserverofturkey Online Pre-WUDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-13

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of feminist movements to aggressively advocate for the normalization of alternative families.

    Infoslide

    An "alternative family" refers to a family structure that differs from the traditional nuclear family model of a married heterosexual couple with biological children. Examples include, but are not limited to single-parent families, cohabiting partners without legal marriage, blended families formed after divorce and remarriage, same-sex parent families, child-free couples, or even chosen families composed of close friends or community members who take on familial roles.

    India ABP Fundraiser 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-30