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How ‘This Way Out’ is preserving its collection of historic audio from the LGBTQ movement
Producers of the weekly radio magazine that debuted in 1987 are excavating recordings stored in closets and in obsolete formats.
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Being gay in Ghana: LGBT community is ‘under attack’
Since the country’s first LGBT safe space was closed down by police, queer Ghanaians are "not safe".
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This New Map Is Digitizing LGBTQ+ Travel Guides from the '60s and Beyond
A new project hopes to add context and nuance to queer travel guides of the past.
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Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride
The long read: A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that
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Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules
The court said the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Switzerland holds referendum on making homophobia illegal
Opponents of making discrimination a crime claim it 'kills freedom'
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Legalising gay marriage is dramatically lowering suicides rates, study shows
Homophobic stigma remains a factor, warn experts
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Methodists couldn’t agree to approve same-sex marriages. Instead, they’ve announced a plan to split the church in half
The United Methodist Church is testing the limits of the word “united.”
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Germany plans to ban gay 'conversion therapy'
A draft law prohibits the therapy for all minors, with violators facing jail time. Health Minister Spahn said the ban sends a message to those struggling with their sexuality: "You're okay just as you are."
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Lezbiyen, Gey, Biseksüel, Trans & İnterseks
Türkiye Lezbiyen, Gay, Biseksüel, Transgender ve İnterseks Birliği. Türkiye LGBTİ Birliği.
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Brazil's Supreme Court criminalizes homophobia and transphobia
The new ruling would legally protect the country's LGBT community, which has among the highest rates of violent deaths in the world.
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Hundreds marry in Taiwan on Asia's first day of same-sex marriage
Island becomes first Asian nation to pass law but some newlyweds still fear anonymity necessary
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Poland’s ruling party plays the LGBTQ card
Attacking gay rights could cement right-wing support while splitting the opposition.
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How the Spring party is reviving the Polish left
Spring has come to Poland – in the form of a new left-wing party....The new party, named Spring (Wiosna in Polish)...aspires to remake Poland as a secular, diverse and egalitarian country “where no one is left behind”, in the words of its founder, Robert Biedron.
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The Gay History of America’s Classic Children’s Books
From “Frog and Toad” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” many of the most enduring 20th-century titles share a secret language of queer compassion.
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Man buys a hate group’s domain and turns it into a gay furry site
The Wolves of Odin is a far-right Canadian group that peddles Islamophobic immigration theories. Its members were caught earlier this year harassing Muslims and spying on the country’s oldest mosque. So when Canadian resident Brady Grumpelt realized WolvesOfOdin.com didn’t have a Canadian web address with the related .ca suffix, he bought WolvesOfOdin.ca and turned it into a gay site with erotic images of furries.
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Report: 2 killed, 40 detained in new gay purge in Chechnya
The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday. The new allegations come after reports in 2017 of more than 100 gay men arrested and subjected to torture, and some of them killed, in the predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia.
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Anne Hathaway denounces white privilege in award speech
Idiot.
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Record number of LGBT people run for U.S. office
A record number of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are standing in elections for public office in the United States, a non-profit group that supports them said on Tuesday. The Victory Institute said gay and trans people were still under-represented in political life, but it was aware of more than 400 LGBT candidates so far in 2018 – a higher number than ever before.
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Trinidad and Tobago judge rules homophobic laws unconstitutional
The ruling, which declared sections of the Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional, may soon lead to decriminalising gay consensual sex.
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