Amateur Photographer

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By Toby Binder, Kehrer Verlag, £30, 120 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-3-86828-915-2 The consequences of Britain exiting the European Union are likely to be myriad. But one that is of immediate concern for those living in Ireland is how this political sh

Chicago Tribune

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When Lori Lightfoot was elected mayor of Chicago this spring, the city's school district put together a lesson guide with ideas and resources for teaching about her inauguration - without explicitly referencing her sexual orientation. "Chicago made h

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - The murder of nearly two dozen transgender people in the U.S. this year got rare attention from the Democratic presidential candidates when a moderator asked in Thursday's debate what they would do to stop the violence. Vermont Sen. Ber

Femina

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Shree Ghatak Muhury had always felt she was a woman trapped in a man’s body. In 2015, fighting all odds, she underwent sex reassignment surgery, and finally felt she had become who she was always meant to be. A couple of years later, the actor made h

The Advocate

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I celebrated L.A. Pride on the radio as part of KPFK’s all-day Pride programming. First, in conversation with the star of the Revry podcast, Shook With Ashlee Marie Preston, and our deputy editor Jacob Anderson-Mishall (pictured). Then with other que

The Atlantic

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The singer’s pro-gay single strangely compares her struggles with fame to more dangerous kinds of persecution.

FactCheck.org

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Q: Is California forcing “schools to show kids ‘gay sex'”? A: No. California law requires the state’s history curriculum to include “the role and contributions of” LGBT people. FULL QUESTION Is it true the governor wants gay porno

The Advocate

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Haley Videckis and Layana White first met on a basketball court while playing for opposing PAC-12 teams, but the pair would go on to make history as a couple in a California courtroom. The story of this interracialpansexual duo was covered in the doc

The Advocate

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Gay celebrity hairstylist Andrew Fitzsimons combines his passions for beauty and LGBTQ activism in his collaboration with the L.A. LGBT Center’s Trans Wellness Center, where his Trans Cosmetic Donation Program distributes hygienic and cosmetic produc

VOGUE India

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For one evening in early September this year, the Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi dropped its gender-segregated frisking system and changed its traditional girl/boy washrooms to include all genders. The space, a hotbed between the capital

New Internationalist

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It is a few minutes shy of 9:00pm and I am in a Bolt ride home from Johannesburg Park Station. The driver is Eritrean and we are talking about African immigrants. He seems not to trust Malawians and Zimbabweans; the ones he has met so far are trouble

TIME

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FOR CENTURIES, BEING LESBIAN, gay, bisexual or transgender in America meant hiding at least part of who you were. The stigma traces as far back as the colonial era, when sodomy was a capital crime. The culture has shifted over time, and recent decade

Marketing

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The bank’s 20-year association with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has provided countless opportunities for ANZ to showcase itself as a leader in culture, inclusion and pride. Its in-flight safety videos have been a worldwide favourite for qu

City Press

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“Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God. What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.” With these words, Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, finally gave his seal of ap

The Advocate

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One of the longest running LGBT film festivals has changed names for its 31st birthday. The Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival is now officially the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival. Festival director Jim Brunzell s

DIVA

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Hi, my name is Claire, and in 2005 I met my wife through your magazine. We have been together 16 years and married for six years. My wife lives on the Isle of Man and I moved from Spalding in Lincolnshire in 2007 to be with her. I just wanted to say

BBC History Magazine

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Matt Cook is professor of modern history at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in 20th-Century London (Palgrave, 2014) Channing Gerard Joseph teaches journalism at the University

NPR

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It was 45 years ago this Sunday that one of the worst attacks on LGBTQ Americans left 32 people dead. For decades, homophobia led many to ignore the tragedy.

The Texas Observer

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TITLE/ORGANIZATION Leader of Mass Resistance Houston THE CAUSE Ending “assaults on the traditional family, school children, and the moral foundation of society.” NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Shutting down drag queen story time events in Houston and Leander

Global Voices

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"We channel the voices of feminists, pluralists and progressives, or just those who are not afraid to be different, regardless of their genders, colors, or sexual preferences."

Los Angeles Times

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Despite women and people of color at the helm of high-profile successes like "Black Panther," "Get Out," "Girls Trip" and "Wonder Woman," a new study has found that diversity of representation among Hollywood films remains largely unchanged from a de

The Independent

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RIDG 201-209 and JR101-103 are set for time release at 8 am Saturday morning. The 2020 census questionnaire drove Scout crazy. With no direct questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, it made him feel left out of the U.S. head count. A

The Guardian

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From Michelangelo’s suggestive David to a gender-fluid Hindu deity, cultural institutions are digging into their vaults to display once-hidden objects of same-sex desire and gender nonconformity

Global Voices

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“We are about to celebrate 20 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality, but we must decriminalize homosexuality in people’s minds and hearts..."

The Independent

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Proponents of restrictions on how U.S. public schools address sexual orientation and gender identity say their ultimate goal is to allow parents more involvement in their children's education and ensure classroom materials are age-appropriate. But in

Global Voices

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Pending the outcome of an official investigation, Jamaicans have been forming their own conclusions about the cause of a fire that gutted Jamaica's LGBTQIA+ support organisation.

ArtAsiaPacific

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A massive exhibition of LGBTQ art, “Spectrosynthesis II: Exposure of Tolerance” was the sequel to the 2017 iteration staged by the Hong Kong-based Sunpride Foundation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei. Featuring 58 artists working in a rang

The Guardian

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David asked me to marry him years ago. Back then, a civil partnership was the only option. It had been introduced by Tony Blair in 2004; I was always surprised, given the size of his majority, that he didn’t introduce gay marriage instead. But we did

Global Voices

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"You deserve to be proud of yourself, you rare, riotous beauty. Go on, give yourself a huge, rafter-rattling cheer."

GAY TIMES

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In partnership with Over the years, LGBTQ+ athletes have struggled with being publicly out and how they fit into mainstream sports culture. Out of sheer creativity and a need for representation, our community has uplifted one another to drive an incl