Writing Magazine

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Nightmares & Phantasms is a podcast of scary stories and horrifying true tales, needing submissions of short horror stories, true or fictional. Reprints are welcome if they have not been podcast. Limit work to 1,000-6,000 words. Response time is reas

MoneyWeek

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Italian conservationists cheered a ruling by an Italian court, backing Rome City Council’s decision to deny fast food giant McDonald’s permission to build a €1.3m drive-through branch near the city’s historic Caracalla baths, says The Sunday Times. M

Global Voices

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Russia has recently passed a series of socially conservative laws targeting activists, advocacy groups and online media for anything that can be construed as "promoting homosexuality to minors."

TIME

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Sudan’s military re-took control of the country in an Oct. 25 coup, jailing prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and deposing a transitional government weeks before it was to transfer control to civilians. The coup undid fragile progress made after massive

NPR

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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a local baker in Colorado was within his rights to refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding.

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

India Today

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Introduce a comprehensive anti-discrimination law to penalise discriminatory practices in the private as well as public sector Incentivise higher education for Muslims with scholarships and subsidies Increase the recruitment of Muslims to central

The Knot Weddings Magazine

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i have written about this here before, but it’s still hard to believe the fact that the Supreme Court’s decision granting the LGBTQ+ community’s right to marry in all 50 states was just six years ago (this June). For context, Instagram launched five

New Internationalist

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When Karachi-based doctor and photojournalist Bilal Hassan approached the model for this impromptu image, he was initially met with hostility. ‘My name is Inspector Munni, CID police,’ she said. ‘If you mess with me, I will kick your ass.’ ‘This atti

Woman's Own

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Turning 50 is a milestone to be celebrated, because ‘with age comes experience’, as the old adage goes. But it seems being another year older and wiser is not such a positive thing in the workplace. Age discrimination has never been more prevalent,

Time Magazine International Edition

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RECEIVING EVEN THE most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in the capital, Seoul. Because official documents do not reflect the fact that Park is transgender, her identity is questioned at every turn. To app

TIME

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National Collegiate Athletic Association president Mark Emmert told the New York Times on May 8 that he would now recommend that colleges enact rules allowing student athletes to accept endorsement deals, in the face of new laws in Florida, Alabama,

New Internationalist

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Sudan’s ‘public order’ laws were the scourge of women’s lives under Bashir’s rule. The set of regulations stemmed from state-level ‘Public Order Acts’ that governed relationships between the sexes, and a national 1991 Criminal Code that banned ‘offen

Attitude Magazine

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The religion now allows same-sex marriage - gaymen to that Luca is the studio’s first gay film — officially or not — as star Jack Dylan Grazer comes out as bisexual. All the warm fuzzies The singer corrects rude paparazzo multiple times when he misge

The Knot Weddings Magazine

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RON BEN-ISRAEL HE/HIM New York, NY Cofounder of Ron Ben-Israel Treats and a renowned cake baker @rbicakes Ron Ben-Israel’s renowned career began in 1993, over two decades before marriage equality passed in the US. In those years Ben-Israel has seen p

Post South Africa

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SHAMEEN Thakur Rajbansi, an MPP and leader of the Minority Front, could be a few steps closer to having a widows’ grant included in the Social Assistance Amendment Act. The Act provides payments for old age, foster and child support grants among othe

The Paris Review

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Last Saturday, I sat on the floor of a queer art space in Ridgewood, watching a Democratic congressional candidate make his case to an audience of two hundred people who were, for the most part, sex workers. It felt a bit like something historic was

Global Voices

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"...[A]lthough the country recognizes...an important set of rights (health, education, culture, employment), there are others that fall to the wayside in the current national and regional situation."

Futurity

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Racial discrimination is alive and well in many American neighborhoods half a century after Jim Crow—albeit in less visible, more insidious forms—according to a new article. In the article in the Michigan Law Review, Deborah Archer, associate profess

Pretoria News Weekend

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Human Rights Watch said that Algerian authorities must immediately release and drop the charges against 44 people, most of them university students, for attending a “gay wedding” on July 24 at a private residence in el-Kharoub. ■

NPR

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The landmark decision overturns a long-standing provision in the country's penal code that dates back to British colonial rule and outlawed all anal and oral sex.

WHO

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Equality and freedom from discrimination are fundamental human rights that belong to all people, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or because they’re intersex. Australia prides itself on being a country where tolerance and diversity a

The Texas Observer

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In hopes of protecting their religious right to discriminate against the LGBTQ community, Texas conservatives have turned to a perplexing new message this legislative session: #BanTheBible. The hashtag, pushed nonstop by Jonathan Saenz, president of

Audubon Magazine

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As two recent incidents revealed, birding sanctuaries don’t necessarily offer refuge to everyone keen to experience them. In August 2020 six teenage girls in a foster care program and four chaperones, all of whom are Black, visited Constitution Marsh

Saturday Star

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Human Rights Watch said that Algerian authorities must immediately release and drop the charges against 44 people, most of them university students, for attending a “gay wedding” on July 24 at a private residence in el-Kharoub. ■

NPR

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The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-3 that denying a teacher a job because she is lesbian violates the Civil Rights Act. It's the first time the law has been found to cover the LGBT community.

Independent on Saturday

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EDITOR’S NOTE IT IS no secret that South Africa is not among the better countries in which to be female. Ahead of the commemoration of International Women's Day on Monday, it is worth reflecting that in South Africa it will be a commemoration rathe

Sunday Tribune

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CAPE TOWN: People are arrested every day for breaking the law in Africa, but there are countries known to have some unusual laws, leaving outsiders thinking twice before getting on the wrong side of the authorities. Here are some of the more unusual

Newsweek Europe

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“If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” —PRESIDENT TRUMP “HOLLYWOOD IS A GRIM MICROCOSM OF LARGER SOCIETY.” —SCREENWRITER ROB EDWARDS ON BEING BLACK IN SHOW BUSINESS “An employer who fires an individual for being

The Advocate

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Last November, Palm Springs made history with the elections of Lisa Middleton and Christy Holstege, becoming the first city government in America led entirely by out LGBT officials. For a city known as an LGBT mecca, it’s a feat years in the making.