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Ten Men Behind Bars to await ‘Judgement’ for a Secret Gay Wedding in Mauritania

Ten men have been jailed in Mauritania after a video emerged of a gay couple appearing to take part in a traditional wedding ceremony. Homosexuality is illegal in the North African country of Mauritania and punishable by death under Sharia law, although there are no known cases of executions in the past decade. The arrest of the ten men marks a rare enforcement of the Islamic law, and if convicted they could face the death penalty by stoning. They were detained by police after a video of the ceremony surfaced on social media. It soon began circulating in local news and […]

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Book Review: “One Walk in Winter” By Georgia Beers

Olivia Santini is the main reason why the Evergreen Resort and Spa didn’t fold under its previous manager. Understandably, that’s left her surprised and frustrated that she didn’t get the promotion from assistant manager that she’d applied for. But even a new boss isn’t going to keep her down on the first snowfall of the season, and Olivia is ready to revel in her excitement while she walks her dog, Walter, before heading in to work. Olivia gets to enjoy more than just the magic of fresh snow, though, when she bumps into the beautiful, charming Hayley Boyd, and they […]

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NYPD Charges Man In Gay Dating App Murder

The New York Daily News reports: The babyfaced killer from Oklahoma who murdered an Upper East Side man 40 years his senior — after meeting him on a dating app — used a knife or a sharp ceramic object to mutilate his victim’s head, a Manhattan prosecutor alleged at his arraignment early Saturday. The suspect, 24-year-old Alex Scott, had met 64-year-old Kenneth Savinski on Wednesday, the same day he allegedly killed him in a “vicious, ferocious, crime scene attack,” Assistant District Attorney Shira Arnow said. Inside the apartment, Scott attacked Savinski, stabbing him in the face and neck, severing his carotid artery […]

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GLAAD Extols LGBTQ Ads, Trolls One Million Moms on Eve of Super Bowl

With the news that this weekend’s live broadcast of Super Bowl LIV will feature at least eightLGBTQ-inclusive ads, it’s fitting to pause and take a moment to appreciate how far we’ve come in the struggle for LGBTQ acceptance – even if it’s only to remind ourselves that, no matter how disheartening the political tides may be, there is still reason to hope that support for the community continues to grow within the culture at large. On Friday, GLAAD issued a statement marking what they called “an unprecedented level of LGBTQ inclusion” scheduled for Sunday’s FOX airing of the NFL championship game, […]

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Elizabeth Warren Would Ask a Nine-year-old Trans Kid to Help Pick her Education Secretary

Elizabeth Warren has vowed to get help from a nine-year-old transgender boy in picking her secretary of education. The Democratic presidential hopeful told supporters in Iowa that she would ask Jacob, a nine-year-old transgender boy who she met at an LGBT+ event, to vet her picks for the cabinet role. Elizabeth Warren: Trans kid will sign off on education secretary pick Speaking at an event in Cedar Rapids this week, she said: “For my secretary of education, number one it has to be someone who has taught in a public school. “Number two, a young trans person asked [me] about […]

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Standing With Arms Akimbo: Cultural Activism During the AIDS Crisis in 1980s San Francisco

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Thirty years ago, at the height of the AIDS crisis, the anonymous, San Francisco–based cultural activist collective Boy With Arms Akimbo/Girl With Arms Akimbo took a unique approach to AIDS activism. The group carried out street postering campaigns, media appropriation initiatives and other forms of visual intervention to promote queer pro-sex messages and respond to attacks by anti-sex reactionaries. Deploying posters, stickers and protest signs, Akimbo juxtaposed images of safe-sex acts with representations of political, religious and social leaders noted for their homophobia and AIDS-phobia. Isabelle Alfonsi, a French researcher and gallery owner, consulted the Boy With Arms Akimbo/Girl With Arms […]

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The Black Brothers Band at Occidental Center for the Arts

 Saturday March 7, 2020 @ 7:30 pm. The Black Brothers Band. Occidental Center for the Arts welcomes back the charismatic scions of Ireland’s famous singing Black Family- Michael and Shay Black- and their fine band, featuring famed pianist Eamonn Flynn (‘The Commitments’) with  dynamic accordion player Felim Egan.The brothers have a new album! made with family members .The brothers’ joy in performing, their love of a good story, and their charm and wit plus Irish humor make every day seem like St. Patrick’s Day at OCA! $22 Adv/$26 at door. Fine refreshments. Wheelchair Accessible. Art Gallery open. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org.. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465

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Two More UK Arenas Cancel Hate Preacher Franklin Graham’s Events

Two further venues have cancelled rallies by US hate preacher Franklin Graham, as a backlash grows to his planned UK tour. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an evangelist tour. Venues hosting the tour have faced complaints from LGBT+ activists – with a Liverpool conference venue dropping him on Monday. Following the pressure, two further venues have followed suit. Franklin Graham dropped by Sheffield and Glasgow venues Glasgow’s SEC Arena confirmed on Wednesday […]

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Neighbors Turn a Trans Woman’s House into a Rainbow after Transphobes Kill her Cat

For years, a trans woman had been quietly dealing with the abuse a neighbour pelted her with, until the person killed and cut her cat in half. All for hoisting an Pride flag outside her house. Angelina Bouros, based in New York, US, discovered her cat Rambo’s body ditched behind her shed. An incident that was the boiling point of unrelenting harassment that stretched back to 2017. Transphobic neighbour cut woman’s cat in half because she had a Pride flag.  But after sharing the incident on Twitter, Rosendale locals pulled together to support her by transforming her house with the colours […]

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Wells Fargo Pulls Florida Voucher Donations over Anti-gay School Policies

Two of the largest banks in the U.S. say they will stop donating millions of dollars to Florida’s private school voucher program after a newspaper investigation found that some of the program’s beneficiaries discriminate against LGBTQ students. In a statement to NBC News and CNBC on Wednesday evening, Wells Fargo confirmed that it would no longer participate. “We have reviewed this matter carefully and have decided to no longer support Step Up for Students,” the San Francisco-based bank said of the voucher program. “All of us at Wells Fargo highly value diversity and inclusion, and we oppose discrimination of any kind.” […]

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