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Gays go for the gold and win!
It’s been a summer to remember for three openly gay athletes, with two setting world records and a third winning a gold medal. It started in June when New Zealand rower Robbie Manson set a record in single sculls in winning the gold medal at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan, Poland. Manson then won another gold medal a few weeks later at a world cup race in Switzerland.
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On being gay and grey.
Dave Roche, a founder member of the Cork LGBT Pride Festival and one of the country’s leading campaigners for LGBT rights, died suddenly at his home near Macroom in Co Cork, on July 1. Here is Dave, in his own words, on being Gay and Grey
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Execution of gay men in Chechnya still ignored by mainstream media.
In the four months since The New York Times first reported that authorities in Chechnya “were arresting and killing gay men,” evening cable and evening broadcast news programming has virtually ignored the story. Between April 1 and July 31, there were only three significant mentions in total across six networks — two news packages and one brief exchange — about the ongoing human rights abuses.
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I’m not crying, I have something in my eye…In A Heartbeat
Gather round, y’all, because I’m about to show you the cutest thing you’ll see all day (read: millennium). A new short film has surfaced online, and it is exactly the kind of wholesome we need to see this year. The film, called In A Heartbeat, was made as a portion of two students’ senior theses at Ringling College of Art and Design.
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The gay “purge” in the McCarthy era.
A federal judge, sweeping aside objections from the Justice Department, has ordered the FBI to conduct a new search for decades-old documents about a U.S. government program to purge the federal workforce of gays and lesbians, including records on the role of a future chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in implementing the Cold War-era crackdown.
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