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Year: 2017
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Speaking of gay wedding cakes…
Same-sex wedding cakes are turning out to be a divisive political symbol in the U.S., but at one bakery north of the border, it’s a much different story. Chris Farias and Jared Lenover of Ontario, Canada, wanted to get a head start on their forthcoming wedding by “making a statement.” Read the full article HERE.
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Indonesian court jails 10 men for 2 years over ‘gay sex party’.
An Indonesian court has sentenced 10 men to two years in prison for taking part in a gay sex party at a sauna, court documents show. The group were among at least 141 men detained during a raid on a building that houses a sauna and a gym in the capital Jakarta in May. Read the full article HERE.
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‘Tom of Finland’ a solid film about iconic gay artist.
One can imagine that when Touko Laaksonen finally arrives in Los Angeles and realizes the full impact his work hath wrought, it went down much the way it did in Dome Karukoski’s living biopic “Tom of Finland.” Operating in near secrecy in Finland during the 1950s and ’60s… Read the full article HERE.
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How the LGBTQ magazine boom is defying the monotony of mainstream media.
Niche magazines may be a small moon in the journalism galaxy, but there’s nothing small about how they celebrate the voices of people who are often silenced because of their identities. Condé Nast, the holy grail of the magazine industry that’s responsible for titles including Vogue and Glamour, Read the full article HERE.
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A conference for gay & sober men.
Learning how to have fun in sobriety is of paramount importance to Gay & Sober Men, The Conference. Gay & Sober Men (GSM) started out as a Facebook group. In its early days of solely existing on social media, its mission was to offer a refuge for gay men in recovery… Read the full article HERE.
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Costs of coming out can be high for South Africa’s LGBT community.
Half of South Africans think lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people should have the same human rights as everybody else. The other half are the problem. It has to be queerest thing. South Africans are the most likely in Africa to believe that “people are born gay”… Read the full article HERE.