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Month: March 2018
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Sydney’s gay pride street parade celebrates same-sex marriage, honors early activists.
About half a million people are expected to line Sydney’s streets on Saturday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the first time the annual parade has taken place since Australia legalized same-sex marriage. The event started in 1978 as a protest march for gay rights and the decriminalization of homosexuality but has since grown into a major tourist spectacle featuring leather, sequins, glitter, lasers and dance music.
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World Cup 2018: Alexei Smertin says gay people and minorities will feel safe in Russia.
Gay people and minorities will feel “safe and comfortable” at this summer’s World Cup in Russia, the tournament’s anti-discrimination chief has said. And Alexei Smertin has dismissed fears over racism and homophobia towards fans as “propaganda”. Earlier this year Russian club Spartak Moscow was sanctioned after referring to its black players as “chocolates”.
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Pelosi, HRC on opposite sides over re-election of anti-LGBT Democrat.
The nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group is spearheading a $1.3 million effort to unseat from Congress a nearly extinct animal — an anti-LGBT Democrat — in an upcoming primary, but that effort runs contrary to the position of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Weeks before the primary on March 20, the Human Rights Campaign has launched an independent expenditure campaign to defeat Rep. Dan Lipinski, who represents Illinois’s 3rd congressional district.
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Over 50% of LGBTQ youths struggle with eating disorders, survey finds.
Amid the harassment, the pressures of coming out and the search for acceptance in today’s world, LGBTQ teens and young adults have a lot of hurdles to confront. And, according to a new survey, eating disorders is another one of those hurdles. A new survey by The Trevor Project found that more than 50 percent of LGBTQ youths…
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In the Ukraine, an LGBT organization educates doctors and provides free medical help.
A visit to a doctor is rarely fun. But it’s even more stressful for the Ukrainian LGBT community, who face stigmatization and mockery in many hospitals. This is the problem that Friendly Doctor aims to solve. An initiative by Fulcrum LGBT non-profit, it provides the community with free testing for HIV, medical examinations, and confidentiality.
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