One of China’s biggest social media companies on Monday reversed a decision to censor gay content — a rare victory for the country’s nascent but increasingly vocal LGBT rights movement. Bowing to intense public pressure, Sina Weibo — often called China’s Twitter — said its latest campaign to “clean up” the platform would no longer target gay-themed content.
OVER 112m blood donations are collected around the world annually. But there will never be enough blood. Fully 90% of eligible donors do not donate and because blood has a short shelf life, hospitals and patients are highly dependent on regular donations. In spite of the need, some groups are not allowed to give blood.
The following is the first in a series of articles examining how LGBT candidates and organizations are positioned to help Democrats take back the majority of the U.S. House and Senate this year. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan stunned many people with his announcement April 11 that he would “retire” from office next January.
The first gay pride festival here, the hometown of socially conservative Vice President Mike Pence and a city that once drew protests against health benefits for same-sex couples, proved surprising Saturday. The turnout was larger than expected. More than 2,000 people cared less about the gloomy weather and more about the message.
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Gay-themed content has been scrubbed from Sina Weibo, one of China’s largest social media platforms. The action was reported by state-owned tabloid newspaper The Global Times, which said that the detoxification program is to last three months. Sina said that it had cleaned up over 56,000 unregulated posts, closed 108 accounts and removed other discussion topics.
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