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Germany to pay gay soldiers over discrimination.

Homosexuals who faced discrimination in the German military before 2000 will have their records cleared and given financial compensation, the German Cabinet agreed on Wednesday. The approval from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet came two months after Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer issued…

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Rainbow Laces 2020: LGBT inclusion in sport campaign returns.

The award-winning Rainbow Laces campaign, which is backed by Sky Sports as a member of TeamPride, is returning for its annual activation raising awareness around LGBT+ inclusion in sport. As well as the original rainbow design which was first launched back…

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Was Chopin’s interest in men airbrushed from history?

FrédéricChopin’s archivists and biographers have for centuries turned a deliberate blind eye to the composer’s homoerotic letters in order to make the Polish national icon conform to conservative norms, it has been alleged. Chopin’s Men, a two-hour radio programme…