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Censors are slowly erasing China’s LGBT internet

For Mei, logging into the WeChat account for his queer student society was habitual, like eating or sleeping. For six years, he helped run one of China’s most prominent groups. But on July 6, he signed in with trepidation; he’d heard…

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UK athletes unite in powerful displays of LGBT solidarity

Footballers, rugby players, jockeys and more have united for LGBT+ inclusion in sport for Stonewall’s annual Rainbow Laces campaign. Over the weekend, players up and down the country donned rainbow laces and armbands to highlight LGBT+ inclusion…

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Fox suggests Omicron was created to make Buttigieg president

Several Fox News hosts suggested that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is part of a conspiracy to get out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg elected president in 2024. The hosts of Fox & Friends on Saturday were talking about the most recently isolated…

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Desmond Tutu compares anti-LGBT laws to apartheid

The 90-year-old Archbishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent his life campaigning for human rights. He was a major opponent of South Africa’s apartheid system, and has worked for universal suffrage, equal rights for women in the…

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Botswana court upholds ruling that decriminalized gay sex

Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, effectively striking off two sections of the penal code that had outlawed homosexuality. Before the 2019 High Court ruling, which was praised by international organisations and activists…