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Tide Turns Against Anti-LGBTQIA School Reps

Posted on 19 Dec 2024 in Opinion

LGBTQIA+ blogger Erin Reed, whose blog we recommend you subscribe to for latest incisive news and comment, reports some victories to celebrate in Florida. On Tuesday, several anti-queer and anti-transgender candidates backed by Governor Ron DeSantis lost their school board races.... The defeats included suburban districts like Sarasota, an early focal point of DeSantis’ anti-LGBTQ+ culture wars, and Pinellas County, a swing district that supported Donald Trump in 2016. Many of these candidates were associated with Moms For Liberty and campaigned on anti-LGBTQ+ platforms.

The Winter Solstice Brings Holidays for Many

Posted on 18 Dec 2024 in Religion

it is time for LGBTQIA+ groups from various faiths to send their greetings ahead of the holidays. LGBTQIA+ Christians, of course, are celebrating, although according to most Biblical scholars, Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in the early spring of the year 6 CE. This year, the Jewish festiv

One Hundredth Anniversary of Gay Jock Strap

Posted on 18 Dec 2024 in Lifestyle

Alexander Cheves writing for the gay magaznine Out.com reports on the one hundredth anniversary of the jock strap and its particular and enduring appeal amongst gay men. In a wide ranging historical article, which we suggest you delve into with your morning coff

Gay Horror Aficionado Mark Preps Xmas Tale

Posted on 17 Dec 2024 in Entertainment

It has been the tradition, since at least our laudimum laced Victorian forebears, to tell ghostly tales at Christmas tide. Although it might go back further. As in the line "Come, fright me with your sprites" in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Between 1968 and 1979, the BBC transmitt

Pinkwashing or Welcome Support from Companies

Posted on 17 Dec 2024 in Lifestyle

The issue of corporations sponsoring LGBTQIA+ groups has long been an issue of contention within our community. Is it pinkwashing, as some alleged - an equivalent of the greenwashing that some brands engage in to paper over their less savoury practices. We will let you decide,

Dec

Are Corpoations Pinkwashing Reputations

The issue of corporations sponsoring LGBTQIA+ groups has long been an issue of contention within our community. Is it pinkwashing, as some alleged - an equivalent of the greenwash

Dec

New Analysis on Summer Racist Rioters

Act for Freedom are an anarchist collective based in London who have published on the streets a flyposter with essay on it on the recent racist riots in the UK. It is worth readin

Dec

Dangers of School Book Silencing

Ellie Creamer for the Guardian newspaper reports that more than two dozen school librarians in the UK have been asked to remove books – many of which are LGBTQ+ titles – from schoo

Dec

Veteran LGBT+ Newspaper Holds Awards

The Washington Blade, the US capital's LGBTQIA+ newspaper says that its awards season is now open. The long standing paper reports "It is Decision 2024!

Dec

Olympics Should Back Brave Athletes

The Human Rights Watch NGO based in New York, reports that an Olympic Athlete has been disqualified from the recent Paris Games because of their public statement about the situatio