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Victory for Centre Left as Gay PM Takes Power

Posted on 31 Oct 2025 in Europe

Pride.Com was among LGBTQIA media reporting this week that the Netherlands has elected a new, gay friendly government, with D66, a liberal left party founded in 1966, gaining the Prime Minister job. Rob Jetten becomes the first openly gay Dutch PM and the youngest Dutch PM. He is thirty eight years of age. Mr Jetten showed that the tide of populist right wing parties can be stemmed with good appeals to the public and he defeated by a large margin, the anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic Geert Wilders, of the PVV Party. Mr Wilders, for the reco

LGBT+ Friendly Candidate Wins Irish President

Posted on 25 Oct 2025 in Europe

RTE Radio 1, RTE News Channel and The Guardian carried breaking news at tea time on Saturday after the election of Catherine Connolly, an independent, left of centre, LGBTQ+ friendly and eco friendly candidate for the role of Irish President. Connolly polled nea

Germany Risks Echoes of its Nazi Past

Posted on 13 Jul 2025 in Europe

LGBTQ Nation reports that this year, the number of threats made against Pride events across the country, and particularly the economically less well off East, has risen. Organised Nazi groups, echoing the country's brutal history, are on the march, and according to studies of th

Budapest Pride Defies Hungarian Government

Posted on 28 Jun 2025 in Europe

AllOut, the international lobbying human rights organisation, reveals that on June 28th, the fifty sixth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, Pride brought downtown Budapest to a halt, safely and securely, and allowed the LGBTQIA+ communities of Hungary to demonstrate for their right to exist

TERFY nonsense criticised by French Courts

Posted on 4 Feb 2025 in Europe

There is a stern warning from the French courts about the antics of separatist feminists and their right wing allies in the conspiracy movement, after the wife of the French President was awarded eight thousand Euros in damages after transphobes posted utterly unwarranted and false ideas that she

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Analysing the Threat from Homophobic Russia

In their first ever joint remarks, Sky News Channel reports that Sir Richard Moore of M16 and Bill Burns of the CIA have spoken about the threats posed to the current world order a

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Television Unites to Remember Nazi Genocides

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Anti-Democratic Threats in Germany

Charlie Kimber, writing in the left wing weekly, Socialist Worker, writes on the threats to democracy emerging from Germany. These are not just from the established neo-fascist Af

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Paris is a Gaie Destination According to Blog

The gay men's blog at Andrew Christian underwear has offered us some tips on getting it on with a native of Paris when visiting that romantic city. Among the tips that they have t

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Grimmy's Birthday Bash Spoilt by Thefts

Gay television and radio presenter Nick Grimshaw has been celebrating his fortieth birthday with family and his partner in Ibiza, reports community radio services for Berkshire. U