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Are Corpoations Pinkwashing Reputations

Posted on 17 Dec 2024 in Law

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, but Skittles has announced that it has been celebrating the summer by gifting money through its See The Rainbow initiative, run in partnership with LGBTQIA Newswire Pink News. They say Queer Craft is just one example of the kind of grassro

Compensation for LGBT+ Military Vets

Posted on 12 Dec 2024 in Law

The Sky News channel reported on Thursday morning that thousands of LGBT+ people who were removed from their careers in the military owing to their sexuality or gender presentation, are to be able to claim compensation from the government of up to seventy thousand pounds. The BBC News Ch

Man Recovering After Ordeal in Corrupt Qatar

Posted on 9 Dec 2024 in Law

The Peter Tatchell Foundation for human rights has said "protest can help overturn repression" after the release of a man jailed for homosexuality in Qatar. The BBC News Channel reported further that Manuel Guerrero Aviña, a gay man, says he was targeted purely

Dangers of Porn Ban under Far Right Trumpists

Posted on 25 Nov 2024 in Law

US based gay newspaper The Washington Blade says that shadowy proposals from the far right about what they want to see from a future Republican administration in the country, will put LGBTQIA+ freedoms at risk, as well as those of sex workers and people who work in the adult indu

US Warning on Rebranding of Dissident Groups

Posted on 20 Nov 2024 in Law

The Communist Party of the USA warns that the first showdown between the forces of democracy and the new ultra-Republican administration in the White House. The House of Representatives is voting tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov.

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Criminal Offenses of Anti-Gay Fundamentalist

KDFW television station in Dallas, Texas has revealed that a fundamentalist Christian extremist, who rants and raves about LGBTQIA+ people and especially trans peo

Nov

Remembering the Summer Anti-Fascist Protests

With far right wing rioting spreading across the northern towns of England during early August, in which the interminably angry white able bodied mostly male heterosexuals caused mayhem, violence t

Oct

Ireland Discusses Gender Based Violence

RTE Radio 1 in Ireland reports that the Prime Minister of the Republic, Taoiseach Simon Harris has urged men "to take leadership positions and not allow the worst of us speak for t

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Crucial Historic Pardons for US Military Vets

The Washington Blade gay newspaper reports that President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued historic pardons for military service members who were discharged over their sexual orientat

Aug

Judge Strikes Down Anti-Trans Care Law

The Independent newspaper reports that A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted s