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Celebrating 1990's Queer Culture in SF

Chloe Sherman has a new book called Renegades:  San Francisco in the 1990s which is profiled in the Guardian newspaper.  Chloe, a photographer by trade, moved to the city in 1991.  She says "This was a time when a queer community couldn’t be located easily online. To find people like you, you moved to cities like San Francisco. It’s easy to see, in retrospect, that this was a turning point for LGBTQ+ rights: it was long before marriage equality, but I think we were aware, even at the time, that we were part of a broad cultural shift.

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Building a Movement for Change in Iran

Bahareh Hedayat writing at the Anarchist website Libcom shares wisdom on building resistance to the clerical fascist regime in Iran, which has, as Bahareh points out, little in common with intellectually stimulating, progressive and open Islam.  Bahareh says "It’s been long estab

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Has Republicanism Reached "Peak Hate" in US?

Nico Lang writing for the website News is Out says that there is cautious optimism in US Republican states that the high tide of anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative proposals has peaked, and that electors are more interested in issues of social welfare, safety and infrastr

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Dangerous Plans of American Right Exposed

Melina Cohen, writing at American Atheists, a network of freethinkers in the States, has outlined the agenda of far right, religious fundamentalist and neo-fascist groups in the US to dismantle democracy and takeover the executive and judicial branches of the government by stuffi

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Thai Marriage Equality Prompts Celeberations

German news network Deutsche Welle alerted us on Tuesday afternoon to the breaking news that the Kingdom of Thailand had become the first country in South East Asia to legalise same sex marriage.  It will also become the third territory in wider Asia along with N

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27
Aug

Transgender blogger and political activist Erin Reed in the Morning, who maintains a nearly daily update on stories affecting the trans community, has been key in exposing the hate

17
Aug

Amy Cameron at Greenpeace, an organisation with a lot of LGBTQIA+ supporters, says that BBC-2 transmitted a series of documentaries on the environmental organisati

06
Aug

RTE Radio 1, Ireland's main news network, reports that in South Africa, the ANC Party has lost its Parliamentary absolute majority following elect

01
Aug

The Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights says it will not be mourning the death of the Iranian President recently.  Mr Tatchell pointed out that the leader of the clerico-fas

19
Jul

International NGO Human Rights Watch says all there needs to be said on the horrific murder of three lesbian women in Buenos Aires following a politicisation of gender and sexualit

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