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Finland
Kisses, burgers and bigotry: Homophobes rage against fast food advertising
When two mascots kiss, the intolerants boil with rage. That’s what happened in Finland, where fast food giant Burger King installed billboards to celebrate Helsinki Pride Week 2020. The message of the advertisement: Love conquers all. Arch-conservatives are upset about this and claim that gay kisses have nothing to do with love – but with perversion.
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USA
US primary elections: Dragqueen wins against homophobe politician
Earl Jaques Jr. (72) attacked his challenger Eric Morrison (45) because he is known as a drag queen and also put on a robe during the election campaign. Jaques has been sitting in the Delaware House of Representatives since 2009. Now Jaques lost to the openly gay challenger who is considered progressive. The election was about who is allowed to fight for the Democrats for the seat in the Delaware House of Representatives.
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USA
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: America’s liberal conscience is dead
Ruth Bader Ginsburg could no longer fulfil the hope that the seriously ill judge at the Supreme Court would hold out until the majority of the Trump Party was broken. Yesterday, the 87-year-old fighter for equal rights died.
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Great Britain
British rugby player comes out as bisexual
Levi Davis (22) is the first rugby player to admit to being a queer at the beginning of his career – and the first to admit to being bisexual. The Briton explained that he had previously struggled with psychological problems and alcohol and that outing would help him to end the shame and the game of hide-and-seek. The reactions to the outing were overwhelmingly positive.
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Poland
Ursula von der Leyen: “LGBT-free zones have no place in our Union”
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke out strongly against discrimination against LGBTIQ*s in Poland in her first State of the Union address on 16th September.
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Germany
“Whoever agitates against homosexuals loses his church office”
When visiting a Catholic public school last week, Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg showed himself to be incredibly progressive on the issue of homosexuality.
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pakistan
Horror in Pakistan after murders of trans* women
In Pakistan, two trans women were shot dead and another seriously injured within two days. The community mourns – and lives in fear. The crimes once again draw attention to how marginalised transsexual people are in the South Asian country.
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Unwanted in TikTok: drugs, terrorism and homosexuality
When searching for hashtags with queer content, you will not get any results on TikTok in multiple languages and regions. The reason? The app has blocked relevant hashtags with so-called shadowbans.
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Argentina
Argentina introduces employment rate for transgender
Argentina has adopted a nationwide recruitment quota for trans* people. It is intended to help end the structural exclusion of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people.
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Austria
First country in the world: Austria gets six gender options
In the Central Register of Civil Status in Austria (ZPR) it will be possible in future to choose between “female”, “male”, “divers”, “inter”, “open” and the complete deletion of the entry – however, these options are only available to inter-gender people. Activists criticise that non-binary or transgender people are excluded.
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