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Gay bliss in Canada’s cool east
The province of of Québec is an ideal place to follow your bliss even outside of Montreal.
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Summer in the City
Als Gastgeber des World Pride 2014 ist Toronto genau die richtige Wahl. Seit Jahren gehört die Pride Week rund um die Church Street zu einer der besten Nordamerikas.
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Summit meeting
Whistler Blackcomb is considered the largest skiing area in North America. Winter Pride there from February 3rd to 10th is one of the biggest events on Canada’s West Coast.
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One night only
Toronto is known for excellent shopping, young fashion and an inspiring art scene. Halloween turns the Gay Village around Church Street into a beautifully eerie party event on the last day of October.
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Art censorship: Hard times for queer artists in Warsaw?
The Polish Minister of Culture Piotr Gliński appointed Piotr Bernatowicz as the new director of the Centre for Modern Art in Warsaw, who is assigned to the right spectrum. Many artists fear a turnaround in Poland’s art scene.
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World AIDS Day in Budapest
For this years World AIDS Day, the Budapest’s Chain Bridge turned red. It is a tradition that the bridge receives special illumination on socially relevant memorial days. The Széchenyi Chain Bridge was illuminated for the first time on 1 December 2019 in connection with World AIDS Day in the color of the red ribbon that became the symbol of the fight against AIDS.
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Brazil: Judge overturns Bolsonaro’s stop to fund queer cinema
Brazil’s homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro cancelled funding for TV shows six weeks ago because he disapproved of its content. He described the financial support for social projects, including LGBTIQ* films, as “money wasted”. Now a federal judge declared the financial freeze null and void.
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Chinese social media platform bans homosexual content
The Chinese social media and video platform TikTok seems to be a prime example of censorship. TikTok had already recently been criticized for censoring the protest in Hong Kong and thus creating a distorted picture of opinion. It has now become known that the company is also blocking content that shows, advertises or promotes homosexuality.
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Refugees need more information about sexual diversity
German sex educators and integration commissioners on Thursday called for increased sexual education measures for fugitives. At the conference on “Sexual Diversity and Flight”, one of the topics discussed was how to overcome existing prejudices.
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How LGBT-friendly is Europe?
The European Commission’s Eurobarometer survey looks at the discrimination and social acceptance of LGBTI people throughout the European Union. The survey was carried out in May 2019 and the evaluation has now been published. How tolerant is Europe and what have been the developments since the last survey in 2015? Spartacus has selected the most relevant figures for you:
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