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Reflect with Pride: Bridging the gap between acceptance and anti-heteronormativity

By Shreeya Maskey and Nushla Pradhan Pride Month may have ended but the fight against injustice, prejudice, and bigotry facing the queer community continues. After the 2007 decision by the Supreme Court to ‘legally recognize a third gender category, audit all laws to identify those that discriminated against LGBT people, and open the door to […]

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‘Brave and hopeful’ LGBT+ Rwandans prepare for their first Pride

With football and fashion, Rwanda’s LGBT+ activists are planning their first Pride celebration after years of struggling to secure funding or a venue willing to host them in a country where they say coming out can lead to violence and rejection. Navigating COVID-19 restrictions, LGBT+ activists are expecting 200 people to attend the event in

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New York’s Stonewall Inn bans Bud Light for LGBT+ Pride weekend

New York City’s famed LGBT+ Stonewall Inn said it would pour Bud Light and Stella Artois beer down the drain this week to protest corporate donations by the brands’ owner to conservative lawmakers who have backed bills targeting transgender rights. The Greenwich Village bar, considered the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, said it

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Giant rainbow flag unfurled in front of Taiwan autocrat’s memorial hall

TAIPEI, June 28 (Reuters) – Hundreds of people thronged a central square in Taiwan’s capital Taipei for a Pride event on Sunday, unfurling a giant rainbow flag in front of the main memorial hall for late autocratic leader Chiang Kai-shek before being ushered away by police. Proudly democratic Taiwan is a bastion of liberal values

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Reflect with Pride: Bridging the gap between acceptance and anti-heteronormativity

‘Brave and hopeful’ LGBT+ Rwandans prepare for their first Pride

New York’s Stonewall Inn bans Bud Light for LGBT+ Pride weekend

Giant rainbow flag unfurled in front of Taiwan autocrat’s memorial hall

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