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Neil Patrick Harris & Jonathan Groff on The Matrix’s Queer Aspects

“The Alice in Wonderland element and going through the looking glass spoke to my little gay boy heart.”

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The Miller effect: How the Court of Appeal refashioned freedom of speech, by LGN legal commentator Dennis Kavanagh

Harry Miller and his organisation “Fair Cop” pulled off a stunning victory in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal on 20th December securing a powerful judgment which effectively renders the modern recording of “non-crime hate incidents” by police forces unlawful. Upholding the Appellant’s case on two of the five grounds advanced (proportionality and …

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A Year in Review: “2021 was the year the fight to regain sex-based rights took form,” writes Jo Bartosch

By 2020 the “no debate” line of trans activists was already stretched; in 2021 it finally snapped. The public began to question the placement of rapists in women’s prisons, to ask why men are on lesbian dating apps and what exactly JK Rowling said that was wrong? Stonewall, the self-appointed arbiters of inclusion, have been …

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Le brushing de Noël 

1984, ce n’est pas seulement le roman dystopique de George Orwell. C’est également une année qui compte pour la pop et l’industrie de la coiffure réunies. Jamais les brushings des […] L’article Le brushing de Noël  est apparu en premier sur 360°.

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Lectures queer sous le sapin

Chaque mois, Payot Libraire partage sa sélection de littérature queer et exquise. Dans cette édition de décembre-janvier, le choix se porte sur des livres parus tout au long de l’année 2021. À lire et à offrir! L’article Lectures queer sous le sapin est apparu en premier sur 360°.

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Voici pourquoi la lutte en faveur de l’égalité LGBT a abouti

Week-end réservé aux mâles adultes. Quelle est l’attitude la meilleure — la douceur ou la violence — pour lutter contre l’hostilité aveugle de la rue depuis le début de la pandémie ? On entend souvent cette réponse: « Il faut opposer la violence à la violence; les doux sont des lâches. » Dans une interview intitulée Comment

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Remembering bell hooks, by Claire Heuchan

Anybody who lived through the Kennedy assassination can tell you where they were when they learned that JFK died. I learned this from my grandparents; my grandmother is still fond of telling her JFK story. As a child, I found it a morbid remembrance. And in more recent years I bristled against the Americentric expectation …

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What’s the definition of a gay slut?

It’s late at night in a downtown gay bar, and we’ve all had a bit too much to drink. There’s me and boyfriend K, my old friend D his husband W, and a relatively new friend called N with his young boyfriend R. « R just asked me if you’ve ever been a slut? » N asks …

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Julie Bindel: “This link between men who push the trans extremist demand for access to female-only facilities, and child sexual abuse and exploitation is a clear one.”

“Rowling seems to imagine a world in which trans women are privileged predators working with a compliant police force to assault innocent cis women. In fact, trans women are a small, marginalized, vulnerable minority, who face terrifying rates of sexual violence from the police who are supposed to help them,” wrote Noah Berlatsky in a …

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Lush withdraws decision to fund two lesbian groups after cosmetics retailer feared backlash by trans activists

The cosmetic retailer Lush reversed a decision to fund two lesbian groups on the grounds that they were “anti-trans” and it feared a backlash by trans activists, Lesbian and Gay News has learned. Lush has a fund called the Charity Pot, which it draws on to provide grants to worthy causes in three areas: animal …

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