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Les questions que les mecs se posent– ou pourraient se poser

Dans quelle boutique peut-on trouver des masques et des slips assortis ? Quand les bars et restaurants sympas rouvriront-ils ? Quand est-ce qu’on nous autorisera de nouveau à donner un coup de main aux copains ? Quand pourrai-je serrer mon grand-père dans mes bras sans qu’on le traite d’incestueux ? Quand entraînerons-nous les ados à …

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Dennis Kavanagh: Queer?

In the game of thrones of gay politics we have our own seat forged of weapons with many pretenders to it, the iron throne that is the word “queer” from which those with dubious claims to real homosexual lives can rule the seven kingdoms of victimhood and identity politics. For many of us, the word …

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Report from Iceland: LGB activists battle against “The National Queer Organisation of Iceland”

Eldur Deville from LGB teymið in Iceland explains the reasons an Icelandic group of the LGB Alliance had to be formed and the enormous challenge the activists face from “The National Queer Organisation of Iceland”. LGB teymið in Iceland was formed in September last year after when a small group of same sex attracted and …

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Jo Bartosch reports on political cartoonist Stella Perrett’s book “2020 The Year We Were All Cancelled”

Stella Perrett is a political cartoonist who takes aim at power and privilege across the world. She shot to prominence in 2020, when after five years of having her work featured in the Morning Star she was ‘cancelled’ following the publication of a provocative cartoon, as Jo Bartosch reports. Political cartoonist Stella Perrett The image …

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Italie: une agression rappelle l’urgence de légiférer contre la haine

La vidéo d’un incident homophobe dans le métro de Rome provoque une large indignation, alors que la loi Zan est toujours en attente.

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Le potentiel érotique du masque

«La bouche, évacuée de l’espace public, est désormais un nichon que l’on planque dans un soutien-gorge»

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Et si la Suisse cessait d’envoyer ses gardes au très homophobe Vatican?

Iconoclaste ou naïf? Dans «Le Matin Dimanche», la directrice romande de Pink Cross appelle la Confédération de stopper sa contribution à la sécurité d’un État qui discrimine les homosexuels.

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A dream of acceptance: Novelist and playwright Tim Mason on his magical play “Levitation”

Tim Mason is a novelist and playwright based in New York but currently stranded in Los Angeles by Covid. On Tuesday (23rd March) he will be Zooming into London for an online performance of his magical play, Levitation, twenty-five years after Homo Promos gave its first UK performance. The director, Peter Scott-Presland had a chat… …

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Quotes and Notes – Saturday 20th March

“Snowflake lecturers raised snowflake students who are led to believe that contrary to the Latin root of the word, ‘education’ is not ‘to lead out’ but rather ‘to shut in’.” Julie Burchill in The Telegraph writing about the envious woke who she says are at last being defeated on campus.   “It illustrated the chilling …

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Gareth Roberts: How younger gay men are LARPing the lives of their forebears (i.e. Live Action Role Play)

It was 1993. I dropped in to see a friend, and on the wall of his typically disordered student bedroom was a poster against homophobia. Women kissing women, men kissing men. Standard stuff, you might think. But one detail flipped my mind. At the bottom was the legend ‘This campaign is supported by BBC Radio …

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