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Two inspirational gay dads & their amazing family that will have you in tears
This is the perfect story for the true meaning of Christmas ……. and how life really should be. It’s the tale of Brit gay couple Garry Ratcliffe an Executive HeadTeacher for two Primary Schools and his husband Kyle, from Sheppey, Kent who adopted four vulnerable children with severe medical needs. Haydn, 13, who has cerebral palsy;…
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They Don’t Just Dance : the Afghan tradition of recruiting young boys for sex
It is not often a narrator of a TV documentary makes no attempt whatsoever to hide his disdain of the subject matter, but this is a very notable exception. It’s a profile of Afghan men who act as predators and recruit boys as young as 12 years old to dress up as girls and…
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Is It Better to Give or Receive?
Still not sure what to wrap up (or unwrap) for Him this Christmas, then check out the website of LA based photographer Michael Stokes who is probably most famous for his controversial images of naked veterans who were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has 5 different coffee table books of his stunning photographs for sale,…
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Tanzanian Activist/Singer Hunter Blue is SO GAY
Activist and singer Hunter Blue is from Tanzania, which is one of the 76 countries in the world where homosexuality is still illegal. His way of dealing with discrimination is through dance and song and this rather wonderful new music video of his ….SO GAY ….is very much a rallying cry for activism in and…
