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Britain’s new Cabinet could be bad news for the LGBTQ+ community
As the dust settles on the new British Prime Minister’s first Cabinet , it is all starting to look grim for the LGBTQ+ community. Truss’s Cabinet is dominated by ministers who have voted against LGBTQ+ rights, as well as those who have traditionally voted in favor of advancing LGBTQ+ rights but embraced anti-trans talking points…
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Considering Matthew Shepard
Trinity Church, Wall Street proudly presents New York’s first fully staged performances of Craig Hella Johnson’s epic fusion oratorio, Considering Matthew Shepard. Johnson created this oratorio as “a space for reflection, consideration, and unity around [Shepard’s] life and legacy.” This staged production is in person and online on September 15-17 at St. Paul’s Chapel,…
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U Try Livin’ : a new take on a track from RED, HOT + FREE the 1990 AIDS Benefit Album
During the 1990’s the Red Hot Organisation, an international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture. released a series of albums called Red Hot +Blue. The first one sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business. Since its inception in…
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ELSKA Magazine visits SINGAPORE where finally it is no longer illegal to be gay
As a former British Colony SINGAPORE inherited a great many of the laws imposed on them by its British rulers. One prohibited sodomy regardless of sex and as such heterosexual and homosexual anal or oral sex was illegal. In 2007, such sexual activity was legalized for heterosexuals and lesbians, but not between men who…
