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Check out Sink The Pink for your very own (gay) Prince Harry although he’ll probably be wearing a dress.
If seeing the Royal Wedding has made you feel anxious enough to want to jump on the first Virgin Atlantic plane going to London to find your own ginger-bearded Prince, then you need to know exactly where to head. London will always keep evolving as one of the most exciting cities for LGBT communities, and as the newlyweds showed…
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Reclaiming the Pink Triangle
To mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Vangardist Magazine has teamed up with Mauthausen Memorial and Serviceplan Group to pay attention to the little-known history of what went on in this Nazi concentration camp in Austria. Mauthausen was specifically built to imprison and murder anyone the Nazis deemed undesirable, including homosexual men,…
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Same-Sex Couple make the Final of Dancing With The Stars on Italian TV
While the powers-that-be on the British and American TV desperately cling to their homophobic views and still refuse to allow same-sex dancing on primetime talent & reality shows, their counterparts in Italy have no such qualms Giovanni Ciacci, an Italian costume designer, made the final of Ballando Con Le Stelle (Dancing With The Stars) with his professional…
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Alone In The Game : a new look at homophobia in Sports
Sport is still one of the last bastions of homophobia. For every brave gay man or woman who dares to stick their head over the parapet and publicly ‘come out,’ there are thousands of professional athletes and sportsmen and women who are scared rigid about all the negative consequences that come with revealing their sexuality. There have…
