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Homophobia and Hypocrisy is alive and well in UK Tory Party

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    The  UK Conservatives finished their  Party Conference with an LGBTQ+ party  night which ended in disarray amidst ‘disgusting’ homophobic abuse The event was organized by LGBT+ Conservatives, the official LGBTQ+ wing of the Conservative Party (kind of like the obnoxious republican Log Cabin in the US). It was the final night of the … Continue reading



If everyone survives Qatar hosting the World Cup what’s next for upholding LGBTQ rights in sports?

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  The new edition of the New Yorker pertinently reminds us FIFA awarded Qatar the right to host the World Cup on December 2, 2010. On the same day, the organization’s executive committee voted to give Russia the 2018 edition. Of the twenty-two men who voted, fifteen were later indicted by American or Swiss prosecutors, … Continue reading



Reclaiming the Pink Triangle

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  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, … Continue reading



UK Football Chiefs finally Fine a major Club for allowing homophobic taunts

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So it turns out that the FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (FA) the official body that controls football in the UK does have a set of balls after all ….. albeit small ones.  They have just fined the first club Wolverhampton Wanderers, better known as Wolves, for homophobic chanting.   The team received a £100,000   (about $125000) sanction from … Continue reading



Why we LOVE James Corden

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The more we see of (fellow Brit) James Corden the unquestionably funniest Late Late Show Host on American TV right now, the more we love him. Watch him here pitch in with his very witty take on why Dalton Maldonado, the star basketball player at Betsy Layne High School in Kentucky omitted from his yearbook because … Continue reading



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