2023
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“Serving In Secret: Love, Country, And Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ” on MSNBC this Veterans Day
On Veteran’s Day, November 11th, we honor those who have served in the Armed Forces throughout history. It includes many LGBTQ+ Americans—despite the fact that our government spent a number of years trying to keep that a secret. When Bill Clinton was president in 1993 he signed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT)…
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Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London – Rethinking identity and recreating our lost realities
Rethinking identity and recreating our lost realities by Antonio Rodríguez Molina was first published in https://metalmagazine.eu/ “Why are you so obsessed with this?” someone in my family asked me a year and a half ago. I was lying on the sofa at my mother’s house watching a video on my smartphone. It was a…
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Shopqueer.co : an independent bookshop that splits their profits with queer authors
Did you know that when you buy a book, the author usually only gets 10%? ShopQueer.co created by Eric Cervini is here to change that. They are an independent bookshop that splits their profits with queer authors. When you buy a book from them, the author gets at least double what they’d get…
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An Inalienable Right to Be Gay: Section 28, 20 Years On – Panel hosted by Ruby Rare
On 18th November 2003, Section 28, which banned all UK local authorities and schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’ for 15 years, was finally repealed. It was another remnant of Margaret Thatcher’s rampantly homophobic reign that was such a threat to the countries’ burgeoning LGBTQ_ community. The Labour Government had first attempted to repeal the law …
