politics
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I Am The Ambassador
Rufus Gifford, the US Ambassador to Denmark, is one of 6 openly gay Ambassadors appointed by President Obama. The Diplomatic Service has come along way since 1997, when the first gay U.S. ambassador, James Hormel, was nominated, and many senators opposed him because of his sexuality. Gifford was awarded his position after serving as Finance Director for…
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Art AIDS America
All summer long The Bronx Museum of the Arts has been presenting Art AIDS America, the first ever exhibition to examine the deep and ongoing influence of the AIDS crisis on American art and culture. The exhibition features more than 125 works in a wide range of media dating from 1981 to the present day, by…
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The Only Gay in the (Royal) Village (officially)
Some of the world’s media are in a flap this morning with the news that The Queen of England has discovered that she is not the only queen in the British Royal Family. It’s all be caused by the revelation that 53 year-old Lord Ivar Mountbatten her cousin has not just come out of the…
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It’s About Time for Australian Same -Sex Marriage
Even though this heart-tugging video made by GetUP! in 2011 as part of their campaign to get the Australian government to legalize same-sex marriage went viral (over 16m hits so far) Aussie gay man and women still cannot marry, and there is still no end to this discrimination in sight. https://www.getup.org.au/
