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Protests in Taiwan after a police raid on a gay bar · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, a
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  Speaker 1: gay influencer is murdered. First, though, protests in Taiwan after
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  Speaker 1: a police raid on a gay bar, which pretty much
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  Speaker 1: never happens there. Despite the country priding itself on being
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  Speaker 1: progressive and queer-friendly, we've seen 51 arrests at the Commander
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  Speaker 1: D venue in Taipei in the north. Those held are
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  Speaker 1: being accused of breaking a law that prohibits wantonly exposing
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  Speaker 1: your naked body or presenting a lascivious posture in a
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  Speaker 1: public place.
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  Speaker 4: At first, I heard shouting. Everyone get down. I thought
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  Speaker 4: it was part of some game. Then I realized, wait,
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  Speaker 4: this isn't right. A person with a physical disability was
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  Speaker 4: already feeling unwell. And one of the officers said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you're already disabled. So what's the problem with you feeling uncomfortable?
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  Speaker 1: An eyewitness there translated by SET News. About 100 protesters
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  Speaker 1: have marched in a police station demanding an apology for
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  Speaker 1: alleged misconduct. The claims are denied by officials, but an
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  Speaker 1: investigation has now been ordered by the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Next, gay Punjabi influencer Mad Sandhu has been shot dead.
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  Speaker 1: He was attacked by two men on a motorbike in
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  Speaker 1: the northwestern city of Amritsar on Saturday and died en
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  Speaker 1: route to hospital. It's thought he was around 30 years old.
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  Speaker 1: Mad was also a makeup artist and LGBTQ plus advocate.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been targeted with lots of online threats and abuse
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  Speaker 1: for being unapologetically gay. Pride Daily. And a YouTuber famous
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  Speaker 1: for her Harry Potter parody videos says she no longer
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  Speaker 1: has any love for the wizard. Coldmirror, aka Catherine Frick,
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  Speaker 1: blames it on what we'll tidily refer to as the
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  Speaker 1: gender-critical views of the author, Harry Potter's wicked grandma, says
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  Speaker 1: the stories used to give her strength, but she can
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  Speaker 1: no longer read or watch them with a clear conscience.
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  Speaker 1: No time to tell you that. Eight websites have been
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  Speaker 1: blocked in Belarus and labelled extremist for promoting the LGBT
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  Speaker 1: movement and pushing child-free ideology. And in Paris, tens of
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