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This week’s top LGBTQ+ news · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: to right now. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up,
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  Speaker 3: America's the queerest it's ever been. First, though, some much-needed
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  Speaker 3: allyship in Ghana from one of Africa's top religious figures.
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  Speaker 3: Archbishop Cyril Kabina Ben Smith, who's head of the Anglican
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  Speaker 3: Church in West Africa, is pushing back on some harsh
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  Speaker 3: anti-LGBTQ plus legislation that's on the way. Just identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
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  Speaker 3: transgender or queer could get you up to three years
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  Speaker 3: in prison. Plus there'll be a duty to report prohibited
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  Speaker 3: acts to police.
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  Speaker 4: We do not support the criminalisation of gay persons. They're
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  Speaker 4: all children of God. It's very important. They're all children
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  Speaker 4: of God. And God loves them.
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  Speaker 3: Archbishop Ben Smith talking to the BBC. And even being
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  Speaker 3: an ally will come with the threat of jail time
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  Speaker 3: under Ghana's new legislation. There have been similar crackdowns on
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  Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus rights across Africa. Uganda brought in the death
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  Speaker 3: penalty for same-sex acts three years ago. Next, attempts to
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  Speaker 3: deal with rising intolerance for LGBTQ plus people in Denmark.
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  Speaker 3: A national study is going to be looking into this,
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  Speaker 3: particularly focusing on young men and the young Muslim population
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  Speaker 3: to identify how big an issue this is. Previous research
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  Speaker 3: in 2015 showed an increase among the kids and grandkids
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  Speaker 3: of Muslim immigrants who think homosexuality is a religious sin.
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  Speaker 3: Pride Daily. And a record 12% of adults in America
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  Speaker 3: say they're LGBTQ +. If you go by new estimates
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  Speaker 3: from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, that's 25.6 million people,
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  Speaker 3: of which well more than one in 10 are aged
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  Speaker 3: 18 to 24. Do tell me when you've had enough stats.
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  Speaker 3: Among queer adults, about 65% are bisexual, with a third
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  Speaker 3: lesbian or gay. and 21% also identifies transgender or gender-expansive,
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  Speaker 3: so taking in non-binary, gender-fluid and agender. No time to
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  Speaker 3: tell you that. Netflix and HBO Max have been fined
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  Speaker 3: by Turkey's broadcast regulator for promoting LGBT propaganda. Among the
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  Speaker 3: problem productions, Heartstopper Forever, accused of encouraging a homosexual lifestyle
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  Speaker 3: among young people, And San Francisco Black Pride Week starts today,
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  Speaker 3: back for a second year. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up, what in the heck does Hyperbloom mean? First though,
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  Speaker 3: Germany's seeing a big rise in those hate crime attacks
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  Speaker 3: where gay men are tricked using dating apps. An investigation
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  Speaker 3: by the broadcaster ARD finds 70 incidents over the last decade,
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  Speaker 3: half of them just last year, and it's estimated only
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  Speaker 3: 10% actually get reported. The attackers are young men, some
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  Speaker 3: calling themselves pedo hunters, who assault, humiliate and rob the victims.
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  Speaker 3: ARD's infiltrated a Discord channel and found lots of links
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  Speaker 3: to the far right, Kelsupreeze, which we already know is
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  Speaker 3: behind Germany's record levels of anti-queer hate.
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  Speaker 5: We are facing a real rise of the right, meaning
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  Speaker 5: like the right-wing extremist party, who has tremendous successes over
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  Speaker 5: the whole of the country, but especially in the eastern part,
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  Speaker 5: and that's something which is poisoning the climate, especially as
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  Speaker 5: they are very obviously anti-queer. against rights of minorities, and
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  Speaker 5: that's something we really have to deal with now.
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  Speaker 3: Sebastian Rohloff, deputy spokesperson on queer issues for one of
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  Speaker 3: Germany's governing parties, speaking to DW. There are calls in
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  Speaker 3: the country for dating app attacks to be officially recorded,
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  Speaker 3: because currently they're not. To Southern Europe next, and we
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  Speaker 3: could see some movement on legal recognition for same-sex parent
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  Speaker 3: families in San Marino. A court ruling is expected in
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  Speaker 3: the next few days on whether the lack of it's unconstitutional,
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  Speaker 3: plus a decision's due on adoption certificates issued abroad. Comes
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  Speaker 3: as Parliament says it'll be having a debate on this
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  Speaker 3: within the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 3: And Hyper Bloom is going to be the theme for
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  Speaker 3: next year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Organisers say
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  Speaker 3: this is an invitation to let everything within us come alive.
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  Speaker 3: When one of us lets more of ourselves show, someone
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  Speaker 3: else sees another way to be. That's how a bloom
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  Speaker 3: becomes a hyperbloom. So, those are some words. The event
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  Speaker 3: runs from February 12th to March 7th. No time to
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  Speaker 3: tell you that. The UK's King's Cross Steelers have won
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  Speaker 3: the Queer Men's Rugby World Cup, the Bingham Cup, It's
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  Speaker 3: been taking place in Brisbane, Australia, alongside the women's tournament.
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  Speaker 3: The Amanda Mark Copp's gone to Ottawa Wolves from Canada.
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  Speaker 8: If you've ever felt like your family didn't fit the
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  Speaker 8: traditional mold, this show is for you. I'm Jamie, host
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  Speaker 8: of the Queer Family Podcast. And every week we highlight
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  Speaker 8: LGBTQIA plus families and the beautiful, unique ways we build
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  Speaker 8: and show up for our families. in a world that
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  Speaker 8: wasn't designed for us. We celebrate, highlight, uplift, and normalize
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  Speaker 8: queer families because our stories deserve center stage. New episodes
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  Speaker 8: every Monday. Listen wherever you get your pods.
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  Speaker 4: Love is love is love on the Queer Family Podcast.
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  Speaker 5: Love is love.
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  Speaker 3: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, Guy
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  Speaker 3: Pearce on the Priscilla sequel. First that. Dolly Parton, one
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  Speaker 3: of the original vocal LGBTQ plus allies, has died at
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  Speaker 3: the age of 80. The country music style wasn't backwards
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  Speaker 3: and coming forwards in a support for queer people over
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  Speaker 3: the course of a career spanning eight decades. She was
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  Speaker 3: a Christian, but totally against the prejudice that often comes
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 9: I do not believe that we should criticise and judge
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  Speaker 9: other people. I think we should be accepting and loving.
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  Speaker 9: We are all God's children. We are who we are
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  Speaker 9: and we should be allowed to be who we are.
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  Speaker 3: And she also told Larry King Now back in 2016
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  Speaker 3: there was pushback, but... I keep.
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  Speaker 9: Saying, well, if you're the fine Christian that you think
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  Speaker 9: you are, why are you judging people? Why are you...
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  Speaker 9: That's God's job. We're not God.
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  Speaker 3: As far as Dolly was concerned, it's like this.
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  Speaker 9: I just think that we should be more loving, more caring.
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  Speaker 9: We are who we are. If you're gay, you're gay.
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  Speaker 9: If you're straight, you're straight. And you should be allowed
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  Speaker 9: to be how you are and who you are.
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  Speaker 3: Dolly also stepped up to oppose the culture war clowns
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  Speaker 3: who target transgender people. Supported equal marriage, Anne sang about
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  Speaker 3: queer people in 1991, despite the stigma linked to AIDS.
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  Speaker 3: And she was a big fan of drag, especially when
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  Speaker 3: she was the inspiration, once losing a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
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  Speaker 3: Her team say she's died following a brief battle with cancer.
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  Speaker 3: Pride Daily. To Germany next, where an anti-LGBTQ plus Catholic
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  Speaker 3: bishop reckons not believing in God makes people queer. Stefan
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  Speaker 3: Oster also used a sermon to say diversity's a threat
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  Speaker 3: to democracy and that Christians don't have to condone the
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  Speaker 3: lifestyles openly displayed at Pride events. Had nothing to say
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  Speaker 3: about the recent terror attack at Berlin Pride, though. The
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  Speaker 3: 61-year-old's been criticised by, you know, normal, decent people. The
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  Speaker 3: Catholic LGBT Plus Committee's calling his comments absurd. Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 3: And an update on classic queer film Priscilla, Queen of
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  Speaker 3: the Desert's next instalment from one of its stars, Guy Pearce.
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  Speaker 8: Well, the sequel, right, which is going to be 2020,
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  Speaker 8: what are we now, 26?
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  Speaker 4: We'll probably shoot it 27, it'll come out 28.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to get in the same shape for
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  Speaker 3: it as you did last time? How dare you? Thanks
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  Speaker 3: to ABC News, the first film back in 1994 saw
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  Speaker 3: Guy co-star alongside Hugo Weaving and Taron Stampp as two
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  Speaker 3: drag queens and a transgender woman crossing the Australian desert
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  Speaker 3: in a tour bus. Stamp died last year, aged 87,
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  Speaker 3: but he's still in this sequel because he actually shot
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  Speaker 3: all his new scenes two months before he passed away.
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  Speaker 3: No time to tell you that. The 2028 LGBTQ Plus
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  Speaker 3: Rugby World Cup is going to be in Leeds in
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  Speaker 3: the UK. The men's and women's tournaments, which are the
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  Speaker 3: Bingham Cup and the Amanda Mark Cup, will be hosted
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  Speaker 3: by Leeds Hunters Rugby. Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up, a sellout striker. First though, a national LGBTQ
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  Speaker 3: plus monument's officially opened in Canada. Thunderhead, I'll explain the
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  Speaker 3: name in a bit, is near Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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  Speaker 3: and honours victims of the government's queer purge between the
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  Speaker 3: 1950s and 1990s. This saw maybe close to 10,000 LGBTQ
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  Speaker 3: plus people kicked out of the armed forces, the mounted
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  Speaker 3: police and their government jobs, ruining lives. Writer Ivan Coyote
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  Speaker 3: spoke at the opening ceremony.
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  Speaker 6: We are standing here looking at the queerest monument in
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  Speaker 6: the world because we need... to remember. We need to
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  Speaker 6: never forget that this monument is meant to honour people
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  Speaker 6: who did not live long enough for us to make
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  Speaker 6: things right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to APTN News, the monument's design is inspired by
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  Speaker 3: the Thunderhead Cloud and according to Canada's Indigenous Two-Spirit people,
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  Speaker 3: its storms renew the land and make things right. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: a nice touch, there's thousands of mirrored tiles inside the
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  Speaker 3: 30-foot tall cylinder to make you think of disco balls. Next,
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia's revising its school curriculum to make it less anti-queer.
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  Speaker 3: A push to modernise education means some of the language
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  Speaker 3: in textbooks is being removed or toned down. Things like
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  Speaker 3: describing being gay as a sexual perversion. Under the Vision
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  Speaker 3: 2030 initiative, anti-Semitic content's going as well, plus portrayals of
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  Speaker 3: women as inferior. Saudi Arabia's still got the death penalty
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  Speaker 3: for homosexuality. And with that in mind, lesbian football player
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  Speaker 3: Esther Gonzalez is moving from America to Saudi, where she
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  Speaker 3: could be executed. Let's not even get started on women's
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  Speaker 3: rights there. She's clearly not bothered. The Spanish striker had
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  Speaker 3: been playing for New York's Gotham FC. but now she's
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  Speaker 3: switched to Alcadcia. There's claims she's deleted pics of her
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  Speaker 3: wife from Instagram in preparation, but a minor sacrifice when
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  Speaker 3: you consider all that lovely money she's going to make.
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  Speaker 3: Who needs principles? No time to tell you that. Pope
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  Speaker 3: Leo's been dishing out some queer-friendly promotions over the last
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  Speaker 3: few months. Among them, the bishop who had a drag
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  Speaker 3: queen speak at a special LGBTQ plus pride mass. and
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  Speaker 3: another who supports blessings for gay couples.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, should gay people
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  Speaker 3: have equal rights? A far-right politician isn't sure. First, though,
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  Speaker 3: a promise from hateful religious nutjob Oscar Bogart to make
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  Speaker 3: Cape Town LGBTQ plus free if he's elected mayor. Says
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  Speaker 3: people should vote for the straight party that he's just
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  Speaker 3: made up in November's elections. He's not actually a candidate,
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  Speaker 3: it's just the latest nonsense in his long-running anti-queer obsession
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  Speaker 3: that's earned him multiple convictions for hate speech. Bogarts previously
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  Speaker 3: claimed 99% of paedophiles are homosexual and gay people should
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  Speaker 3: be in a cage. defying court orders just to shut
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  Speaker 3: the hell up.
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  Speaker 11: My belief is that the Bible teaches me that when
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  Speaker 11: it comes to same-sex unions and marriages, it's an abomination.
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  Speaker 11: There's nothing that I can do. That is what the
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  Speaker 11: Bible says. The Bible gives us clear instructions what should
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  Speaker 11: happen to people that is in homosexual relationships.
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  Speaker 3: The Bigger also reckons he'd withdraw funding for World Pride
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  Speaker 3: Day 2028, which is being hosted by Cape Town. says
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  Speaker 3: the event's an abomination to all God-fearing people. I might
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  Speaker 3: open a gay bar there just to annoy him and
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  Speaker 3: call it abomination. Next, Australia's far-right One Nation Party's at
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  Speaker 3: it again. One of its top people says he's in
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  Speaker 3: two minds about whether gay people should have equal rights.
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  Speaker 3: Malcolm Roberts made the comment on stage at a Christian conference...
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  Speaker 3: which you may also care to refer to as a
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  Speaker 3: jamboree of judgement, or indeed a hootenanny of hypocrisy, said
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't have a firm position on this because he's
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  Speaker 3: not homosexual and can't understand it. He's also not black,
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  Speaker 3: so I imagine his views on racism aren't nailed down either.
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  Speaker 3: And asexual artist Yayoi Kusama has died at the age
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  Speaker 3: of 97. She was famous for her vibrant polka dot creations,
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  Speaker 3: pumpkin sculptures and infinity mirror rooms. Yayoi was born in
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  Speaker 3: 1929 in Japan and experienced hallucinations her whole life, which
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  Speaker 3: she channeled into art. No time to tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: It's Wear It Purple Day in Australia, bigging up LGBTQ
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  Speaker 3: plus young people. This year's theme is Colours of Courage.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got the UK's Buy Pride and Manchester Pride tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: There's more on our socials, including any breaking news. That's
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  Speaker 3: your lot. I'll see you next week.