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The Lesbian Simulator · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: out of a policeman's notebook that maybe no one has
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  Speaker 3: seen or heard before. So he got out of the
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  Speaker 3: grave and tended to the man's wound and applied a tourniquet.
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  Speaker 3: He then had to get back into the grave and
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  Speaker 3: after which then Cominant Dinny Lacey stepped forward and shot
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  Speaker 3: him once in the head. 13,000 policemen. sitting in barracks
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  Speaker 3: all over the 32 counties. The whole country was a
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  Speaker 3: powder keg.
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  Speaker 1: Join us as we open the police notebook from over
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  Speaker 1: 200 years of Irish policing history.
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  Speaker 2: ACAST is home to the world's best podcasts, including Red Room,
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  Speaker 2: Catch Up with Louise McSharry, and the one you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to right now.
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, right-wingers are so gay.
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  Speaker 4: First though, the lesbian simulator. This is a virtual reality
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  Speaker 4: experience that lets players step into the life of a
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  Speaker 4: queer woman, created by Dutch artist Iris van der Mule.
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  Speaker 4: It's inspired by the negativity that sometimes come away because
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  Speaker 4: of a sexuality. Through an avatar, you attempt to navigate
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  Speaker 4: the likes of going on a date... flirting in a
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  Speaker 4: nightclub and coming out to friends and family with the
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  Speaker 4: range of reactions you get. Iris tells CNL what she's
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  Speaker 4: trying to achieve with this.
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  Speaker 2: It's to really highlight the more subtle forms of exclusion,
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  Speaker 2: discrimination and homophobia within our society and also to really
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  Speaker 2: highlight the importance of the non-queer audience and the people
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  Speaker 2: around the queer community about their role in also creating
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  Speaker 2: a more accepting world and environment for everyone. And of
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  Speaker 2: course to really show how awesome lesbians really are.
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  Speaker 4: Hell yeah! The simulator's been pitching up at festivals around
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  Speaker 4: the world. You can currently find it at the Toronto
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  Speaker 4: International Film Festival. Next, four teenagers have been convicted of
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  Speaker 4: harassment in North East France after a gay classmate took
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  Speaker 4: his own life off the back of relentless homophobic bullying.
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  Speaker 4: The body of 13-year-old Lucas was found at his family
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  Speaker 4: home in January 2023. It's claimed Louis-Armand de Golby High
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  Speaker 4: School was told repeatedly about the abuse but didn't take
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  Speaker 4: it seriously. Two boys and two girls convicted thought they'd
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  Speaker 4: got away with this thanks to a previous court ruling
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  Speaker 4: in their favour. It's been overturned on appeal though and
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  Speaker 4: they're now waiting to find out their punishment. And there's
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  Speaker 4: a threat to ban LGBTQ plus content on Italian TV.
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  Speaker 4: It's part of a new far-right political party's manifesto, so
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  Speaker 4: what they're calling homosexualist and genderist programmes wouldn't be shown
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  Speaker 4: between 6 in the morning and 11 at night. National
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  Speaker 4: Future says it's to protect the children. Boring! They also
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  Speaker 4: want to ban gender-affirming care for kids. No time to
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  Speaker 4: tell you that. A grinder outage in Dallas in America
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  Speaker 4: has coincided with the Republican Party Convention taking place there.
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  Speaker 4: The dating app for queer men often seems to go
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  Speaker 4: down in places where these hard right haters are congregating.
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  Speaker 4: If you tell your friends about Pride Daily, they'll like
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  Speaker 4: you even more. That's your lot. I'll see you tomorrow.