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An out gay man’s elected to the US Senate for the first time · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Hi there. I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, a cretinous chemist. First, though,
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  Speaker 3: An out gay man's been elected to the US Senate
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  Speaker 3: for the first time. The Democrats' Chris Pappas has beaten
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  Speaker 3: his Republican Party rival John Sunanoo in New Hampshire as
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  Speaker 3: part of America's midterm elections. They've seen massive losses for right-wingers,
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  Speaker 3: led by the orange convicted felon and sexual abuser who's
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  Speaker 3: now a lame duck president. Chris used his victory speech
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  Speaker 3: to give a shout out to his husband.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank the guy next to me, my
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  Speaker 4: amazing husband, Van. All right, the wrong person was on
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  Speaker 4: the ballot, apparently. But he's always been by my side.
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  Speaker 4: And look, tonight, win, lose or draw, I'm the luckiest
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  Speaker 4: guy because I'm married to a man that I love.
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  Speaker 3: There's been success for LGBTQ plus candidates across America, despite
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Party's attempts to appeal to anti-queer and specifically
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  Speaker 3: anti-transgender knuckle-draggers. Among those winners, Democrat Sarah McBride, who gets
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  Speaker 3: a second term as the country's first out trans congresswoman.
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  Speaker 3: Pride Daily. Next, 13 organisations have filed complaints against a
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  Speaker 3: bigoted pharmacist in the Netherlands who refuses to give medication
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  Speaker 3: to trans people. Floris Kriegsman's a Christian who says he
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  Speaker 3: can't provide anything that conflicts with his religious beliefs, like
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  Speaker 3: hormone treatment. He does arrange for other pharmacies to prescribe
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  Speaker 3: it instead, though, so that's nice. The organisations, including advocacy
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  Speaker 3: and human rights groups, have complained to the Dutch Health Inspectorate,
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  Speaker 3: saying healthcare's got to be accessible to everyone without discrimination.
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  Speaker 3: And a Lithuanian man who said homosexuals should be banned
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  Speaker 3: from appearing in public or shot won't now be appearing
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  Speaker 3: in public quite so much himself. AC posted this on
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  Speaker 3: Facebook in response to a news story about Poland's president
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  Speaker 3: vetoing a civil partnership law. Says he acted impulsively and
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  Speaker 3: regrets being a hateful little cow. I'm paraphrasing slightly. He's
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  Speaker 3: been sentenced to a version of house arrest for six
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  Speaker 3: months and has to complete a behaviour correction programme. No
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  Speaker 3: time to tell you that. Johannesburg Pride's drawn thousands of
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  Speaker 3: people onto the streets despite the 33-degree heat. The theme
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