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The anti-LGBTQ+ bar that could become a gay bar · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, is
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  Speaker 2: Pakistan's Got Talent pushing an LGBTQ plus agenda? First, though,
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  Speaker 2: A bar in America that weaponised Pride Month against LGBTQ
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  Speaker 2: plus people could become a gay bar. Idaho's Old State
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  Speaker 2: Saloon organised Hetero Awesome Fest in June last year, with
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  Speaker 2: speakers defending traditional family values. Hardly anyone turned up. Plus
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  Speaker 2: there was Heterosexual Awesomeness Month the June before, with special
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  Speaker 2: offers for straights. But maybe hate isn't good for business
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  Speaker 2: because it's just gone up for sale with a local
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  Speaker 2: entrepreneur now trying to raise the money so he can
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  Speaker 2: queer it the hell up. Current owner and Bible basher,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Fitzpatrick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always going to side with what God says. In
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  Speaker 3: his word, it's going to be what's moral and not moral,
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  Speaker 3: as far as moral righteousness. And so if the Bible
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  Speaker 3: says that it's a sin to act out in homosexuality,
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  Speaker 3: then I'm going to agree with what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean I don't love homosexuals.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it does. Thanks to KTVB. Mark is a self-described
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  Speaker 2: heterosexual supremacist who's also used the bar to promote other
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  Speaker 2: culture war clownery. Entrepreneur Montgomery Kuykendall wants the venue to
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  Speaker 2: act as a queer community hub and make weekly donations
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  Speaker 2: from the profits to local advocacy organisations. Next, a gay
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  Speaker 2: man's been beaten up by more than 30 people in
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  Speaker 2: a homophobic attack in Italy. Angelo Ratti had been performing
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  Speaker 2: with his queer DJ collective Fortune Cookie in Sardinia and
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  Speaker 2: was targeted by these knuckle-draggers after the gig. The attack
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  Speaker 2: went on for about half an hour, leaving him with
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  Speaker 2: injuries all over his body and hearing loss, plus his
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  Speaker 2: equipment was damaged. And it's all been kicking off over
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  Speaker 2: a man belly-dancing on Pakistan's Got Talent whilst wearing women's
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  Speaker 2: clothes and jewellery and in make-up. Yusha Hussain's performance has
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  Speaker 2: led to accusations the programme's promoting LGBTQ plus themes. He's
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  Speaker 2: been belly dancing for nearly a decade and wants to
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  Speaker 2: break cultural taboos because for Pakistani men to do this
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  Speaker 2: is seen as going against gender norms. The time to
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  Speaker 2: tell you that. Indonesia's Hornet queer dating apps being banned,
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  Speaker 2: supposedly following public concerns. Apple and Google have been told
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  Speaker 2: to block access in the anti-LGBTQ plus country on their
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  Speaker 2: app stores. Leave us a review, please, and be nice.
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