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A national LGBTQ+ monument officially opens in Canada · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Coming up, a sellout striker. First, though, a national LGBTQ
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  Speaker 1: plus monument's officially opened in Canada. Thunderhead, I'll explain the
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  Speaker 1: name in a bit, is near Parliament Hill in Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: and honours victims of the government's queer purge between the
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  Speaker 1: 1950s and 1990s. They saw maybe close to 10,000 LGBTQ
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  Speaker 1: plus people kicked out of the armed forces, the mounted
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  Speaker 1: police and their government jobs, ruining lives. Writer Ivan Coyote
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  Speaker 1: spoke at the opening ceremony.
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  Speaker 3: We are standing here looking... at the queerest monument in
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  Speaker 3: the world. Because we need to remember. We need to
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  Speaker 3: never forget that this monument is meant to honour people
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  Speaker 3: who did not live long enough for us to make
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  Speaker 3: things right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to APTN News, the monument's design is inspired by
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  Speaker 1: the Thunderhead Cloud and according to Canada's Indigenous Two-Spirit People,
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  Speaker 1: Its storms renew the land and make things right. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: a nice touch, there's thousands of mirrored tiles inside the
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  Speaker 1: 30-foot tall cylinder to make you think of disco balls. Next,
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia's revising its school curriculum to make it less anti-queer.
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  Speaker 1: A push to modernise education means some of the language
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  Speaker 1: in textbooks is being removed or toned down. Things like
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  Speaker 1: describing being gay as a sexual perversion. Under the Vision
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  Speaker 1: 2030 initiative, anti-Semitic content's going as well, plus portrayals of
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  Speaker 1: women as inferior. Saudi Arabia's still got the death penalty
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  Speaker 1: for homosexuality. And with that in mind, lesbian football player
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  Speaker 1: Esther Gonzalez is moving from America to Saudi, where she
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  Speaker 1: could be executed. Let's not even get started on women's
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  Speaker 1: rights there. She's clearly not bothered. The Spanish striker had
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  Speaker 1: been playing for New York's Gotham F.C., but now she's
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  Speaker 1: switched to Alcadcia. There's claims she's deleted pics of her
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  Speaker 1: wife from Instagram in preparation, but a minor sacrifice when
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  Speaker 1: you consider all that lovely money she's going to make.
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  Speaker 1: Who needs principles? No time to tell you that. Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo's been dishing out some queer-friendly promotions over the last
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  Speaker 1: few months. Among them, the bishop who had a drag
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  Speaker 1: queen speak at a special LGBTQ plus pride mass. and
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  Speaker 1: another who supports blessings for gay couples. Leave us a review, please,
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  Speaker 1: and be nice. That's your lot. I'll see you tomorrow.