Latest / PRIDE Daily / Will America’s Favourite Couple be queer for the first time?
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- 0:51Speaker 1: become the first LGBTQ plus America's favourite couple. Evan Enslow
- 0:57Speaker 1: and Aaron Pryor are in the final 14 of the
- 1:00Speaker 1: competition out of 200,000 hopefuls and could win $ 20, 000. The
- 1:04Speaker 1: pair have been together three years and as Aaron tells
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- 1:18Speaker 2: him with 50 of our family members that flew in.
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- 1:23Speaker 1: This happened in a cinema. Aaron hired a movie theatre
- 1:26Speaker 1: for this. America's Favourite Couples, a charity fundraiser, launched last
- 1:31Speaker 1: year by the actor Jeff Goldblum and his wife Emily.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Another prize is dinner with them in the Hollywood Hills. Fancy.
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- 1:43Speaker 1: Pride Daily. Next, Vietnam's Miss Universe competition has banned transgender women.
- 1:49Speaker 1: It comes barely two months after organisers specifically said they
- 1:54Speaker 1: could compete as long as the participants' legal and medical
- 1:57Speaker 1: documents were in order. Now the criteria has been updated
- 2:01Speaker 1: so only female citizens recognised by Vietnamese law and medicine
- 2:06Speaker 1: are eligible, a standard that can't actually be met because
- 2:10Speaker 1: of legal grey areas.
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- 2:14Speaker 1: And an amusement park in Italy's covered up one of
- 2:16Speaker 1: its games because of its homophobic scoring system. It's one
- 2:20Speaker 1: of those you punch and if you don't hit it
- 2:22Speaker 1: hard enough, you're rated as gay. The lower end of
- 2:26Speaker 1: the scale also includes young lady and disabled. Bosses at
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- 2:38Speaker 1: hidden with tape. No time to tell you that. Global
- 2:42Speaker 1: Black Pride started in Paris, got an awards due tomorrow
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