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This week’s top LGBTQ+ news · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 5: Coming up, AI, gay-I more like, am I right? First, though,
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  Speaker 5: a shopkeeper in South Africa who banned queer people from
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  Speaker 5: his store has been fined. Darwood LaGuardian had a sign
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  Speaker 5: there in 2023 saying LGBTQ plus people not welcome, save
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  Speaker 5: our children. Also reckons we're being forced down his throat.
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  Speaker 5: Insert your own innuendo here. The bigot claimed it's fine
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  Speaker 5: because he was just expressing his religious beliefs that same
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  Speaker 5: sex relationships are un-Islamic and amoral. The Guardian subsequently set
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  Speaker 5: up a WhatsApp group, supposedly to communicate Islamic teachings, And
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  Speaker 5: this was the general vibe.
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  Speaker 6: The owner is correct. We must isolate LGBTQI community members.
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  Speaker 6: They've even gone to the extent of threatening violence. They
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  Speaker 6: need to have their heads cut off. They need to
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  Speaker 6: have their hands cut off. We are not going to
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  Speaker 6: tolerate any members of that community.
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  Speaker 5: Ntabi Seng, Sepanya Moheli, chair of the Commission for Gender Equality,
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  Speaker 5: speaking to Newsroom Africa. The equality courts found Lagardian guilty
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  Speaker 5: of hate speech and unfair discrimination. They're fining him 200,000
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  Speaker 5: South African rand, about 12,000 US dollars, and he's got
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  Speaker 5: to make a public apology. Next, claims whilst AI will
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  Speaker 5: mostly refuse to guess whether someone's gay from an image,
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  Speaker 5: it will then edit the picture to make them look gay.
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  Speaker 5: Researchers at America's Rochester Institute of Technology have put a
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  Speaker 5: thousand AI-generated faces through OpenAI's GPT-Image 1 Mini and Google's
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  Speaker 5: Nano Banana. They're basically treating certain hairstyles, facial features and
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  Speaker 5: expressions as quote-unquote gay, with jobs involving fashion and theatre
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  Speaker 5: then stated as potential occupations.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: And 516 same-sex marriages have been registered in Poland since
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  Speaker 5: new European Union rules came into force earlier this year.
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  Speaker 5: They apply to couples who've tied the knot in another
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  Speaker 5: EU country, all to do with making sure there's unrestricted
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  Speaker 5: freedom of movement. Poland itself doesn't allow same-sex marriage, and
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  Speaker 5: whilst parliaments voted for a civil partnership law, the presidents
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  Speaker 5: vetoed it.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, sweaty Eddie. First, though,
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  Speaker 5: a Spanish YouTuber could be prosecuted over homophobic comments he
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  Speaker 5: made about a football player. Iñaki Angulo twice used the
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  Speaker 5: F word that rhymes with maggot during a live stream
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  Speaker 5: after Hector Bellerin from Real Betis scored the only goal
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  Speaker 5: in a game against Real Madrid. The provincial prosecutor's office
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  Speaker 5: in Madrid is now investigating. Hector's long since been a
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  Speaker 5: vocal LGBTQ plus ally, and that was a big deal
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  Speaker 5: for queer fans at his old club in the English
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  Speaker 5: Premier League, Arsenal. To have someone who is a player
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  Speaker 5: putting themselves out there saying.
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  Speaker 3: I support you, I support your group.
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  Speaker 5: Who you are, you are a valid part of our family,
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  Speaker 5: really spoke volumes. It's not something many professional footballers would
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  Speaker 5: do and it means a lot to us. Joe White
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  Speaker 5: from the Gay Gooners, Arsenal's LGBTQ plus supporters group, speaking
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  Speaker 5: to Sky Sports. After some major blowback over Angulo's live stream,
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  Speaker 5: the bigot deleted it and posted an apology video. If
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  Speaker 5: prosecutors take this case all the way, he's looking at
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  Speaker 5: a massive fine and maybe even prison time.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Next, an apology from the BBC over false sexual misconduct
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  Speaker 5: allegations made against the couple who run the Pink News website.
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  Speaker 5: Benjamin Cohen and his husband Anthony James were also accused
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  Speaker 5: in a documentary of bullying and misogyny. The corporations admitted
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  Speaker 5: making a series of very serious, false and defamatory allegations,
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  Speaker 5: and it's paying the pair substantial damages.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: And Chapel Rowan's announced the line-up for her LGBTQ Plus
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  Speaker 5: fundraising shows. The headliner for her super graphic spectacular is
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  Speaker 5: Chapel Rowan, funnily enough. Keeps the cost down. She's also
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  Speaker 5: got Lola Young, Tinashe and Sweaty Eddie on board. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know why Sweaty Eddie's averse to antiperspirant. The gigs
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  Speaker 5: are at Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium next Wednesday and Thursday,
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  Speaker 5: raising money for trans young people and queer support services.
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  Speaker 5: No time to tell you that. Dresden will host EuroPride
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  Speaker 5: in 2029, one of Europe's biggest LGBTQ plus events. The
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  Speaker 5: German city's beaten off stiff competition from, well, nowhere. It
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  Speaker 5: was the only applicant.
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  Speaker 1: ACAST recommends....
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  Speaker 2: State of Affairs is our new politics podcast hosted by me,
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  Speaker 2: Áine Láir and Chris Donoghue.
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  Speaker 3: It's Irish and international politics from the inside and out.
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  Speaker 3: Áine is one of Ireland's foremost political broadcasters and I'm
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  Speaker 3: the former broadcaster who became government press secretary.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make us both housebeams?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know who we used to be?
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  Speaker 2: We have two new episodes a week. Check us out
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  Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: ACAST is home to the world's best podcasts, including Crime World,
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, hooray for Hungary.
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  Speaker 5: First though, why is anti-queer Senegal still getting to host
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  Speaker 5: the first ever Olympic event in Africa? Harsh new laws
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  Speaker 5: doubled the maximum prison time for gay sex to 10 years,
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  Speaker 5: with an investigation by Human Rights Watch now saying dozens
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  Speaker 5: of men have been arrested, plus claims of forced HIV
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  Speaker 5: testing and barriers to legal help. The Olympic Youth Games
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  Speaker 5: start in Dakar soon, but the Olympic Charter explicitly prohibits
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  Speaker 5: discrimination against LGBTQ plus people and commits host countries to
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  Speaker 5: respect human rights. Here's a couple of the lawmakers who
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  Speaker 5: voted for that new legislation earlier this year.
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  Speaker 6: Here in our Africa, here in Senegal, we don't accept
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  Speaker 6: this homosexuality.
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  Speaker 2: That's not in our culture.
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  Speaker 7: That's not in our tradition.
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  Speaker 8: We're a society with models, standards, chains of command and references.
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  Speaker 8: The fact is you have to accept that Senegal, like
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  Speaker 8: other African countries, cannot allow certain anti-values to develop in
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  Speaker 8: our culture.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks to African News. Senegal, which is a mainly Muslim country,
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  Speaker 5: also criminalised the promotion or glorification of homosexuality back in March.
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  Speaker 5: 71 men are currently waiting to go on trial for
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  Speaker 5: acts against nature. Next, lawmakers in Hungary have voted to
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  Speaker 5: remove some of its anti-LGBTQ plus legislation brought in by
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  Speaker 5: former Prime Minister and Jabba the Hutt Tribute Act, Viktor Orban.
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  Speaker 5: A 2021 law restricted the portrayal of homosexuality and gender
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  Speaker 5: identity in content children could access, the usual nonsense equating
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  Speaker 5: being queer with paedophilia. There's more of Audible Orban's handiwork
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  Speaker 5: still to be dealt with, though, including a ban on
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  Speaker 5: legal gender recognition. And a massive homophobic banner has been
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  Speaker 5: displayed by feckless football fans during a big match in Greece.
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  Speaker 5: Happened as Olympiacos hosted Panathinaikos in the Super League. It
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  Speaker 5: was in a prominent position and shown repeatedly on television. Basically,
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  Speaker 5: one set of supporters were calling rival fans gay. The
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  Speaker 5: banner was allowed to remain in place for the entire game,
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  Speaker 5: even though European soccer's governing body UEFA says it won't
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  Speaker 5: tolerate homophobia and anti-queer hate. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath.
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  Speaker 5: Coming up, it's spirit day, but that's nothing to do
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  Speaker 5: with vodka. First, though, Turkey's massive anti-LGBTQ plus crackdown is
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  Speaker 5: being lambasted by experts from the United Nations. Over the
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  Speaker 5: last month, countless queer spaces like the offices of advocacy organisations,
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  Speaker 5: clubs and bars and even activists' homes have been raided
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  Speaker 5: by police. Websites and social media accounts have been blocked,
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  Speaker 5: with as many as 200 arrests made, all to protect
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  Speaker 5: children and families, President Erdogan reckons. 18 UN human rights
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  Speaker 5: experts have put out a statement saying the harassment's got
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  Speaker 5: to stop, as has labelling the work of LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 5: advocates as criminal or illegal.
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  Speaker 8: Immoral.
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  Speaker 5: This, as the European Union warns, Turkey's long-held hopes of
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  Speaker 5: joining the EU are aren't exactly being helped by all this.
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  Speaker 9: Erdogan is trying to instill Islamic values and he doesn't
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  Speaker 9: get along with the EU values. If you want to
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  Speaker 9: join the European Union, you have to demonstrate more democracy.
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  Speaker 9: You can't block internet sites and you can't harass the
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  Speaker 9: LGBTQ community.
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  Speaker 5: Dr Ronan Bar-El from the Open University of Israel, speaking
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  Speaker 5: to i24 News. Being queer isn't criminalised in Turkey, but
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  Speaker 5: so what, really, when you've got this kind of persecution? Next,
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  Speaker 5: claims Azerbaijan's pushing ahead with long-talked-about plans for a Russian-style
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  Speaker 5: ban on so-called LGBT propaganda. This would affect anything judged
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  Speaker 5: to promote sexual minorities in the likes of the media, online,
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  Speaker 5: public spaces and school education, all in the name of
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  Speaker 5: protecting children. Bit of déjà vu there. With fines and
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  Speaker 5: prison for breaking the rules, lawmakers are denying a ban's imminence.
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  Speaker 5: And it's Spirit Day, the world's biggest LGBTQ plus anti-bullying campaign.
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  Speaker 5: This has been a thing since 2010 when Canadian teenager
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  Speaker 5: Brittany McMillan read about how nearly a dozen queer kids
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  Speaker 5: had taken their own lives in the space of just
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  Speaker 5: a month. So she teamed up with queer advocacy organisation
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  Speaker 5: GLAAD to raise awareness.
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  Speaker 10: I had this little idea two years ago that it
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  Speaker 10: would be cool if people from my school all wore
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  Speaker 10: purple one day so that LGBT students could see a
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  Speaker 10: show of support from people who are willing to stand
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  Speaker 10: up against bullying. Ultimately, I want Spirit Day to make
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  Speaker 10: just one person feel a little bit better about his
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  Speaker 10: or herself, to feel safe enough in their own skin
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  Speaker 10: to be proud of who they are. Maybe even save
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  Speaker 10: a life.
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  Speaker 5: Brittany speaking in 2012. As she said, you can show
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  Speaker 5: your support by wearing purple, which represents spirit in the
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  Speaker 5: original pride flag. This remembers queer people who've lost their
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  Speaker 5: lives due to hate.
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  Speaker 4: At Tesco, when our colleagues say we're always looking for
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  Speaker 4: new ways to be sustainable, they mean it. And when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to helping the environment, we know less plastic
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  Speaker 4: is always more fantastic. That's why we use pillow packs.
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  Speaker 4: They keep Tesco Irish beef just as fresh and tasty,
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  Speaker 4: but use just under 70% less packaging. That's just one
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  Speaker 4: of many little helps we love to bring you.
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  Speaker 1: Tesco.
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  Speaker 4: That's every little helps. For more information, see tesco.ie. Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. It's Pride Daily's third birthday.
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  Speaker 5: Coming up in a bumper edition... The gay marriage that's
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  Speaker 5: finally been recognised and subverting hate to pay for pride.
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  Speaker 5: First though, the main suspect in the murder of gay
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  Speaker 5: Punjabi influencer Madh Sandhu has been arrested. Madh was shot
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  Speaker 5: by two men on a motorbike in Amritsar in northwest
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  Speaker 5: India earlier this month. It's thought he was around 30
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  Speaker 5: years old. Police are holding Jobanpreet Singh from Mumbai and
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  Speaker 5: say three guns and ammunition have been found. They've been
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  Speaker 5: investigating possible links to criminal gangs and whether this could
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  Speaker 5: have been a contract killing. Karanjeet Kaur is from Indian
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  Speaker 5: news outlet The Print.
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  Speaker 7: In India, the crime of being unapologetically yourself can become
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  Speaker 7: your death sentence. And any amorphous definition of culture becomes
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  Speaker 7: a license for any man to kill or unleash violence.
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  Speaker 7: Sandhu points out that those who believe that queer people
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  Speaker 7: are destroying Punjab's culture ought to remember... that this is
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  Speaker 7: a land that has never proscribed homosexuality.
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  Speaker 5: Mad was also a makeup artist and LGBTQ plus advocate.
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  Speaker 5: He'd been targeted with lots of online threats and abuse
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  Speaker 5: because of his authenticity. Police have made about a dozen
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  Speaker 5: arrests so far. Next, a manslaughter conviction's been overturned in
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  Speaker 5: the US because the victim was transgender. Samuel Ward Jr.
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  Speaker 5: shot 36-year-old Paris Lee, who he'd been intimate with, in
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  Speaker 5: 2022 in Memphis, said it was self-defence but got six
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  Speaker 5: years in prison, and appeals led to a retrial being
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  Speaker 5: ordered because the first trial wasn't told Paris was trans.
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  Speaker 5: Ward's defence teams argued he might have got a more
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  Speaker 5: sympathetic hearing if jurors had known, plus claims he'd feared
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  Speaker 5: for his safety could have been seen as more plausible.
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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Transgender hospital patients in England are going to be placed
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  Speaker 5: on single-sex wards that align with their biological sex. Previously,
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  Speaker 5: it could be based on gender identity. New guidance from
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  Speaker 5: the country's health service also says staff should only be
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  Speaker 5: using the likes of single-sex changing rooms and bathrooms, according
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  Speaker 5: to their sex at birth. comes off the back of
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  Speaker 5: a Supreme Court ruling last year that under equality law,
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  Speaker 5: the terms woman and sex refer to biological women and
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  Speaker 5: biological sex. Transgender rights organisations say this will push trans
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  Speaker 5: people away from accessing care.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Topola now and the new mayor of Krakow has withdrawn
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  Speaker 5: the city's official support for Pride. Łukasz Gibała says it's
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  Speaker 5: become too partisan and aligned with certain political parties He's
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  Speaker 5: been to Pride previously and supported LGBTQ plus rights. The
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  Speaker 5: event will still happen, it just doesn't have the city's
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  Speaker 5: backing anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 5: Staying in Poland, and after nine years, one of the
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  Speaker 5: country's best-known gay couples have finally had their marriage recognised.
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  Speaker 5: Influencers Jakub and Dawid Kuczynski-Micek tied the knot in Portugal
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  Speaker 5: back in 2017. and they've been in a legal fight
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  Speaker 5: since then to get it officially recorded. A court ruled
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  Speaker 5: in their favour a few months ago, and now the
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  Speaker 5: wedding certificate's arrived. They're showing it off in a photo
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  Speaker 5: on Instagram, dressed in their suits from the big day,
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  Speaker 5: which still fit. Next, Harry Potter and the cursed red carpet.
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  Speaker 5: Transgender rights protesters have caused a bit of a kerfuffle
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  Speaker 5: ahead of a gala performance at London's Palace Theatre... All
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  Speaker 5: this as celebrities were arriving for the new version of Harry.
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  Speaker 6: Potter and the Cursed Child.
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  Speaker 5: The protesters were sharing their feelings about the author of
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  Speaker 5: the stories, Harry Potter's wicked grandma, and her well-known gender-critical views.
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  Speaker 5: She denies she's transphobic. And a new Pride event in
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  Speaker 5: a Paris suburb is going to be partly funded by
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  Speaker 5: the compensation paid to a victim of homophobia. She's donated
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  Speaker 5: the € 1, 000 awarded after being abused by a bigot on
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  Speaker 5: Facebook for being happy about a new rainbow pedestrian crossing.
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  Speaker 5: How dare she? The money's helping Joanne Villepon launch its
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  Speaker 5: inaugural Pride, due to take place in May next year.
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  Speaker 5: No time to tell you that. Gender Fluid Visibility Week
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  Speaker 5: kicks off tomorrow. In Italy, you've got Altro Pride in Milan,
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  Speaker 5: bigging up asexual and aromantic people. And it's AIDS Walk
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles on Sunday, raising money for HIV and AIDS services.
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