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This week’s top LGBTQ+ news · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: ACAST recommends.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sheila Shoiga and Ready to be Real is back
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  Speaker 4: South Korea. First though, Some of Nike's Christian shareholders have
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  Speaker 4: failed in their efforts to come after the firm for
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  Speaker 4: its LGBTQ plus advocacy. A group called Inspire Investing has
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  Speaker 4: tried to force an investigation into how being inclusive affects
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  Speaker 4: brand value, talking about the likes of collabs with transgender
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  Speaker 4: influencers and partnering with queer rights groups. This has been
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  Speaker 4: put to the vote at Nike's annual meeting, amassing support
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  Speaker 4: from a whopping less than 1% of shareholders. Investor Tim
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  Speaker 4: Schwarzenberger's the mouthpiece for this folly.
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  Speaker 5: We just felt like Nike was getting involved way too
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  Speaker 5: much into politics and they have a long track record
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  Speaker 5: of doing that. Ads with Dylan Mulvaney. So we just,
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  Speaker 5: we wanted Nike to do an assessment on whether the
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  Speaker 5: board and whether their leadership has assessed the risks of
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  Speaker 5: them getting involved in these partnerships.
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  Speaker 4: The Christians also wanted rid of gender-affirming care from employees'
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  Speaker 4: health insurance. Pride Daily. To India next, and there's movement
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  Speaker 4: towards giving same-sex couples the right to make medical decisions
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  Speaker 4: on each other's behalf. The government's told Delhi's High Court,
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  Speaker 4: regardless of what the law currently says, this should be
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  Speaker 4: permitted in an emergency or if a partner's incapacitated, all
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  Speaker 4: to do with a case that's ongoing, challenging legislation that
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  Speaker 4: only covers straight married couples. Pride Daily. And South Korea's
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  Speaker 4: Supreme Court's ruled outing someone can be defamation, even if
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  Speaker 4: it's true. It comes off the back of a case
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  Speaker 4: in which a blogger made a politician's sexuality public, and
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  Speaker 4: he's actually been acquitted on appeal. Usually defamation's about false claims,
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  Speaker 4: but judges say if the intent of outing someone is
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  Speaker 4: to damage the reputation, bearing in mind prejudice in society,
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  Speaker 4: then it does meet the criteria. No time to tell
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  Speaker 4: you that. For the first time, human rights organisation the
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  Speaker 4: Council of Europe's agreed a set of standards around LGBTQ
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  Speaker 4: plus rights, among them promoting respect and inclusion, fighting misinformation
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  Speaker 4: and dealing with hate speech. Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm
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  Speaker 4: Kev McGrath. Coming up, a lesbian milestone in Serbia. First though,
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  Speaker 4: Drag queen Crystal Queer is going to climb Ireland's tallest mountain,
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  Speaker 4: dressed in all her finery. She's going up Carentool in
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  Speaker 4: County Kerry at the end of next month. It's a
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  Speaker 4: climb of more than 3,400 feet, taking in the steep
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  Speaker 4: and rocky terrain of the Devil's Ladder, and trying to
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  Speaker 4: scramble up that gully in heels won't be easy. Crystal's
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  Speaker 4: raising money for this charity.
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  Speaker 6: Gaza Gabra is a humanitarian organisation providing emergency aid to
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  Speaker 6: the displaced families on the Gaza Strip. So things such
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  Speaker 6: as tents, food, clothing, hygiene kits, water.
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  Speaker 4: Previously, Crystal's done a 10k run in full drag for Gaza.
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  Speaker 4: There's a link to her fundraiser in the show notes.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily. Going to need your full attention for this
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  Speaker 4: next one. A transgender man in Japan's pushing for legal
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  Speaker 4: recognition as the father of the child he conceived. This
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  Speaker 4: guy had his eggs retrieved while he was still registered
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  Speaker 4: as female. One was implanted into his now wife with
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  Speaker 4: donor sperm, and she had their baby about two years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Problem is, Japan's family law is outdated, so because he
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  Speaker 4: hadn't yet transitioned at the time of birth, and it's
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  Speaker 4: not his sperm that fertilised the egg, he's not legally
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  Speaker 4: seen as the father. The man who's in his 40s
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  Speaker 4: has filed a lawsuit with Tokyo Family Court. I hope
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  Speaker 4: that all made sense. And Serbia's got its first lesbian president.
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  Speaker 4: Sort of. Anna Brnovic is covering the role for the
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  Speaker 4: next month or so. It's fallen to her as Speaker
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  Speaker 4: of the National Assembly after President Aleksandar Vucic resigned. She
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  Speaker 4: was previously the first gay prime minister, and that's the
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  Speaker 4: job he's now going for. Just prime minister. Gay prime
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  Speaker 4: minister isn't a job. With elections due on October 25th.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Got an extra
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  Speaker 4: one for you, as America's radical right-wing government continues prioritising
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  Speaker 4: anti-queer culture wars over sky-high fuel and food costs. Protections
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  Speaker 4: for LGBTQ plus students against discrimination based on sexual orientation
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  Speaker 4: and gender identity have just been scrapped with no warning.
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  Speaker 4: They were part of a 1972 civil rights law called
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  Speaker 4: Title IX, and applied to schools and other education programs
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  Speaker 4: that get national government funding. And there are two other
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  Speaker 4: things in the culture war crosshairs here.
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  Speaker 7: Second, the administration says the change is aimed at transgender
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  Speaker 7: participation in girls' and women's sports. And third, schools will
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  Speaker 7: go back to narrower definitions and different procedures for handling
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  Speaker 7: sexual harassment and assault complaints.
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  Speaker 4: Nohalani Graf from 12 News KPNX. On that last point,
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  Speaker 4: it means student victims of sexual misconduct are now less
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  Speaker 4: likely to get justice, with alleged perpetrators better protected. This
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  Speaker 4: says New York state prosecutors reopen an investigation into claims
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  Speaker 4: of a gang rape at Cornell University in 2024. The
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  Speaker 4: alleged victim's now suing says she wasn't adequately protected, while
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  Speaker 4: the seven students involved weren't properly punished. So if that
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  Speaker 4: was the case a couple of years ago and now
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  Speaker 4: the law is being undermined, what hope for future victims?
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  Speaker 7: Supporters say this restores Title IX's original focus. Civil rights
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  Speaker 7: and sexual assault advocates say it removes important protections. Bottom line,
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  Speaker 7: the rules for how schools handle sex discrimination, athletics and
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  Speaker 7: sexual misconduct are changing.
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  Speaker 4: The Title IX rules were strengthened under former President Joe
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  Speaker 4: Biden and it's his changes being rolled back.
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  Speaker 2: comedy powerhouse Kyla Cobbler, an incredibly powerful conversation with Majella
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  Speaker 2: O'Donnell about her mental health, eco-builder Harrison Gardner on becoming
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: more self-sufficient and psychologist Maureen Gaffney on life. Big conversations,
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  Speaker 2: brilliant people and plenty more to come.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to be real.
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  Speaker 2: Brand new episodes every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: ACAST is home to the world's best podcasts, including Crime World,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: The Other Hand, and the one you're listening to right now.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw. Coming up, a
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  Speaker 4: Japanese pro athlete comes out. First, though, The school district
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  Speaker 4: in America that has banned rainbows. Means the likes of stickers,
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  Speaker 4: posters and flags can't be displayed in classrooms in Minnesota's
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  Speaker 4: Detroit Lakes, even though they've been there forever to show inclusivity.
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  Speaker 4: Now a lawsuit's been filed calling this nonsense anti-LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 4: discrimination and harassment. Amber Estinson, who's also known as That
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  Speaker 4: Midwestern Mom, has been speaking at a packed public meeting.
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  Speaker 9: There was no crisis and there was no incident demanding
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  Speaker 9: this policy and there was no groundswell parents asking for it,
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  Speaker 9: but it's a problem now. And it was created by
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  Speaker 9: the majority of this board. Families now feel unwelcome in
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  Speaker 9: our own schools and kids feel singled out because of
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  Speaker 9: who they are. And if you read the horrible comments
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  Speaker 9: surrounding the media coverage of this decision, you should see
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  Speaker 9: why children need places where they feel safe and.
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  Speaker 10: Accepted for who they are.
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  Speaker 4: The meeting was the first chance for parents to give
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  Speaker 4: their views because it came off the back of an
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  Speaker 4: unpublicised vote by the school board. Sneaky. A court's being
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  Speaker 4: asked to permanently strike down the ban and punish the
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  Speaker 4: four bigots behind it. Pride Daily. Next, a married gay
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  Speaker 4: couple who left anti-LGBTQ plus Russia five years ago because
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  Speaker 4: of abuse are being deported back there from Switzerland. As
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  Speaker 4: advocates for queer rights, Ilya Ageev and Dmitry Kiselev were
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  Speaker 4: targets at home where anyone involved in the non-existent international
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  Speaker 4: LGBT movement now risks prison. They've lived in Zurich since 2021,
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  Speaker 4: learning German and becoming part of the community. But their
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  Speaker 4: asylum requests received a final rejection. Tribunals ruled they'll be
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  Speaker 4: absolutely fine in Russia just as long as they don't
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  Speaker 4: flaunt their sexuality. Pride Daily. And Japanese professional volleyball player
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  Speaker 4: Rui Takahashi has come out as gay. The 26-year-old says
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  Speaker 4: he's finally able to accept himself and his brother Ron,
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  Speaker 4: who's in the national team, has been a big support.
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  Speaker 4: As things stand, Japan's got hardly any out pro athletes.
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  Speaker 7: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, why Brazil's general
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  Speaker 4: elections looking kinda queer. First though, LGBTQ plus history month
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  Speaker 4: kicks off today in Australia, Canada and the US. This
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  Speaker 4: has been a thing for more than 30 years and
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  Speaker 4: it's all because of a gay high school teacher in
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  Speaker 4: Missouri in America. Rodney Wilson didn't feel his history students
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  Speaker 4: at Melville High were getting the full story.
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  Speaker 10: My textbook didn't have anything about LGBTQ people or LGBTQ history.
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  Speaker 4: When it came to teaching those kids about Nazi atrocities
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  Speaker 4: in World War II, Rodney thought it was important to
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  Speaker 4: share his truth.
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  Speaker 10: In March of 1994, during a lesson on the Holocaust,
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  Speaker 10: I simply mentioned there was a pink triangle. I mentioned
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  Speaker 10: that could have been for me, potentially. As a gay person,
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  Speaker 10: I might have fallen underneath that umbrella of persecution. So
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  Speaker 10: that was the way in which I.
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  Speaker 6: Came out to my students.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to PBS, upside-down pink triangles were sewn into the
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  Speaker 4: uniforms of gay concentration camp prisoners to mark them out
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  Speaker 4: for harsh treatment like torture. A big old backlash to
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  Speaker 4: Rodney's coming out made the national news, with calls for
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  Speaker 4: his sacking, which didn't happen, Despite the immense pressure, it
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  Speaker 4: was able to capitalise on all the attention, the upshot
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  Speaker 4: being a month each year dedicated to LGBTQ plus history
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  Speaker 4: ever since. Next, a lifetime ban for the sore loser
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  Speaker 4: thug who broke the jaw of a gay opponent after
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  Speaker 4: a judo match. Akaki Japaridze from Georgia was defeated by
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  Speaker 4: Germany's Timo Kavilias in Leipzig because he wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 4: and tried to justify the attack with claims he was
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  Speaker 4: defending his honour. The German Judo Bundesliga says he's kicked
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  Speaker 4: to the curb forever and is also facing other sporting
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  Speaker 4: and legal repercussions. Timo, who's an Olympian, can't fight again
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  Speaker 4: for two and a half months, so he'll miss the
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  Speaker 4: upcoming World Championships. And Brazil's general elections on Sunday, with
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  Speaker 4: 529 out queer candidates running. That's about two thirds up
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  Speaker 4: on the previous vote in 2022 and includes 109 transgender
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  Speaker 4: or travesty hopefuls. Travesty sort of translates as transvestite, but
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  Speaker 4: it's more nuanced than that. Bisexual candidates making up most
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  Speaker 4: of the LGBTQ plus contingent on 176.
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  Speaker 4: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, why
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  Speaker 4: we're living in colour again. First though, this queer-friendly composition
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  Speaker 4: from LGBTQ plus ally Hosea. The guy with the hair.
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  Speaker 6: We've done a bit of editing there. Sure you couldn't tell.
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  Speaker 4: Would you like a bit more?
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  Speaker 6: Let's put your homophobia aside for a quick second. How
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  Speaker 6: the f * * * does it affect your life
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  Speaker 6: if someone's bi, gay or lesbian? It doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: That's from the LGBTQ song and you can hear the
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  Speaker 4: rest of it on the Guy With The Hair Facebook page.
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  Speaker 4: It covers all kinds of topics including single mums, ADHD
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  Speaker 4: and Karens. Pride Daily. Next, a group of African faith
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  Speaker 4: leaders and academics say governments there should suspend efforts to
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  Speaker 4: make life even worse for LGBTQ plus people. As we've
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  Speaker 4: talked about a lot on Pride Daily, countries across the
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  Speaker 4: continent already have extraordinarily harsh anti-queer legislation with plans to
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  Speaker 4: go much further. An advocacy organisation called Interconnected Justice wants
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  Speaker 4: to put the brakes on this. It's launched an African
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  Speaker 4: democratic covenant calling for education, dialogue and public consultation. Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: And staying in Africa, Nigerian LGBTQ plus drama Living in
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  Speaker 4: Colours is back on YouTube despite government efforts to censor it.
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  Speaker 4: The show only managed two days online before it was
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  Speaker 4: taken down on September 2nd after claims its display and
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  Speaker 4: promotion was illegal. A planned premiere at a cinema in
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  Speaker 4: Lagos was also blocked, but while we don't know what's changed,
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  Speaker 4: the series can now be seen again, already racking up
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  Speaker 4: more than 600,000 views. No time to tell you that.
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  Speaker 4: Trans Empowerment Month is underway, organised by America's Stand with
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  Speaker 4: Trans advocacy organisation. This year's theme is Stronger Together, with
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  Speaker 4: lots of events planned in person and online. There's more
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  Speaker 4: on our socials, at Pride Daily Pod, including any breaking
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  Speaker 4: news That's your lot. I'll see you next week.