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A shopkeeper who banned LGBTQ+ people from his store is fined · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: am I right? First, though, a shopkeeper in South Africa
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  Speaker 3: who banned queer people from his store has been fined.
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  Speaker 3: Darwood LaGuardian had a sign there in 2023 saying LGBTQ
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  Speaker 3: plus people not welcome, save our children. Also reckons we're
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  Speaker 3: being forced down his throat. Insert your own innuendo here.
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  Speaker 3: The bigot claimed it's fine because he was just expressing
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  Speaker 3: his religious beliefs that same sex relationships are un-Islamic and amoral.
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  Speaker 3: The Guardian subsequently set up a WhatsApp group supposedly to
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  Speaker 3: communicate Islamic teachings And this was the general vibe.
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  Speaker 2: The owner is correct. We must isolate LGBTQI community members.
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  Speaker 2: They've even gone to the extent of threatening violence. They
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  Speaker 2: need to have their heads cut off. They need to
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  Speaker 2: have their hands cut off. We are not going to
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  Speaker 2: tolerate any members of that community.
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  Speaker 3: Ntabi Seng, Sepanya Moheli, chair of the Commission for Gender Equality,
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  Speaker 3: speaking to Newsroom Africa. The equality courts found Lagardian guilty
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  Speaker 3: of hate speech and unfair discrimination. They're fining him 200,000
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  Speaker 3: South African rand, about 12,000 US dollars, and he's got
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  Speaker 3: to make a public apology. Next, claims whilst AI will
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  Speaker 3: mostly refuse to guess whether someone's gay from an image,
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  Speaker 3: it will then edit the picture to make them look gay.
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  Speaker 3: Researchers at America's Rochester Institute of Technology have put a
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  Speaker 3: thousand AI-generated faces through OpenAI's GPT-Image 1 Mini and Google's
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  Speaker 3: Nano Banana. They're basically treating certain hairstyles, facial features and
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  Speaker 3: expressions as quote-unquote gay, with jobs involving fashion and theatre
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  Speaker 3: then stated as potential occupations. Pride Daily. And 516 same-sex
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  Speaker 3: marriages have been registered in Poland since new European Union
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  Speaker 3: rules came into force earlier this year. They apply to
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  Speaker 3: couples who've tied the knot in another EU country, all
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  Speaker 3: to do with making sure there's unrestricted freedom of movement.
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  Speaker 3: Poland itself doesn't allow same-sex marriage, and whilst parliaments voted
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  Speaker 3: for a civil partnership law, the presidents vetoed it. We're
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