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This week’s top LGBTQ+ news · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: is a new day. Visit gov.ie forward slash school attendance.
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  Speaker 3: An initiative of the Government of Ireland.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, I'm taking the Episcopal.
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  Speaker 4: First though, a gender non-conforming puppet in Ukraine getting some
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  Speaker 4: of the country's biggest names to really open up. Sex
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  Speaker 4: Education Show The First Time sees host Nico asking very
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  Speaker 4: direct questions that only puppets can get away with about
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  Speaker 4: the likes of sexuality, intimacy and self-acceptance. One of the
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  Speaker 4: guests is bisexual singer Milovin, a former Eurovision hopeful, who
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  Speaker 4: talks about coming out and what his relationship with his
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  Speaker 4: dad's like. It's all the work of filmmaker and LGBTQ
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  Speaker 4: plus activist, Yuri DeVizion.
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying to make every year some educational content about
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  Speaker 6: LGBTQ topic. Video and music, art, creativity... works well to
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  Speaker 6: help gather people and fight for rights in countries like Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to Open Eye Gallery. Social media star Tumazar also
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  Speaker 4: presents the show, which was filmed at Ukraine's National Library
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  Speaker 4: in the capital Kyiv. And a fun fact, Niko is
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  Speaker 4: brought to life by Anna Lev, who's the voice of
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  Speaker 4: Bart Simpson there. We've got a link to the first
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  Speaker 4: time in our show notes.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Next, plans to have civil partnerships in Poland are a
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  Speaker 4: bit stuck for now. Legislation passed by both Houses of
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  Speaker 4: Parliament was vetoed by hard-right President Karol Nawrocki in July,
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  Speaker 4: and our vote to override this bigot has fallen short.
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  Speaker 4: Means same-sex couples are still without certain rights, covering the
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  Speaker 4: likes of tax, access to medical information and inheritance. And
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  Speaker 4: an American priest has become the first out transgender dean
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  Speaker 4: of a cathedral in the history of the Episcopal Church. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I know it sounds niche. The very Reverend Micah Cronin
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  Speaker 4: is now the senior priest at All Saints in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 4: basically the chief exec. The 30-year-old used to be Methodist,
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  Speaker 4: but moved to the Episcopal Church just over a decade
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  Speaker 4: ago as he finds it more inclusive.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Got an extra one for you.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll start in Fiji, where a national HIV emergency
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  Speaker 4: has been declared. One in 60 people now living with
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  Speaker 4: the virus there, compared with one in 167 five years ago,
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  Speaker 4: means 9,000 have HIV out of a population of 936,000.
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  Speaker 4: It's thought this is being driven by unsafe sex and
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  Speaker 4: drug use. Access to testing, treatment and prevention services is
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  Speaker 4: being expanded. Next, Mexico is keeping a closer eye on
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  Speaker 4: the amount of public money going on serving the LGBTQ
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  Speaker 4: plus population. Something called Transversal Annex 33, which sounds very sexy,
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  Speaker 4: will monitor what's allocated to sexual and gender diversity, covering
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  Speaker 4: the likes of healthcare, housing and culture. It's hoped this
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  Speaker 4: will prevent underspending and give a better idea of what
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  Speaker 4: difference the money makes to queer quality of life. And
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  Speaker 4: the age limit for a new gay sauna in Thailand
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  Speaker 4: is really generating some heat. No one older than 55
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  Speaker 4: is allowed in Wellmax in Bangkok, with a spokesperson explaining
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  Speaker 4: it's a curatorial choice about atmosphere, which is a collection
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  Speaker 4: of words that doesn't mean anything. It's been criticised online
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  Speaker 4: for ageism, prejudice, narrow-mindedness and discrimination, with one person suggesting
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  Speaker 4: where they might like to shove their sauna. Hi there,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, such a drag to be Catholic.
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  Speaker 4: First though, queer comedian Magda Zubanski has been giving an
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  Speaker 4: update on her health. The Australian announced last year she'd
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  Speaker 4: been diagnosed with stage 4 blood cancer... a rare and
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  Speaker 4: aggressive type called mantle cell lymphoma. Magda tells 60 Minutes
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  Speaker 4: she's now in deep remission, but.
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  Speaker 7: It means that you're not cured, but it's at bay.
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  Speaker 7: So it's what's called an incurable relapsing cancer. It's almost
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  Speaker 7: sure that it will come back. It's a question of
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  Speaker 7: when and then how bad. So the median survival rate
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  Speaker 7: is eight and a half years.
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  Speaker 4: So I could go less or I could go more.
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  Speaker 4: the 65-year-old's best known for her roles in the sitcom
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  Speaker 4: Kath & Kim and the Babe and Happy Feet films,
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  Speaker 4: also says she's really felt the love from the public
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  Speaker 4: and thinks she's blessed to have that support. Next, Sam
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  Speaker 4: Marino is giving trans people legal gender recognition. Parliament in
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  Speaker 4: the southern European countries just voted for this, aiming to
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  Speaker 4: make it law by next February. Rules around birth and
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  Speaker 4: adoption certificates issued abroad for same-sex parents are going to
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  Speaker 4: be clarified, but a vote to legally recognise those who've
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  Speaker 4: had kids in San Marino didn't pass. And we'll end
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  Speaker 4: with a drag show organised by the Catholic Church. All
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  Speaker 4: to do with the progressive diocese of St Gallen in Switzerland,
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  Speaker 4: and it's the job of their city chaplaincy to get
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  Speaker 4: creative with new ways of reaching people. So what's been
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  Speaker 4: called a deep drag show has been held at inclusive
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  Speaker 4: venue The Grabenhall, advertised as combining the art form of
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  Speaker 4: drag with social, cultural and spiritual themes. No time to
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  Speaker 4: tell you that. A ban on conversion practices will continue
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  Speaker 4: being debated by lawmakers in Northern Ireland later as a
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  Speaker 4: push for a two-year jail term for anyone engaging in
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  Speaker 4: this kind of abuse.
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  Speaker 8: This family is on the brink of civil war.
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  Speaker 5: Mobland, the hit original series, is back, exclusively on Paramount +.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Harrigans. Don't know the name?
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  Speaker 8: Then Google us.
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  Speaker 5: From the underworld of Guy Ritchie. Do you want to
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  Speaker 5: step up the ladder?
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  Speaker 8: I want Conrad dead. Starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and
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  Speaker 8: Helen Mirren.
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  Speaker 7: You want to walk?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a walk.
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  Speaker 8: Stream the brand new series of Mobland from 18th of
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  Speaker 8: September exclusively on Paramount +.
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  Speaker 1: Subscription required.
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  Speaker 6: 18 plus.
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  Speaker 8: T's and C's apply. This is a list of what's
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  Speaker 8: included in a routine adult eye test. And at Specsavers,
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  Speaker 8: you get all this absolutely free with PRSI or medical card,
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  Speaker 8: or only € 30 without. Well, you know us. We've always
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  Speaker 8: been keen on doing a lot for a little money. Specsavers.
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  Speaker 3: A lot for a little.
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  Speaker 8: He's still going.
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  Speaker 1: Conditions apply. Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hi there. I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, a pride
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  Speaker 4: parade pummeled by the Pope. First, though, the archer and
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  Speaker 4: pole dancer taking down transphobes. These bedwetters have been targeting
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  Speaker 4: influencer Blumenek and his wife Maisie, falsely claiming the pair
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  Speaker 4: are transgender. He's sometimes seen pole dancing in a skirt
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  Speaker 4: and high-heeled boots while she, wait for it, She's got
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  Speaker 4: some muscles. Case closed, your honour. BlumenX very articulately pushing back.
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  Speaker 9: Policing people's gender hurts everyone. It hurts transgender people, who,
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  Speaker 9: whether you like it or not, are one of the
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  Speaker 9: most vulnerable populations. But it also hurts all women, whether
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  Speaker 9: they happen to be taller or stronger or have short
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  Speaker 9: hair or wear different makeup or who otherwise don't fit
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  Speaker 9: into society's incredibly narrow beauty standards.
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  Speaker 4: Boneheads have called him and Maisie two dudes, said her
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  Speaker 4: real name is Maxx, and claims she's got a bigger
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  Speaker 4: Adam's apple than him. He's not done putting those cretins
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  Speaker 4: on blast, by the way.
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  Speaker 9: And it hurts men who are sick of the paedophiles
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  Speaker 9: and sex offenders that call themselves role models and are
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  Speaker 9: trying to find their own way through life that causes
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  Speaker 9: less harm to themselves and others around them. So be masculine,
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  Speaker 9: be feminine, be neither or be both, but be kind.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing to add to that, is there? Next, Colombia
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  Speaker 4: is withdrawn from the LGBTQ plus Equal Rights Coalition. The
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  Speaker 4: country was meant to be in a joint presidency of
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  Speaker 4: the group alongside Spain until next year and isn't giving
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  Speaker 4: a reason for backing out. Colombia's foreign ministry says this
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  Speaker 4: won't have a negative impact on minorities. Advocates say it's
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  Speaker 4: massively regressive and a serious setback. And Buenos Aires' pride
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  Speaker 4: parade's under threat because of the Pope. Events in public
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  Speaker 4: spaces have been banned across Argentina for a week in
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  Speaker 4: November when Louis XIV's due to visit. This clashes with
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  Speaker 4: Pride on the 7th, and organisers have been asked to postpone.
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  Speaker 4: They're refusing, though, saying it's too late to change all
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  Speaker 4: the arrangements. No time to tell you that. It's Bi-Visibility Day,
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  Speaker 4: rounding off Bisexual Awareness Week. And in Australia, Sydney's got
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  Speaker 4: its first transgender Deputy Lord Mayor. Ollie Arkins has been
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  Speaker 4: on the council since 2024, spearheading efforts to improve the
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  Speaker 4: city's nightlife.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, has a Marvel
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  Speaker 4: video game been de-lesbianised? First though, school board elections in
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  Speaker 4: central Canada are being targeted with AI slop as part
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  Speaker 4: of an anti-LGBTQ plus campaign. Concocted pictures and a concerned
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  Speaker 4: citizen's Facebook page are depicting scenes to get parents stirred up.
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  Speaker 4: It's basically, they're going to trans your children, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to gay them up. This nonsense is intended to keep
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  Speaker 4: right-wing religious wrong-uns currently on the Hanover school board in
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  Speaker 4: their positions so they can continue pushing their anti-queer agenda.
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  Speaker 4: Sarah Wheeler is one of the nice candidates who isn't
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  Speaker 4: foaming at the mouth.
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  Speaker 10: The conversation around the school board has shifted away from education,
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  Speaker 10: student success, where we're choosing to spend our budget, and
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  Speaker 10: more about these identity politics.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to CBC News. Another image shows the education minister
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  Speaker 4: as a puppet, controlled by the non-binary health minister in
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  Speaker 4: front of a trans agenda sign. And that Facebook page
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  Speaker 4: where the AI slot lives also features support for the
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  Speaker 4: late anti-LGBTQ plus podcaster Charlie Kirk. Like attracts like.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Next, the United Nations says Russia's still persecuting LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 4: people even after they've been forced out of the anti-queer country.
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  Speaker 4: A UN independent investigators found exiles are having access to
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  Speaker 4: money and other assets blocked. Passports aren't being renewed and
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  Speaker 4: they can't use digital government services. Russia's crackdown on the
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  Speaker 4: non-existent international LGBT movement seen countless individuals labelled as extremist,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes having to leave the country within hours or face jail.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: And has the new Marvel's Wolverine video game had queer
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  Speaker 4: content cut out? It's the Middle East version players reckon's
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  Speaker 4: been censored, with references to the lesbian relationship of characters
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  Speaker 4: Mystique and Tiger nowhere to be seen. Some dialogue's been muted,
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  Speaker 4: while certain images are blurred out or removed entirely, like
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  Speaker 4: you don't see the pair in their wedding dresses. No
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  Speaker 4: time to tell you that. Poland's now paying married couples
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  Speaker 4: benefits to those who've tied the knot elsewhere in the
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  Speaker 4: European Union, follows an order from the EU. And the
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  Speaker 4: African Pride Games start today in Tembisa, northeast of Johannesburg.
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  Speaker 4: It's a month-long football tournament with 48 teams taking part.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you scan.
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  Speaker 8: This is a list of what's included in a routine
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  Speaker 8: adult eye test. And at Specsavers, you get all this
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  Speaker 8: absolutely free with PRSI or medical card, or only € 30 without. Well,
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  Speaker 8: you know us, we've always been keen on doing a
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  Speaker 8: lot for a little money. Specsavers. A lot for a little.
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  Speaker 4: Ugh.
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  Speaker 8: He's still going. Roll cleanse, ophthalmoscopy. Conditions apply.
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  Speaker 5: Running a business isn't easy, but accessing support should be.
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  Speaker 5: The National Enterprise Hub is a free service that simplifies
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  Speaker 5: access to business supports. With over 250 supports in one place,
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  Speaker 5: And don't worry about not knowing what you need. Our
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  Speaker 5: helpful team will guide you every step of the way.
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  Speaker 5: Visit neh.gov.ie to learn how we can help. The National
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  Speaker 5: Enterprise Hub. Support starts here. An initiative of the Government
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  Speaker 5: of Ireland. Pride Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, bisexual dating. We'll
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  Speaker 4: start though with gay Australian comedian Josh Thomas. He's among
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  Speaker 4: the most adorable people in the whole wide world and
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  Speaker 4: brought us the fantastic Please Like Me. But an online
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  Speaker 4: advert for one of his stand-up shows in Canada is
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  Speaker 4: bringing out the haters.
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  Speaker 2: All these religious homophobes are swarming this ad for my
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  Speaker 2: show tomorrow in Edmonton.
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  Speaker 8: And they're doing death threats and things, which is very
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  Speaker 8: old school, actually.
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  Speaker 10: I haven't experienced that for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: It feels kind of quaint.
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  Speaker 4: Josh has a theory, though.
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  Speaker 3: That if they're being served an ad for my show,
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  Speaker 3: the algorithm thinks that they're gay.
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  Speaker 2: And that by commenting on the post, they're just letting
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  Speaker 2: everybody see that.
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  Speaker 3: They're digital whores.
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  Speaker 2: Footprint, all that tracking all these apps do.
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  Speaker 3: The verdict was gay.
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  Speaker 4: The show's since gone ahead without any bother, and Josh
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  Speaker 4: says apart from the religious wrong-uns, Edmonton has been gorgeous,
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  Speaker 4: just like he is. Next, gay Russian TV presenter Sergei
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  Speaker 4: Sosadov has died at the age of 59. He became
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  Speaker 4: well-known in the 1990s as an acerbic music critic and
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  Speaker 4: was unique in the country for being open about his sexuality.
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  Speaker 4: Sozodov went on to be a judge on the Ukrainian
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  Speaker 4: version of TV talent show The X Factor, but ended
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  Speaker 4: up banned from Ukraine over his support for the Russian invasion.
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  Speaker 4: It's thought he fell down some stairs, causing swelling on
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  Speaker 4: the brain. And two-thirds of straight men in the UK
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  Speaker 4: say they'd date a bisexual woman, but only a third
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  Speaker 4: of straight women say they'd go out with a bisexual man.
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  Speaker 4: Some research by YouGov also finds about 16% of heteros
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  Speaker 4: of either sex reckon they're scared of bi partners more
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  Speaker 4: likely to cheat or they feel insecure about meeting their needs.
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  Speaker 4: Same can have split down gender lines for gay men
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  Speaker 4: and women on bisexual dating. Regardless, nearly 9 out of
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  Speaker 4: 10 Brits have a positive or neutral opinion of bi people.
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  Speaker 4: No time to tell you that. The church in Wales
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  Speaker 4: is stalling on a promise to allow same-sex marriage. Plans
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  Speaker 4: are being pushed back to give more time for theological reflection.
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  Speaker 4: And in South Africa, you've got Soweto Pride today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: There's more on our socials, at Pride Daily Pod, including
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  Speaker 4: any breaking news. That's your lot. I'll see you next week.