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A queer venue in Australia is forced to close by God-bothering bigots · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Pride Daily either I'm keV McGrath coming up, send a goal.
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  Speaker 1: Make your mind up first that a queer pop up
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  Speaker 1: venue what a former church in Australia has been forced
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  Speaker 1: to close cause religious bigots. Divine Playhouse have only just
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  Speaker 1: opened as an inclusive arts and performance space in a
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  Speaker 1: building that hasn't actually been a church since the nineteen thirties,
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  Speaker 1: then used as a theater for decades. The landlord's caved
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  Speaker 1: into a hate campaign by Christians. You keep protesting at
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  Speaker 1: the site and intimidating people there. God caught me. You
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  Speaker 1: should be a shamed of yourselves man addressing up as nuns? Bro?
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  Speaker 1: Why addressing up as nuns? Who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you think you are? You indoctrinated, insufferable. The
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  Speaker 1: god botherers have complained of hateful blasphemy and if anyone
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  Speaker 1: knows about hatefulness, it's them. Concerns have been raised that
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  Speaker 1: Christians and the radical right culture war cohorts who are
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  Speaker 1: now all over this, can get to prevent the existence
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  Speaker 1: of queer spaces. Pride Daily. Next, the transgender teacher in
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  Speaker 1: Turkey's lost her job after she was targeted by pro
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  Speaker 1: government media There zoe Leila had been working at a
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  Speaker 1: school in Istanbul, with colleagues, pupils and parents showing support
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  Speaker 1: when she came out, but media sucking up to the
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  Speaker 1: very anti LGBTQ plus government there have stirred up a
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  Speaker 1: ton of hate and the up shows are contracts not
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  Speaker 1: specifically defined as between a man and a woman, well
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