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Russia’s LGBT Network is forced to close after 20 years · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: A cast classics In West Cork, it's simply known as
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  Speaker 1: the Murder. In nineteen ninety six, French film producer Sophie
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  Speaker 1: Tuscanda Plantier is found dead near her holiday home. The
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  Speaker 1: police suspect one man, but they can't make a charge
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  Speaker 1: stick and he refuses to leave, becoming the embodiment of
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  Speaker 1: everyone's unsettled nerves.
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  Speaker 2: For people in West Cork, the murder that changed the
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  Speaker 2: character of their peaceful home has become about something completely different.
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  Speaker 1: To find out more about West Cork and all acas
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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily, Hide, I'm keV McGrath coming up a step
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  Speaker 2: forward for same sex surrogacy in Australia first, though, the
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  Speaker 2: Russian LGBT Network, possibly the last remaining queer advocacy organization
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  Speaker 2: left in the country, has shut down from them says
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  Speaker 2: after it was designated as extremists by President Putin a
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  Speaker 2: few months ago the safety of anyone linked to it
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  Speaker 2: would be at risk. Over the last twenty years, the
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  Speaker 2: network provided free legal help, plus psychological and emergency support,
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  Speaker 2: whilst also documenting hate crimes. It won an award back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen from LGBTQ plus magazine Attitude and listen
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  Speaker 2: to how prescient the acceptance speech was. I hope the.
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  Speaker 3: Events which are happening now in Russia, Uganda and other
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  Speaker 3: countries where homophobia became official state policies have made the
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  Speaker 3: people of the West understand that equality and freedom are
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  Speaker 3: not given once for all time. These are values we
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  Speaker 3: have to fight for every day.
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  Speaker 2: Countless. Other Russian queer advocacy groups have been forced to
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  Speaker 2: close as well. Putin also designated the non existent International
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  Speaker 2: LGBT Movement as extremist in twenty twenty three as part
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  Speaker 2: of his long running crackdown on queer rights. Pride Daily
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  Speaker 2: to Indian Next, where the state of Odisha's revamped its
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  Speaker 2: transgender Welfare Board and among the first things done ordering
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  Speaker 2: all government departments to include a trans and third gender
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  Speaker 2: option on their job recruitment sites, as also plans to
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  Speaker 2: beef up the District Transgender Protection Cell, which investigates hate
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  Speaker 2: crimes and offers legal assistance, plus three gender affirmation surgeries
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  Speaker 2: could be offered at state run medical colleges. Pride Daily
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  Speaker 2: and a gay couple in Western Australia have won the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court fight to be surrogate parents. Trend and Brad
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  Speaker 2: Dunn were told only the Straits can have this option,
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  Speaker 2: so they got legal in twenty twenty three. Judges have
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  Speaker 2: now said its discrimination, making the guys the first same
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  Speaker 2: sex pair to be approved for surrogacy. A law change
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  Speaker 2: due next year will fix to some fairness, but because
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  Speaker 2: of the court verdict, the Duns are good to go now.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have to wait, and they've already found a surrogate.
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  Speaker 2: No time to tell you that the Brazilian Volleyball confederations
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  Speaker 2: banning transgender women from female competitions effective immediately and bringing
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  Speaker 2: in compulsory genetic testing. It's Southern HIV AIDS Awareness Day
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  Speaker 2: in the US. More than half of new HIV diagnoses
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  Speaker 2: are in America South. And you've got the UK's Scene
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  Speaker 2: LGBTQ Plus Film and TV Festival starting today in Manchester.
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  Speaker 2: We're also on your smart speaker, command it to play
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  Speaker 2: the latest Pride Daily. That's a lot. I'll see you tomorrow.