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September 27, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• Trump nominates anti-LGBTQ judge for US Supreme Court
• Yet another study confirms conversion therapy is dangerous
• UK abandons plans to allow trans people to self-identify
• US delegation pushes anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” at UN 
• Trump admin threatens to pull school funding over trans kids

Other News

• World’s richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%
• Facebook to pull out of Europe if regulators don’t leave them alone
• Leak reveals big banks allowed criminals to move dirty money
• Trump cuts aid for democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong, Iran
• Mass suspension of German police officers over neo-nazi chats

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Periodical Political Post *158

October 6, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• US Supreme Court may be ready to overturn marriage equality
• New Zealand prime minister vows to ban conversion therapy
• Canada revives efforts to finally ban ‘gay conversion’ nationwide
• Almost 80% of queer American youth deeply distrust the police
• Russia warns gay men with children that they’re facing arrest
• Belgium’s Deputy PM is Europe’s most senior trans politician

Other News

• Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah
• Brazil’s president rejects offer of $20 billion to protect the Amazon
• EU court limits government spying on citizens’ internet traffic data
• 90% of coronavirus patients experience side effects after recovery
• Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic and needs reform
• Schools in England told not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching

Blooming Ash

October 8, 2020, 5:00 am

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Louis Partridge

October 10, 2020, 5:00 am

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Periodical Political Post *159

October 15, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• Anti-queer hate crimes in UK rising faster than any other group
• 2020 already deadliest year for trans people since records began
• Largest study of intersex people in US is here and it’s alarming
• Poland rejects international criticism over anti-LGBTQ rights stance
• Puberty blockers proven to reduce suicidal ideation for trans teens

Other News

• Study warns radicalized right-wingers are uniting online
• Trump less trusted across the world than China’s President 
• Facebook has finally banned Holocaust denial on their sites
• Greek Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn ruled to be criminal gang
• The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals within 3 decades

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

October 18, 2020, 11:00 pm

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“Stop waiting for permission to be you,” is the essence of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the film adaptation of the hit musical of the same name that was inspired by the TV documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16.

Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a ‘real’ career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for sure: he is going to be a sensation. Supported by his loving mom and his amazing friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.

The film will hit theaters February 26.

Periodical Political Post *160

October 22, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• Almost every single queer student faces homo- or transphobia
• New Zealand now has the queerest Parliament in the world
• Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions for the first time
• The harm of excluding queer history from high-school curricula
• TikTok bans content promoting Nazism and conversion therapy

Other News

• Study: Air pollution killed nearly a half-million newborns last year
• Lawyers can’t find parents of 545 children separated by US govt.
• Facebook stymied certain news sources to appease conservatives
• Year after right-wing coup socialists win Bolivian elections again
• The opposition to a Universal Basic Income lies in how we think
  about the relationship between work and everyone’s right to live

Narsissyus

October 23, 2020, 5:00 am

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Face Friday *63

October 23, 2020, 11:00 am

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October 27, 2020, 6:00 am

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Periodical Political Post *162

November 2, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• According to research, 1 in 10 queer youth identify as asexual 
• Estonia’s parliament likely to debate same-sex marriage soon
• Queer Americans far more likely to be victims of violent crime
• Support for same-sex marriage reaches all time high in the US
• Media coverage of trans issues is catalyst for young people

Other News

• Yemen on brink of losing entire generation of children to hunger
• Thousands in Warsaw join biggest protest against abortion ruling
• People not wearing masks are more callous, hostile and deceitful
• New Zealand’s PM appoints first Indigenous foreign minister
• Why the stranger-danger panic of the ’80s refuses to let go

Louis Partridge

November 16, 2020, 5:00 am

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Periodical Political Post *166

November 22, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• FBI report: anti-queer hate crimes have soared in Trump’s America
• Poll: Donald Trump didn’t earn record LGBTQ+ support after all
• Poland considers outright ban on Gay Pride parades with new bill
• Most Americans think queer people have protections they don’t
• Kids born to same-sex parents do better at school than other kids

Other News

• Tyson managers bet on how many workers would get Corona
• India is only G20 nation on track to meet Paris pact’s 2°C goal
• Report found evidence for Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
• WHO: Lockdowns could be avoided if 95% of people wore masks
• What the EU gets right and the US gets wrong about antitrust

UK axed LGBTQ bullying projects after acknowledging that queer kids are most at risk

November 23, 2020, 11:00 pm

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The UK government has cut funding to projects aimed at tackling the bullying of queer kids, reports the BBC. Correspondent Ben Hunte revealed that the government made the decision to cut funding last March, contradicting an earlier pledge to tackle the problem, which it acknowledged causes a disproportionate level of harm to LGBTQ+ youth.

In the report, Hunte speaks to the father of a bullied gay teen, who describes the decision as “a disaster” and argues that the projects are definitely needed, because the schools “just don’t have the money or skills to do it themselves”.

Anti-queer bullying remains a big problem in Britain’s schools. According to Stonewall’s most recent school report, almost half of queer pupils face bullying in schools as a result of their identity. This number shoots up to 65% for trans kids, with two out of five people in this demographic having attempted to commit suicide often as a result of bullying and lack of support.

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Periodical Political Post *167

November 28, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• Campaigners bid to get the EU to ban conversion therapy
• Survey: Quarter of LGBTQ people in Japan have been outed
• Finland’s prime minister comes out swinging for trans rights
• Couple sues foster agency for being denied “curing” a gay kid
• Leak report: German health insurers will impose tough new
  rules for trans people and erase non-binary people completely

Other News

• EU fines drug makers for keeping cheap alternatives off market
• French vehemently prostet ban on filming violent police officers
• EU Parliament votes for consumers’ right to repair electronics
• Scotland is first country to have universal free period products
• Research suggests homework is bad and should be reevaluated

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What the battle over the queer age of consent has in common with today’s fight for equal rights

December 1, 2020, 11:00 pm

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It’s been 20 years since the age of consent was finally equalised for gay and bisexual men in the UK after a bruising, years-long campaign from queer activists and a bitter, toxic debate. But is history repeating itself?

On 30 November, 2000, the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act was finally passed by the the UK government, lowering the age of consent for gay and bisexual men to 16 in England, Scotland and Wales, and 17 in Northern Ireland.

The debate surrounding the age of consent for gay and bisexual men in the UK began as early as 1957, when the Wolfenden Report first recommended that the ban on homosexuality be overturned. Crucially, that same report also recommended that the age of consent for gay and bisexual men be set at 21, a full five years later than for straight people.

A decade on, the recommendations made in that report finally made it into law in the form of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales. As was recommended in the Wolfenden Report, gay and bisexual men would be allowed to have sex, but only in certain circumstances – and only when they were aged over 21.

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Periodical Political Post *168

December 5, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• Music journalist discovers Polish composer Chopin’s gay loves
• Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights
• Anti-LGBTQ+ “panic” defense is now illegal in all of Australia
• Anti-gay politician caught by police fleeing gay orgy resigns
• UK court ruling makes it harder for trans kids to pause puberty
• Forcing trans people to submit medical proof of their gender
  before they get a passport ruled unconstitutional by US court

Other News

• Group of lawyers drafts plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction
• France: Bill curbing filming of violent cops dropped after riots
• How the US justice system fails people with mental illness
• US Congress tries to sneak in unconstitutional copyright bill
• No-kill, lab-grown cultured meat to go on sale for first time

Frédéric Chopin

 

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November 11, 2020, 1:00 pm

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You invite your friend round for a sleepover but you get kinda bored so you start jerking off together pic.twitter.com/4wRRBvyFSG

— Fawny (@fawnykid) November 9, 2020

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November 21, 2020, 1:00 am

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Periodical Political Post *169

December 12, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Queer News

• Switzerland is finally ready to vote on same-sex marriage
• Bhutan has voted to de-criminalise gay sex in historic move
• French European affairs minister Beaune comes out as gay
• Record-334 queer politicians were elected in 2020 in the US
• Relentless anti-trans media causes depression and distress

Other News

• Australia to pass horrifying, dystopian surveillance bill
• Immigrants far less likely to commit crimes than citizens
• Colombian environmental official assassinated in ambush
• Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestlé named top plastic polluters again
• Psychedelic drug DMT to undergo first trial to treat depression