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For Kosovo’s LGBTQ+ Community, Reconciling Amid Homophobia And Nationalism

Once defined the most homophobic country in the Balkans, Kosovo’s queer community is now calling for more recognition and consideration from the authorities. But numerous obstacles remain.

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Eyes on the U.S. LGBTQ Plus Society

Riding With Pride: How Gay Rodeo Found Its Place In Cowboy Culture

Created in the 1970, gay rodeos have been breaking down prejudices about homosexuality among cowboys in the United States, and claiming its own safe space in American folklore.

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Ideas Society

Lobsters Feel Pain, Friends Is Sexist — And I Just Can’t

-OpEd- Over the past week or so, it’s been hard not to feel disoriented by what is constantly being thrown at us, in this hyperconnected planet of ours, and not to get the feeling from our social media feeds that the world might just be going mad. Let’s begin with the open letter signed by […]

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Ideas LGBTQ Plus Society

Gay In Turkey, Facing Orlando And Istanbul Ban On LGBT Pride

ISTANBUL — Pride Week traces its roots back 47 years to a New York bar called the Stonewall Inn. On June 28, 1969 in response to a sudden police raid, gays who no longer wanted to cope in silence with the social pressure, violence and discrimination trapped the police officers that assaulted them in the […]

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Society

Are Homophobes Really Just Repressed Homosexuals?

Some provocative studies are cited as the debate heats up in France over a law to legalize gay marriage.

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