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  Christel van der Boom

  

  Nov 17

  First Dutch Transgender MP Quits Twitter After Hate Speech

  Bloomberg - April Roach

  The Netherlands’s first transgender member of parliament said that she is quitting Twitter after a barrage of hateful comments that she says …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  15 hours ago

  Colorado LGBTQ club shooting suspect is charged with hate crimes

  NPR - The Associated Press

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The suspect accused of entering a Colorado gay nightclub clad in body armor and opening fire with an AR-15-style rifle, killing five people and wounding 17 others, was charged by prosecutors Tuesday with 305 criminal counts including hate crimes and murder. Anderson Lee …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  7 hours ago

  Will India legalize same-sex marriage?

  DW English - Murali Krishnan

  Four years after India's Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law that had made homosexuality a criminal offense, it has now given the government …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  7 hours ago

  Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

  Associated Press

  YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim citizens than any other. Its students are transgender women. It is a rare oasis of LGBTQ …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  6 hours ago

  From museums to book publishing: How Russia's new anti-LGBTQ laws will impact culture

  Euronews Culture - Theo Farrant

  Russia's first queer museum has closed its doors, after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed the law that significantly expands …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  1 day ago

  Elliot Page Has Revealed the Cover of His Memoir 'Pageboy'

  them.us - Mathew Rodriguez

  Call me Matilda because oh yes, I love to read. What exactly do I want to read, you ask? Well, rocketing to the top of my list is Elliot Page’s memoir …