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|  | WORLD Turkish items, Gibraltar couple, lesbian lawmaker dies, Australia 2021-02-07
- In Turkey, four students were arrested over artwork that reportedly depicted LGBT rainbow symbols alongside an image of a sacred Islamic site, the BBC reported. Students at Bogazici University in Istanbul have been protesting against the ...
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| | WORLD Taiwan marriages, Nigeria court, protests, GQ Awards 2020-11-02
- Two women became the first military officers to marry their same-sex civilian partners at a mass military wedding in Taiwan—marking another landmark for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia, CNN.com reported. The island's defense ministry called it an ...
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| | Chicago Teachers Union on Breonna Taylor and the fight for racial justice 2020-09-24
--From a press release - CHICAGO, September 23, 2020—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued the following statement today in response to news that the Kentucky Attorney General will not charge the officer for the shots that killed Breonna Taylor. "For ...
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| | WORLD Vancouver protest, dating apps, Budapest Pride, N. Ireland marriages 2020-09-08
- In Canada, protesters held a beach dance party in Vancouver's West End night in a bid to disrupt an event by a Toronto preacher who has been accused of anti-LGBTQ hate speech, CBC.ca reported. David Lynn, ...
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| | "She the People: Votes for Women" premiering Aug. 17 2020-08-16
--From a press release - It's incredible that just a century ago, American women had no voice in democracy. It took over 70 years of campaigns, marches, protests and arrests to win the constitutional amendment — and even longer for all ...
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| | 'One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives' Aug. 18 2020-08-13
- On Tuesday, Aug. 18, at 7 p.m., the Poetry Coalition—a network of 25+ literary organizations that includes Lambda Literary and Young Chicago Authors—will present "One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives." In this ...
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| | Asha Ransby-Sporn talks building on the anti-racism movement's legacy 2020-08-05
- With anti-racism protests happening around the United States, in what some media outlets are saying is the largest movement in this country's history, demands to abolish the police have increasingly been a part of the rallying ...
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| | Lawsuit filed to restrain surge of federal agents 2020-07-24
- A coalition of #BlackLivesMatter organizations, legal workers and journalists aligned with a consortium of civil-rights lawyers to file a federal civil-rights lawsuit seeking to restrain President Trump's promised surge of ...
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| | Columbus statues removed from Grant Park, Little Italy 2020-07-24
- Overnight on July 24, the city removed statues of Christopher Columbus statue from Grant Park and Little Italy, ABC 7 Chicago reported. The Grant Park statue started to come down at around 3:15 a.m.; the one ...
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| | VIEWPOINTS 'All Boys Aren't Blue' is the audacious memoir of a Black queer man 2020-07-22
- George M. Johnson could not have known about this moment in history when he wrote his memoir, All Boys Aren't Blue, but for this white male reader, the sounds of courageous protestors in our streets were ...
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| | Activists fight against anti-LGBTQ+ zones and bias in Poland 2020-07-10
- There is a crisis happening in the LGBTQ+ community in Poland, as in many countries around the world. Poland's historically patriarchal and Christian values are deeply woven into social and political settings—and the effects on the ...
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| | Petition urges Boystown name change 2020-07-08
- An online petition launched late in June is demanding that the "Boystown" neighborhood designation be changed to a term that is more inclusive of the entire LGBTQ community. The petition—which is on Change.org and was authored ...
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| | Center on Halsted selling BLM boards 2020-07-08
- Recently, Center on Halsted reopened—taking down the wooden panels that surrounded the building. The boards were erected as a precaution from the recent civil unrest that took place throughout Chicago. However, a team called Chicago Cleanup ...
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| | Commissioners urge passage of Justice for Black Lives resolution 2020-07-07
- Cook County commissioners Deborah Sims (D-5th), Stanley Moore (D-4th), Dennis Deer (2nd), Brandon Johnson (D-1st), Bill Lowry (D-3rd) and Donna Miller (D-6th) released a statement July 7 calling for passage ...
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| | Radical LGBTQ Pride March Today Replaces Corporate Parade 2020-06-28
--From a press release - LGBTQ activists have seized on the opportunity posed by the cancellation of Chicago's commercialized Pride Parade to launch a truly community-driven march beginning at 12 noon, Sunday, June 28 at the "Belmont" Red & Brown lines ...
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