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@CliffJoannou

Six months ago, the eyes of the LGBTQ+ community were focused on Qatar as ‘public enemy no. 1’ for queer equality when it hosted the FIFA World Cup. Last month, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws, which includes the death penalty, for “aggravated homosexuality”. But it’s easy for supposedly liberal Western nations to point the finger overseas and ignore problems in their own back yards. Earlier this month, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) declared its first-ever ‘National State of Emergency’ for LGBTQ+ people in America after 41 states introduced more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills, with more than 75 of them already signed into law in 2023 so far. Closer to home, the picture is equally distressing after the UK government blocked Scotland’s gender reforms. Meanwhile, an…

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Attitude (Digital) - 1 Issue, July/August 2023

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