Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has announced the city’s first director of LGBTQ Affairs, her office said Friday.
China’s plans to ‘improve’ democracy in Hong Kong could spell the end of the city’s opposition
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Hong Kong As members of China's political elite prepared for an annual summit in Beijing this week, state-run news agency Xinhua noted "there is no perfect democracy, only democracy that fits best." Hong Kong may be...
Black celebrities show support for LGBTQ community in Ghana after raid on center
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Black celebrities are urging Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo to work with LGBTQ community leaders after security forces raided and shut down an LGBTQ center in the West African country's capital last week. Actors ...
‘Minari’ just won best foreign-language film. The director feared he’d have to make the movie in English
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If it weren't for a producer's persistence, the movie that won best foreign-language film at the Golden Globes might have been made in English instead. "Minari" writer-director Lee Isaac Chung told CNN in a recent i...
Indians are telling their 18 million-strong diaspora to keep out of their affairs
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When American author Meena Harris tweeted criticism of the Indian state's clampdown on farmers protesting agricultural reforms, nationalist counter-protesters responded by burning her portrait. Hundreds of Indians b...
These Black transgender women are fighting housing insecurity for LGBTQ people in the South
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Kayla Gore wants transgender people of color in the South to have a fighting chance. In 2016, she and her friend Ellyahnna C. Wattshall were working at a local community center in Memphis, Tennessee, when they noti...
Alpine skiing: Race director received death threats after parallel events
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Men's race director Markus Waldner received death threats following the parallel giant slaloms at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Alpine skiing world championships, the organising committee said on Thursday. Fondazione Cortina...
Head of Indiana museum resigns after job ad sought a director to uphold its ‘traditional, core, white art audience’
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Charles Venable resigned Wednesday as head of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields after a racially insensitive job listing sought an art director who would maintain the museum's "traditional, core, white art...
LGBTQ campaign backed by German footballers hailed as a ‘step in the right direction’
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More than 800 professional footballers in Germany have backed a campaign offering support to LGBTQ players. The campaign has been launched by the magazine 11Freunde (11 Friends) and includes statements from several...
Brazil will vaccinate an entire city’s adult population to test the effect on Covid-19 infection rate
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Brazil's Butantan Institute kicked off a campaign on Wednesday to vaccinate all of the adult population of a city to see if it's possible to reduce the number of cases. The study will involve the city of Serrana, in...
Atlanta’s mayor is urging NBA fans not to come to town for the All-Star Game
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, referring to the coronavirus pandemic, is urging fans not to throng to Atlanta for the NBA All-Star Game. "Under normal circumstances, we would be extremely grateful for the opportunity t...