Tag: Section 28
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Percy and Louis 50th Anniversary of Decriminalisation
A few days ago it was the 50th anniversary of partial decriminalisation in the UK – the result of the famous Wolfenden Report, which was fallout over the Peter Wildeblood case. This is a great little video showing how being illegal to be gay affected 78 year old Percy, and the difference in how 13…
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We Will Not Live In Fear mix (Pride 2016)
Nearly exactly a week ago a man stepped into a LGBTQ Latinx club in Orlando and shot over a hundred people, killing 49. I usually make personal mixes, but this is specifically as a message for my friends and ‘family’ who are living scared, worried about what happening in the US, UK, and the political…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…
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Russia – don’t go there
Well more St Petersburg, which as well as wanting to be a #1 tourist destination has just passed a Clause 28 type law banning all homosexual propaganda – yes censorship. In fact it sounds exactly like Section 28 and yes the usual emotive straw man of ‘please won’t you think of the children!’ is being…