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Naples to open a shelter for LGBT+ people amidst Coronavirus outbreak

20Apr

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Naples to open a shelter for LGBT+ people amidst Coronavirus outbreak

Naples has a very big heart. People have always been very divided when speaking about Naples: there’s always been and there’ll alway be who will have good world for this city and who instead will have bad words, it has been and it will always be difficult to find someone who is realistic about this city, someone who can take pros and cons of Naples and analyse them… but hey, this is not the moment to do it. Naples, however, has a great tradition of acceptance and integration (questionable, of course, but in its own way it something unique) of LGBT+ people, and in times of great difficulty this city knows how to show everyone their great heart. As we can read from Il Mattino: "the council has arranged to make a withdrawal of eight thousand euros from the reserve fund to purchase fur...

Turkmenistan: famous showman and his partner arrested for being gay.

20Apr

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Turkmenistan: famous showman and his partner arrested for being gay.

Turkmenistan is not a place for LGBT+ people. We spoke about this side of the world in a recent post, but the news we keep on receiving from this area is not really encouraging. A very famous showman from Turkmenistan has been arrested last month, together with his partner and a dozen of other men around the country simply for being gay, even though police officers used the excuse of suspicion of homosexual activities. News and rumors of the gay showman’s arrest came out just a few days after we reported the horrible experience of the young man brutally beaten by police and forced to flee his country simply because he has HIV. Around the arrest of this famous Turkmen showman there is still too much unclarity, and a source told Radio Free Europe that the well-known actor had been ...

One World Together At Home: when music makes the world come together.

19Apr

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One World Together At Home: when music makes the world come together.

We are all in this together. This is what we all need to understand and it has been a leading message through out the show yesterday night: every single artist, every single doctor, nurse, first line helper interviewed during One World Together At Home Concert, repeated that this is something touching the entire world, that we are in this together, and together we will get back to normality soon, and to celebrate life again. Eight hours of spectacular show where singers from all around the globe - some of them I admit I didn’t even know, but at least I found some other artists to listen to - delivering messages of hope and positivity together with their songs; artists that allowed us to “walk” into their houses, into their private lives, leaving all gossips out and opening their heart...

Sam and Demi’s new video is what we were waiting for

17Apr

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Sam and Demi’s new video is what we were waiting for

Sam Smith says that him and Demi are the 2020 Abba. Speaking from their homes - due to lockdown all around the world - to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Smith described the sounds and rhythms of their song “I’m Read” as “2020 ABBA”. “We’ve had fun doing this. I haven’t taken myself seriously. I’m nervous about the song because the song for me is a song that’s reaching. And whenever I have those. You know what I say when a song’s reaching, when it’s like you’re reaching for the stars in the melody, you’re reaching for the stars in all of it.” And this due is reaching for the stars in their video too! Demi and Sam compete in a series of olympic disciplines and in each one of them they bring that “rainbow-frizz” that we all like. And what to say about the end of the video where the two s...

Lady Gaga’s fans would love her to get Nobel Peace Prize

16Apr

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Lady Gaga’s fans would love her to get Nobel Peace Prize

It would be about time. We’ve all seen how Lady Gaga has engaged herself with so many humanitarian and social intiatives, last but not the least in her bucket is the One World Together At Home concert: a great event to fight against Coronavirus. Our loving Sailor Chromatica announced that she’d raised $35 million for the World Health Organisation’s solidarity response fund that will culminate in the benefit concert we are all waiting for - One World Together At Home. Many international stars will take part to this event and Gaga herself will also perform. This is why all her fans have started requesting the Nobel Foundation via tweeter, asking that she gets “what she deseves”. https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/1249741164028166147 https://twitter.com/thegagaunderyou/statu...

Sam Smith and Taylor Swift to join One World Together At Home Concert with Lady Gaga

16Apr

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Sam Smith and Taylor Swift to join One World Together At Home Concert with Lady Gaga

One World Together At Home is going to be the event of the decade and will be used to raise money to fight Covid-19. One World Concert will raise money for health care workers through corporate contributions only, but even before this big show Lady Gaga and Global Citizen have been able to raise 35$ million for the World Health Organisation: all money that will be used to buy needed protective equipment for all healthcare workers. Lady Gaga said: “We have raised the money ahead of time and we’re going to continue fundraising before the show. So when you guys introduce the whole special, you can tell everyone to put your wallets away, put your money away because we don’t need it — we raised the money already!” Announcing the COVID-19 concert last week, as we also reported here, Lady...

Porn is the “silent and increasing deadly disease” and not Coronavirus, Religious Hate and Homophobic groups said.

15Apr

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Porn is the “silent and increasing deadly disease” and not Coronavirus, Religious Hate and Homophobic groups said.

Seriously gurl? Many websites providing legal porn material have offered free premium accounts to all their users, as a help and incentive to #StayHome and have something funny to do whether you are facing this isolation alone or with your partner. The use of sex toys, porn material and sex-cams significantly increased since the beginning of this pandemic due to Covid-19, but of course there people around the world who really have too much time to think about silly things when they could easily use their time to take advantage of a premium account on PornHub (just to give an example). In fact, Terry Schilling, executive director of the religious, homophobic and transphobic organisation The American Principles Project, wrote for The Federalist: “During a worldwide pandemic that has a...

San Francisco had to cancel their Historic 50th Anniversary Pride because of Covid-19

15Apr

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San Francisco had to cancel their Historic 50th Anniversary Pride because of Covid-19

It was a hard but due decision. During this pandemic caused by Covid-19 virus, unfortunately California has reported 23,338 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 758 deaths so far, and on Tuesday California’s governor Gavin Newsom said said that until the moment a vaccine is ready and given to population, no gatherings of over 100 people will be permitted. As we have reported here, unfortunately more than 100 Pride events around the world have been either postponed or cancelled, and San Francisco Pride organisers said it will join a constellation of Prides worldwide in a “Virtual Global Pride” on 27th June. Carolyn Wysinger, president of the Pride Board of Directors, said organisers had to avoid the Pride to become a sort of “ground zero” for Covid-19 spreading throughout the LGBT+ co...

Netflix announces a new show based on Antoni Porowski’s sexually-fluid life.

15Apr

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Netflix announces a new show based on Antoni Porowski’s sexually-fluid life.

Antoni Porowski always spoke freely about dating men and women. We all remember Queer Eye and one of his most enigmatic characters, Antoni Porowski who always refused to identify him-self as purely gay. According to Hollywood Reporter, Porowski developed the story with Black-ish creative Kenya Barris, Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan. Antoni has always spoken candidly about the fact that since he started dating men too, he found himself comparing his body to those of the men he dated. He said he always found himself comparing his own body to the men he dates, from the size of their biceps to the length of their legs…and so on. To GQ magazine he told: “I feel like if I do refer to myself as gay, which would make it easier for people to understand sometimes, I feel like it dishonou...

Demi Lovato and Sam Smith: the Olympic LGBT+ duo

14Apr

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Demi Lovato and Sam Smith: the Olympic LGBT+ duo

Are Olympic Games postponed because of Covid-19 pandemic? No worries, Smith and Lovato duo will make us dream anyway. The cover of their new single - out this Friday 17th April 2020 - pictures the two artists as a sport team ready to represent the LGBT+ community at the next Olympic Games, and honestly, we can’t wait for this single to be released. 'I'm Ready' is the latest track to be released from Sam’s third album which originally had to be called “To Die For”. A choice that resulted not to be the best one given the actual situation of the number of deaths for Coronavirus. The artist decided to postpone the effective release fo the album to a new date (t.b.c) and find a better name for it. This Monday, on his social media channels, Sam Smith wrote: “Incredibly happy to re...