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Gigi Chao: Hong Kong’s Lesbian Billionaire Puts Love First Over Legacy
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Gigi Chao: Hong Kong’s Lesbian Billionaire Puts Love First Over Legacy

Love always wins, and Gigi Chao knows something about it! Hold onto your hats, darlings—Hong Kong's most fabulous lesbian billionaire, Gigi Chao, is back in the headlines, and this time, it’s all about her unapologetic choice to live life on her terms. The 44-year-old entrepreneur, known for her glamour, grit, and grace, has once again proved she’s the queen of owning her truth. In a recent interview, Chao revealed that she’s “proudly prioritising love” over the traditional expectations of running the family’s billion-dollar property empire. And honestly, babes, can you blame her? This queer trailblazer has been serving authenticity since 2012, when she first hit the news for coming out—and politely declining her father’s bizarre $65 million “marriage bounty” to any man who could win h...
A Climate Deal Derailed by LGBTQ+ Rights: What’s the Real Cost?
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A Climate Deal Derailed by LGBTQ+ Rights: What’s the Real Cost?

Stopping the climate deal? It is always because of they gays, ain't it? Well, loves, the world’s been dealt another blow, and it’s as outrageous as it is heartbreaking. At a recent global summit meant to tackle the pressing climate crisis, a vital deal was blocked by none other than a coalition including the Vatican, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia. But here’s the kicker: their reasoning wasn’t about emissions or economics. No, these nations put the brakes on progress over LGBTQ+ inclusion. When Climate Meets Queerphobia The proposed climate agreement aimed to set ambitious goals for curbing emissions, but it also included language supporting LGBTQ+ rights in the context of climate justice. These clauses recognised that queer and trans communities, often among the most vulnerable to envi...
PHILADELPHIA – the film about AIDS and Gay Love that shook the world.
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PHILADELPHIA – the film about AIDS and Gay Love that shook the world.

Maybe too few young LGBT+ friends know, remember or have even ever watched this movie, but Philadelphia was and still is one of the first movies that opened the eyes of the world on the stigma of AIDS, Homosexuality and the gay community. On this World Aids Day I am willing to take you back in time, to when in 1993 (Europe saw it in 1994) Philadelphia (the movie) was released in the cinemas across the USA, touching the hearts of so many people, and talking about a very harsh, too often unspoken, issue: HIV stigma and homosexuality.  It is a movie that is hard to face, especially in some scenes, and because of the language used in it: but it is part of the real world that LGBT+ and HIV+ people had to face in those years. A movie that I remember having watched several times and different...
Switzerland announces dates for the first same-sex weddings in the country
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Switzerland announces dates for the first same-sex weddings in the country

After the life-changing referendum in the country, Switzerland announced that same-sex weddings will take place from 1st July 2022. You will surely remember the great victory of that 64.1% of voters that wanted equal rights for the Swiss population, and now, the government finally announced that the first same-sex weddings in the country will start to be celebrated from 1st July 2022. We do have to remember though, that since 2007, the country has allowed civil partnerships for same-sex couples. This big change in the constitution of the country, will also mean that same-sex couples will be allowed adopt children together, that was only restricted to straigh-married-couples in Switzerland before this law.  The Swiss Government also announced that starting on 1st January 2022, Sw...
Bolivia’s first Same-Sex Union – history is being made!
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Bolivia’s first Same-Sex Union – history is being made!

After a two-year legal battle Guido and David could finally get their status recognised by the law. Could this first gay civil partnership lead to more LGBT+ rights in Bolivia? Guido Montano, one of the first two gay men to ever get into a same-sex union in the country, told WPR Linda Farthing: “The biggest change is a mental one. It may seem a vague idea in day-to-day life […] but I just immediately sensed that we have more rights.” When l in January both of them contracted COVID-19, without a legal recognition of their status, they were forced to look at the worst-case scenario where all they had built together so far was going to get lost, bu now, as Guido says, “with David really ill, the fact that we can now leave our pensions to each other and that we would have had no proble...
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