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IGLTA
Our global volunteer ambassador team has a new member as of this week. John Bridge, a director at TravelBeat, a London-based sales and marketing company specializing in tourism and hospitality, steps into the U.K. ambassador position. He has been involved in event promotion since 2008 and helped to launch Liverpool Pride in 2010. John has worked closely with IGLTA for the past five years. Welcome him at uk@iglta.org.
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IGLTA
Please join us in supporting the LGBTQ-owned small business members of IGLTA, such as Canada's DETOURS - Gay Adventures, ready to help you tackle your bucket list while opening up your world to the most amazing people, places, and experiences out there; and Casa Alebrijes Hotel, a boutique hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico that is two blocks from the center of the gay nightlife area.
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TravelPulse
Planning a trip can be a daunting task, but for a gay traveler, Jerry Desmarais said that it can be even more difficult.
"There are limited resources for the gay community," said Desmarais, Dream Vacations Franchise Owner and Vacation Specialist in Wilton Manors, Florida.
"As more and more nations grant equality to same-sex couples, gay travelers tend to flock to the most accepting, inclusive and progressive travel destinations."
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The Bogotá Post
Rainbow flags permeated the sky on Sunday, 2 July when around 55,000 people attended the Bogotá gay pride parade 2017. For the 21st year, participants of the city's orgullo gay march celebrated freedom of sexual orientation and fought against discrimination, carrying banners from various LGBTI groups.
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RIVENDELL MEDIA is the sales staff for more than 200 LGBT newspapers, magazines & entertainment guides & when you call us you are dealing directly with the publication. Rivendell Media will help you plan & execute media campaigns not only by region, city or budget but also by ethnicity, m/f readership, age & other critical indicators.
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USA Today
Germany is set to become 23rd country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage after its parliament voted in favor of the bill last week. The measure is likely be signed into law by the president later this month after formal approval of the upper house.
Germany, the largest country in Western Europe by population, becomes the 15th European nation to change its laws to allow gay marriage. This number counts England and Wales as one country and Scotland as a separate entity, since those parts of the United Kingdom passed two separate pieces of legislation on same-sex marriage.
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Daily Beast
If Iraqi actor and model Karar Nushi was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Baghdad because he "looked gay" it would come as no surprise to Amir Ashour, the founder and executive director of the human rights organization IraQueer.
"I think in Iraq most of the murders that have happened against queer people, or people perceived to be, have been because of their appearance," Ashour told The Daily Beast.
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BuzzFeed News
The detention of LGBT people has resumed in the Russian republic of Chechnya, where dozens of gay men were reportedly tortured or killed by authorities earlier this year, according to the activist group Russia LGBT Network.
The independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta first reported that around 100 people had been kidnapped in the crackdown in April, but Russian activists reported that sources in the region said the detentions had stopped following an international outcry.
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BBC News
More than 26,000 people have joined the Pride parade through central London.
The annual march, now in its 45th year, marks 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales.
The colourful parade took a 1.4-mile (2km) route through the city, starting at Portland Place and taking in Oxford Circus, Regent Street and ending at Whitehall.
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The Atlantic
Two years ago, in a testimony to the state of New Jersey, Benjamin Unger recounted how he was made to beat an effigy of his mother with a tennis racket. The action was part of a "treatment" meant to curb his attraction to men. According to Unger, a religious organization tasked with turning him straight told him that his close connection to his mother was the cause of his sexual orientation. He stopped speaking to her entirely.
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Newsweek
Across much of Africa, gay people face discrimination, persecution, and potentially even death.
The East African country of Tanzania has been cracking down on expressions of homosexuality recently. The home affairs minister has threatened to shut down NGOs promoting gay rights, while even the president has weighed in, stating somewhat bizarrely that "even cows disapprove" of same-sex relations.
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