MALAYSIA<\/strong>. Government censors gay<\/a> scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em><\/a>: \u2018Censors have removed 24 minutes from the biopic that tells the story of\u00a0Queen\u00a0and its frontman\u00a0Freddie Mercury, according to the\u00a0Malay Mail<\/em><\/a>. Among the deleted passages is the video<\/a> for the British rock band\u2019s 1984 hit \u201cI Want To Break Free\u201d, the publication reported.\u00a0The clip sees all of the band\u2019s members in drag, with Mercury vacuuming in\u00a0a black miniskirt and a sleeveless pink turtleneck.\u00a0Another scene, in which Mercury tells his one-time fianc\u00e9e\u00a0Mary Austin that he is bisexual<\/a>, was cut as well, the\u00a0Malay Mail<\/em>\u00a0wrote.\u2019<\/p>\n ITALY<\/strong>. First woman to come out publicly as a lesbian dies at 83<\/a>: \u2018Mariasilvia Spolato, hailed as the first Italian woman<\/a> to come out as gay<\/a> in public, died this week at the age of 83. Spolato passed away on Wednesday at a nursing home in Bolzano, South Tyrol, where according to the newspaper\u00a0Alto Adige\u00a0she spent the final years of a fascinating and tragic life. Born in Padua in 1935, Spolato emerged as a gifted mathematician who graduated with honours. She went on to move to Milan, where she taught at university and authored text books, as well as becoming involved in the student movements of 1968. In the early \u201970s, she was among the founding members of the Italian Revolutionary Homosexual Front or, as it was known by its Italian acronym, FUORI \u2013 \u2018Out\u2019. She wrote poetry, essays and a book setting out her vision of gay<\/a> rights.\u2019<\/p>\n Just read the story of #MariasilviaSpolato<\/a> (RIP, 83 yo). After graduating with HD in Maths, which she later taught at Uni, she lost everything (job, family, friends) for coming out in the ’70ies, and ended up homeless. Some things have improved since then, but not nearly enough. pic.twitter.com\/zzi4XS6J0W<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Guglielmo Briscese (@GBriscese) November 9, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n TURKEY<\/strong>. Pop singer accused of blackmailing more than 50 people over secret gay love affairs<\/a>: \u201cAccording to court documents seen by daily H\u00fcrriyet, more than 50 people in the provinces of Istanbul, Bursa and Giresun have recently filed criminal complaints against pop singer Bulut Duman, 28, over similar charges. The complainants, including public servants, engineers, doctors and the nephew of a former Turkish minister, said they had met Duman on gay<\/a> dating websites. After they engaged in a relationship with the singer, they said Duman swindled their money through fraud or blackmail by using footage of their sexual encounters.<\/p>\n CANADA<\/strong>.\u00a0United Conservative Party member compares rainbow flags to swastikas<\/a>: \u2018On Saturday, Calgary lawyer John Carpay, with the\u00a0Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, spoke at a conference organized by Rebel Media, a far-right media organization that has been\u00a0criticized for sympathetic coverage<\/a>\u00a0of white supremacy. \u201cHow do we defeat today\u2019s totalitarianism? You\u2019ve got to think about the common characteristics. It doesn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s a hammer and sickle for communism, or whether it\u2019s the swastika for Nazi Germany or whether it\u2019s a rainbow flag, the underlying thing is a hostility to individual freedoms,\u201d Carpay said.\u2019<\/p>\n Speaking at #TheRebelLive<\/a>, John Carpay of @JCCFCanada<\/a> just compared the rainbow flag to a swastika, and said that protecting LGBTQ rights is totalitarianism. In case you were wondering if they were bigots. #cdnpoli<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/jMdezFWUBs<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Michael Bueckert (@mbueckert) November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n TUNISIA<\/strong>. Human Rights Watch denounces persecution of gay men<\/a>: \u2018More than 70 gay<\/a> men<\/a> were jailed by Tunisian authorities last year, according to activists, who warn anal tests and phone searches are being used to identify suspects. Mounir Baatour, lawyer and president of the Tunisian LGBT association Shams, said that while the 2011 revolution had given greater freedoms to civil society groups, this had been accompanied by a rise in discrimination. \u201cWhen LGBT people started [speaking out] after the revolution, stigma and homophobia increased,\u201d he said.\u2019<\/p>\n UNITED KINGDOM<\/strong>. An ITV reporter went undercover at a pentecostal church that claims to cure gay people<\/a>: \u201cA reporter, who was sent undercover to a branch of the Winners Chapel<\/a> in Dartford, southeast of London, filmed an encounter with one of the church\u2019s pastors who had claimed to be able to stop him from being gay<\/a>. \u201d<\/p>\n REVEALED: The church that claims God can ‘fix’ gay<\/a> people. Winners Chapel tells our reporter: First ever broadcast of conversion therapy in UK. pic.twitter.com\/yKbFuWKS8Z<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n LITHUANIA<\/strong>. Lithuanian television refuses to broadcast band\u2019s video because of affection between gay couples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SWAZILAND<\/strong>. Gay vlogger Riyadh visits Swaziland: \u201cIn the face of persistent homophobia, anti-gay<\/a> laws and threats of violence, this film documents the journey of Swazi activists as they attempt to put on their historic first-ever Pride march.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post LGBTQ World News Digest: 9 International Stories You Need to Know About This Week<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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\u2013 Society’s acceptance of gay<\/a> people is like Nazi propaganda
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