Sorry Putin, a bisexual skater has won a gold medal!
Canada: Toronto mayor calls to remove rainbow flag protesting Russia’s anti-gay laws from city hall
The mayor of Toronto has called for a rainbow flag protesting Russia’s anti-gay laws to be removed from city hall, saying it should be replaced with a Canadian flag instead.
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Clare Balding: My decision to attend the Sochi Winter Games is putting ‘visibility before avoidance’
Sports broadcaster Clare Balding has defended her decision to attend the Sochi Winter Games on Twitter, saying it would have been “easier to avoid going, but the easy option isn’t always the right one.”
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UK: Gay rights activists campaign Sochi Olympic sponsor McDonald’s in Sunderland
Lesbian Sochi athlete says fuss over anti-gay laws Russia is ‘blown up bigger than it is’
Lesbian Austrian ski jumper and gay rights advocate Daniela Iraschko-Stolz says that the fuss over anti-gay laws in Russia is being blown out of proportion, despite reports of over 60 arrests and beatings against demonstrators since the games began.
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Tom Daley ‘to boycott’ Moscow diving competition over anti-gay laws in Russia
Leaked report: UK Home Office ‘interrogates’ LGBT asylum seekers with degrading questions
The UK Home Office is facing heavy criticism after a leaked report has revealed that LGBT asylum seekers are facing abusive, degrading "interrogations" about their sex lives.
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International Olympic Committee defends arrests and beatings of Russian gay activists
The International Olympic Committee has said Russia was acting in accordance with its laws when police arrested at least 61 demonstrators on the opening day of the Sochi Winter Games, despite reports of apparent beatings and threats of sexual violence.
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