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I Kissed a Girl host Dannii Minogue on risking career with G-A-Y performance: ‘Nobody will buy your records’

I Kissed a Girl host Dannii Minogue has affirmed her ally credentials by sharing how she risked her career by agreeing to perform at G-A-Y in London in the 90s.

Talking with exclusively with Attitude to mark the release of the dating show, the singer and media personality shared how she was asked to be the first ever performer at G-A-Y when it opened.

“Jeremy Joseph [G-A-Y’s owner] asked me would I come and perform because nobody else would do it. And I said yes because that’s because I wanna be out playing music. I wanna listen to the people. I wanna dance,” Dannii shared.

“It was the 90s. Every artist knew that record companies and management would tell people who were queer that no one wants to…


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Revisiting the first-ever Gay Games in San Francisco 1982 • GCN

Every four years, LGBTQ+ athletes from all around the world come together to participate in the Gay Games, a tournament first established to promote the acceptance and inclusion of queer people in sport. Since its inception, it has gone from strength to strength, with the 2023 edition making history by taking place in Asia for the first time, as Hong Kong shared hosting rights with Guadalajara in Mexico.

The Games began as the Gay Olympics, with the organising committee founded on June 15, 1980, by activist Tom Waddell and his friends Mark Brown and Paul Mart. Waddell himself competed as a decathlete in the 1968 Summer Olympics and he based much of his new endeavour on the model of the famous global sporting event.

The name, however, didn’t last, as three weeks before its inaugural…


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ACLU Abandons First Amendment in Colorado Gay Wedding Web-Hosting Case

Would you believe the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have something in common? They both believe that the state should be able to force web companies to host content that these platforms disagree with or find morally objectionable in some fashion.

If that sounds remarkable, check out the amicus brief that the ACLU submitted Friday defending the authority of the state of Colorado to make a small web company host pictures of gay weddings against the will of the company’s owner. Note how similar it is to Florida’s attempts to force web companies to carry campaign messages from political candidates against the platforms’ will.

Lorie Smith, owner of web design firm 303 Creative, is challenging Colorado’s…


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