Posts By Gay Global Story
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35BooksFriday essay: my brush with Susan Sontag and other tales from the gay ‘golden age’
The years between the gay liberation movement at the beginning of the 1970s and the onset of AIDS a decade later are...
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22HealthGay men: Finally, sex without fear
Have you heard of the anti-AIDS drug PrEP? Most straight people are unaware of it. In 2015, the World Health Organization said...
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23SexualityDebunking the ‘gaydar’ myth
Kids are often told that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Even so, people often believe they can rely on their...
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36HistoryHow the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement
In 2017, Germany’s Cabinet approved a bill that would expunge the convictions of tens of thousands of German men for “homosexual acts” under that...
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23CommentaryMichael Kirby: the rainbow in Asia and the fight for gay rights in our region
On November 15, 2017, I received the welcome wake-up call at my hotel in Bangkok. It was my partner of 48 years,...
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37CultureOut on the screen: 50 years of queer cinema in Britain
When the British parliament passed the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 – which stated that: “a homosexual act in private shall not be an...
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24CommentaryFrom gay Nazis to ‘we’re here, we’re queer’: A century of arguing about gay pride
This month, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will join gay pride marches in cities big and small. In many...
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13LifeCould gay-straight alliances reduce school bullying?
As students across the country zip up their backpacks and get on the bus for the first day of school, many will...
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12LifeWhat it’s like to be gay and a Muslim
The Orlando shooting was a hate crime against gay people – even if, once it emerged that the attacker had been a Muslim, many...
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28IntimacyThe emerging science of ‘bromosexual’ friendships
For a long time, friendships between gay men and straight men – what some now call “bromosexual” friendships – were uncommon. Homophobia...
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47ModelsAugusta Alexander is a red-blooded male for Attitude
For the main fashion spread in December Attitude issue – in shops and available to download now – we got our hands...
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39BooksNoted works: After Homosexual
Dennis Altman was a young, articulate activist and out gay man when Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, the book for which he is probably best...
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55TVMatthew Dempsey Breaks Down The Bond Between Women And Gay Men: VIDEO
If you’ve ever wondered (or theorized) why gay men and straight women often form such tight bonds, Psychologist Matthew Dempsey is here...
