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...The special district, known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District until this week, was created in 1967 by the Florida legislature after Walt and Roy Disney presented their plan to build a futuristic city...
...conversations and encounters were closed to them, more open to others: “There are advantages and disadvantages to our respective identities, whether we’re Black, brown, white, old, young, able-bodied, disabled, gay...
...Sir Henry, infamously, approved of the Nazis and, taken to see a Potemkinised concentration camp, found it “tidy, even gay”....
...Disney had enjoyed unusual privileges in Florida for decades through the special taxation district, which had been created after a lobbying effort by Walt and Roy Disney in the 1960s....
...Maybe onscreen Rock was gay after a fashion — or “queer” in today’s affirmative vernacular....
...Disney has enjoyed unusual privileges in Florida for decades through a special taxation district created following a successful lobbying effort by Walt and Roy Disney in the 1960s....
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press) A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...One of these, which emerged on Friday, embraced the rights of Christian-run businesses to refuse orders from clients celebrating gay marriage....
...Homophobic abuse was written on the locker of a gay firefighter, the report found....
...He referenced the legacy of Roy and Walt Disney, who in the 1960s petitioned lawmakers in the state for special powers to govern the area around what is now Disney World....
...This week’s most extraordinary coup de théâtre has not been the one concerning the Roy family, nor the drama consuming the fate of UK morning television and its woebegotten cast of sofa-surfers....
...Growing up gay in 1960s working class Birkenhead was always going to be a fierce tale. But this is no misery memoir — and it’s the women in Paul’s life who take centre stage....
...Parents in Florida, whose governor, Ron DeSantis, has passed the “Don’t Say Gay” law that potentially criminalises teachers, would find this familiar....
...“This continues to entrench the discrimination against same-sex couples and LGBTQ individuals,” said Roy Ngerng, a Singaporean blogger and activist now based in Taiwan, who described the repeal as “window...
...year-old woman named Aaliyah deals with Beirut’s shattered postwar landscape by secretly translating books into Arabic but never publishing these works; his 2016 novel The Angel of History opens with a gay...
...In what was widely seen as retaliation for Chapek’s criticism of the legislation critics branded “Don’t Say Gay”, DeSantis signed a hastily written bill into law that is scheduled to dissolve Reedy Creek...
...So while I enjoy new book recommendations from Roxane Gay (The Audacity) and Deepanjana Pal (Dear Reader), poems from Tyler Knott Gregson (Chasers of the Light) and Rohini Kejriwal (The Alipore Post), I...
...In the 55 years since Walt Disney and his older brother Roy chose Florida as Disney World’s home, the company “has pretty much been able to get everything they wanted from the Florida government”, says Aubrey...
...The British Home Office has denied entry to some Jamaican dancehall singers because of their homophobic lyrics, most infamously Beenie Man (“I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays”)....
...The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, Tinder Press £18.99, 368 pages Nilanjana Roy is an FT columnist Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Janan Ganesh Chief US political commentator For a gay kid with a speech impediment in small-town New England, cities promised a liberating anonymity....
...On BBC iPlayer in the UK and Amazon Prime in the US Succession, Season 3 The third season documenting the Shakespearean manoeuvres within the Roy family finds investigators closing in on their scandal-hit...
...It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that The Book of Delights by the American poet Ross Gay has been a recent bestseller....
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
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