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...If confirmed, Attal would be the youngest-ever French prime minister and the first openly gay one....
...Attal will be the youngest-ever French prime minister and the first gay one, with a distinctly more political edge than the technocratic Élisabeth Borne, who resigned on Monday and was only the second woman...
...He recounted being mocked by schoolmates over what they intuited was his sexual orientation, and how, at 26, he told his father he was gay just hours before he died from cancer....
...There she encountered Tallon, a young, gay, working-class man from Coventry, who had worked for the royal household since he was 15. They soon became close....
...A flashback scene shows their first meeting, when the Queen Mother, recently widowed, wanders wanly into a gloomy room and comes across William Tallon, a 15-year-old gay servant in whom she can confide....
...McCain came close to selecting Lieberman as his running mate before picking Alaska governor Sarah Palin....
...Advertising in the Gay News and having a cosmetics range for black skin were “obvious” decisions, given those who were both working and shopping at Biba, says Hulanicki....
...It was groundbreaking when first performed on Broadway; now it’s a story that resonates afresh as culture wars rage and conservative forces look to push back on gay rights....
...to him to be a black, gay man....
...It makes for a rich melting pot of characters and genres, from a gay couple adopting a baby to a nun’s surreal ability to smell upcoming death....
...But in a sector where building reactors is costly and slow, there is still a long way to go, writes Sarah White....
...over antique furniture, lurking beneath the polish is Maugham’s sharp critique of the limited options for women and the cruelties of a society that could punish you simply for being yourself (Maugham was gay...
...Sarah Andersen Our other charts of the week....
...And I think this started to slightly sort of reframe the narrative around HIV, which at that time was still being depicted by the tabloids as a gay plague....
...Michael CrickYeah, I mean, I haven’t been able to assemble the information on whether people are gay or not....
...really disappointed in Anheuser-Busch and Target because they have had a long history of partnering with our community yet here they are being tested for the first time and they’re backing down,” said Sarah...
...As a gay man, Grandage feels there is currently a danger of hard-won rights and freedoms being unpicked. He cites the overturning of Roe vs Wade as an example....
...A life-long Democrat, Eklof was fired from a job in 2005 after speaking out in favour of gay marriage....
...Need to know: Global economy The World Bank said it would freeze new lending to Uganda in response to an LGBT+ crackdown that has introduced some of the most punitive anti-gay bills in the world....
...Mashrou’ Leila earned a global fan base with their catchy, candid songs evoking gay life and denouncing oppressive authorities....
...Meanwhile, Tammy Faye’s belief that Christian love extends to all — she did a famously sympathetic interview with a gay pastor who had Aids — both enrages the Christian right and gives them ammunition....
...That he is gay in early 1960s America makes it harder still to express that loss. Reade’s adaptation, directed by Philip Wilson, skilfully catches the strange dislocation of grief....
...He provided the deciding vote to save Obamacare, twice, and has occasionally voted with liberals on gay rights and immigration....
...One of his brothers is gay, and Aaron speaks about the homophobia he’ll no longer tolerate in dressing rooms....
...The Head of the Snake (Burning Chair, £8.99) by Lucy Hooft, is the second in the series featuring former MI6 recruit Sarah Black, now chasing down a bloodthirsty diamond miner and warlord in Sierra Leone...
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