hello beautiful people welcome back to
gay global I am back once again live
from London to bring you the top lgbtq+
stories of the month this is episode two
of gay global I hope you guys enjoy
please let me know your thoughts down
below but without further ado let's jump
into it the first story I want to cover
is quite a big one that's been
circulating online quite a lot Poland as
a country right now is really torn
between anti-gay sentiment and
simultaneously pride events and LGBTQI
protesting the country has just
announced a bunch of LGBT free cities
and provinces which are not officially
endorsed by the government but the
government has sort of quietly promoted
a lot of this hate there's a lot of
government officials that have made
openly anti-gay comments and the country
itself actually has really quite limited
rights for LGBTQ people it's actually
one of the worst countries in Europe for
LGBTQ+ equality now while one of the
cities is having its first-ever pride
march simultaneously there's a bunch of
anti-gay protesting there have been
rocks thrown at marchers which has also
been encouraged by the government which
has been ramping up its hate speech well
some people see these protests and LGBTQ
zones as a protection of religious
liberty because Poland is a very
Catholic country other people see it
simply as a political ploy for the party
and power to stay in power and use the
LGBT community as a sort of scapegoat
that stability but a battle that I here
to focus on I'm gonna bring up the
second story I wanted to talk about now
because what's going on in Poland really
has a lot to do with a global pushback
against LGBTQ plus equality since the
AIDS crisis this is the first year that
we have actually seen a decline in the
acceptance of gay sex but also generally
LGBTQ plus identities so while we've
generally been becoming more and more
progressive in the world with LGBTQ plus
equality and attitudes towards LGBTQ
plus individuals this is the first year
that things have taken a little bit of a
step back now obviously steps back have
been happening in other aspects you've
been seeing the Trump administration in
America which has rolled back a lot of
LGBTQ post equality but
I think that what's going on in Poland
is a very good example of how people are
pushing back against what they see as
Western ideology or simply a progressive
movement that they don't agree with when
things move in one direction there is
very often resistance to that movement
when we talk about social issues and
politics in general that tends to just
be how things go when women wanted
voting rights there was a bunch of
pushback in simultaneously arising
misogyny you know when people wanted to
end slavery there was pushback to that
there's always societal pushback when
people want change and people want
progress we're seeing the same thing
with the lgbtq+ rights movement we've
made a ton of progress in the Western
world but because of that progress there
has also been a decline in progress in
other countries who are resisting this
as they see it as Western propaganda but
also Simo tenuously there's been a
pushback in Western countries who don't
want to see this push towards the left
and this push towards progressive
equality and acceptance for all I
understand and respected traditions and
people in this world that do want to
resist Western ideology there are so
many different cultures and countries in
this world and they all need to be
respected for the individuality and
their own beliefs and their own culture
that said to actually create these zones
that specifically are anti a group of
people anti a minority you're not
necessarily pushing back against
propaganda or pushing back against an
ideology you're pushing back against an
entire group of people that no longer
feel safe and by doing that you're also
simultaneously encouraging a rise in
hate crime so you're actually instilling
violence into a country it's one thing
to disagree with something ideologically
and another thing entirely to create a
hostile environment for a extremely
persecuted minority so I think it's
really sad to see Poland moving in this
direction and hopefully at some point we
will see attitudes change in that
country but also in the world in general
and even in the West where we do have
quite progressive lgbtq+ equality
because the resistance against LGBT
propaganda and identity has been
something that has been growing as this
pushback with the alt-right and the
growing of nationalism and populism and
it's quite frightening to see because
this isn't just about ideology and isn't
just about beliefs
it's about actual human beings and their
lives which are at stake here
while we're talking about the spread of
lgbtq+ rights worldwide MPs in
Parliament have recently this month
voted to extend abortion and lgbtq+
marriage rights to northern island this
is polling Northern Ireland inter
direction that the rest of the UK has
been in for some time now it's important
to note here that this has been passed
in Parliament but because Northern
Ireland does have a devolved government
the government there still has to ratify
this and they have a few months to do so
I don't fully understand the system I
encourage you to look it up yourself but
it's important to note that Northern
Ireland does not currently have LGBTQ+ marriage equality and it
doesn't currently have abortion rights
this is simply something that has been
voted on by Parliament now it doesn't
mean that it is quite likely that this
will get ratified and it's quite an
exciting move regardless but saying it
absolutely is something that's happened
is concerning so we don't want to get
people's hopes up in Northern Ireland
but I will say that I think this is a
really exciting step forward and a
much-needed step towards Northern
Ireland becoming one with the rest of
the UK and stepping up to a system of
equality that the rest of us have had
for a while now okay this next story
makes me incredibly happy Ellen Ternan
has just been named as the new face of
the 50 pound bill here in the UK I think
this is extremely exciting for a number
of reasons for one thing Alan Turing was
in competition to be the face of the 50
pound bill with a number of other
figures throughout history including
some which were really anti LGBT like
Margot Thatcher to see this gay man who
was such an important figure head in
queer history but also in World War two
and inventing computers and someone who
had such an impact on really humanity to
see him win this position over a woman
who was so against our community is just
really exciting and it feels like a
victory for the lgbtq+ community plus
he's just a hero of mine I think he's an
incredible figurehead Alan turning was
chemically castrated by the UK
government for being gay so this seems
like you know one small way that the UK
government can repay this man for how
horrific aliy they treated him despite
all of the accomplishments he brought to
this country my final story today is a
really exciting one in the cinematic
world Marvel has just announced its
first-ever lgbtq+ superhero I think this
is just incredible in so many ways and
as always I want to cover some really
serious stories here but I also
want to cover some stuff in the
entertainment world and this to me is
just super exciting so this is a minor
spoiler but Valkyrie has just been named
as the first lgbtq+ superhero in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe I don't want
to give too much away but essentially
the character has entered into a place
of power and she's looking for her queen
according to the actress so we don't
know exactly what we're gonna see in the
upcoming Thor movie but we do know that
she's gonna be in it and we do know that
her sexuality is going to be a part of
the story or at least that's what we've
been told and that to me is incredibly
exciting
we still have really not seen a lot of
lgbtq+ representation in the superhero
world or just in the cinematic world in
general in mainstream Hollywood so this
feels like a really exciting step in the
right direction and it's something that
I'm personally really excited to see
more of alright there's loads more
stories this month that I could talk
about an outreach acute post World but I
want to keep these relatively concise so
those are the main stories that I wanted
to hit on for this episode of get global
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