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Are MAGA Republicans “semi-fascist” or full-on fascists?
Joe Biden blasted the so-called “Make America Great Again” philosophy arguing that it is “like semi-fascism.” But is it?
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Stonewall, anyone? Pete Buttigieg blasted for his criticism of 1960s “revolutionary politics”
Critics say that Buttigieg disparaged the civil rights era of the 1960s — but is that actually what he said?
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Why would Bernie Sanders have such kind words about homophobic regimes?
Around the time Cuba was forcibly quarantining gay men in camps, Sanders was praising the country for its revolutionary spirit “far deeper and more profound than I understood it to be.”
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Cuban President becomes the first communist leader to back marriage equality
President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced his support for “marriage between people without any restrictions” as the country prepares for a new constitution.
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Cuban legislature adds marriage equality into constitution
Cuba’s proposed new constitution defines marriage as “the consensual union of two people, regardless of gender.”
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The #NeverAgain warriors are leading an unarmed revolution history will remember
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
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Coming out from behind the lens: How one lesbian’s photos captured the rise of gay rights
Kay Lahusen was the first photojournalist of the LGBTQ movement and she helped to document the earliest protests for homosexual rights.
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Semper (and suffer) Fidel: Artists conflicted about Castro
While visiting in the mid-1960s, gay poet Allen Ginsberg saw gays rounded up and sent to work camps. He quickly, and publicly, became a government critic.
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Now that Fidel Castro is dead, will LGBT Cubans gain more civil rights?
Fidel Castro maintained a steel grip, jailing dissidents and gays, controlling freedom of travel and expression and declaring activities outside his control to be illegal.
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To the end, Cuban leader Fidel Castro remained a polarizing figure
Love him or hate him, there was no denying that Fidel Castro played an outsize role on the world stage for much of the 20th century.