Winds of Change

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UK: Eddie Izzard: ‘Everything I do in life is trying to get my mother back

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Eddie Izzard relishes a challenge. The transgender hero has done standup in French and German, run dozens of marathons, and is now in a period drama with Judi Dench. But, he reveals, his can-do attitude has a melancholy source…

Cuba: Hurricane Irma damages LGBT community center in Cuba

Hurricane Irma on Saturday damaged an LGBT community center in central Cuba.

Victor Manuel Dueñas and his family live in the house in the town of Santo Domingo in which the Centro Comunitario de Cultura is located.

Dueñas told the Washington Blade early Monday in an email that Irma damaged the roof and walls. He said Irma also caused damage to the front of his house in which he and other local advocates were planning to open a press center and events space.

Dueñas told the Blade the town has been without electricity for three days. He said Irma has also cut Internet access, which was limited before the hurricane.

“We hope to receive help from abroad,” Dueñas told the Blade. “But the most important thing is life and this has been preserved. Our project will continue despite these difficulties and shortcomings.”

Dueñas and other advocates who support the community center work independently of Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro who directs Cuba’s National Center for Sexual Education and spearheads LGBT-specific issues on the Communist island. Read more via Washington Blade

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Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality

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After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called ‘gender ideology’ or ‘gender theory’.

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Queer Groups Condemn Study Claiming Computers Can Tell If You’re Gay From Photos

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A new study used “deep neural networks to extract features” from more than 35,000 facial images that appeared to determine a person’s sexuality with remarkable accuracy.