Winds of Change

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The US Hasn't Only Stopped Defending LGBTQ Rights Around The World, Now It's Part Of The Problem

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This was the decade when it became clear that “gay rights are human rights,” but it was also the decade when the very notion that humans have universal rights came under attack.

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Predictors of Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbian Women in 23 Countries

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Dominant accounts of sexual prejudice posit that negative attitudes toward nonheterosexual individuals are stronger for male (vs. female) targets, higher among men (vs. women), and driven, in part, by the perception that gay men and lesbian women violate traditional gender norms.

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US: How gay couples in TV commercials became a mainstream phenomenon

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Television ads aren't as important in the digital marketing age as they were a generation ago, but in some ways they represent a final frontier of mainstream cultural acceptance for gay equality, according to several marketing experts who specialize in helping major corporations sell products to the gay community.

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Hallmark says it will "reinstate" TV ads featuring same-sex couple after outcry

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The Hallmark Channel on Sunday moved to reinstate ads featuring a same-sex couple that had been removed from the cable network. The decision came after considerable backlash over the initial decision to stop airing the ads from the wedding-planning company Zola.

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ILGA World Updates State-sponsored Homophobia Report: “a Decade of Progress and Backtracking”

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The decade indeed ends with mixed signals: while more countries are enacting robust protections for our communities, others are passing and enforcing laws that further restrict our human rights