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Contents:

• AS MORE GAY PEOPLE E OUT, TOLERANCE WILL SPREAD
• SHUTTERED BY THE CORONAVIS, MANY GAY BARS—ALREADY STGGLG—ARE NOW ON LIFE SUPPORT
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

AS MORE GAY PEOPLE E OUT, TOLERANCE WILL SPREAD

Lears | The globalisatn of gay rightsAs more gay people e out, tolerance will spreadThough some untri to be open is still to risk athPHILIP LARKIN was only half-wrong. Sex didn’t beg 1963, as the poet joked; for a hefty mory of Brons was four years later—legally, at least—when Parliament nixed the law prohibg gay sex. In this age of rabow flags and pri paras, is easy to fet how few lbians and gays uld be open about their sexualy until relatively recently.

SHUTTERED BY THE CORONAVIS, MANY GAY BARS—ALREADY STGGLG—ARE NOW ON LIFE SUPPORT

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WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

It is easy to monise the imagary gay people picted a brimstone sermon; but much harr to fear the lbian actuari next door, or the gay dads cheerg their dghter’s softball team. But learng that a sober-sued lleague happens to be gay is more likely to w over a nservative.

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The proportn of Indians who said that gay people should be accepted rose om 15% 2013 to 37% last year.

STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

Though an attempt to overturn Kenya’s gay-sex ban failed last year, the publicy generated persuad more lols to e out. That helps expla why over the same perd the share of Kenyans who tolerate homosexualy nearly doubled, to 14%. In most plac the young are more gay-iendly than the old, so discrimatn will surely dwdle as the prejudiced pass Iran to Uganda, tocrats often riture homosexualy as a foreign vice.

The bt thg liberals elsewhere n do is to provi fancial and legal support to gay-rights groups and grant asylum to those who flee to let showMr Wilblood’s motivatn for wrg a book 1955 which he baldly stated “I am a homosexual” was, he said, “to turn on more lights, revealg, place of the blurred and shadowy figure of the newspaper photographs, a man differg om other men only one rpect. ■This article appeared the Lears sectn of the prt edn unr the headle "The world out"Lears Augt 8th 2020Covid-19 will be paful for universi, but also brg changeForced sal are the wrong way to al wh Che techA big blast should lead to big change LebanonThe world is spendg nowhere near enough on a ronavis vacceAs more gay people e out, tolerance will spreadEnomics sometim chang s mdFrom the Augt 8th 2020 ednDisver stori om this sectn and more the list of ntents Explore the edn. Shuttered by the Coronavis, Many Gay Bars—Already Stgglg—Are Now on Life Support.

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