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Contents:

• H&M HAS LNCHED ITS FIRST EVER PRI COLLECTN. BUT SOME ITEMS ARE MA IN COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
• H. M. GAY
• AM I GAY?
• H&M HAS LNCHED S FIRST-EVER PRI LLECTN — BUT SOME EMS ARE MA UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
• HM. THAT'S DLY GAY.

H&M HAS LNCHED ITS FIRST EVER PRI COLLECTN. BUT SOME ITEMS ARE MA IN COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL

Retailers rangg om Converse to Disney have released a variety of LGBTQ-themed ems celebratn of Pri Month this while pani may sell shirts emblazoned wh rabows or the words “love is love” on them, the shirts themselv are often produced untri where homosexualy is illegal or wily persecuted.

In both India and Banglash, homosexualy is crimalized. Brish retailer Primark mak some of s merchandise Myanmar, a untry where homosexualy is also illegal and punishable wh time not perfect, a number of retailers (cludg H&M) are workg toward givg back to the LGBTQ+ muny through the sale of their Pri ems. H&M is lnchg s first ever llectn support of the LGBTQ+ muny wh a psule le of Pri apparel and accsori that lnch onle globally Thursday, 31 Love For All llectn, which will also retail 148 US stor, is a ftival-ready rabow rt which celebrat the msage of love, equaly and Swedish clothg giant will donate 10 per cent of llectn sal to UN Free & Equal, the Uned Natns global mpaign agast homophobia and transphobia.

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”(H&M) / H&M“Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex people have the same right as everyone else to be protected om vlence and discrimatn, ” says Peggy Hicks, director of thematic work at the UN Human Rights Office. Gay.

But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially. (The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri.

The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.

AM I GAY?

”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa. Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens.

H&M HAS LNCHED S FIRST-EVER PRI LLECTN — BUT SOME EMS ARE MA UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL

Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love. And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.

But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

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