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Contents:

• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• 'GAY BOMB' SOPS IG NOBEL AWARD
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• GAY MEN'S CHOS REMEMBER SOHO NAIL BOMB VICTIMS
• GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• “GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• ALEX JON: THE PENTAGON HAS “WEAPONIZED PERFUM” THAT MAKE MEN GAY TO PREVENT THEM OM HAVG KIDS

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

The US ary vtigated buildg a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irristible" to each other, ernment papers say. The plan for a so-lled "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemil that would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among troops, g what the ary lled a "distasteful but pletely non-lethal" blow to morale.

Pneerg rearch to a "gay bomb" that mak enemy troops "sexually irristible" to each other has soped one of this year's Ig Nobel Priz. Unfortunately, said the anisers, nobody om the US ary who rried out the rearch on chemils that uld prompt homosexual dallianc amongst rival troops (a rearch project lled Harassg, Annoyg and "Bad Guy" Intifyg Chemils) attend the ceremony bee the study's thors uld not be tracked down. Peace - The US Air Force Wright Laboratory for stigatg rearch and velopment on a chemil weapon that would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among enemy troops.

Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. Image source, Getty ImagBefore the Taliban uprisg Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangero. If he'd spoken about his sexualy to the wrong person then, Abdul uld have been arrted and taken to urt for his sexualy, unr Afghan sce the Taliban seized ntrol of major ci Afghanistan last week, Abdul tells Rad 1 Newsbeat his sexualy beg revealed would now have him "killed on the spot" Taliban are a ary group who have taken ntrol of the untry, and are known to enforce extreme Islamic the Taliban's terpretatn of Sharia Law, homosexualy is strictly prohibed and punishable by last time they were power Afghanistan, between the late 90s and 2001, 21-year-old Abdul hadn't been born.

'GAY BOMB' SOPS IG NOBEL AWARD

He says: "As a gay person Afghanistan, you nnot reveal yourself, even to your fay or your iends. "I want a future that I n live eely, and not be poted out by people sayg you n't be gay here. "Even if the Taliban accepts a woman the ernment, school, they will never accept gay or LGBT people.

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny.

GAY MEN'S CHOS REMEMBER SOHO NAIL BOMB VICTIMS

Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May. The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. "The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma says.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.

FWI's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai. She c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".

“GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS

London's Gay Men's Chos performed outsi the Admiral Dunn pub Soho to remember the victims of a adly nail bomb attack on 30th April attack, which killed three people and jured 79, was the third bomb attack a fortnight by a self-nfsed homophobe and racist. "He told Newsnight that he heard the woman e a homophobic slur and tell someone she "wanted to get a better view" of the s later, Jonathan said he still gets anx if he enters a crowd. "Image source, Digal VisnImage ptn, In the years Copeland has spent prison, the age of nsent has been equalised, same-sex upl have won equal adoptn rights and gay marriage has bee legalTimele of events:17 April 1999 - A nail bomb explos the centre of Brixton jt before 17:30, jurg 48 people.

2 May - David Copeland, 22, is charged wh three unts of murr and three unts of g an explosn orr to endanger source, PAImage ptn, Copeland, pictured 1999, will be his 70s before he is eligible for paroleJune 2000 - Copeland - a self-nfsed homophobic Nazi who hoped to "set fire to the untry and stir up a racial war" - is given six life is told he will spend a mimum of 50 years prison. A gay California lawmaker revealed Tuday that he received a bomb threat laced wh homophobic trop and rhetoric, amid a simmerg culture war that has sparked wispread anti-LGBTQ threats and attacks natnwi. “The extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that has lated on social media and right wg media outlets has real world impacts.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., nservative activist Charlie Kirk and "others the MAGA nspiracy theory esystem" of cg vlence, and he lled on "rponsible polil lears on the right" to ll out and stop toleratg "extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

Kirk did not immediately rpond to a requt for latt threat agast Wiener amid wispread bigoted rhetoric, threats and attacks directed at lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people across the months, many right-wg lawmakers, media personali and activists have acced LGBTQ people of “groomg, ” “doctratg” and “sexualizg” children. The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg gay men as sexual abers of children.

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to the US Air Force’s Wright Laboratory Oh for s 1994 plan to velop a weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irristible to one another, an ia later dubbed the “gay bomb”.

Details of the scheme were unvered a classified document (pdf) that suggts a strong aphrodisiac would be “pletely non-lethal” but uld be serly disptive “pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur. Gay bombs: explodg, remappg topologi of queerns. ’ This news brief publicly announced US Air Force rearch on the now supposedly funct velopment of a ‘gay bomb.

SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE

’ Proposed 1994 at the Wright Laboratory Dayton, Oh, the gay bomb is fed as an aphrodisiac chemil that ‘would make enemy soldiers “sexually irristible” to each other. ’ Ined, the gay bomb, which was signed to be a six-year velopment project stg $7.

5 ln, ‘would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among troops, g what the ary lled a “distasteful but pletely non-lethal” blow to morale.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

’ That the gay bomb would explo to immoraly, tonatg a public shamg upon s victims, pre-suppos rampant homophobia, for the act of homosexual sex and of self do not promise feat or surrenr.

ALEX JON: THE PENTAGON HAS “WEAPONIZED PERFUM” THAT MAKE MEN GAY TO PREVENT THEM OM HAVG KIDS

Yet, given the US ary’s nflatn of gay (here, fed as homosexual sex) wh weapon, seems that the ary ponred war not love. And th the "gay bomb" was born.