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The discussion on transgender women and girls participation in sport to an unexpected turn this evening when former Liberal Party advisor Grahame Morris suggested it would see Russia and China target Australia on an international level. Morris, who was an advisor to Prime Minister John Howard, was appearing on The Project alongside Labor advisor Bruce Hawker where […]
Tags: China, Grahame Morris, Katerine Deves, Russia, Sport, The Project, transgender
19 Apr 2022 /
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Dating and hookup app Grindr has reportedly gone missing from multiple popular app stores in China. China’s government has been honing in on what they describe as “ill-natured” activities and pornography, which has led to LGBTQIA+ content being censored online and across media platforms. In a public statement, the government says the crackdown will “create […]
Tags: China, Grindr, Winter Olympics
2 Feb 2022 |
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Dozens of LGBT groups in China have had their social media accounts deleted from popular social media platform WeChat. Many of the accounts were from student based organisations that were helping to support and connect LGBTI students in the world’s most populous nation. The closure of the accounts sparked fears of a new wave of […]
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18 Jul 2021 |
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The Friends reunion special was one of the highlights of TV this week but viewers in China didn’t get to see the whole show, with references to the LGBTI communities being cut out of the broadcast. Seventeen years after they taped the final episode of the sitcom that ran for a decade, stars Courtney Cox, […]
Tags: China, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer, friends, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Le Blanc, Matthew Perry
30 May 2021 |
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Nationals senator Matt Canavan has called on corporate Australia to stand up to communist China, support the defence of Australia, and put patriotism over profits, and he says companies should be more vocal on the issue because they previously stood up for marriage equality. Senator Canavan says Australia’s business leaders need to spend less time […]
Tags: aggression, Business, China, conflict, Homosexuality, LGBT, Matt Canavan, Nation Keeper, Politics, Pride, rainbow, transgender
3 May 2021 |
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Chinese company Alibaba has been praised by local LGBT groups for launching an advertisement the appears to be featuring a same sex couple. Alibaba is one of the country’s largest businesses. The advertisement for subsidiary company TMall sees a same-sex couple returning home for Chinese New Year. The young man introduces his companion as Kevin, […]
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9 Jan 2020 |
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A Chinese scientist who claimed to have created ‘gene edited’ babies that were resistant to HIV has been jailed for three years for unethical practices. He Jiankui faced a global backlash in 2018 when he announced the birth of twin girls who he claimed he had successfully ‘gene edited’ to make them immune to HIV. […]
Tags: AIDS, China, HIV
1 Jan 2020 |
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Nearly a million people in China are living with HIV according to new figures released to coincide with World AIDS Day at the start of the month. Around 131,000 new cases of HIV were diagnosed in China between January and October this year, according to a progress report published Saturday on the website of the […]
Tags: China, Health, HIV, sexual health
8 Dec 2019 |
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The US is reportedly concerned about Grindr being owned by a Chinese comapny according to the South China Morning Post. Chinese based company Kunlun bought Grindr through a two stage deal, taking full ownership in 2018. It’s ten years since the geo-social mobile networking app was first launched. The phone app is now available in […]
Tags: China, Grindr, Kunlun
27 Mar 2019 |
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China has reported that cases of HIV have surged by a massive 14 percent in the last year. The Xinhua news agency reported that more than 820,000 people were HIV-positive at the end of June. An increase of more than 100,000 from the previous year. More than 40,000 new HIV cases were reported in the […]
Tags: China, HIV
30 Sep 2018 |
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