In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss.

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n today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss.

We bring you essential news — every Wednesday.

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Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www.GAY45.eu.

In today's podcast, Jude Jones, editor-in-chief of GAY45, cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss.

We bring you essential queer journalism — every Wednesday.

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Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www.GAY45.eu.

This week:

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content. Kazakhstan postpones a vote on its contested LGBTQ+ "propaganda" ban. Pornhub reports surging demand for trans and "femboy" content despite the rising anti-trans climate. Turkey's First Lady issues another broadside against the LGBTIQ+ community. And a World Cup match between Iran and Egypt will coincide with Seattle's Pride weekend and much more.

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This week:

In Russia, Roblox has been banned over allegations that it promotes “extremist” LGBTQ+ content. In the United Kingdom, trans women have been barred from attending the Labour Party’s women’s conference in 2026. In the United States, Donald Trump has instructed prison inspectors to stop tracking anti-LGBTQ+ sexual assaults in prisons, while former President Joe Biden has received an LGBTQ+ honour at the Victory Institute conference. Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia have announced they will boycott Eurovision over Israel’s participation. In Colombia, the Registraduría Nacional has introduced “trans” and “non-binary” categories on national identity documents. In Germany, stem-cell therapy has once again proved successful in the treatment of HIV. In France, a mayor has been convicted of blackmail involving a call-boy sex video and Much More.

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This week:

In Austria, a historian re-examines a lesbian painter who loved women and admired Hitler; in the United States, the government drops recognition of World AIDS Day; Rob Jetten, the future gay prime minister of the Netherlands, has been awarded the Thorbecke Prize; in the United Kingdom, Northern Pride — the charity that runs Newcastle Pride in the north-east of England — has announced its closure; and in Malaysia, more than 200 people have been arrested in gay sauna raids — and much more.

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This week:

European Commission launches legal action against Slovakia over constitutional limits on LGBTQ+ rights; in the United States, advocacy groups condemn the State Department for removing LGBTQ+ abuses from its rights report; European Commission validates anti-conversion-therapy petition; in Chile, the runoff election puts LGBTQ+ rights at a crossroads; actor Udo Kier, cult star of Fassbinder and von Trier films, dies at 81 — and much more.

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This week:

BBC sparks one of the biggest media scandals of the century; Tijuana, Mexico, becomes a refuge for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers despite U.S. politics; Berlin’s trans sex-worker network marks a decade amid renewed fears of a prostitution ban; Vienna opens its first shared home for queer senior citizens — and much more.

We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday.

Each week, our podcast offers a curated digest of the most vital and compelling queer news.

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This week:

In Vienna counsellors deny helping neo-Nazi with alleged fraudulent gender change, in UK BBC director steppes down due Trump’s alleged accusations, in China Apple pulls two gay dating apps after regulator’s order, in the US Supreme Court declines bid to revisit same-sex marriage ruling — and Much More

We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday.

Each week, our podcast offers a curated digest of the most vital and compelling queer news.

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In the Netherlands, D66 wins the election as Rob Jetten is set to become the first gay open prime minister, in New York future Major Zohran Mamdani spent Halloween campaigning in a gay club, in Germany, police probe shots fired at rapper Shirin David’s office, in Colombia suspect is arrested after a UK scientist was ‘lured to his death through Grindr’, Berlin Sex Museum opens bold new exhibition on the city’s sexual culture — and Much More

We bring you essential queer news — every Wednesday.

Each week, our podcast offers a curated digest of the most vital and compelling queer news.

Enhance your understanding with award-winning journalism at www.GAY45.eu.