San Diego ComicCon@Home was a pretty amazing event. Not the same as being there, but then, nothing is. You’d think tuning in from the couch would be easier than fighting the crowds and sweating through your cosplay but it turns out when when you aren’t constrained by the physics and physiology of being limited to
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CCGSD/ The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon/ Mitchel Raphael courtesy of Christopher Karas A gay man in Canada has filed a human rights complaint with the United Nations over his country’s discriminatory blood donation ban on queer men. Christoper Karas, 24, from Brampton, Ontario, complained in 2016 to the Canadian Human Rights Commission over the
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Yesterday, the United States–based human rights advocacy nonprofit Human Rights Foundation published an open letter to Tyga, asking the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance in the Belarusian capital of Minsk over concerns that the concert was “an excuse to cancel the opposition’s final electoral rally” on the eve of a potentially historic presidential election.
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On Friday a Federal Judge in Manhattan reversed a decision held since 1948 concerning the exhibition of motion pictures. The “Paramount Decrees” stemmed from a Supreme Court ruling that disallowed movie studios from owning their own theaters to. It also ended (or at least curtailed) the practice of “block booking,” in which a studio could
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What Are The Paramount Consent Decrees? In 1948, the Supreme Court Decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ended three key practices when it came to theatrical exhibition. The decision agreed with the accusations that major studios, like Paramount and Warner Bros, had an unfair advantage when it came to releasing films to the general
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A sex workers’ rights group in Ireland has been denied government funding unless it admits that “prostitution is inherently exploitative of vulnerable people”. Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) was given the stark message by the country’s Department of Justice when it inquired about emergency funding for sex workers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Irish Examiner reports.
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The tension between Andrei, Chuck, Charlie is at an all-time high. Andrei’s brother, Radu, tries to settle Andrei down in this EXCLUSIVE preview of ’90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?’ Elizabeth’s father and brother, Chuck and Charlie, have come to Moldova, and things are not going very well. Andrei and Elizabeth tried to bring both
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After the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers on Thursday, their bench coach, Ryan Christenson, raised his arm to form what he later said was an attempt at a properly socially distanced high five. What it really looked like, as at least one player immediately realized, was a Nazi salute. Closer Liam Hendriks pushed Christenson’s
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K-Pop idol Hongbin has left the popular Korean boy band VIXX after he made controversial comments on the streaming platform Twitch. K-Pop star Hongbin has left the boy band VIXX after making controversial comments about fellow Korean pop idols on the streaming platform Twitch. The 26-year-old South Korea-born singer and actor departed from the group
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