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Voice of America 

Florida quietly removes LGBTQ+ travel info from state website

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Key West, Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manors and St. Petersburg are among several Florida cities that have long been top U.S. destinations for LGBTQ tourists. So it came as a surprise this week when travelers learned that Florida's tourism marketing agency quietly removed the "LGBTQ Travel" section from its website sometime in the past few months. Business owners who cater to Florida's LGBTQ tourists said Wednesday that it marked the latest attempt by officials in the state to erase the LGBTQ community. Читать дальше...

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'Overtourism' brings some chaos to summer of 2024

SINTRA, Portugal — The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel's house is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It's a long rope that, when pulled, rings a literal bell on the roof that lets him know someone is outside the mountainside mansion that his great-grandfather built in 1914 as a monument to privacy. There's precious little of that for Pimentel during this summer of "overtourism." Travelers idling in standstill traffic outside the sunwashed walls of Casa do Cipreste in Cintra sometimes... Читать дальше...

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Australian transgender woman wins landmark case against female-only app 

sydney — An Australian court ruled Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender identity for the country.  Roxanne Tickle in 2022 sued the Australian app and founder Sally Grover for unlawful gender identity discrimination in its services, saying Grover revoked Tickle's account after seeing her photo and "considered her to be male."  The Federal Court, Australia's second highest... Читать дальше...

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Archaeologists in Virginia find colonial-era garden, clues about slaves who tended it 

williamsburg, virginia — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America's most lavish displays of opulence: an ornamental garden where a wealthy politician and enslaved gardeners grew exotic plants from around the world.  Such plots dotted Britain's colonies and served as status symbols for the elite. They were the 18th-century equivalent of buying a Lamborghini.  The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. Читать дальше...