[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: porn, history, Canada, crime, Everett Klippert, New England, Yugoslavia

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• VICE notes the endemic racism of the gay porn industry, exemplified by a remarkably thorough segmentation of markets by race, here.


• Gary Kinsman describes, at Daily Xtra, the ways in which the recent apology in Canada for the persecution of LGBTQ people falls short.


• At CBC, Hilary Bird profiles Everett Klippert, a Northwest Territories man whose imprisonment starting in 1966 for being gay led eventually to the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada.


• VICE takes a look at the prevalence, even grudging acceptance, of homosexuality in the Pilgrims' 17th century New England, here.


• Balkanist takes a tantalizing look at the glimmers of LGBTQ acceptance and pop culture visibility in 1980s Yugoslavia, here.