[NEWS] Twelve LGBTQ links (#lgbtq, #queer)

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• Daily Xtra looks at 50 years of fighting for LGBTQ rights in Canada, here.


• Them links to a variety of classic documentaries about LGBTQ life before Stonewall, here.


• Atlas Obscura explains why lesbians and potluck dinners are so closely associated with each other, here.


• Them looks at the controversies surrounding the construction of monuments to LGBTQ heroes of the past, here.


• VICE explains how venerable magazine Out was nearly ended by poor management, here.


• Wired looks at queer history in TV movies, here.


• Connor Garel at NOW Toronto writes, inspired by Paris Is Burning and the drag scene, about the importance of maintaining queer spaces, here.


• Enzo DiMatteo writes at NOW Toronto about the long history of homophobia of Doug Ford, here.


• Claire Provost writes at Open Democracy about the frighteningly well-coordinated global campaign by groups on the right against LGBTQ superheroes, here.


• Michael Waters at Daily Xtra explains the key role of young users of social media in keeping even obscure corners of LGBTQ history alive, here.