Via Herald Sun:

ADVERTISING company Adshel has bowed to an online backlash against its decision to pull down billboards promoting safe sex after it was accused of homophobia.

More than 25,000 people joined a “Rip and Roll” Facebook support group after their safe sex advertisement targeting gay men was pulled down from Brisbane bus stops.

The Queensland Association for Healthy Communities started the group after Adshel – the company that provides advertising for Brisbane’s bus shelters – buckled to pressure from the Christian lobby and removed the ad featuring an image of a gay couple embracing, holding an unopened red condom packet.

Announcing their backflip this afternoon, the company said it had changed its mind because it did not realise it had been subjected to a campaign from the Australian Christian Lobby to remove the posters.

and this:

The “Homophobia – NOT HERE – Adshel Caves to Homophobic Pressure” Facebook campaign generated a big public response after Michael James – who appeared in the ad with his partner – asked the public to join their petition.

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via PINK NEWS

By Christopher Brocklebank

The German city of Munich, where the Nazis raided gay bars in the early days of the Third Reich, is to have a new memorial dedicated to the gay and lesbian victims of the holocaust.

The location of the memorial is significant, as on 20 October 1934, the Nazis undertook a raid on the city’s gay bars. It was one of the first such incidents in what would become a full-scale systematic persecution of gay people under Hitler’s rule.

The memorial will form part of a new pedestrian development in the center of Munich and will be placed at the crossroads of Oberanger and Dultstrasse outside what was the Scwharzfischer (The Black Fisherman), one of the city’s most popular gay bars in the 1930s.

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Rudolf Brazda, last of the Pink Triangles, tells his story.