Queer News. 3 December. USA Erases World AIDS Day, Rob Jetten Awarded, Japan Upholds Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

This week:

In Austria, a historian re-examines a lesbian painter who loved women and admired Hitler; in the United States, the government drops recognition of World AIDS Day; Rob Jetten, the future gay prime minister of the Netherlands, has been awarded the Thorbecke Prize; in the United Kingdom, Northern Pride — the charity that runs Newcastle Pride in the north-east of England — has announced its closure; and in Malaysia, more than 200 people have been arrested in gay sauna raids — and much more.

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