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Oddities Sir Ian McKellen waves multicoloured flag of gay rights
Gay Man Adopts Partner in US to Reduce Inheritance Tax

The US Supreme Court may have struck down the Defence of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional, and a number of states do offer equal rights, but in states without such equality, gay couples are starting to look at other ways to balance the scales. One gay couple in Pennsylvania have decided that if they can’t get married to avoid inheritance tax, then they would use adoption instead.

Oddities Vanishing Women by Bushra Almutawakel
Vanishing Women

In this series of photographs by Yemeni photographer Bushra Almutawakel challenges the notion of identity in the Muslim world and illustrates how women could vanish into darkness and invisibility, step by step, under fundamentalist pressure and the full niqab.