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The glossy magazine here and abroad is kicking more goals than the AFLW this week with the release of the inaugural "Rainbow list" and an entire issue dedicated to "50 of the most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and allied Australians".
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"Cosmo's first ever Pride issue took a lot of passion, hard work and late nights to put together. So for everyone at Cosmo to get so many comments, emails and calls of thanks for the issue has been overwhelming. It just goes to show how much support there is for our LGBTQI community in Australia. And Cosmo is proud to be an ally," editor Claire Askew told PS after the issue hit news stands on Thursdays.
Among the 50 people profiled for their advocacy work are Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore and openly gay Liberal MP Trent Zimmermann.
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The masthead – once famous for its sex advice – is also breaking new ground in the United States with the magazine breaking the infamous Kellyanne Conway "Bowling Green massacre" gaffe.
In an interview with MSNBC last week the counsellor to President defended Donald Trump's executive order banning non-US citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country due to the "Bowling Green Massacre" – an attack that multiple sources confirmed never happened.
However, she first used that alternative fact in an interview with Cosmo in late January.
Conway used the same phrase claiming President Barack Obama called for a ban on Iraqi refugees after the alleged attack.
"He did, it's a fact," she said of Obama. "Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons. He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, travelled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills, and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers' lives away."