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Added on: 09/17/2022

Anti-gay sentiment shows limit of Gulf states’ liberal drive

Financial Times
09/16/2022
Teachers returning for the new academic year in the United Arab Emirates were struck by a new bureaucratic demand. In a new code of conduct, one clause…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Defying ministry, rabbis tell school to put transgender boy in female-only class

Times of Israel
09/16/2022
Over a dozen rabbis called Thursday for a religious school in central Israel to force an 8-year-old transgender student into a female-only classroom, defying the wishes of…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Japan’s first gay elected member of parliament visits SF

East Bay Reporter
09/16/2022
San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society Museum welcomed Taiga Ishikawa, Japan’s first gay member of parliament, during his recent visit to San Francisco. Ishikawa, 48, is Japan’s highest-ranking…
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Singapore mulls ‘cancel culture’ legislation amid gay marriage debate

Bloomberg
09/15/2022
Singapore’s law minister says “cancel culture” rules may be included in legislation in the near future as the government looks to protect residents against online pressure over…
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Violence against LGBTQI+ people continues

Kathmandu Post
09/15/2022
Last Saturday, Munni Kinnar was on her way back home to Dumari from Laxmipur with her friend, Chanda Raut, after visiting her ailing sister. What followed their…
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Added on: 09/14/2022

Lebanon’s anti-LGBT “Soldiers of God”

France 24
09/13/2022
At the end of June, a widely circulated video showed a floral display, installed for Pride Month in Beirut, being vandalised. The video was shot by the…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Sri Lankan Prez says Govt won’t oppose Bill to decriminalise homosexuality

Business Standard
09/11/2022
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said that the government will not oppose the Private Member’s Bill presented to Parliament to decriminalize homosexuality, however, the bill…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Tokyo Court Denies Transgender Parent Legal Rights To Own Child

Unseen Japan
09/11/2022
The journey toward equality for the LGBTQ+ community in Japan has been something of a ping-pong match over the past few years. The country has indeed taken…
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Added on: 09/11/2022

‘I want to see the rainbow flag raised in Iran’

BBC
09/10/2022
For the first time, two women known to have been lesbian have been sentenced to death in Iran. It marks a new stage in the Islamic republic’s…
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Added on: 09/10/2022

Iran: Rights groups slam death sentences for LGBTQ activists

Deutsche Welle
09/09/2022
Iran said this week that a court had sentenced to death two female gay rights activists for “spreading corruption on earth” — a charge frequently imposed on…
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Added on: 09/07/2022

Future Generali to offer health insurance for live-in partners, LGBT community

Fortune India
09/06/2022
Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII) has launched a health insurance product that brings LGBTQIA+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) and members in a live-in…
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Added on: 09/06/2022

‘Legislation regarding transgender community against Quran and Sunnah’

Dunya
09/05/2021
Senator Mushtaq Ahmad on Monday presented the bill for amendments in the Transgender Protection Act, 2018 to the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights. The meeting was…
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Added on: 09/05/2022

Acceptance and a job she loves makes this teacher’s world a lot brighter

The Hindu
09/04/2022
K. Sahana remembers how schools that had vacancies would reach out to her once they saw her qualifications listed in her resume. “When I would introduce myself…
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Added on: 09/04/2022

Iran sentences two gay rights activists to death

Jerusalem Post
09/04/2022
The Islamic Republic of Iran imposed the death penalty on two LGBTQ activists for allegedly promoting homosexuality, human rights organization Hengaw reported on Sunday. According to Hengaw,…
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Added on: 09/04/2022

Thai transgender cabaret returns after pandemic closure

Reuters
09/02/2022
Transgender performers at one of Thailand’s most famous cabaret shows have returned to the spotlight for the first time in about three years after being forced to…
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Added on: 09/03/2022

Compromise Lies Behind Singapore’s New Approach to LGBT Rights

Wall Street Journal
09/01/2022
Growing up in a conservative Christian neighborhood in Singapore, Brenda Eng and Pearlyn Tam never imagined they would lead the life they do today. The lesbian couple…
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Added on: 09/02/2022

Peru opens torture investigation over trans man’s death in Indonesia

Reuters
09/01/2022
LIMA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who…
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Added on: 09/01/2022

‘I thought I would die before this moment’: one man’s fight against Singapore’s gay sex law

The Guardian
08/30/2022
Tan Eng Hong’s voice wavers as he remembers his 12-year struggle against Section 377A, a law that criminalises sex between men in Singapore. When he heard the…
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Added on: 08/30/2022

India’s top court declares same-sex couples entitled to social benefits, deserve legal protections

South China Morning Post
08/29/2022
A Supreme Court ruling in India affirmed that same-sex couples and other non-traditional families are entitled to social benefits, a decision that stands in stark contrast to…
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Added on: 08/29/2022

A history of how Goa overcame prejudice to open its arms to the queer community

Scroll
08/28/2022
In early 2022 the Parliamentary Panel on Public Undertakings in New Delhi objected to the code GAY allotted to Gaya Airport in Bihar. The International Air Transport…
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Added on: 08/28/2022

LGBT activists question Peru’s response to trans man’s death in Indonesia

Reuters
08/26/2022
Indonesian police on Thursday denied accusations of violence from the family of a Harvard University transgender activist who died after being arrested on his honeymoon on the…
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Added on: 08/28/2022

Israel: Lapid becomes first prime minister to attend LGBT event

i24News
08/28/2022
During the event, Lapid expressed his support for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Israel. Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid took part in an event marking the…
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Added on: 08/28/2022

In Tamil Nadu, a glossary of hope

Hindustan Times
08/28/2022
In a heartening step last week, Tamil Nadu released an official glossary of terms to be used for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+)…
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Added on: 08/26/2022

Hong Kong court rejects gay marriage appeal

Inquirer
08/25/2022
Hong Kong, China — Hong Kong’s gay community suffered a fresh legal setback on Wednesday after the Court of Appeal rejected an appeal against the city’s long-held…
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Added on: 08/26/2022

Bali: Transgender student dies in police custody

BBC
08/25/2022
A Peruvian transgender rights activist has died in police custody in Bali. Police arrested Rodrigo Ventocilla, 32, on 6 August at Denpasar airport, after customs officials found…
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Added on: 08/24/2022

‘Homosexuality Is Not A Disease’: Vietnam Clamps Down On LGBT Misinformation, Adopts Global Standard

Latin Times
08/23/2022
The Health Ministry in Vietnam called for medical workers in the country to stop discriminating against LGBT individuals on Tuesday as the country adopts progressive global standards…
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Added on: 08/24/2022

Gay man from Qatar sounds alarm about coverage of the World Cup and LGBT oppression

Outsports
08/23/2022
I was born and raised in Qatar, and I am now a physician living in San Francisco. This year of the FIFA World Cup, I am speaking…
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Added on: 08/23/2022

End of Singapore’s gay sex ban a ‘small step’ for some LGBT couples

Reuters
08/22/2022
Singapore’s decision to lift a colonial-era ban on sex between men is long overdue and will not end discrimination of LGBT groups in the conservative city-state, rights…
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Added on: 08/22/2022

Singapore will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law

NPR
08/21/2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore announced Sunday it will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law while protecting the city-state’s traditional norms and its definition…
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Added on: 08/21/2022

CNA Explains: The history of 377A and how some countries have repealed it

Channel News Asia
08/19/2022
A controversial law that criminalises sex between men in Singapore has been thrust into the spotlight again, amid an ongoing government review which seeks to find the…
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