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Added on: 03/24/2019

Tomomi Inada’s uphill battle to ‘promote understanding’ of LGBT issues in Japan

03/21/2019

Tomomi Inada isn’t trying to get Japan to legalize same-sex marriage or ban discrimination against gay citizens. The conservative lawmaker just wants to “promote understanding” of LGBT…

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Added on: 03/22/2019

Justice Ministry overturns deportation order for gay Taiwanese man without visa

03/22/201

In a rare move, the Justice Ministry has revoked a deportation order for a gay Taiwanese man who remained in Japan illegally after overstaying his visa, apparently…

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Added on: 03/22/2019

Loud and proud at Arab summit

03/21/2019

Luxembourg’s openly gay prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has boldly condemned Arab countries’ conduct towards LGBT individuals – much to their dismay. Leaders from Arab countries were taken…

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Added on: 03/22/2019

Lebanon’s LGBT community is often denied healthcare, and it’s not OK

03/22/2019

With absent or inadequate sex education in school curricula, Lebanese youth are pushed to learn about sex from unreliable sources, with all the risks it entails. The…

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Added on: 03/21/2019

A Chinese Dating App for Gay Men Is Helping Them Have Kids, Too

03/20/2019

The urge to have a child hit Geng Le hard after age 35. A former cop from China’s Hebei province, he’d launched a gay dating app called Blued…

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Added on: 03/21/2019

Japan Urged to Stop Requiring Transgender People to be Sterilised

03/20/2019

Human Rights Watch has urged Japan to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilised to have their gender changed on official documents. A 2004 law says people…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

#GoodNews: India’s First LGBT Theatre Group Launched in Kerala

03/18/2019

At the back of the temporary stage built on Queer Pride day, Prijith stands looking tense. He looks preoccupied even as he describes to journalists the new…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Google’s queer female pi world record breaker hopes to inspire LGBT community

03/18/2019

Emma Haruka Iwao, a queer software engineer at Google, who calculated pi to a new world record, has said that she hopes her achievement will inspire others…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Rainbow Rage: Kyrgyz Rail Against LGBT Community After Central Asia’s ‘First’ Gay-Pride March

03/16/2019

What many consider the first gay-pride march ever held in Central Asia has unleashed a storm of controversy in Kyrgyzstan, with threats of violence against participants, counterprotests,…

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Added on: 03/17/2019

Pakatan vows no lgbt freedom after rowdy women’s day in Kuala Lumpur

03/14/2019

Malaysia probably saw its first pro-LGBT march in the country but it has more than that to worry about with a surge in ‘religious’ attacks online Last…

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Added on: 03/16/2019

Groups blast ‘homophobic’ and ‘unjust’ family bill

03/15/2019

A coalition of LGBT rights groups yesterday urged Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lai Shyh-bao to withdraw his draft bill on same-sex families, which they said could…

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Added on: 03/15/2019

Nearly half of LGBT graduates in Japan report having uncomfortable experiences in job interviews

03/13/2019

Over 40 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual students and over 80 percent of transgender students in Japan had uncomfortable experiences during job interviews, a survey by…

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Added on: 03/14/2019

This transgender woman is running for a seat in India’s national parliament

03/13/2019

India’s commercial hub, Mumbai has its first-ever transgender candidate for upcoming parliament elections. Sneha Kale announced she would contest the north-central constituency as an independent candidate this…

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Added on: 03/14/2019

Thailand’s Tourism Industry Looks to Cash In on Same-Sex Partner Law

03/12/2019

Thailand is advancing same-sex partnership legislation. And one of the nation’s biggest industries, tourism, is paying close attention. Amid an election campaign, a measure that would give…

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Added on: 03/13/2019

Where does Malaysia stand on gay rights?

03/11/2019

An outburst by a Malaysian minister who criticised a feminist rally attended by gay rights campaigners is the latest sign the government is reneging on pre-election vows…

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Added on: 03/12/2019

American Transgender ‘Woman’ Named ‘Miss International Queen’

03/09/2019

American contestant Jazell Barbie Royale was crowned “Miss International Queen” in Thailand on Friday at a beauty pageant for transgender women, becoming the first person of colour…

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Added on: 03/11/2019

In Muslim Malaysia, Uproar Over LGBT Groups at Women’s Day March

03/10/2019

A Malaysian minister has decried the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups at a march celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday, calling it “a…

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Added on: 03/10/2019

Rabbi Sadan: Silencing LGBT debate endangers democracy

03/07/2019

Rabbi Eli Sadan, the head of the pre-military preparatory committee, compared the silence surrounding the Muslim immigration process imposed on the public in Europe to the public…

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Added on: 03/10/2019

‘I’m ready,’ says first transgender candidate for Thai PM

03/07/2019

Pauline Ngarmpring thought she would take it slow as she began her new life as a transgender woman after transitioning at the age of 49. Instead, three…

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Added on: 03/09/2019

Mashrou’ Leila: the Lebanese indie band championing Arab gay rights

03/07/2019

Mashrou’ Leila are giants in Lebanon. Walking through Beirut with the band on a warm afternoon, it feels like everyone is staring. We squeeze into a retro…

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Added on: 03/09/2019

LGBT in India: What it’s like six months after gay sex was decriminalised

03/06/2019

Up until six months ago, 20-year-old Tish felt like a criminal. He faced long-term prison time in India because he was an out and proud gay man,…

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Added on: 03/08/2019

Tourism Minister reportedly tells German press there’s no gays in Malaysia

03/06/2019

German news agency Deutsche Welle is reporting that our Tourism minister, Mohammaddin bin Ketapi told a room full of journalists (so, essentially, planet Earth) that Malaysia does…

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Added on: 03/08/2019

China urged to take action on LGBT+ rights after backing U.N. changes

03/07/2019

China’s acceptance of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s recommendations on LGBT+ rights is a “milestone”, gay rights groups said on Thursday, urging Beijing to work with activists…

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Added on: 03/07/2019

A Literature Festival in Lucknow by the LGBTQIA Community

03/05/2019

Despite the low turnout at the Awadh Queer Literature festival, the organisers’ enthusiasm was on an all-time high. In a first, such a festival was organised in…

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Added on: 03/05/2019

Runners support LGBT rights at Tokyo Rainbow Marathon

03/03/2019

Hundreds of people joined a charity run to promote awareness about diverse sexuality and to support sexual minorities under a bright blue sky in Tokyo on March…

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Added on: 03/04/2019

Chiang Mai, Thailand celebrates its first LGBT Pride in a decade

03/01/2019

On 21 February 2019, Chiang Mai celebrated its first LGBT Pride festival since 2009, after the city’s last Pride Parade was cancelled due to harassment from counter-protestors….

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Added on: 03/04/2019

The Kimberley Queen who escaped persecution in Indonesia to find sanctuary in Broome

03/01/2019

Escaping persecution as a gay man in Indonesia several years ago, the reigning Kimberley Queen has instead found a supportive community in the northern Western Australia town…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

South Korea rights body claims it does not ‘deny’ same-sex marriage

03/01/2019

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea on Wednesday (27 February) claimed it did not ‘deny’ the rights of a same-sex couple to marry. But, it also…

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Added on: 03/01/2019

This is what it’s like to be tortured in a Chechnya gay concentration camp

02/28/2019

LGBTI people have been kidnapped, tortured and killed inside concentration camps in Chechnya. The ‘purge’ was first revealed in 2016. Hundreds of men and women are suffering…

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Added on: 02/28/2019

Homophobia and Rising Islamic Intolerance Push Indonesia’s Intersex Bissu Priests to the Brink

02/26/2019

Once kingmakers in one of the most gender fluid societies on earth, the intersex bissu priests of Sulawesi — Indonesia’s third-largest island — are on the verge…