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Added on: 10/15/2024

LGBT+ veterans redress scheme to launch in January

10/14/2024

Compensation for LGBT veterans who faced mistreatment in the military will begin in January, a defence minister has announced. The government will start a £50m financial redress…

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Added on: 10/14/2024

Attacks on Gay Rights Push Russia’s LGBTQ Community Into the Shadows

10/13/2024

A decade ago, Russian publisher Leo Veles says, he could hang out in gay bars and clubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The scene wasn’t as vibrant…

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Added on: 10/14/2024

German Soccer Player Punished For Not Signing Fan’s Gay Pride Shirt: ‘Not Signing That’

10/13/2024

VfL Wolfsburg, a soccer club in Germany’s Bundesliga, has disciplined player Kevin Behrens after he reportedly refused to autograph a gay pride shirt and making comments toward the…

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Added on: 10/13/2024

Palestinian woman wins £30,000 LGBTQ+ film award

10/12/2024

A Palestinian woman has won the world’s largest LGBTQ+ short film award. Dima Hamdan said she was “deeply honoured” to receive the £30,000 2024 Iris Prize, because…

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Added on: 10/13/2024

Pope urged at LGBTQ meeting to reverse Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care

10/12/2024

Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Oct 12 when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at…

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Added on: 10/12/2024

Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in Rome

10/12/2024

Father Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Society of Jesus in Rome, expressed his support for the “LGBTQ…

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Added on: 10/11/2024

German government plans to reform adoption law

10/10/2024

Patchwork and rainbow families have long become a part of everyday life for many people in Germany. But, according to Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann of the…

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Added on: 10/08/2024

Moscow Arrests Man for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ and ‘Satanism’

10/07/2024

Russia on Monday arrested a medic for “Satanism” and “promoting same-sex relationships,” as Moscow intensifies a legal crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in defense of what it calls…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Russian-style laws on rise in former Eastern Bloc countries eager to follow Georgia’s lead

10/06/2024

With Georgia passing yet another controversial law, this time against LGBTQ rights, a growing number of post-socialist EU states, such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, appear eager…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Pope’s Next Consistory Will Have a Number of LGBTQ-Positive New Cardinals

10/06/2024

Pope Francis has named 21 new cardinals, a number of whom have LGBTQ-positive records, to be elevated at a December consistory. The pope announced the cardinals-designate at Sunday’s Angelus, drawing…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Two Ukrainian women in love were torn apart by Putin’s war. They never stopped fighting to reunite.

10/06/2024

Polina Muzhychkova and Sofia Malina fell in love fast. At 17 and 19, respectively, they met in Mariupol, Ukraine, and began dating. But a month later, the…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

Russia Is Forcing Gay Chechen Men To Become Soldiers In Ukraine War, Says LGBT Group

10/05/2024

SK SOS, a human rights group in Chechnya, say that Russian authorities are “blackmailing” imprisoned gay Chechen men to become soldiers, and fight for Russia in the…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

EU Court Hands Down Landmark Victory For Transgender Rights

10/05/2024

The European Union’s top court has ruled that member states must accept changes of first name and gender obtained in other countries in the bloc, a landmark…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

Falsehoods about LGBT circulated to distort discussions about accession to EU

10/04/2024

Falsehoods about the LGBT people are often disseminated in the public space to distort discussions about Moldova’s accession to the European Union, according to representatives of the…

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Added on: 10/05/2024

E.U. nations must recognize legal gender changes across bloc, top court rules

10/04/2024

The European Union’s top court ruled Friday that member states must recognize legal changes to gender identity processed elsewhere within the E.U., in a case with far-reaching…

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Added on: 10/05/2024

Spain’s first transgender soccer team makes debut in regional men’s league

10/04/2024

A soccer team consisting entirely of transgender men has made its debut in a regional league in Spain, overcoming administrative challenges and prejudice to become the first…

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Added on: 10/05/2024

JK Rowling declares that her religion is now transphobia

10/04/2024

In census data released Thursday in Scotland, there were a number of interesting findings about LGBTQ+ and gender identity, the trans population in Scotland, and religion. One…

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Added on: 10/04/2024

Georgian Speaker Signs Law Curbing LGBT Rights After President Refuses To

10/03/2024

Georgian parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili on October 3 signed into law a bill that rights groups, the opposition, and the international community say drastically curbs the rights…

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Added on: 10/03/2024

Georgian President Refuses To Sign Anti-LGBT Bill Into Law

10/02/2024

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has refused to sign into law a bill approved by parliament last month that rights groups and many opposition politicians say drastically curbs…

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Added on: 10/01/2024

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party wins election – here’s what it could mean for LGBTQ+ people

09/30/2024

A far-right party has won the most votes in an election in Austria for the first time since World War II. The pro-Kremlin, anti-Islamic, alt-right Austrian Freedom…

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Added on: 09/30/2024

Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ soldiers call for more rights – as Russia forces minorities into active service

09/29/2024

Russian authorities have been rounding up gay men and coercing them to fight in Ukraine, according to some recent reports. The Russian leader has long vilified the gay community…

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Added on: 09/30/2024

Why are HIV infections on the rise in Lithuania?

09/29/2024

Last year, 267 new cases of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) were registered in Lithuania. This is significantly more than in 2021 when 121 cases were diagnosed. Specialists…

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Added on: 09/29/2024

A U.S. activist allegedly accepted $300K from Russia to push anti-gay laws in Africa

09/28/2024

A wide-ranging investigation by the Wall Street Journal has uncovered evidence linking Russian cash to an anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. activist who helped promote “Kill the Gays” laws in…

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Added on: 09/29/2024

What’s at stake in Georgia’s October election?

09/28/2024

The South Caucasus country of Georgia holds a parliamentary election on Oct. 26 that pits a government seen as leaning increasingly towards Russia against an opposition that…

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Added on: 09/28/2024

At historic Belgian Catholic university, pope hears pleas for women’s ordination, LGBTQ acceptance

09/27/2024

During a Sept. 27 visit to one of the Catholic Church’s most storied universities, Pope Francis heard pleas for the church to reconsider its stance against the…

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Added on: 09/27/2024

Russian parliament backs ban on adoptions from countries that allow gender change

09/25/2024

MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The Russian parliament on Wednesday gave its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change…

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Added on: 09/27/2024

Wave Of Arrests Targets LGBT Community In Belarus

09/26/2024

At least eight transgender people have been arrested and around a dozen others were detained in Belarus since August, the transgender support organization TG House Belarus told…

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Added on: 09/26/2024

Russian lawmakers back adoption ban on ‘sick’ countries allowing gender reassignment

09/25/2024

Russia’s parliament on Wednesday voted to back a bill banning the adoption of Russian children in countries that allow gender reassignment, the latest in a series of…

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Added on: 09/22/2024

Town’s Pride event returns for ‘amazing’ fourth year

09/21/2024

Organisers of a town’s Pride event said it meant “an awful lot” to have been able to share it with the local community. Alsager Pride marked its…

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Added on: 09/22/2024

Georgia LGBTQI+ refugees say Europe safe lists put them at risk

09/21/2024

LGBTQI+ people who fled from Georgia because their sexual orientation or gender identity exposed them to death threats, abuse or curbs under new laws are at risk…