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Added on: 05/26/2020

Russia ‘Ready’ for New Comedy on Gay Activists’ 1970s Soviet Visit, Producer Says

05/25/2020

Oscar-nominated Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has announced a new television series based on the real-life story of a group of LGBT activists who visited the Soviet Union…

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Added on: 05/12/2020

Germany becomes the fifth country in the world to ban conversion therapy

05/11/2020

Germany has become the fifth country in the world to ban ‘conversion therapy’ of LGBT+ minors. The new vote in the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, confirms a ban…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

Minister defends Germany’s limited gay therapy ban

05/07/2020

Germany’s ban on so-called gay conversion therapies needs to be robust enough to withstand court challenges, Health Minister Jens Spahn said in response to criticism that his…

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Added on: 04/20/2020

The Growing Threat of Accelorationists Worldwide

04/20/2020

As the world is paralyzed by the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), some violent non-state actors have welcomed the global pandemic as an opportunity to push their…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

Acting intelligence head Richard Grenell’s push to decriminalize homosexuality has yielded little

02/20/2020

Donald Trump became the first president to name an openly gay person to a Cabinet-level position Wednesday when he announced that Richard Grenell would serve as his…

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Added on: 01/01/2020

Transgender Germans demand compensation for sterilization

12/31/2019

When German authorities insisted Tsepo Bollwinkel get sterilized in order to be legally considered a man 25 years ago, he was “eager to follow the rules, even…

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Added on: 12/19/2019

Germany moves to ban gay ‘conversion therapies’

12/18/2019

Germany moved a step closer to banning so-called gay “conversion therapies” on Wednesday, as the cabinet backed a law that would punish bogus practitioners with up to…

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Added on: 12/15/2019

Bishops in Germany are declaring that homosexuality is “normal”

12/15/2019

Bishops in Germany have declared that homosexuality is “normal” as the Catholic Church there begins reviewing certain reforms. The Commission for Marriage and Family of the German…

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Added on: 11/05/2019

Germany plans to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’

11/04/2019

German Health Minister Jens Spahn unveiled a draft law on Monday that largely bans “conversion therapy” for LGBT+ people. The practice will be completely banned for all…

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Added on: 11/05/2019

Poll reveals majority of eastern Europeans ‘fearful for democracy’

11/03/2019

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, today’s eastern Europeans are fearful for the future of democracy, sceptical of government and the main political parties,…

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Added on: 09/14/2019

Surge in chemsex parties arranged on ‘hook-up’ apps is fuelling fresh HIV epidemic in European cities, doctors warn

09/13/2019

A surge in “chemsex” parties, where some people spend days getting high on drugs and having sex with scores of partners, is refuelling epidemics of HIV among…

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Added on: 08/15/2019

Same-sex penguin couples keep adopting eggs, and the Berlin Zoo is celebrating

08/14/2019

To the untrained eye, Skipper and Ping look like a typical king penguin couple. Standing side by side at the Berlin Zoo with their flippers touching, they…

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Added on: 08/05/2019

Hamburg Pride Parade paused after fire breaks out

08/03/2019

Celebrations at Hamburg’s Pride Parade ground to a halt after one of the floats went up in flames. At least two people suffered smoke inhalation. Large LGBT+…

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Added on: 07/24/2019

Germany condemns killing of Russian LGBT activist

07/23/2019

Germany is condemning the killing of a political activist in Russia and urging authorities to find out whether the crime was related to her advocacy of LGBT…

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Added on: 07/07/2019

Cologne celebrates Germany’s largest LGBT+ pride parade

07/07/2019

Hundreds of thousands of members of the LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community and their allies flocked to Cologne on Sunday to take part in one…

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Added on: 06/13/2019

With the help of his boyfriend, a German reporter asked Iran’s foreign minister why the country executes people for being gay

11/12/2019

When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif faced questions from foreign journalists on Monday in Tehran after a meeting with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, he may…

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Added on: 06/11/2019

Germany: Gay conversion ‘therapy’ ban presented

06/11/2019

German Health Minister Jens Spahn announced his plan on Tuesday to ban so-called gay conversion therapy nationwide. Although the practice is not as common in Germany as…

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Added on: 06/03/2019

This lawyer helped pioneer the gay rights movement in late-1800s Germany

06/02/2019

This week’s entry: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs What it’s about: A man many see as the father of the gay rights movement. Ulrichs was a journalist and lawyer…

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Added on: 05/02/2019

My LGBT-friendly mosque saved me from being radicalised’

05/01/2019

Sitting in my bedroom alone, a wave of fear washed over me. I was 12 years old, confused, and scared – I was beginning to realise I…

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Added on: 04/13/2019

One Man Is Allegedly Targeting Gay German Teenagers In A Sweeping Harassment Campaign

04/12/20219

On April 18, 2016, Max walked down the hall at his high school in Bremen, a midsize city in Northern Germany. He opened the glass door of…

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Added on: 03/29/2019

Japanese footballer comes out as gay and encourages others to do the same before Tokyo 2020

03/25/2019

Female Japanese footballer Shiho Shimoyamada has come out as gay and has encouraged other athletes to do the same before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The 24-year…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Germany pays compensation to people investigated under anti-gay laws

03/13/2019

Germany has begun offering compensation to men who faced criminal investigations under historical anti-gay laws. The country extended compensation for LGBT+ people who faced oppression under authorities…

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Added on: 03/04/2019

Merkel successor Kramp-Karrenbauer under fire for anti-LGBT joke

03/03/2019

The CDU leader mocked the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms during a Carnival-themed program on public broadcaster SWR. Politicians and activists called the incident a “travesty.” Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer,…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

Gay conversion therapy ban in Germany gains support

03/01/2019

LGBT people continue to face prejudice and discrimination in Germany as well. A 2017 study by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency showed that 18.3 percent of Germans still…

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Added on: 02/23/2019

Richard Grenell says he has support at home to decriminalize homosexuality abroad

02/20/2019

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell says the Trump administration has strong backing at home from Republicans and even religious conservatives for its push to end laws…

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Added on: 02/18/2019

German minister calls for ban on conversion therapy

02/15/2019

The German health minister, Jens Spahn, has said that he will seek to ban “conversion therapies” that claim to change sexual orientation. “Homosexuality is not an illness,…

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Added on: 02/15/2019

North Africa seen as unsafe for LGBT people: Rights Groups

02/14/2019

The Bundesrat, Germany’s upper house of parliament, is considering whether to recognize Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia as “safe countries of origin.” Yet LGBT people are still persecuted…

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Added on: 02/01/2019

Berlin’s monument to gay victims of the Holocaust vandalised.

02/01/2019

Berlin’s memorial to homosexual people killed during the Holocaust has been vandalised. Local magazine Monopol reported that the structure had been vandalised with black paint with a…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Holocaust Memorial Day: How the pink triangle became a symbol of gay rights

01/26/2019

As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday (January 27), PinkNews remembers all those in the LGBT+ community that were persecuted by the Nazis—and how the…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Life of a gay migrant: Racism exists in the LGBT community too

01/05/2019

Ireland may be known as the land of céad míle fáilte, but a report in the last months of 2018 suggests more needs to be done to…