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Added on: 07/15/2023

Hungarian bookstore to fight fine for sale of LGBT-themed ‘Heartstopper’ graphic novel

07/14/2023

Hungary’s second-largest bookstore, Lira, said on Friday it plans to take legal action after it received a hefty government fine for the sale of an LGBT-themed British…

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Added on: 07/15/2023

Russian lawmakers move to further restrict transgender rights in new legislation

07/14/2023

Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved a toughened version of a bill that outlaws gender transitioning procedures, with added clauses that annul marriages in which one person has…

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Added on: 07/12/2023

Video Shows How Contestants Reacted to Transgender Miss Netherlands Winner

07/11/2023

While there was quite a furor online after a transgender woman won Miss Netherlands for the first time, her fellow competitors seemed to be very happy for…

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Added on: 07/11/2023

Officials to crack down on homophobic slurs in Dutch league

07/10/2023

League matches in the Netherlands will be stopped next season if fans repeatedly engage in homophobic chants, the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) said on Monday. From…

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Added on: 07/11/2023

Greece Prime Minister promises to legalize same-sex marriage

07/09/2023

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, recently vowed to legalize same-sex marriage during an interview with Bloomberg. “Same-sex marriage will happen at some point and it’s…

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Added on: 07/11/2023

Russia’s first transgender politician drops her run for governor due to anti-LGBTQ+ bill

07/10/2023

Russia’s first openly transgender politician has abandoned plans to run in a gubernatorial election, saying that the country’s latest anti-LGBTQ+ bill has eroded the support needed to…

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Added on: 07/10/2023

US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world

07/09/2023

When the US evangelical preacher and anti-LGBTQ+ crusader Scott Lively landed in Uganda in 2009 to warn of the “gay agenda”, he was arriving after a series…

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Added on: 07/09/2023

Latvia swears in Edgars Rinkevics as EU’s first openly gay president

07/08/2023

Latvia’s long-serving foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics has become the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation. Mr Rinkevics, who had served as foreign…

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Added on: 07/09/2023

Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters

07/08/2023

Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters stormed a gay pride festival in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Saturday, forcing its cancellation. The right-wing protesters, who included Orthodox Christian clergy,…

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Added on: 07/08/2023

Polish court acquits driver of anti-LGBT van, finding homophobic slogans “true”

07/07/2023

A driver previously found guilty of defamation for driving a van with slogans linking homosexuality to paedophilia during a Polish city’s pride parade has had his sentence…

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Added on: 07/05/2023

LGBT Ireland calls for 2027 Census to include gender identity and sexual orientation questions

07/04/2023

LGBT Ireland is insisting that the Central Statistics Office (CSO) include LGBTQ+ questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on the 2027 Census. A national Census of…

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Added on: 07/04/2023

Pride Is a Protest. This Year, London Lived Up To That.

07/03/2023

It can be tempting – when you see a colourful parade through central London of glitter and rainbow flags – to think of Pride as a party….

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Added on: 07/03/2023

What’s it like being queer in Luxembourg in 2023?

07/02/2023

At 29, Eric Glod is not just one of Luxembourg’s top athletes, but also a champion for LGBTQIA+ rights. The four-time national table tennis champion, who currently…

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Added on: 07/03/2023

First transgender referee ‘honoured’ by Guinness World Records inclusion

07/02/2023

Football’s first transgender referee Lucy Clark has bravely revealed her journey from contemplating suicide to be awarded with a Guinness World Record. The 51-year-old officiates matches in…

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Added on: 07/03/2023

This gay doctor established the world’s first trans healthcare clinic in 1919, but he left behind a complicated legacy

07/02/2023

Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay activist and doctor who established the first known transgender healthcare clinic in Berlin in 1919. The Institute for Sexual Science was a…

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Added on: 06/30/2023

Why is Russia ramping up attacks on LGBT rights during the Ukraine invasion?

06/29/2023

After passing a law last year banning all pro-LGBT narratives in the country, Russiais planning to launch an institute to administer “psychiatric terror” on trans individuals. How…

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Added on: 06/29/2023

THE WORLDWIDE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMMUNITY

06/28/2023

Whenever the rights of LGBTQ+ people move forward in the world, be it with laws that recognize same-sex marriage or the administrative identity of trans people, there…

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Added on: 06/28/2023

Turkey Detains Dozens of LGBTQ Activists During Pride March

06/27/2023

Turkish police have ramped up a crackdown on LGBTQ activists as dozens of people were detained Sunday at Pride marches in Turkey’s metropolitan Istanbul and Izmir provinces….

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Added on: 06/27/2023

What does it mean to be queer and a Traveller? Three people explain

06/26/2023

If you hadn’t noticed by the sea of rainbows (we’re living for them), June is Pride month; a month to celebrate the diversity, resilience and beauty of…

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Added on: 06/25/2023

Surge in anti-LGBTQ disinformation targets Pride in Europe

06/24/2023

As Pride events got underway in Europe in June, disinformation and hate speech targeting the LGBTQ community spread across social media, triggering extreme online responses, including incitements…

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Added on: 06/25/2023

Pride collection backlash has derailed retailers, but LGBT designers are more empowered than ever

06/24/2023

When Walmart approached Gay Pride Apparel founders Sergio Aragon and Jesus Gutierrez to launch an exclusive Pride Month collection this June, it felt like a “full circle”…

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Added on: 06/24/2023

Türkiye: Istanbul Pride showdown highlights threat to LGBTI rights

06/23/2023

LGBTI people in Türkiye are facing a brazen and deepening crackdown this Pride season, Amnesty International said today, on the eve of Istanbul Pride and Izmir Pride…

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Added on: 06/08/2023

Norway police could have prevented last year’s gay bar shooting, report says

06/08/2023

Norwegian police could have prevented a deadly rampage at a gay bar last year if they had acted on a tip-off from the foreign intelligence agency, seven…

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Added on: 06/08/2023

Oxfam Pride advert branded ‘hateful’ by anti-trans activists for making ‘terfs’ look like terrible people

06/07/2023

“Gender critical” activists – some of whom proudly brand themselves a ‘terf’ (short for trans-exclusionary radical feminist) in their Twitter bios – are now upset at the…

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Added on: 06/07/2023

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

06/06/2023

In the fall of 2022, a German court heard an unusual case. It was a civil lawsuit that grew out of a feud on Twitter about whether…

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Added on: 06/06/2023

War brings urgency to fight for LGBT rights in Ukraine

06/05/2023

The Ukrainian MP Andrii Kozhemiakin is a wiry, conservative ex-spy who likes to emphasise his Christian faith and large family. He is also an unlikely new recruit…

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Added on: 06/06/2023

Italy rightist ruling party pulls support from LGBT event, sparking anger

06/05/2023

The right-wing government of Italy’s Lazio region around Rome said on Monday it was withdrawing its backing from the capital’s annual LGBT parade, drawing an angry response…

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Added on: 06/02/2023

European rights court rules against Ukraine in same-sex union case

06/01/2023

PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) – A same-sex couple who tried unsuccessfully to get married at seven different register offices in Ukraine suffered discrimination, the European Court of…

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Added on: 06/02/2023

Estonia considers moving towards same-sex marriage

06/01/2023

Estonia might become the first post-Soviet Union country that has same-sex marriage. Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has tabled a bill to legislate marriage for gay couples. The…

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Added on: 06/01/2023

Latvian Parliament elects first openly gay president of a Baltic nation

05/31/2023

HELSINKI — Latvian lawmakers on Wednesday picked the country’s long-serving popular foreign minister, a strong backer of Ukraine, as its new head of state in a tight…