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Added on: 10/09/2020

Pussy Riot members arrested after LGBT+ flag protest

19/08/2020

Russian police detained two leading members of the Pussy Riot art collective on Thursday. The news follows the radical group’s LGBT+ protest that saw them raising pride…

Global News

Added on: 10/08/2020

Why a Children’s Book Is Becoming a Symbol of Resistance in Hungary’s Fight Over LGBT Rights

10/07/2020

When Hungary’s Dorottya Redai and Boldizsar Nagy released their new children’s book on Sept. 21, they did not expect their initial run of 1,500 copies to sell…

Global News

Added on: 10/07/2020

The impact of the anti LGBTQ+movement in Poland on Irish trans masculine people’s healthcare

10/06/2020

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I firmly believe that an attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us. I believe that…

Global News

Added on: 10/06/2020

Serbia’s First Gay Premier Gets Second Term After Landslide Win

10/05/2020

Ana Brnabic, Serbia’s first female and openly gay prime minister, will lead the government for a second term following a landslide win by the ruling party. Aleksandar…

Global News

Added on: 10/05/2020

Hungary PM urges gays to ‘leave our children alone’

10/04/2020

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Sunday that homosexuals should “leave our children alone” when asked about a children’s book containing gay characters that was publicly shredded…

Global News

Added on: 10/04/2020

Plovdiv Attacks Highlight Bulgaria’s Unsolved Homophobia Problem

10/03/2020

Videos and witness reports show that a few days ago, in the very centre of Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second city, groups of teenagers attacked other youngsters of the…

Global News

Added on: 10/04/2020

Gay men in Russia with surrogate children warned they face arrest

10/03/2020

Russian authorities have warned of the arrest of gay men who have fathered children to surrogate mothers, firing what appears to be another salvo across the bow…

Global News

Added on: 10/03/2020

Kyrgyzstan: Dirty tricks come to fore at final election hurdle

10/02/2020

The final days of Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary election have seen a deployment of sinister dirty tricks that raise the suspicion that security services may be helping engineer the…

Global News

Added on: 10/03/2020

When politicians use hate speech, political violence increases

10/02/2020

Politicians deepen existing divides when they use inflammatory language, such as hate speech, and this makes their societies more likely to experience political violence and terrorism. That’s…

Global News

Added on: 10/01/2020

New Polish minister for education and science thinks LGBT+ people ‘aren’t equal to normal people’

09/30/2020

On Wednesday, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki presented his newly reshuffled cabinet, giving the position of minister for education and science to Przemyslaw Czarnek. In June this…

Global News

Added on: 09/29/2020

No One Wants To Testify’: Gruesome Murder Case Highlights Vulnerability Of Russia’s Transgender Population

09/29/2020

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — In June, a high school student discovered a decapitated and dismembered body in a swimming hole on the Mga River just outside St….

Global News

Added on: 09/28/2020

After ambassadors push Poland to protect LGBT rights, its leaders push back: ‘Nobody needs to teach us tolerance’

09/28/2020

WARSAW, POLAND — Polish leaders on Monday rejected suggestions that LGBT people are deprived of any of their rights in the country, after an open letter from…

Global News

Added on: 09/28/2020

Gay woman who was attacked after being unlawfully deported to Uganda wins court case against Home Office

09/28/2020

A gay woman who was unlawfully deported from the UK to Uganda where she had been gang-raped has won in a court case against the Home Office,…

Global News

Added on: 09/28/2020

Government issues gender identity guidance for teachers in England

09/27/2020

Teachers should not tell children that they might be a different gender based on their personality or the clothes they want to wear, new guidance from the…

Global News

Added on: 09/27/2020

Poland’s ruling nationalists cement new coalition deal

09/26/2020

Poland’s ruling nationalists signed a new coalition agreement on Saturday, ending weeks of in-fighting in the three-party alliance over how it will govern over the next three…

Global News

Added on: 09/26/2020

Transgender people still face discrimination in Belgium, claims activist

09/26/2020

European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen denounced discrimination of the LGBTI community last week, criticising Poland for their LGBTI-free zones. “Being yourself is not your ideology,…

Global News

Added on: 09/25/2020

French court rejects transgender woman’s demand to be recognised as a mother

09/17/2020

France’s highest court has ruled that a transgender woman cannot be officially recognised as the biological mother of the child she conceived with her wife before transitioning….

World Voices

Added on: 09/23/2020

Simeon Vassilev – GLAS, Bulgaria

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

I would love to hear a bit about your own introduction to LGBTI activism. Seven or eight years ago, I first started helping with Sofia Pride, which…

Global News

Added on: 09/23/2020

Changes to gender recognition laws ruled out

09/22/2020

Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised. They have rejected calls for…

Global News

Added on: 09/21/2020

Germany: CDU leadership hopeful slammed for comments on homosexuality

09/21/2020

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leadership hopeful Friedrich Merz came under fire on Monday for a response he gave when questioned on whether he could imagine Germany having…

Global News

Added on: 09/21/2020

Medical diagnosis will still be needed to have gender legally recognised after reform

09/20/2020

Trans adults will continue to need a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change their legal gender even after a reform of the UK’s gender-recognition laws, the…

Global News

Added on: 09/21/2020

Inside Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones’

09/20/2020

In Poland, dozens of small towns have declared themselves free of “LGBT ideology”. Politicians’ hostility to gay rights has become a flashpoint, pitting the religious right against…

Global News

Added on: 09/20/2020

Big Read: The Irish far right is on the rise

09/19/2020

Bloodied and bashed, an image of LGBT campaigner Izzy Kamikaze being attacked for voicing her opposition to anti-face mask demonstrators last weekend in the capital went viral….

Global News

Added on: 09/19/2020

Gay children are ‘children of God’, Pope tells parents

09/18/2020

Pope Francis has told the parents of gay children that God loves them “as they are” because they are “the children of God”. His remarks came following…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2020

Russian teachers ordered to track, report LGBTQ students to gov’t – report

09/15/2020

Russian teachers were ordered to identify and monitor LGBTQ+ students and report them to the federation’s Interior Ministry, the Russian LGBT Network reported last Thursday. The Russian…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2020

Polish MEP disgracefully denies the existence of ‘LGBT-free zones’. He claims they’re just a ‘joke told by left-wing activists’

09/05/2020

A Polish member of the European Parliament said Monday (14 September) that “LGBT-free zones” do not exist in Poland and are just a “joke told by left-wing…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2020

Disney, Google, Microsoft back trans rights amid fierce British debate

09/14/2020

Dozens of organisations including Disney, Google and Microsoft weighed into a fierce debate over transgender rights in Britain on Monday, writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2020

Bulgaria once led the way on LGBT+ rights in emerging Europe. Not any more.

09/14/2020

LGBT+ people have once again become the scapegoat of the Bulgarian government, but the community keeps fighting for a normal existence in the country. Extreme demonisation of…

Global News

Added on: 09/14/2020

There are a hundred parts of Poland where it’s not OK to be gay – this is why it matters in Manchester

09/13/2020

Poland is in the middle of a crisis right now. Years of hostility towards LGBT+ people mean tempers are reaching breaking point and the country is now…

Global News

Added on: 09/13/2020

TikTok under fire after admitting it restricts some international LGBT hashtags

09/12/2020

Social media and entertainment giant TikTok have acknowledged that it restricts LGBT-related hashtags following a report published by a research team in Australia. A report by the…