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Added on: 09/08/2020

Croatia gets first gay foster parents

09/07/2020

A Croatian gay couple fostered two children after a legal battle becoming the first same-sex couple to be granted the right in the largely Catholic country, an…

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Added on: 09/08/2020

Thousands march from Germany to Poland in powerfully symbolic cross-border LGBT+ rights protest

09/07/2020

An LGBT+ rights protest at the Poland-Germany border has shone a light on the growing disparity between the two nations on queer issues. While Germany has progressed…

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Added on: 09/08/2020

Helsinki Pride Week begins, with PM Sanna Marin as patron

09/07/2020

Helsinki Pride Week gets underway on Monday, postponed from its usual June date due to the coronavirus situation at that time. Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) is…

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Added on: 09/08/2020

Terrifying new law that would legally erase transgender people inches closer to reality in Putin’s Russia

09/07/2020

Russia could be set to follow in the footsteps of Hungary with a proposed law that would legally erase transgender people. Proposed amendments to Russia’s Family Code,…

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Added on: 09/05/2020

New Law Would Make it Illegal for Trans Russians to Change Legal Gender

09/04/2020

Russian politicians are weighing a chance to the country’s Family Code that would prevent transgender citizens from changing their legal gender to match their actual gender. The…

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Added on: 09/04/2020

Barbarism and disinformation: The authoritarian response to peaceful dissent

09/03/2020

The presidential election in Belarus on 9 August was conducted the way many previous elections were conducted: opposition candidates were harassed and hounded out of the country;…

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Added on: 09/04/2020

LGBT+ activist behind ‘Polish Stonewall’ not afraid to die

09/03/2020

The LGBT+ activist whose arrest sparked protests that were dubbed the “Polish Stonewall” says she is not afraid to resume her hunger strike and die if that…

World Voices

Added on: 09/03/2020

Nasta Mantsevich – Makeout, Belarus

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

What was it like to grow up as a queer person in Belarus? My story was, to a large extent, about invisibility. When I was growing up,…

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Added on: 09/02/2020

Love keeps on winning in Northern Ireland with same-sex couples finally able to marry in churches

09/01/2020

Same-sex couples can apply to have religious weddings in Northern Ireland from today (1 September), with ceremonies set to begin later this month. Gay weddings began in…

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Added on: 08/31/2020

Polish Bishops Propose Sending LGBTQ+ People to Conversion ‘Clinics’

08/31/2020

Polish Catholic bishops have called for “clinics” to be set up for LGBTQ+ people in efforts for them to “regain their natural sexual orientation. The bishops laid…

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Added on: 08/31/2020

Transgender advocacy group says new civil service rules ‘protect staff from unsafe conditions’

08/31/2020

A transgender campaign group has said new rules compelling Northern Ireland’s civil servants to use whichever terms transgender people wish is an “important first step”. Meanwhile, the…

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Added on: 08/31/2020

Ukrainian neo-Nazis attack LGBT ‘pride’ event in Odessa, organizers say police were slow to intervene but 16 people later arrested

08/31/2020

Sixteen Ukrainian ultra-nationalists were arrested on Sunday after the far-right Christian organization ‘Tradition and Order’ attacked marchers at Odessa Pride 2020, the city’s biggest celebration of LGBT…

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Added on: 08/31/2020

Berlin Film Festival to make awards gender neutral: Is it time to finally talk about just talent?

08/30/2020

It’s been a while since we have been hearing who is the Best Actor and Best Actress — a clear demarcation in term of gender right there…

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Added on: 08/31/2020

Nationalists fought with participants of the LGBT festival in Odessa

08/30/2020

As noted by law enforcement officers, opponents of the LGBT movement sprayed gas in the crowd and pelted the activists with eggs. The perpetrators also shouted obscene…

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Added on: 08/30/2020

Grumpy Virgin bows out as drag becomes a political act in Turkey

08/29/2020

For decades in Turkey, there was no higher honour than being made fun of by Huysuz Virjin (Grumpy Virgin), the country’s first drag queen, beloved for her…

World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Slava Melnyk – KPH: Campaign Against Homophobia

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

‘Mi Hazánk’ Wants Referendum to Ban Display of ‘Satanic’ LGBTQ Flags in Public Institutions & ‘Homosexual Propaganda’ in Schools

08/24/2020

Although the parade had been canceled, tensions around this year’s Pride Week haven’t dissipated. At the latest event, far-right Mi Hazánk party announced they would initiate a…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Rainbow carriages that are the Pride of the fleet: Britain’s first fully decorated train staffed by LGBT crew is set to make first journey today

08/24/2020

Britain’s first fully decorated Pride train staffed by an LGBT crew will make its inaugural journey this morning. The 11-carriage train, emblazoned with a huge rainbow flag,…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Hateful rhetoric against transgender people is culminating in physical attacks, Sheffield LGBT charity warns

08/24/2020

Heather Paterson, CEO of Say It Sheffield, says the language seen used against trans people is similar to that seen in the 1980s against gay and lesbian…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Wish It Was a Coming Out: older gay people in Italy – in pictures

08/24/2020

Photographer Melissa Ianniello’s long-term project investigates the double taboos of homosexuality and old age in Italy. The subjects of her intimate portraits are a group of gay…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

A London court has set a date to finally decide on same-sex marriage in Bermuda

08/21/2020

The final fate of same-sex marriage in Bermuda will be decided by a court in London – which has now set a date for the hearing. The…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

Germany plans equal rights for lesbian co-mothers

08/21/2020

A German parentage law package close to being submitted to cabinet would give a child born into a lesbian setting two mums, the biological mother and her…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

OVER 60 INCIDENTS OF ANTI-LGBTQ VIOLENCE IN ASYLUM CENTERS; GOV’T CALLED TO DO SOMETHING

08/20/2020

More needs to be done to combat anti-LGBTQ violence in asylum centers in the Netherlands, according to foundation LGBT Asylum Support. The foundation received over 60 reports…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

Turkey’s media authority fines TLC TV over program featuring LGBTI+ parents

08/19/2020

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined five broadcasters for various reasons. The TLC TV was imposed a monetary penalty fined over its “Extraordinary Pregnancies”…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

Hungary’s Orban calls for central Europe to unite around Christian roots

08/19/2020

Central European nations should unite to preserve their Christian roots as western Europe experiments with same-sex families, immigration and atheism, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Belarus’ marginalised queer community ‘will still face hatred and violence after Lukashenko’s regime is over’, activist warns

08/18/2020

A queer activist in Belarus has warned that even if efforts to remove despot Alexander Lukashenko prevail, the country’s LGBT+ community faces a long road to liberation….

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Czech Republic in danger of following in the homophobic, transphobic footsteps of Poland and Hungary, campaigner warns

08/17/2020

After years of progress towards equality across Europe, LGBT+ campaigners across the continent have faced a bruising few years – with politicians in Poland openly stoking anti-LGBT+…

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Added on: 08/17/2020

Ancient Viking warrior given a hero’s burial may have actually been ‘transgender, non-binary or gender fluid’

08/16/2020

Three years ago, the ornately dressed remains of a high-status Viking warrior from the mid-900s were discovered alongside swords, spears and two slaughtered horses in Birka, Sweden….

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Added on: 08/17/2020

Poland: LGBT+ activists and nationalists face off

08/17/2020

Hundreds of Polish nationalists and defenders of gay rights faced off in central Warsaw on Sunday, amid a deteriorating situation for the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and…

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Added on: 08/17/2020

UK Black Pride ‘celebrates black queer voices’ as coronavirus forces 15th anniversary event online

08/16/2020

UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest celebration for LGBTQ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent – didn’t let a little thing like…