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Added on: 06/24/2019

Thousands march in Romanian capital’s pride parade

Yahoo News
06/23/2019
Thousands of people joined a LGBT pride march in Bucharest on Saturday, nearly a year after Romania held a failed referendum to ban same sex marriage. Socially…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights

New York Times
06/23/2019
The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Watch: Fleeing persecution, LGBT+ Brazilians find refuge in Portugal

Yahoo News
06/22/2019
Since the election of Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, homophobic or transphobic attacks have multiplied. Advocates say a member of the LGBT+ community is now murdered every…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Georgia’s LGBT community postpones march due to tensions

Interfax
06/22/2019
Georgia’s LGBT community has posted the Dignity March planned in Tbilisi for June 23 due to the tense situation in the country. “Given the events on Rustaveli…
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Added on: 06/22/2019

Ukrainian gay couple hope Danish wedding will change mindsets at home

Reuters
06/21/2019
Before Kiev celebrates Pride on Sunday, Roman Ivasiy and Anton Pozdnyakov want to speak publicly about their wedding in the hope it will help change hostile attitudes…
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Added on: 06/21/2019

Iceland passes identification law dismissing lengthy medical process for trans people

Gay Star News
06/20/2019
Iceland passed a law on Tuesday (18 June) making it easier for transgender and non-binary individuals to change their personal identification. The Icelandic Parliament passed the Gender…
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Added on: 06/20/2019

LGBT-community attacked in Kyiv

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06/20/2019
On June 16-23 a week in support of LGBT-community is held in Kyiv. On June 19, a group of perpetrators committed an attack at the participants of…
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Added on: 06/17/2019

Young people key to combatting homophobia: LGBT rugby chief

France 24
06/17/2019
Educating young people about the evils of homophobia was a key message from Europe’s largest LGBT+ inclusive rugby tournament, the biennial Union Cup, held in Dublin last…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

Legalising homosexuality: Germany did it 25 years ago – what about other European countries?

EuroNews
06/14/2019
This week Germany celebrated legalising homosexuality twenty-five years ago. Until June 11, 1994, it was still considered a crime in Germany even though since 1969 homosexuals were…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

Same-sex couple on viral London bus attack: ‘We were just sexual objects’

Gay Star News
06/15/2019
A same-sex couple have opened up about the homophobic and misogynistic attack they suffered on a bus in north London. A picture of a bloody and crying…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

Supporters and opponents of LGBT pride march clash in Tbilisi

JAM News
06/14/2019
Participants of a protest demonstration of LGBT activists in the center of Tbilisi in front of the government office building clashed with Orthodox activists last evening. The…
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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

Washington Post
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: 06/12/2019

How L.G.B.T. Couples in Russia Decide Whether to Leave the Country

New Yorker
06/11/2019
In March, a member of the Russian senate asked the prosecutor general to look into the issue of yoga in pretrial detention. Yoga classes, organized on the…
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Added on: 06/11/2019

Vatican issues guidance questioning modern gender identity

BBC
06/11/2019
The Vatican has released a new document challenging modern conceptions of gender identity. The 31-page teaching guidance, released on Monday, is titled Male and Female He Created…
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Added on: 06/11/2019

Germany: Gay conversion ‘therapy’ ban presented

Deutsche Weille
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: 06/10/2019

Munroe Bergdorf: NSPCC cuts ties with transgender activist

BBC
06/09/2019
Transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf says she is “unbelievably sad” that the NSPCC has cut ties with her, days after she revealed she was Childline’s “first LGBT+ campaigner”….
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Added on: 06/08/2019

Warsaw to Hold Gay Pride Parade Amid Fears and Threats in Poland

New York Times
06/07/2019
The largest pride parade in central and Eastern Europe was expected to bring thousands of people to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday, at a time when…
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Added on: 06/08/2019

‘If nothing changes, I’ll kill myself’: The horrific plight of LGBT+ asylum seekers in Russia

The Independent
06/07/2019
“Russia is the last place I wanted to end up,” says Ahmet, 25. “But I don’t have a choice – it is either this or death.” Ahmet,…
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Added on: 06/08/2019

Lesbian couple viciously beaten in homophobic attack on London bus

CNN
06/07/2019
Five teenagers have been arrested in connection with a homophobic attack on two women on a London bus that prompted widespread condemnation in the UK. The attack…
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Added on: 06/06/2019

Polish court backs citizenship for LGBT couple’s child

Taiwan News
06/05/2019
A court in Poland has upheld the groundbreaking registration of a child raised by a same-sex couple. The decision by the Provincial Court in the southern city…
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Added on: 06/05/2019

Most of Spain’s LGBT community still closeted at work

Progressive Spain
06/04/2019
A new study carried out by some of Spain’s leading corporations has found that 62 percent of LGBT people in Spain say they do not openly discuss…
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Added on: 06/05/2019

San Marino bans discrimination based on sexual orientation

EuroNews
06/04/2019
Citizens of San Marino, one of Europe’s smallest countries, have chosen to ban discrimination based on sexual discrimination by constitution. The motion passed with 71.46% of votes…
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Added on: 06/04/2019

Gay rugby player faces deportation to Kenya as asylum claim rejected

The Guardian
06/03/2019
A gay rugby player who is facing deportation to Kenya, where he fears he will be subjected to persecution and violence because of his sexuality, has had…
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Added on: 06/03/2019

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

AV
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: 06/01/2019

10 very different countries. 10 very different rules for LGBTQ+ individuals

Refinery29
05/31/2019
On May 24, 2019, same-sex couples in Taiwan registered their unions as the country’s historic new law legally recognizing same-sex marriages went into effect. On the same…
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Added on: 06/01/2019

Vienna’s changing LGBT spaces – a cartoon

The Guardian
05/31/2019
As the city prepares to host EuroPride, Lars van Roosendaal paints the places at the heart of its storied queer scene. Gay pick-up behaviour has changed a…
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Added on: 05/31/2019

Lady Phyll, new LGBTQ rights leader, promotes cooperation

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/30/2019
As Lady Phyll prepared for her new role as the leader of the Kaleidoscope Trust international LGBTQ rights group, she expressed her support for this blog’s model…
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Added on: 05/31/2019

Citing inclusion of LGBT clerics, Anglican bishops in Africa to shun Lambeth Conference

The Sight
05/30/2019
As disputes over homosexuality continue to stir within the worldwide Anglican Communion, conservative African bishops say they will boycott a decennial gathering of top clerics next summer…
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Added on: 05/29/2019

Swedish LGBT group drops out of Sweden’s top political festival over Nazi threats

The Local SE
05/29/2019
The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL) has canceled its attendance at this year’s Almedalen political festival in protest over the hatred and…
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Added on: 05/28/2019

Poland’s ruling right-wing party tops the polls

Spectrum News 1
05/27/2019
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party has emerged as the big winner in the country’s European Parliament election, taking over 45% of the votes, but its leader…
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