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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: 04/12/2019

UN, EU Express Concerns About Threats Against Armenia’s LGBT Community

04/10/2019

The United Nations, European Union, and local rights groups have expressed concerns about “hate speech” directed toward Armenia’s LGBT community following reports of death threats against a…

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Added on: 04/10/2019

Calls for pastor who celebrated Orlando massacre to be banned from Ireland

04/09/2019

A petition has been signed almost 5,000 times calling for anti-LGBT+ pastor Steven Anderson to be banned from entering Ireland. Anderson—a preacher with the Faithful Word Baptist…

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Added on: 04/10/2019

Buggery remains a crime, but UK hopes Guyana Govt. will soon facilitate gay rights

04/09/2019

While Guyana and the United Kingdom (UK) continue to enjoy a healthy and fruitful relationship, and rarely butt heads when it comes to policies and laws, High…

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Added on: 04/10/2019

Luxembourg’s gay premier praises Mexico LGBT+ progress, sees more work ahead

04/09/2019

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel addressed the Mexican Senate on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to advance LGBT rights in the country of some 120 million people. On…

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Added on: 04/10/2019

LGBT protesters storm Dorchester Hotel over Brunei’s gay sex laws

04/06/2019

Gay rights activists storm and block the entrance of the Sultan-owned Dorchester hotel in central London in a protest against Brunei imposing a death by stoning penalty…

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Added on: 04/09/2019

Poland’s Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People

04/07/2019

Growing up in a small city in southern Poland, part of a religious family and conservative community, Maciej Gosniowski was told again and again that something was…

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Added on: 04/09/2019

Homophobia scandal hits Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s European capital of culture

04/07/2019

Plovdiv, one of the 2019 European capitals of culture, has become embroiled in a homophobia scandal as local officials attempt to remove the head of the organising…

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Added on: 04/07/2019

Belfast church protest by LGBT group against ‘conversion therapy’

04/06/2019

LGBT group the Rainbow Project has organised a protest at a south Belfast church on Saturday morning against what they have labelled “conversion therapy”. Windsor Baptist has…

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Added on: 04/06/2019

Transgender woman violently attacked by mob in Paris

04/03/2019

A transgender woman has opened up about her terrifying experience of being assaulted by a group of men at a rally in Paris on Sunday. The woman…

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Added on: 04/06/2019

Gay Artist Wants to Change Poland, Starting With One Village

04/04/2019

The Polish artist Daniel Rycharski sat in his childhood home recently and considered the idea of fitting in. In many ways, Poland is a highly polarized country….

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Added on: 04/05/2019

Verona protests: Tens of thousands of campaigners march against ‘medieval’ anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion conference

04/01/2019

Tens of thousands of campaigners descended on the streets of Verona over the weekend to show their opposition to an anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion conference whose self-avowed goal…

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Added on: 04/05/2019

Evolution of Transgender Identity in Turkey

03/31/2019

LGBTI groups in Turkey have reportedly been trying to survive hate murders, abuse, rape, and inequality in what reportedly is a very polarised society. A society in…

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Added on: 04/05/2019

After court battle, Cayman Islands legalises same-sex marriage

04/02/2019

Same-sex marriage has become legal in the Cayman Islands following a landmark court case brought by a lesbian couple which their lawyers said on Monday could have…

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Added on: 04/04/2019

Spain’s health minister calls for end to gay ‘conversion therapy’

04/03/2019

Spain’s health minister called on Wednesday for so-called conversion therapy to be abolished after a report that a branch of the Catholic Church had offered to “cure”…

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Added on: 04/04/2019

LGBT: The pilot who came out as transgender at 58

04/04/2019

Captain Cat Burton always knew she wanted to be a pilot after her father took her in a jet fighter when she was just six months old….

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Added on: 04/03/2019

LGBT centre raided in Russia and volunteers detained inside

04/01/2019

An LGBT+ centre in Russia has been raided for reportedly ‘conflating’ rules on ‘gay propaganda’. Officers arrived at Rakurs, a community centre based in Arkhangelsk, on March…

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Added on: 04/02/2019

Bosnia Capital to Host First Pride Parade

04/01/2019

Bosnian human rights activists announced on Monday that Bosnia’s first-ever Pride Parade will take place in September in the capital, Sarajevo, and will gather members of the…

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Added on: 04/02/2019

International anti-LGBT, anti-abortion congress opens in Verona

03/29/2019

The World Congress of Families, an anti-gay and reproductive rights conference organized by a designated hate group, opened in the northern Italian city of Verona on Friday…

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Added on: 04/02/2019

Letter to Prime Minister Plenković on Balkans Trans and Intersex Pride March

03/27/2019

We write to urge you to provide appropriate security and protection to ensure the rights to freedom of assembly and expression are protected during the March 30,…

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Added on: 04/01/2019

No matter their allegiance, Ukraine’s politicians are ignoring LGBT rights

03/29/2019

Ahead of Ukraine’s presidential elections, the problems of the country’s LGBT community are being ignored by our leading politicians. None of the leading candidates’ programmes even mention…

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Added on: 03/31/2019

Cayman Islands legalises same-sex marriage in historic ruling

03/30/2019

The Cayman Islands has legalised same-sex marriage after a judge ruled prohibitions on such relationships was unconstitutional. The decision marked a personal victory – and the end…

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Added on: 03/30/2019

France sees rise in conversion therapies to ‘cure’ homosexuality

03/27/2019

The film “Boy Erased” highlights controversial conversion therapies in the United States, which attempt to change homosexual children to heterosexual. This practice is surprisingly common in France. …

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Added on: 03/29/2019

First same-sex couple to marry in UK says five-year anniversary ‘marred’ by inequality for Northern Ireland couples

03/28/2019

Five years since the first same-sex UK marriage, Peter McGraith calls for marriage equality to be extended to Northern Ireland Equal marriage advocates Conor McGinn MP and…

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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: 03/27/2019

New culture war’: Northern Ireland’s LGBT+ community fights for gay marriage

03/27/2019

Hidden away up several flights of stairs in the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, teenagers, many of them with shocks of red, blue and rainbow hair, relaxed…

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Added on: 03/25/2019

No Significant Progress in Gender Equality in Croatia

03/24/2019

ZAGREB, March 23, 2019 – Some of the gender equality indicators in Croatia, such as the number of boys and girls enrolled in primary and secondary schools,…

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Added on: 03/25/2019

UK lawmakers calls against detention of LGBT asylum seekers

03/21/2019

Britain should not put LGBT+ asylum seekers in immigration detention centres where they risk being abused and harassed by staff and other detainees, lawmakers said on Thursday….

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Added on: 03/24/2019

Gay politician Robert Biedron challenges Polish leaders on gay marriage

03/22/2019

Openly gay politician Robert Biedron is demanding the Polish government and president to recognise LGBT+ equality, including same-sex marriage. Biedron, a long-time LGBT+ campaigner who became Poland’s…

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Added on: 03/23/2019

Can the Czech Republic Tear Down Europe’s Rainbow Curtain?

03/21/2019

Eastern Europe has long resisted same-sex marriage. Prague might be about to change that. When Veronika Sediva, a 32-year-old consultant, visited the passport office in Prague two…