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Added on: 05/15/2019
With UK politics so intensely focused on Brexit, it might be easy to forget that, as Britain’s international reputation continues to suffer, there are important domestic issues…

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Added on: 05/14/2019
Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Armenia have the most restrictive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality laws and policies in Europe, a campaign group says. Azerbaijan scored just…

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Added on: 05/14/2019
05/14/2019
Assaults in France on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people hit a new record in 2018, “a dark year” for the LGBT community, French group SOS Homophobie…

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Added on: 05/14/2019
Reacting to the news that a Pride march organized by students at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara has been violently broken up by police…

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Added on: 05/13/2019
05/11/2019
Nonbinary activist Jamie Windust is petitioning UK’s Parliament for gender-neutral passport options. While some countries offer a third gender option on passports, the United Kingdom currently does…

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Added on: 05/12/2019
A veteran who was dismissed from Britain’s Royal Navy because of his sexual orientation, has planned to sue the UK’s Defence Ministry for the return of his…

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Added on: 05/12/2019
05/09/2019
A gay couple from Trento who had two children in Canada with the help of an egg donor and a surrogate mother cannot both be named as…

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Added on: 05/10/2019
05/10/2019
In an act of brave defiance, a group of LGBTI Russians commemorated the gay victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Leading LGBTI activist Petr Voskresenskii secretly planned the…

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Added on: 05/10/2019
05/09/2019
As the Muslim world gets stuck into observing and celebrating the holiest month on the Islamic calendar, LGBTI Muslims are preparing themselves in an entirely different way….

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Added on: 05/09/2019
05/08/2019
A teacher whose lesson programme covering LGBT relationships has been at the centre of protests will lead a parade during Birmingham Pride. Andrew Moffat started the ‘No…

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Added on: 05/09/2019
Police in Chechnya have carried out a new round of unlawful detentions, beatings, and humiliation of men they presume to be gay or bisexual, Human Rights Watch…

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Added on: 05/08/2019
05/07/2019
Hundreds of Polish gay rights activists staged a protest rally on Tuesday evening over the brief detention of a woman who posted images near a church of…

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Added on: 05/08/2019
05/07/2019
Rights groups and government critics in Poland protested Tuesday after police temporarily detained a human rights activist for putting up posters depicting the country’s most revered Catholic…

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Added on: 05/07/2019
05/06/2019
Vox and other extremists are making huge political gains for the first time in years. Their success risks tearing societies apart. I spent part of my childhood…

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Added on: 05/07/2019
A same-sex Los Angeles couple was dumbfounded when Homeland Security agents showed up at their home in 2016 with the news that a beloved old portrait hanging…

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Added on: 05/05/2019
05/02/2019
Poland faces an “attack on the family”, says Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of the ruling Law and Justice (pis) party. In 2015 the party swept back to power…

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Added on: 05/05/2019
Romanian Adrian Coman and his American-born partner Clai Hamilton had two major reasons to celebrate when they tied the knot last June. One of course, was their…

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Added on: 05/05/2019
05/05/2019
An American preacher who says homosexuals should be executed, and who was banned by Dutch authorities last week from entering the Schengen area, still plans to visit…

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Added on: 05/05/2019
A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples who had sex without condoms – where one partner had HIV and was taking antiretroviral drugs to suppress…

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Added on: 05/03/2019
05/02/2019
Aragorn, son of Arathorn, pal of hobbits, scourge of orcs and wielder of a legendary sword, appears to have met his match in a tiny gay ghost….

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Added on: 05/03/2019
05/01/2019
About one in four homeless people is thought to be LGBT. But Chabahn, who became homeless last year aged 51, said it was very, very, dangerous to…

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Added on: 05/02/2019
05/01/2019
Sitting in my bedroom alone, a wave of fear washed over me. I was 12 years old, confused, and scared – I was beginning to realise I…

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Added on: 05/01/2019
05/01/2019
Having pulled off one of the greatest wins of her career a year ago at Wimbledon – storming past defending champion Garbine Muguruza to reach the third…

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Added on: 04/30/2019
04/29/2019
The far-right Vox party won just over 10 percent of the vote in Spain’s general election. Vox will take 24 of the Congress of Deputies’ 350 seats…

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Added on: 04/30/2019
04/27/2019
Riyadh Khalaf is standing on St Stephen’s Green when he is approached by two young women. “Are you Riyadh K?” asks one, referring to his YouTube handle….

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Added on: 04/30/2019
04/29/2019
A dozen Virgin Mary figurines decorate Robert Biedron’s office in Warsaw, picked from about 400 or so he’s gathered from across the world. Some show her smiling…

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Added on: 04/27/2019
04/25/2019
A popular gay nightclub in central Ukraine has been raided by police, with eyewitnesses claiming officers “behaved in a homophobic way.” Potemkin club in the city of…

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Added on: 04/26/2019
In late February, the mayor of Warsaw issued a declaration combating discrimination against LGBT people by providing better sex education in schools and creating a city shelter…

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Added on: 04/26/2019
Armenia’s first registered transgender woman has received death threats after making a speech in her country’s national assembly. Lilit Martirosyan became the first member of her country’s…

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Added on: 04/26/2019
On April 23, the film “Pride” showcased for an audience of approximately 100 people in Flex Theatre in the HUB-Robeson Center at 7 p.m. Directed by Matthew…