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ADDED ON: 06/09/2023

Discord over LGBTQ protections emerges at UN labour body -sources

A standoff has emerged over a reference to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the budget of the International Labour Organization, pitting a group of mostly Western…

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ADDED ON: 06/09/2023

Biden to appoint coordinator to address book bans ahead of Pride Month event

President Joe Biden will appoint a new federal coordinator to address the increase in book bans enacted across different states – part of a slew of new actions that he announced on…

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ADDED ON: 06/09/2023

Japan ruling on same-sex marriage disappoints but ‘a step forward’

A Japanese court on Thursday said a ban on same-sex marriage was constitutional but it raised concerns about the dignity and human rights of same-sex couples, a ruling short of activists' expectations…

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ADDED ON: 06/09/2023

HIV alarm in Uganda as anti-gay law forces LGBT ‘lockdown’

The trend of HIV patients staying away from treatment centres is being mirrored on a national level, according to Mary Borgman, country director for the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief…

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ADDED ON: 06/08/2023

Norway police could have prevented last year’s gay bar shooting, report says

Norwegian police could have prevented a deadly rampage at a gay bar last year if they had acted on a tip-off from the foreign intelligence agency, seven experts said Thursday in a…

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ADDED ON: 06/08/2023

The Colombian Paramilitary’s Other Dirty War — Against LGBTQ+ People

Sandra* spotted her name for the first time on a pamphlet left at her doorstep in 2008, in Barrancabermeja, her home town in northern Colombia. Local paramilitaries known as the Black Eagles…

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ADDED ON: 06/08/2023

Outrage as anti-LGBTQ+ protest at California school board turns violent

Democratic politicians across California condemned a volatile anti-gay protest outside a suburban Los Angeles school board meeting on Tuesday, as the school board heard public comment on whether to officially designate June…

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ADDED ON: 06/08/2023

Oxfam Pride advert branded ‘hateful’ by anti-trans activists

“Gender critical” activists – some of whom proudly brand themselves a ‘terf’ (short for trans-exclusionary radical feminist) in their Twitter bios – are now upset at the anti-poverty organisation Oxfam for an…

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ADDED ON: 06/07/2023

Human Rights Campaign declares national state of emergency for LGBTQ people

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Tuesday officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ people in the U.S., citing the passage of more than 75 laws in over a dozen states…

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ADDED ON: 06/07/2023

Islamic regulatory bodies refute claim that religious teachers who oppose LGBT community are warned

An Islamic religious teacher, or asatizah, has been counselled by a regulatory body after he posted an allegation that asatizahs opposing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community had been issued…

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ADDED ON: 06/07/2023

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

In the fall of 2022, a German court heard an unusual case. It was a civil lawsuit that grew out of a feud on Twitter about whether transgender people were victims of…

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ADDED ON: 06/07/2023

Cruel Ugandan anti-gay law takes effect; legal challenges pending

Uganda’s harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Act took effect on May 30, when it was published in the official Uganda Gazette. Human rights activists have filed two petitions challenging its constitutionality, but neither has…

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