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Added on: 09/18/2021

LGBT vets with other than honorable discharges will get VA benefits under new plan

9/17/21

Tens of thousands of LGBT veterans forced from the military for their sexual orientation and given other-than-honorable discharges will be able to receive full Veterans Affairs benefits…

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Added on: 09/17/2021

Gay war veteran speaks out for equal rights in Ukraine’s military

09/16/2021

KYIV (Reuters) – Viktor Pylypenko has become a role model for dozens of LGBT+ Ukrainian war veterans and their supporters since he organised their participation two years…

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Added on: 09/17/2021

South Korea LGBT youth threatened by lack of non-discrimination provisions: report

09/16/2021

LGBTQIA+ youth in South Korea are threatened by the country’s failure to enact non-discrimination provisions, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday….

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Added on: 09/17/2021

Draft of Cuba’s new family code opens door for gay marriage

09/16/2021

The draft of a new family code for Cuba released Wednesday proposes allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as giving children greater participation in…

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Added on: 09/17/2021

Brave Nigerian lesbian couple ‘publicly wed’ and declare their love in defiance of archaic laws

09/16/2021

LGBT+ activist and YouTuber Amara shared a series of photos detailing her symbolic marriage to her new wife, Olayinka, on social media. The beautiful couple can be…

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Added on: 09/16/2021

New Zealand locals send record 100,000 submissions to ban LGBT conversion practices

09/15/2021

New Zealand is on its way to become the land of conquering the impossible, and adding another feather to this cap of victories is its new record…

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Added on: 09/16/2021

LGBT school pupils are more likely to be bullied by teachers: report

09/15/2021

Around a quarter of LGBT school pupils who face bullying at school are actually harassed by teachers and other school staff rather than their classmates, according to…

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Added on: 09/16/2021

Transgender professor ordered reinstated with tenure at university in Oklahoma by federal court

09/15/2021

A transgender professor who was denied a promotion more than a decade ago must be reinstated with tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University because the school discriminated…

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Added on: 09/16/2021

Hong Kong Gay Games postponed due to Covid travel restrictions

09/15/2021

The Hong Kong Gay Games have been postponed until November 2023 in view of the current coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions, its organisers have told HKFP. The…

World Voices

Added on: 09/16/2021

The Team of Maribor Pride — Maribor Youth Cultural Center, Slovenia

Alturi Contributor

How did you each become involved in LGBTI activism? Matej: I’ve engaged in it more actively for the past couple of years. I didn’t fully unpack my…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Islamist Backlash Cancels Bulgarian LGBT Star’s Concert in Turkey

09/14/2021

A scheduled performance at the Balkan Fair in Bursa in Turkey by pop-folk singer Vasil Trojanov Boyanov, better known by his stage name Azis, was cancelled on…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Trailblazer in transgender treatment: Professor Hwang Na-Hyun of KUAH

09/14/2021

People who have a gender identity that differs from the sex assigned at birth are known as transgender. While the term was something many avoided addressing, transgender…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

‘Showing Its Teeth’: EU’s Path to a Showdown Over LGBTQ Rights

09/14/2021

The European Union has a dismal track record when it comes to disciplining countries within its ranks. But this month it opened several new fronts in its…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Anti-trans legislation will have drastic effects on intersex people & their healthcare

09/14/2021

For months, a conservative-backed wave of anti-transgender legislation has taken the country by storm, leading this year to have the most anti-LGBTQ laws enacted in American history….

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Added on: 09/15/2021

2 transgender men in court fight over changing sex listed on Hong Kong ID cards

09/13/2021

A person does not have to undergo complete sex reassignment surgery to be considered as having changed into a man or woman, lawyers for two transgender men…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Harassment led transgender nurse to develop health issues

09/13/2021

A labor ministry office in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, concluded that a transgender hospital worker’s mental health issues were the result of months of being misgendered by other…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Queer South Koreans Hope for an Anti-Discrimination Law to End Decades of Discrimination

09/13/2021

This article can be read in Korean here. Receiving even the most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in…

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Added on: 09/13/2021

Two New Jersey agencies are working with HRC toward fully LGBTQ inclusive foster care

09/12/2021

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a new report, 2021 Change-Makers, highlighting the HRC Foundation All Children-All Families (ACAF) program’s partnership with 119 organizations—a 19 percent…

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Added on: 09/13/2021

What is abrosexuality? We asked abrosexual people to explain

09/12/2021

The LGBTQIA+ community is vast—it includes a plus sign for a reason. Identities that have never been represented or celebrated before are now making their way into…

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Added on: 09/13/2021

N.S. filmmaker hopes to inspire Indigenous representation with coming-of-age film

09/12/2021

TORONTO — Two-spirit filmmaker Bretten Hannam says they hope their new film “Wildhood” will inspire and open doors for more movie makers to show the lives Indigenous…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st transgender bishop

9/11/21

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

Hundreds protest against rise in homophobic attacks in Madrid

9/12/21

Hundreds of people gathered in central Madrid on Saturday to call for better protection for LGBT rights after a series of homophobic attacks that have shocked Spain…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

UCT vice-chancellor apologises to LGBTQIA+ community

9/12/21

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng apologised to the LGBTQIA+ community for a seminar she co-hosted on Sunday, September 4. The seminar,…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

Ugandan government shamefully claims queer people fleeing its homophobia are fake ‘economic gays’

9/12/21

Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by life imprisonment in Uganda, which has some of the strictest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world. Most queer Ugandans survive by staying…

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Added on: 09/11/2021

OPINION: Invest in the LGBT+ movement and change will come

9/10/21

By the time I have my last day at the end of this week, I will have served as executive director of OutRight Action International for nine…

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Added on: 09/11/2021

Spain searches for answers after string of homophobic attacks

9/10/21

More than four decades after Spain lifted laws that made homosexuality illegal and 16 years after becoming a pioneer in the introduction of same-sex marriage, a surge…

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Added on: 09/11/2021

Could Texas abortion ban strategy be double-edged sword?

9/11/21

The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button…

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Added on: 09/10/2021

Camp True Colors gives LGBTQ+ teens a place to be themselves

09/10/2021

Camp True Colors, at a woodsy, lakeside retreat just north of Hinckley, Minn., is summer camp with all the trappings. There’s canoeing and archery and tie-dyeing and…

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Added on: 09/10/2021

Hungary Says It Won’t Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Law for EU Pandemic Aid

09/10/2021

Hungary won’t repeal a law that critics, including the European Union’s executive, say discriminates against the LGBTQ community, even if that’s the price of accessing billions of…

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Added on: 09/10/2021

With laughter and slang, Buddhist monk proves a hit with LGBT+ Thais

09/10/2021

A Buddhist monk has become an unlikely champion of Thailand’s gay and transgender community by lacing his popular live-streamed talk shows with LGBT+ slang, irreverent humour and…