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Added on: 08/24/2021

Gay, transgender conversion therapy ban initiative heads to Parliament

Yleisradio Oy (Finnish Broadcasting Company)
08/23/2021
A citizens’ initiative to ban sexual orientation and gender identification conversion therapy in Finland reached the required 50,000 signatures on Monday, which means it will now be…
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Added on: 08/24/2021

Israel Will Now Let Gay Men Donate Blood

Jewish Exponent
08/23/2021
Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood. Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex…
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Added on: 08/23/2021

Discrimination against LGBTQ+ soldiers doesn’t stop just because a policy has been revoked

The Conversation
08/22/2021
In 1969, former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau decriminalized “homosexuality” in Canadian civil society declaring “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”…
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Added on: 08/23/2021

Edinburgh student to launch city’s first lesbian bar with ‘no cis men’

Edinburgh Live
08/22/2021
An Edinburgh local has decided to open the first-ever bar for lesbians and queer women. While the capital already has bars for the LGBTQI+ community, Emily Frood,…
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Added on: 08/23/2021

LGBTQ leader cries foul vs homophobic acts in Zambo

Minda News
08/22/2021
The President of the Lesbian Gay Bisexuals and Transgenders Federation of Zamboanga (LGBTFZ) cried foul against homophobic acts in the city as he called for increased advocacy…
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Added on: 08/22/2021

Two LGBT marches held in Poland under heavy police security

Associated Press
08/21/2021
Parades for LGBT rights took place under heavy police presence Saturday at the foot of Catholic Poland’s most revered monastery in Czestochowa, in the south, and in…
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Added on: 08/22/2021

The ‘laughing, loving diva’ who fights tirelessly for gay and lesbian rights

Wales Online
08/21/2021
“A group of remarkable people who met weekly, daily, to work out what might be possible to work out what was possible to change the lives of…
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Added on: 08/22/2021

Romania’s LGBT community sees gains, ongoing rights struggle

ABC News
08/22/2021
The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998. The country decriminalized homosexuality three years after that, in 2001, while reforming its laws…
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Added on: 08/21/2021

Sri Lanka discusses LGBTQ rights ‘over and over’, but clings to the past

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/20/2021
The government of Sri Lanka is undecided on LGBTQ rights, but the matter is under discussion, government officials say. The video, which surfaced on Twitter [on Aug….
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Added on: 08/21/2021

Gay Immigrant Recalls Tumultuous Escape From Nigeria

Gay City News
08/20/2021
Uchechukwu Onwa, a gay immigrant from Nigeria, said he knew it was time to leave his home country when a group of men brutally raped his teenage…
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Added on: 08/21/2021

The ban on the practice of ‘curing queer sexuality’ in India

Open Global Rights
08/20/2021
The Madras High Court in its June 2021 judgement banned the practice of ‘conversion therapy’ in India, bringing protective measures for LGBTQIA+ individuals in the country. The…
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Added on: 08/20/2021

This brave charity is helping desperate LGBT+ Afghans escape the brutal Taliban

Pink News
08/19/2021
The Rainbow Railroad is a global NGO providing aid and asylum to LGBT+ people around the world. Since its founding it’s helped more than 1,600 LGBT+ people…
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Added on: 08/20/2021

LGBT in Afghanistan: ‘I could be killed on the spot’

BBC
08/19/2021
Before the Taliban uprising in Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangerous. If he’d spoken about his sexuality to the…
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Added on: 08/20/2021

Polish region wants to remain an ‘LGBT-free’ zone despite risking millions in EU funds

EuroNews
08/19/2021
This week a Polish regional council has voted to remain an “LGBT-free zone” despite a warning from the European Union that it could lose funding. Numerous local…
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Added on: 08/20/2021

Charity watchdog in talks with anti-trans LGB Alliance after ‘hateful’ bestiality tweet

Pink News
08/19/2021
The anti-trans group gained charitable status earlier this year in spite of fierce objections from multiple LGBT+ charities and a petition signed by more than 44,000 people….
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Added on: 08/19/2021

‘Everything is gone’ for LGBT+ Afghans, says bisexual man who escaped before Taliban took over

Yahoo News
08/19/2021
Afghanistan wasn’t a welcoming place for LGBT+ people prior to the Taliban takeover that shocked the world – but human rights activists are expecting things to get…
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Added on: 08/19/2021

Will Romania step up anti-LGBTQ legislation like Hungary?

Deutsche Welle
08/17/2021
Many Romanians probably do not know what the letters LGBTQ stand for, and this is hardly surprising given that sexual orientation and gender identity have not played…
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Added on: 08/19/2021

World Cup hosts Qatar raise the rainbow flag even as LGBT+ community is forced to live a double life

The Independent
08/12/2021
Degree-educated, bi-lingual and with a well-established career at one of the country’s leading companies, Hamad is, to all appearances, the very epitome of modern-day, outward-looking Qatar. But…
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Added on: 08/19/2021

How to Help Queer Afghans Right Now

Chaos and Comrades
08/18/2021
As images of Taliban forces regaining control of Afghanistan circulate across social media, many can’t help but think about the future of the country’s LGBT population. Same-sex…
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Added on: 08/19/2021

The Nonbinary Chinese Fighting to Live Their Truth

Sixth Tone
08/18/2021
Chao Xiaomi cut quite a figure as she strutted down an alley near the Forbidden City in the brilliant May sunshine. The 38-year-old was dressed to kill…
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Added on: 08/18/2021

Scotland’s LGBT community is frightened by the current anti-trans obsession

The National
08/17/2021
I NEVER picked a “side” – I was born this way. Common decency would argue that a group of people put into the continuous, never-ending, daily cycle…
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Added on: 08/18/2021

‘Born gay in the Soviet Union, living gay in Russia’

Meduza
08/17/20201
In recent years, there has been a growing number of artistic ventures about the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Russia. One of them is the art project…
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Added on: 08/18/2021

President Museveni Refuses To Sign Homophobic Law

Kuchu Times
08/17/2021
The LGBTIQ community in Uganda has today caught a break after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni returned the notorious Sexual Offences Bill back to the floor of Uganda…
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Added on: 08/17/2021

49ers expand LGBTQ outreach, DT Maurice Hurst shares love for his gay friends

Outsports
08/16/2021
As the San Francisco 49ers held a special Diversity & Inclusion Day at training camp last Thursday — inviting members of the LGBTQ fan group 49ers Pride…
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Added on: 08/17/2021

Men hurt in homophobic attack at Birmingham’s Gay Village

BBC News
08/16/2021
Two men have been attacked with bottles and had homophobic abuse shouted at them in Birmingham, police have said. Rob and Patrick, in their 30s, were outside…
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Added on: 08/16/2021

Turkish LGBTQ Activists Counter Oppression With Art, Solidarity and Radical Hope

Truthout
08/15/2021
Activism came to Hazar Kolancalı like a thunderstorm, at first a rumbling in the distance and then upon her all at once. The constant — and often…
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Added on: 08/16/2021

Classroom workshops offer support to LGBTQ youth in rural Quebec Social Sharing

CBC News
08/15/2021
A new project launched by the Association for New Canadians is working to create a safe and welcoming environment for LGBTQ immigrants and refugees coming into Newfoundland…
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Added on: 08/15/2021

Sarajevo’s Pride Parade Calls For More Rights for LGBT Community

Balkan Insight
8/14/21
Sarajevo’s second-ever Pride parade as well as a counter-protest organised by a hardliner Muslim political campaign group ended peacefully on Saturday. “Aware of discrimination, violence and hate…
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Added on: 08/15/2021

Bucharest gay pride march resumes after coronavirus pause

Spectrum News 1
8/14/21
Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of Bucharest Saturday for a gay pride parade that resumed after a year’s pause due…
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Added on: 08/15/2021

92% Of LGBT Adults Have Received At Least One COVID-19 Vaccine Shot

On Top
8/14/21
LGBT adults have nearly universally adopted the COVID-19 vaccine. According to a report released Thursday by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the education arm of the…
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