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Added on: 07/08/2021

U.S. concerned by reports of China LGBTQI Plus social media curbs

Reuters
07/07/2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it was concerned about reports that China had restricted use of social media accounts of LGBTQI Plus…
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Added on: 07/08/2021

Cannot Be Excused’: Thousands Rally In Georgia To Denounce Anti-LGBT Violence

Radio Free Europe
07/07/2021
TBILISI — Thousands have rallied in the Georgian capital to denounce violence against the LGBTQ community that shocked the nation and drew condemnation from Western embassies in…
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Added on: 07/08/2021

LGBT visibility grows in Japan ahead of ‘diversity’ Olympics

Asia Nikkei
07/06/2021
Fumino Sugiyama, a former female fencer for the Japan women’s national team who came out as a man more than a decade ago, last week became the…
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Added on: 07/08/2021

Hungary’s controversial anti-LGBT law goes into effect despite EU warnings

France 24
07/07/2021
A new law that bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change went into effect Wednesday despite a warning from Europe’s…
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Added on: 07/08/2021

For Turkey’s LGBT+ community, discrimination said to loom larger

Reuters
07/06/2021
Cayan Hakiki trimmed their finger nails and scrubbed off the polish last week in order to take Turkish university entrance exams without being hassled, as advocacy groups…
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Added on: 07/07/2021

European Court Upholds Russian Transgender Woman’s Right to Family Life

Human Rights Watch
07/06/2021
In a victory for a transgender parent’s right to maintain contact with her children, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on July 6 that Russia’s denial…
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Added on: 07/07/2021

LGBTQ Social Media Groups at Most Major Chinese Universities Shuttered Overnight

Variety
07/06/2021
Tencent’s WeChat social media platform on Tuesday evening blocked and wiped all past content of the accounts for the campus LGBTQ groups of China’s top universities, striking…
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Added on: 07/06/2021

Georgian LGBT Activists Call Off Pride March After Violent Attacks

Voice of America
07/05/2021
LGBT campaigners in Georgia have canceled a planned Pride march after opponents attacked activists and journalists and the government and church spoke out against the event. Hundreds…
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Added on: 07/06/2021

Russian retailer apologizes for lesbian couple in ad

Mercury News
07/05/2021
MOSCOW, July 5 – A high-end Russian food retailer has angered both gay rights campaigners and opponents by running and then apologizing for an ad that included…
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Added on: 07/06/2021

Protests in Spain against suspected LGBT hate crime

Reuters
07/05/2021
BARCELONA, July 5 (Reuters) – People took to the streets of Spain’s biggest cities on Monday evening to express their anger at the death of a man…
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Added on: 07/05/2021

Georgian Patriarchate condemns int’l support for ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda activities’ at Tbilisi Pride

Agenda Georgia
07/04/2021
The Georgian Patriarchate says the ‘drastic interference’ of foreign officials ‘in our public and spiritual life’ through supporting Tbilisi Pride events ‘is a matter of severe concern…
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Added on: 07/05/2021

LGBTQ+: Bagbin’s neutrality soiled after becoming cheerleader for anti-LGBTQ bill

Ghana Web
07/04/2021
On the matter of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, welcoming a bill presented to the House that would criminalize the “promotion, advocacy, funding and act of…
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Added on: 07/05/2021

France drops homophobic Senegal, Ghana, Benin from ‘safe’ countries list

Erasing 76 Crimes
07/04/2021
In a decision mostly focused on the dangers facing LGBT people in homophobic nations, Benin, Senegal and Ghana have been dropped from the list of “safe” countries…
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Added on: 07/05/2021

Rainbow flag burned and marchers assaulted at Zagreb gay pride march

Euronews
07/04/2021
Croatian police have detained several people over incidents during and after this weekend’s Pride march in the capital of Zagreb. The incidents included verbal and physical attacks…
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Added on: 07/04/2021

Gay couple wins case against florist after Supreme Court rejects appeal

Connect FM
7/2/21
Over the objections of three conservative justices, the US Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a Washington State flower shop that violated state anti-discrimination law…
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Added on: 07/04/2021

Kenyan Civil Society welcomes Move by Methodist Church to Allow Same Sex Marriages

Tuko
07/03/2021
The Church’s announcement came when the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer, Intersexual and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community just finished celebrating pride-month. Pride month is a yearly promotion of…
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Added on: 07/04/2021

Discriminatory State Rhetoric Is Threatening Turkey’s LGBTQ+ Community

Organization for World Peace
7/3/21
Among the negative consequences of Recep Erdoğan’s Presidency, his leadership has been harmful to the rights and safety of Turkey’s LGBTQ+ community. For example, in June 2021,…
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Added on: 07/03/2021

Brazilian potential presidential candidate announces he is gay

Al Jazeera
7/2/21
Brazilian governor and potential major party presidential candidate Eduardo Leite, a prominent critic of President Jair Bolsonaro, came out as gay in a TV interview. Leite, governor…
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Added on: 07/03/2021

In Mexico, transgender politicians make strides

Independent
7/2/21
Salma Luévano was arrested for publicly identifying herself as transgender in provincial Mexico in 1985. Now she is set to take office as a member of Congress…
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Added on: 07/03/2021

Ghana political leader says LGBTQ ‘pandemic’ is worse than COVID-19 and it ‘must be fought by all of us’

New York Daily News
7/2/21
One of Ghana’s most powerful political leaders said that the LGBTQ “pandemic” is worse than the COVID-19 pandemic, and “it must be fought by all of us.”…
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Added on: 07/03/2021

Czech Mental Health Institute launches initiative to help transgender people cope with anxiety, depression

Expats CZ
7/2/21
Transgender people are those whose gender differs from the sex they were born with. Suicidal tendencies and inclination for self-harm appear in up to half of the…
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Added on: 07/02/2021

Tbilisi Pride Forges Ahead, 23 Counterprotesters Detained

Civil.GE
07/02/2021
Tbilisi Pride Week began on July 1 with a screening of the “March for Dignity” documentary about the LGBTQ rights struggle in Georgia, with activists, LGBTQ allies,…
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Added on: 07/02/2021

Uganda lockdown hampers rural LGBT access to life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs

Erasing 76 Crimes
07/01/2021
Gay rights activists in Uganda are reporting difficulty in delivering life-saving anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive community members during the ongoing countrywide lockdown and curfew imposed in response…
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Added on: 07/02/2021

Russian Food Retailer Defies ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law With LGBT Family-Featuring Ad

Moscow Times
07/01/2021
Russian organic food retailer VkusVill has featured an LGBT family in its new promotional material this week, defying the country’s law against “gay propaganda toward minors.” As…
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Added on: 07/01/2021

Russian Band Releases Pro-LGBT Video

Moscow Times
06/30/2021
Russian band Sansara on Tuesday released a pro-LGBT video for their single “We Will Become Better.” The video is about “two people who love each other but…
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Added on: 07/01/2021

Anti-LGBT+ laws cost Caribbean billions in lost business – report

Reuters
06/30/2021
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Businessman Richard Branson on Wednesday urged Caribbean countries to be more LGBT-friendly as a report said anti-gay laws cost the region’s 12…
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Added on: 07/01/2021

White House Names Jessica Stern as Next US Envoy for Global LGBT Rights

South Florida Gay News
06/30/2021
(WB) The White House on Friday announced it has named Jessica Stern as the next special U.S. envoy for the promotion of LGBT rights abroad. Stern for…
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Added on: 07/01/2021

Canada’s Senate puts LGBT conversion therapy bill on hold for summer

Reuters
06/30/2021
OTTAWA, June 30 (Reuters) – A pledge by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ban LGBT conversion therapy has been delayed until at least September, after an…
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Added on: 07/01/2021

Poland could face legal action over its controversial ‘LGBT+ free zones’

SBS
06/29/2021
The European Commission is studying the possibility of legal action against Poland over its “LGBT-free zones” in some towns, several EU sources have said. As the “guardian…
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Added on: 07/01/2021

Venezuelan activists say there is little to celebrate this Pride month

KELO
06/29/2021
Activists in Venezuela say there is little to celebrate this LGBTI Pride month, which they say is behind in South America on legislation protecting members of the…
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