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LGBTQI advocate Richard Lusimbo honored for fighting HIV stigma

12/31/2020

LGBTQI advocate Richard Lusimbo is one of six Ugandans recognized by the International Community of Women Living with HIV / Eastern Africa (ICWEA) for their outstanding role…

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Added on: 01/01/2021

SA may be getting random ID numbers – or an ‘X’ for transgender people

12/31/2020

The department of home affairs is considering assigning random identity numbers to South Africans, to replace the current structured, 11-digit system. Random ID numbers are more secure…

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Added on: 01/01/2021

A Year of Intersex Victories

12/31/2020

While 2020 has been a rough year for just about everyone, 2020 has also been a year of many intersex victories and of the overall global advancement…

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Added on: 01/01/2021

First Person: Vietnamese man finds ‘true voice’ in gay community

12/31/2020

Nguyen Trong Hung opened a café in Son La in northwestern Viet Nam to serve as a meeting place for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and…

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Added on: 12/31/2020

The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: ‘This is how you fight Nazis’

10/02/2020

The far-right Proud Boys group, whom Donald Trump refused to denounce this week, have been linked to assaults on protesters, white supremacist organizing, the spread of Covid…

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Added on: 12/31/2020

Polish city funds LGBT shelter despite government hostility

12/31/2020

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities in the Polish city of Krakow have become the first to include financial support for an LGBT shelter in a country where…

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Added on: 12/31/2020

Chengdu: China’s permissive ‘gay capital’ refusing to fold

12/30/2020

It’s Saturday night at the HUNK club in Chengdu and men in gold lycra shorts and black boots dance on stage. They wear kimonos, in an apparent…

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Added on: 12/31/2020

LGBTQ+ year in review: 47 troubling events of 2020

12/30/2020

The year 2020 had more than its share of grim news for LGBTQ+ people. If you read this summary, you might want to dilute its impact by…

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Added on: 12/30/2020

Russia Adds Women’s Rights NGO to ‘Foreign Agents’ List

12/29/2020

Russia has labeled prominent women’s rights organization Nasiliyu.net (“No to Violence”) as a “foreign agent,” the Justice Ministry announced Tuesday. The Justice Ministry’s addition of the NGO,…

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Added on: 12/30/2020

From coronavirus crackdowns to court battles: 10 top LGBT+ stories in 2020

12/24/2020

LONDON, Dec 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Coronavirus dominated news around the world in 2020, creating particular challenges for the LGBT+ community in terms of mental health,…

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Added on: 12/30/2020

Same-sex couple wins immigration rights battle

12/23/2020

A Cayman Islands couple have won the right to have their same-sex marriage recognised by the island’s immigration authorities. Developer Paul Pearson and his partner Randall Pinder,…

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Added on: 12/30/2020

37 arrests of allegedly LGBTQ Senegalese since September

12/29/2020

In Senegal, an almost totalitarian atmosphere reigns in the holy city of Touba. It is patrolled by Islamist religious militias. Citizens are encouraged to denounced suspected homosexuals….

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Added on: 12/30/2020

Transgender people in China turning to grey market for hormones

12/29/2020

“In China, the channel is hidden,” he tells Sky News. Buying and administering unapproved drugs is risky. Unscrupulous dealers can substitute safe substances for animal hormones. Transgender…

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Added on: 12/30/2020

How LGBTQ+ members of the South Asian diaspora navigate stigma and stress

12/29/2020

When Gurleen Kaur came out as queer to her friends three years ago, she was all too familiar with her family’s expectations—that she marry a man someday….

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Added on: 12/30/2020

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: The Indonesian Military Case

12/29/2020

In October, news broke about Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel who were dismissed for being a part of the LGBTQ community. As of this writing, TNI had fired…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

Ancient Roman ‘homophobic graffiti’ found in unearthed Pompeii snack bar: ‘Nicia cinaede cacator’

12/28/2020

Archaeologists who have been excavating an Ancient Roman snack bar in Pompeii, Italy, have discovered “homophobic” graffiti scrawled on the walls. According to a press release from…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

Germany’s Transgender Law seen as ‘archaic, degrading’

12/28/2020

“Degrading, expensive and illogical” — that is how one trans* person described her experience of legally changing her gender in Germany. Felicia Rolletschke is one of many…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

FROM THE FIELD: Misunderstood and mistreated; transgender women in Mexico

12/28/2020

The Women of “Casa de las Muñecas Tiresias” shelter, have been providing up to 80 free meals a day to some of their most vulnerable neighbours. Lesbian,…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

Muslim school accused of expelling pupil over lesbian claims

12/27/2020

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is investigating a private religious school in Johannesburg for allegedly throwing out a pupil who was “accused” of being lesbian. The…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

My two daddies: Row rages in Latvia over LGBT-friendly children’s books as critics blast initiative ‘imposed by EU elites’

12/27/2020

For modern liberals, they are an important step in normalizing different kinds of families. But for others, children’s books depicting gay parents are an attack on traditional…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

This artist is proving you can be disabled, queer and sexuality active one powerful illustration at a time

12/26/2020

llustrator Dandy Doodlez has opened up about sex, the intersection between queerness and disability, and why the LGBT+ community is so inaccessible. Dandy developed Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME),…

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Added on: 12/28/2020

Dr. Frank Mugisha – Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)

Ari Weinstein

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Can you tell me about some of this research that you did earlier this year about the impact of COVID-19 on LGBTI communities in Uganda? Uganda is…

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Added on: 12/27/2020

Pope proclaims year of families, offers advice to keep peace

12/27/2020

Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed an upcoming year dedicated to the family as he doubled down on one of his papal priorities and urged renewed attention to…

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Added on: 12/27/2020

38% of LGBT people in Japan sexually harassed or assaulted: survey

12/27/2020

Nearly 40 percent of sexual minority people in Japan have been sexually harassed or assaulted, a private survey involving more than 10,000 respondents showed Saturday. The survey…

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Added on: 12/27/2020

Pompeii archaeologists uncover ancient homophobic insult to tavern owner

12/26/2020

Archaeologists excavating a snack bar in the ruins of Italy’s Pompeii have uncovered “exceptional” frescoes, and obscene graffiti likely directed at the establishment’s seventh century owner. The…

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Added on: 12/27/2020

Tears of joy as LGBTQ asylum seeker battered by police wins fight to stay in Liverpool

12/26/2020

An LGBTQ asylum seeker described their tears of joy when a judge said they could stay in Liverpool after fleeing murder, police brutality and discrimination in El…

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Added on: 12/26/2020

My intersex husband

12/26/2020

Aku finally nailed it. She got married to the love of her life, a 40-year-old man, after two years of courtship without intimacy. As tradition will have…

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Added on: 12/26/2020

Bihar mulls over raising transgender battalion

12/26/2020

If all goes right, Bihar would soon become the first state in the country to have a separate police battalion of transgenders. Till now, the state government…

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Added on: 12/26/2020

This secret lesbian couple organised the first-ever White House meeting on LGBT+ rights, changing the path of equality forever

12/25/2020

When Jean O’Leary, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, was asked by writer Eric Marcus how she managed to get a meeting at the White…

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Added on: 12/26/2020

Lawyers will now have to specify pronouns in courts in British Columbia

12/24/2020

Lawyers, witnesses, defendents, and other individuals in court proceedings in British Columbia will now have to specify a gendered title – Mr., Ms., Mx., or “Counsel” –…