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Added on: 10/03/2020

Canada reintroduces bill to ban LGBT+ conversion therapy

10/02/2020

Canada’s Liberal Party has reintroduced a bill to parliament that if passed will criminalise LGBT+ conversion therapy in the country. LGBT+ conversion therapy is defined as any…

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Added on: 10/03/2020

LGBT people nearly four times more likely to be victims of violent crime

10/02/2020

LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault, according to a…

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Added on: 10/02/2020

Cook Islands defers decision on decriminalising gay sex

10/01/2020

As a child, Sonya Apa Temata was surrounded by unconditional love. The human rights advocate’s mother, Tuakana Apa Temata, was her number one supporter: “Her acceptance of…

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Added on: 10/02/2020

Egyptian police are using Grindr to hunt and imprison queer people

10/02/2020

Fake dating profiles are being used by security forces in Egypt to entrap LGBT+ people and subject them to horrifying abuses in prison, a new report has…

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Added on: 10/02/2020

Insufficient support to legalize gay marriage in Curaçao

09/30/2020

“The bill proposal to make a marriage between two people of the same sex possible cannot count on sufficient support in parliament,” says Member of Parliament for…

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Added on: 10/02/2020

The Respectable Indian Queer Unmasked

09/28/2020

In 2018 the Supreme Court decriminalised consensual same-sex relations between two adults in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India. The judgement was deemed pathbreaking and celebrated…

Added on: 10/01/2020

Joey – Massachusetts

Hello! My name is Joey (he/him/his) and I am registered to vote in Cambridge, Massachusetts! I moved to Cambridge in the Spring of 2019, and recently…

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Added on: 10/01/2020

Derricia Castillo-Salazar – Our Circle, Belize

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How did you become involved in LGBTI activism? I started my advocacy journey in HIV/AIDS work when I was about 14 years old. I went to a…

Added on: 10/01/2020

Jonathan – New York

My name is Jonathan (he/him/his) and I am registered to vote in New York. I plan to vote in person, and also plan to volunteer at…

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Added on: 10/01/2020

LGBT+ marriage: To secure equality in civil rights, family law must also be reformed

09/30/2020

The recent comments of the Solicitor General about the unacceptability of marriage-equality in Indian culture in court proceedings challenging Hindu marriage law attracted great controversy. Unfortunately, the…

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Added on: 10/01/2020

New Polish minister for education and science thinks LGBT+ people ‘aren’t equal to normal people’

09/30/2020

On Wednesday, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki presented his newly reshuffled cabinet, giving the position of minister for education and science to Przemyslaw Czarnek. In June this…

Added on: 10/01/2020

Zach – Minnesota

My name is Zach and I’m registered in Minnesota. I’m voting by mail from Boston, where I’m currently a student. I think voting is important because…

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Added on: 10/01/2020

New study examines pathways into poverty for LGBTQ adults

09/30/2020

A new report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law provides an exploration of common pathways into and prolonging poverty among a diverse population of…

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Added on: 09/29/2020

No One Wants To Testify’: Gruesome Murder Case Highlights Vulnerability Of Russia’s Transgender Population

09/29/2020

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — In June, a high school student discovered a decapitated and dismembered body in a swimming hole on the Mga River just outside St….

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Added on: 09/29/2020

Australia’s fa’afafine community is growing, and they want their voices heard

9/29/2020

Latoya Hoeg had an upbringing some kids can only dream of. Rather than struggling to fit in as a boy, her Samoan family embraced her differences. “I…

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Added on: 09/29/2020

Cayman LGBTQ Foundation: ‘It’s time to live and let live’

09/29/2020

Cayman’s LGBTQIA+ residents and allies gathered at Central Terrace Saturday evening in support of the newest organisation to join the community cause and to celebrate the expansion…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

2020 LGBT Pride parade in Taipei to celebrate self-identity

09/28/2020

Taipei, Sept. 28 (CNA) The theme of this year’s LGBT Pride parade in Taipei, one of the largest in East Asia, will be “Beauty, My Own Way”…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

After ambassadors push Poland to protect LGBT rights, its leaders push back: ‘Nobody needs to teach us tolerance’

09/28/2020

WARSAW, POLAND — Polish leaders on Monday rejected suggestions that LGBT people are deprived of any of their rights in the country, after an open letter from…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Gay woman who was attacked after being unlawfully deported to Uganda wins court case against Home Office

09/28/2020

A gay woman who was unlawfully deported from the UK to Uganda where she had been gang-raped has won in a court case against the Home Office,…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Drag queens to grace Vogue magazine cover in Brazil

09/28/2020

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A pair of drag queens will grace the October cover of Vogue in Brazil, the magazine said on Monday, marking a…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Gender equality in Japan gets a push from young activists

09/27/2020

Ayano Sakurai believes that the Japanese government’s policy on gender equality needs more feedback from people of her generation who face wide-ranging gender-related challenges in their daily…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

California requires correctional facilities to house transgender inmates by gender identity

09/27/2020

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Saturday a package of measures intended to strengthen protections for LGBTQ people, including one that requires the state’s correctional…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Ex-Minister takes on alleged lesbian soldier who married partner in uniform

09/27/2020

Rachel Appoh, a deputy minister of Gender and Children Protection has added her voice to calls for the hierarchy of the Ghana Armed Forces to crack the…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Government issues gender identity guidance for teachers in England

09/27/2020

Teachers should not tell children that they might be a different gender based on their personality or the clothes they want to wear, new guidance from the…

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Added on: 09/27/2020

Poland’s ruling nationalists cement new coalition deal

09/26/2020

Poland’s ruling nationalists signed a new coalition agreement on Saturday, ending weeks of in-fighting in the three-party alliance over how it will govern over the next three…

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Added on: 09/27/2020

Key Rights at Stake in US Supreme Court Pick

09/26/2020

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020 leaves a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court and enormous uncertainty over the court’s future…

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Added on: 09/27/2020

Lead on recognising same-sex unions in Hong Kong must start with government not courts, lawyers and activists say

09/26/2020

Lawyers and activists have urged the government to take the lead in drawing up a legal framework for the recognition of same-sex relationships in Hong Kong rather…

Added on: 09/27/2020

Emille – Washington, DC

Hello! My name is Emille (she/her) and I am a registered Washington, D.C. voter. The D.C. Board of Elections has opted for mail-in ballots, with the…

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Added on: 09/26/2020

Transgender people still face discrimination in Belgium, claims activist

09/26/2020

European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen denounced discrimination of the LGBTI community last week, criticising Poland for their LGBTI-free zones. “Being yourself is not your ideology,…

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Added on: 09/26/2020

The pandemic hit LGBTQ Canadians differently. Researchers want to know why

09/26/2020

Why were sexual and gender minority people more affected by layoffs, and saw their physical and mental health impacted more severely than Canadians overall as COVID-19 spread…