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Added on: 08/29/2020

Transgender woman’s role at Mass stirs controversy in Argentina

08/28/2020

Marking an historical first in Pope Francis’s home country, the Diocese of San Luis in northern Argentina invited a transgender woman Tuesday to read one of the…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Yurok Tribe joins federal lawsuit over data on tribal, LGBTQ foster youth

08/28/2020

The Yurok Tribe is one of more than half-a-dozen parties that sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families on…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

As China’s Schools Reopen, LGBT Families Feel Pride — and Prejudice

08/28/2020

Before his son started school last year, Su Ge spent weeks researching kindergarten options in the eastern city of Nanjing. After much deliberation, he selected the most…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

08/28/2020

The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Abruptly canceled, ShanghaiPRIDE could be harbinger for China’s civil society

08/27/2020

Annual Pride celebrations are not common in cities across China, but the city of Shanghai is an exception, where Pride events have occurred for a dozen years….

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection to Be Auctioned for Charity

08/27/2020

Owning a private collection of nearly 140 artworks by luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein would be a godsend for most arts organizations, but…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Is ‘gay TikTok’ safe from Trump? LGBTQ users on edge over ban threat

08/27/2020

Steven King, a popular content creator on the social media platform TikTok, said he stumbled across the video-sharing app by accident early last year. “I saw an…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Uganda officials ignore criminal summonses for LGBTQ torture

08/27/2020

A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer each ignored a summons requiring him to show up in court yesterday to face criminal charges of torture…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

Gay activist braves social curbs to help marginalized

08/27/2020

Gay activist Hartoyo has had to overcome both physical and virtual curbs on his movement so that he may continue to feed the urban poor, persecuted members…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

New Zealand: Young queer and trans people face growing housing barriers

08/25/2020

RainbowYOUTH homelessness support worker Therese Go says they have seen an increase in referrals from social workers, nurses and school counsellors who are concerned the young Aucklanders…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

Uproar as same-sex couples to be counted as ‘other relatives’ in Japan census

08/26/2020

A national census, conducted once every five years, will be held this fall to collect information from all residents and households in Japan, but same-sex couples are…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

Teacher ‘put on leave’ after Republican complains about her supporting LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter

08/26/2020

A teacher in Texas has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after she allowed students to submit their pronouns and posted LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter…

World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Slava Melnyk – KPH: Campaign Against Homophobia

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…

World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Tarek Zeidan – Helem, Lebanon

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become interested in this type of activism? When I was younger, I worked a lot with the trans sex worker community because I used…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Virtual Pride Afrique Festival Brings Socially Distant Visibility to Africa’s Sexual Minorities

08/25/2020

JOHANNESBURG – Pride Afrique is the first of its kind, a three-day virtual extravaganza celebrating Africa’s diverse, colorful community of sexual minorities. But behind the glitz and…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Black LGBTQ+ people simultaneously fight for multiple equality movements | March on Washington

08/25/2020

WASHINGTON — Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) people of color have often been involved in equality movements throughout American history. But organizers and LGBTQ+ issues…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

‘Mi Hazánk’ Wants Referendum to Ban Display of ‘Satanic’ LGBTQ Flags in Public Institutions & ‘Homosexual Propaganda’ in Schools

08/24/2020

Although the parade had been canceled, tensions around this year’s Pride Week haven’t dissipated. At the latest event, far-right Mi Hazánk party announced they would initiate a…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Rainbow carriages that are the Pride of the fleet: Britain’s first fully decorated train staffed by LGBT crew is set to make first journey today

08/24/2020

Britain’s first fully decorated Pride train staffed by an LGBT crew will make its inaugural journey this morning. The 11-carriage train, emblazoned with a huge rainbow flag,…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Nigerian lesbian love film to go online to avoid censorship board

08/24/2020

LAGOS – Two young women fill the screen, reclining on a bed, talking about their hope of having children. They are protagonists in a new Nigerian film…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Wish It Was a Coming Out: older gay people in Italy – in pictures

08/24/2020

Photographer Melissa Ianniello’s long-term project investigates the double taboos of homosexuality and old age in Italy. The subjects of her intimate portraits are a group of gay…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Hollywood Boulevard ‘All Black Lives Matter’ street painting will stay permanently to honour the Black queer community

08/23/2020

The huge, LGBT-inclusive ‘All Black Lives Matter’ installation on Hollywood Boulevard is being made permanent to commemorate the history-making march in Los Angeles. Tens of thousands of…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: 1 in 4 LGBTQ youths use nonbinary pronouns, survey finds

08/22/2020

One in 4 LGBTQ youths use pronouns other than he/him or she/hers, according to a survey released Wednesday by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention and…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Conversion therapy survivors are turning to TikTok to share their trauma and help other victims

08/22/2020

A growing number of conversion therapy survivors are sharing their trauma on TikTok amid growing efforts to outlaw the discredited practice. Nearly 700,000 Americans have undergone conversion…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

08/22/2020

The lead U.S. foreign aid agency has proposed a new policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Holland, Michigan adopts anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ, others

08/20/2020

After a seven-hour meeting that went into the night and included several hours of impassioned public comment, Holland City Council voted 8-1 early Thursday morning to approve…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

A London court has set a date to finally decide on same-sex marriage in Bermuda

08/21/2020

The final fate of same-sex marriage in Bermuda will be decided by a court in London – which has now set a date for the hearing. The…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

Germany plans equal rights for lesbian co-mothers

08/21/2020

A German parentage law package close to being submitted to cabinet would give a child born into a lesbian setting two mums, the biological mother and her…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

WEAR IT PURPLE DAY APPROACHES

08/22/2020

In the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, separation from community support structures has been one of the greatest struggles that Rainbow people have faced. It’s hard to…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

Ugandan officials summoned before court over torture of LGBT+ youth

08/21/2020

A town mayor and senior prison official in Uganda have been summoned to appear before a criminal court over allegations of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment against…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

OVER 60 INCIDENTS OF ANTI-LGBTQ VIOLENCE IN ASYLUM CENTERS; GOV’T CALLED TO DO SOMETHING

08/20/2020

More needs to be done to combat anti-LGBTQ violence in asylum centers in the Netherlands, according to foundation LGBT Asylum Support. The foundation received over 60 reports…