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Added on: 02/25/2020

LGBT Pattaya Pride festival showcases rights and acceptance

02/24/2020

Pattaya celebrated its LGBT community with the colorful Pattaya International Pride 2020 festival. City tourism advisor Rattanachai Sutidechanai kicked off the Feb. 15 festival with lesbian, gay,…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

SETBACKS FOR QUEENSLAND’S CONVERSION THERAPY BAN

02/24/2020

Australia’s first proposed legislation criminalising “LGBT conversion therapy” has suffered setbacks and divides after receiving criticism and support on issues of medicinal practice and gender dysphoria. Under…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

A Police Raid, Viral Videos and the Broken Lives of Nigerian Gay Law Suspects

02/24/2020

The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police truck into the glare of a sunny courtyard and a phalanx of cameras. Some clutched…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

Zionist Left Campaign Lures Arab LGBT Voters

02/23/2020

The Labor-Gesher-Meretz list on Monday launched an ad targeting the LGBT community inside Israeli-Arab society, in an attempt to appeal to liberal voters affiliated with the Joint…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

No Scottish police officers have been trained to tackle LGBT hate crime in four years despite being a ‘priority’

02/23/2020

Despite rocketing rates of violence against LGBT+ people in Scotland, absolutely no Police Scotland officers have been sent to a training course to better tackle the upsurge…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

Morality police swing out wildly in Indonesia

02/23/2020

Indonesia’s self-appointed morality police are at it again, this time featuring a university-educated member of the Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI) who drew public ridicule…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

Torched Effigy of Gay Couple Causes Outrage in Croatia

02/23/2020

The Croatian President, government ministers, LGBT rights groups and the Ombudsperson on Monday all condemned the burning of an effigy of a kissing same-sex couple and their…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo

02/22/2020

When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Hundreds join colourful Pride Parade in Thai city

02/22/2020

Hundreds of people joined a colourful Pride Parade in Chiang Mai in Thailand on Saturday (February 22nd). The event, which celebrates the LGBT community, has been held…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Rainbow Scapes: Filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan on chronicling the lives of LGBT individuals who ‘lived fearlessly’

02/22/2020

In 2011, I travelled across India to document lives of 20 gay, lesbian and transgender persons who have lived their lives fearlessly and contributed in their own…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500%

02/22/2020

For several days this week the veteran Swedish journalist Malou von Sivers will cover the same topic in every episode of her nightly TV chat show: the…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Ivory Coast family beats up gay son after meeting his lover

02/21/2020

Jules Franckrin Kouamé Kouadio, ironworker by trade, was beaten up by members of his family after presenting his lover on his 35th birthday. On Saturday, Feb. 8,…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Polish court says campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia was “informative”

02/21/2020

A Polish court has ruled in favour of a campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia, claiming it was “informative” and that it raised awareness. Polish lawyer, Bartłomiej…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

‘A new kind of soft power’: Jacinda Ardern appears on cover of Time magazine

02/21/2020

Jacinda Ardern has appeared on the cover of Time magazine ahead of the anniversary of the Christchurch mosque shootings, in which 51 people were killed by a…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Australian state mulls nation’s first gay ‘conversion therapy’ ban

02/21/2020

An Australian state is considering the nation’s first ban and jail sentences for so-called gay conversion therapy, a bid that has sparked division more than two years…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Gay Nigerian’s achievement: a passionate public kiss

02/21/2020

Yomi, who is currently based in the UK, came out to his family sometime early last year on Whatsapp. Since then, he and his boyfriend moved in…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

China HIV patients risk running out of AIDS drugs in days – UNAIDS

01/20/2020

HIV patients in China risk running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because quarantines and lockdowns aimed at containing the coronavirus disease outbreak mean they cannot replenish vital…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

Gay Couple Moves Kerala HC For Recognition Of Homosexual Marriages

02/02/2020

Nikesh and Sonu, the first ‘married’ gay couple from Kerala, have moved the High Court of Kerala challenging the provisions of Special Marriage Act 1954 to the…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

With ‘pink yuan’ ads, China wakes up to the world’s biggest gay economy

02/20/2020

The growing popularity of online gay-friendly adverts in China shows business is waking up to the ‘pink yuan’ and more liberal attitudes among young people but the…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

Acting intelligence head Richard Grenell’s push to decriminalize homosexuality has yielded little

02/20/2020

Donald Trump became the first president to name an openly gay person to a Cabinet-level position Wednesday when he announced that Richard Grenell would serve as his…

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Added on: 02/20/2020

Indonesia could force LGBT people into rehabilitation under draft ‘family resilience’ law

01/19/2020

A proposed bill to be considered by Indonesian Parliament would compel people with “deviant” sexual persuasions to undergo “rehabilitation”. The so-called Family Resilience Bill, which covers many…

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Added on: 02/20/2020

The Queer Case for Bernie Sanders

02/19/2020

Coming out of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the two top contenders for the Democratic nomination are Bernie Sanders, a straight white guy pushing…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

Osaka and Japan’s outreach to LGBT tourism is a model for Ireland to replicate

02/18/2020

Ireland’s groundbreaking marriage equality vote will be five years old this May – but have you seen one major ad campaign to attract the sought after LGBT…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

Amid the Epidemic, a Quiet Leap Forward for China’s LGBT Community

02/18/2020

The days leading up to the Lunar New Year was a tense time for people across China amid the worsening COVID-19 epidemic. But Jiang Junjie had even…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

Trump’s Morality Police Are Obsessed With Buttigieg Kissing His Husband

02/18/2020

There is some good news about America: An openly gay candidate is mounting a serious campaign for the presidency and winning votes from rural Iowa to the…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

African countries must scrap outdated laws and fully legalise same-sex relations

02/18/2020

Sixty-eight countries around the world continue to criminalise same-sex relations. Almost half of them are based in Africa, comprising more than half the continent. These laws are…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

Extending marriage to same-sex couples is good for the Costa Rican economy

02/17/2020

Earlier this month, more than 30 businesses came out in support of extending marriage to same-sex couples in Costa Rica – from major multinationals such as Microsoft…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

French town suspends ties with Polish twin city over LGBT rights

02/17/2020

A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

As Australia looks to act on LGBT conversion practices, survivors and religious groups speak out

01/17/2020

Raised in an ultra-conservative Anglican family, transgender woman Roe Johnson says she spent her childhood being told she was broken. The 49-year-old from Melbourne says she lived…

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Added on: 02/17/2020

Gay Filipinos Coin the Coolest Kind of Slang with ‘Beki’ Talk

02/14/2020

Andre Santos is a copywriter for a major advertising agency in Manila. An out and proud gay man, he’s the first to admit that Philippine society still…