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Added on: 06/29/2019

With ball gowns and dance, LGBT+ refugees in Kenya cast aside woes to celebrate

Thomson Reuters Trust
06/27/2019
LGBT+ refugees in Kenya – some dressed in sequined ball gowns and slinky black evening dresses – cast aside their troubles on Thursday to eat lunch, dance…
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Added on: 06/29/2019

Survivor of Jamaican hostility, I work to legalize our loves

Erasing 76 Crimes
06/27/2019
Risk of imprisonment. Death threats. Blackmail. Contempt from police. AIDS. Jamaican/Canadian activist lawyer Maurice Tomlinson tells why he works to overturn Caribbean nations’ anti-gay laws. The first…
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Added on: 06/28/2019

Meet the 41 out gay and bi soccer stars in the Women’s World Cup 2019

Gay Star News
06/27/2019
It is still a hostile world to be a LGBTI athlete. Thankfully, the Women’s World Cup is here to show that you can be both LGBTI and…
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Added on: 06/28/2019

PM Lee: Whatever your sexual orientation, you’re welcome to work in Singapore

The Independent
06/27/2019
Are the winds of change blowing over Singapore? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke up about sexual orientation and Section 377A of the Penal Code, which deem…
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Added on: 06/28/2019

Gay librarian’s suicide prompts LGBT rights debate in Myanmar

Pink News
06/27/2019
The suicide of a gay man in Myanmar who was subjected to “homophobic bullying” from his co-workers has prompted a national conversation on LGBT+ rights in the…
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Added on: 06/28/2019

London Zoo celebrates LGBT couple Ronnie and Reggie with banner telling visitors ‘some penguins are gay, get over it’

The Sun
06/26/2019
LONDON Zoo is celebrating Gay Pride and it’s famous same-sex penguin couple with a penguin-size banner entitled ‘Some penguins are gay. Get over it’. Gay residents, Humboldt…
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Added on: 06/27/2019

Brazil’s Biggest Employer of Trans People Flies Its Pride Flag

Bloomberg News
06/26/2019
With some 11,000 workers, the Guararapes Confeccoes SA is the biggest employer in Rio Grande do Norte state on Brazil’s northeast coast. In a typical month, the…
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Added on: 06/27/2019

Middle East Survey Sees Patchy Progress in Views on Women’s and LGBT Rights

Voice of America
06/26/2019
More men than women in Iraq say they have been sexually harassed, while only 6% of Lebanese people think being gay is acceptable, according to a major…
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Added on: 06/27/2019

“The Deceased Can’t Speak for Herself:” Violence Against LGBT People in Malaysia

Human Rights Watch
06/26/2019
The New Year rang in little cheer for transgender women in Malaysia. On January 1, a trans woman was killed in Klang, a Kuala Lumpur suburb, the…
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Added on: 06/27/2019

Gay Nigerian ex-priest honored for supporting asylum-seekers

Gay Star News
06/26/2019
A gay Nigerian former priest has received an award in recognition of his work supporting LGBTI African refugees. John Adewoye is a lifeline for many across the…
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Added on: 06/27/2019

Nigeria: Three anti-gay criminals captured, but then freed

Erasing 76 Crimes
06/26/2019
Three members of a group of vicious anti-gay criminals were apprehended last week at Ibusa town in Delta State, Nigeria. Members of the gang reportedly were arrested…
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Added on: 06/26/2019

War veterans join biggest gay pride march in Ukraine

Japan Times
06/24/2019
War veterans in fatigues joined more than 8,000 people marching in Kiev’s Gay Pride parade amid tight security on Sunday, the biggest-ever annual celebration of diversity in…
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Added on: 06/26/2019

Abused as ‘dirty’, same-sex newlyweds in Taiwan fear backlash

Reuters
06/25/2019
Although Jovi Wu and Mindy Chiu made history last month as one of the first lesbian couples in Asia to marry legally, they are fearful that conservatives…
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Added on: 06/26/2019

Living joyously is a radical act’: why America’s gay bars still matter

The Guardian
06/25/2019
The gay bar is in trouble. Fifty years after the Stonewall Inn in New York became the symbol for a new wave of gay activism, the three…
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Added on: 06/26/2019

Madrid accused of whitewashing Gay Pride

Irish Times
06/25/2019
The new right-wing government of Madrid is being accused of censoring pro-LGBT publicity ahead of the city’s Gay Pride festivities. The Madrid Gay Pride, which takes place…
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Added on: 06/26/2019

Section 377 is History but Young LGBT Indians Need Concrete Policies to Protect them from Bullying

Human Rights Watch
06/24/2019
The picture is bleak for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in India. Many face harassment and bullying, and to avoid humiliation and violence they often skip…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

Gay prisoners of Buchenwald remembered at Nazi camp site

KATU
06/23/2019
A ceremony has been held at the former site of Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp to remember people imprisoned there because they were thought to be gay. The…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

Gay Pride Parade Draws Hundreds of Thousands in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Havana Times
06/24/2019
Hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of Sao Paulo in Brazil on Sunday in the city’s annual gay pride march, with demonstrators protesting the policies of…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

Drive for LGBT+ equality feared stalling 50 years after Stonewall

Reuters
06/25/2019
When Tree Sequoia joined hundreds of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people rioting in downtown New York 50 years ago, same-sex relations were illegal in more than…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

Far-Right TFP Funded Launch of Conservative Catholic Activist Group in Netherlands

Right Wing Watch
06/24/2019
In another example of cross-fertilization between right-wing movements in the Americas and Europe, Tradition, Family and Property helped fund and train activists in the Netherlands who created…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

FEWER MILLENNIALS ACCEPTING OF LGBTQ PEOPLE, STUDY FINDS

Newsweek
06/24/2019
Young people are often assumed to be progressive, especially when it comes to gay rights. But a new study reveals that acceptance of the LGBTQ community by…
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Added on: 06/24/2019

Ukraine holds largest gay pride event to date in Kiev

BBC
06/23/2019
Thousands have marched through the Ukrainian capital for its annual gay pride event, the largest and most peaceful the country has seen. Ukrainian politicians joined the celebration…
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Added on: 06/24/2019

Taiwan: More than 1,000 gay couples wed in first month of equal marriage

Pink News
06/24/2019
Taiwan has wed 1,173 same-sex couples since becoming the first Asian country to introduce equal marriage on May 24. In the first month of equal marriage, 790…
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Added on: 06/24/2019

Thousands in Costa Rica celebrate in first pride march since gay marriage ruling

Reuters
06/23/2019
Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans celebrated gay pride on Sunday in the capital, San Jose, in the first such march since the country’s constitutional court promised…
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Added on: 06/24/2019

In first, Ibaraki Prefecture to issue partnership certificates for LGBT couples from July

Japan Times
06/24/2019
Authorities in Ibaraki Prefecture said Monday they would start issuing partnership certificates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples from July 1, in an effort to address…
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Added on: 06/24/2019

Thousands march in Romanian capital’s pride parade

Yahoo News
06/23/2019
Thousands of people joined a LGBT pride march in Bucharest on Saturday, nearly a year after Romania held a failed referendum to ban same sex marriage. Socially…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

‘Fear and shame holding LGBT community back’

Times of India
06/23/2019
Patna may have taken giant strides in many fields, but there are areas where it still lags behind other cities. The inclusivity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights

New York Times
06/23/2019
The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Watch: Fleeing persecution, LGBT+ Brazilians find refuge in Portugal

Yahoo News
06/22/2019
Since the election of Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, homophobic or transphobic attacks have multiplied. Advocates say a member of the LGBT+ community is now murdered every…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

With gay couple as stars, Mexican telenovela set to make history

Reuters
06/22/2019
A Mexican soap opera that debuts on Sunday is set to make television history as the country’s first telenovela to feature a gay couple as the leading…
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