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Added on: 01/06/2020
01/05/2020
The Supreme Court on Monday denied with finality a motion for reconsideration filed by Jesus Falcis and other LGBT advocates seeking recognition of same-sex marriage in the…

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Added on: 01/06/2020
01/05/2020
Kate McKinnon was not in the closet. She’s been open about being a lesbian for years. She joked about it with Jerry Seinfeld on “Comedians in Cars…

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Added on: 01/05/2020
01/02/2020
Two men taking to the ice might seem uncontroversial, but as a same-sex couple competing together this week on British reality TV show “Dancing On Ice”, singer…

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Added on: 01/05/2020
01/03/2020
Advocates in the Washington LGBTQ community on Thursday blasted a judge’s decision to set bail at $750,000 for a man charged with a hate crime in the…

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Added on: 01/05/2020
01/04/2020
A prominent Christian conservative is now claiming that the Nazi Party was founded and staffed by gay people. “Let’s not forget that the Nazi Party started in…

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Added on: 01/04/2020
Thailand’s blossoming gay community is generating new business opportunities, including bars and cafes. The Tourism Authority of Thailand launched a campaign targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…

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Added on: 01/04/2020
01/03/2020
On December 17, the Galpão Bela Maré arts center held the Periferia Tem Potência (The Periphery Has Potency) festival in partnership with the Favelas Observatory, the Instituto…

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Added on: 01/04/2020
01/03/2020
The United Methodist Church plans to split into two later this year, church officials said on Friday, a schism that follows years of contention over whether the…

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Added on: 01/04/2020
12/03/2020
Pakistan has extended a government health insurance scheme to transgender people for the first time, in a move aimed at ending discrimination in access to care, an…

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Added on: 01/03/2020
12/02/2020
Jude spent so many years fighting for the bill to allow transgender Coloradans to more easily change their names and gender designations on identity documents that, eventually,…

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Added on: 01/03/2020
01/02/2020
Gay weddings are set to begin in the region on Valentine’s Day after Westminster moved to extend equal marriage to the region in the absence of a…

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Added on: 01/03/2020
01/02/2020
Uruguay is ranked 18th in the world in the LGBT + Danger Index ranking that evaluates the friendliest and most dangerous destinations for the lesbian, bisexual and…

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Added on: 01/03/2020
12/01/2020
“It’s mainly snide remarks due to toxic masculinity,” Aziza Lake says. But homophobia in Antigua and Barbuda sometimes manifests itself in sporadic brutality too, she continues. In…

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Added on: 01/01/2020
12/31/2019
After living as an openly gay couple in Honduras, Oscar Juarez Hernandez and Darwin Garcia Portillo thought the United States was the last place where their inability…

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Added on: 01/01/2020
12/31/2019
When German authorities insisted Tsepo Bollwinkel get sterilized in order to be legally considered a man 25 years ago, he was “eager to follow the rules, even…

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Added on: 01/01/2020
12/31/2019
Police in Rio de Janeiro have identified one of the people responsible for a gasoline bomb attack targeting satirists behind a Christmas program on Netflix that some…

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Added on: 01/01/2020
12/31/2019
The decade of the 2010s saw unprecedented steps forward for the LGBTQ community in the U.S., with the winning of the right to marry same-sex partners and…

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Added on: 12/31/2019
The Court of Appeal has today delivered a judgment denying the Belize Government’s appeal of a 2016 ruling decriminalising adult consensual same-sex relations. The three-judge bench reaffirmed…

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Added on: 12/31/2019
12/19/2019
Fundamentalist Christian groups from 23 countries descended on Taipei in October to strategize about how to roll back protections for sexual minorities and influence public opinion and…

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Added on: 12/31/2019
12/11/2019
As a transgender woman, Bebo Haider struggled for years to find a beauty salon in Pakistan that would cut her hair. She tried many top-notch salons in…

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Added on: 12/31/2019
12/30/2019
For the European demagogue, victimhood and strength go hand in hand. In the agitators’ worldview, a host of powerful forces—domestic and foreign—are targeting their people, their nation,…

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Added on: 12/30/2019
If someone told Sindhuja in the dying moments of 2009 that a decade later, she would be standing as a full citizen and garnering the adulation of…

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Added on: 12/30/2019
12/29/2019
Reuben Sharpe, 39, transitioned to male 12 years ago but decided he still wanted to become a parent. Six years ago he stopped taking hormones in the…

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Added on: 12/30/2019
12/29/2019
A rom-com about a lesbian flight attendant and a romance in a gay spa are among the shows featured on Asia’s first LGBT-focused streaming service, which is…

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Added on: 12/30/2019
12/29/2019
At the dawn of the year 2010, few Americans could predict that the coming decade would revolutionize the legal and cultural landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

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Added on: 12/29/2019
On Christmas Day, LGBT refugees in Kenya again were the targets of homophobic attacks. It was just the latest outrage against LGBT asylum-seekers who are repeatedly told…

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Added on: 12/29/2019
12/28/2019
Governments should be judged not just on what they do with their time in office but also on what they don’t do. There are only so many…

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Added on: 12/29/2019
The past decade has seen a backlash against human rights on every front, especially the rights of women and the LGBT communities, according to a top U.N….

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Added on: 12/29/2019
12/29/2019
My first job at BuzzFeed News in 2013 was something of an experiment: We wanted to cover LGBTQ rights worldwide as seriously as we cover wars or…

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Added on: 12/28/2019
12/27/2019
At the wheel of the Rainbow Rider, a semi-tractor truck wrapped in a rainbow-hued road map, the LGBT Truckers can’t help but attract attention. And that’s their…