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Added on: 04/02/2019

Transgender guitarist strikes a different note

Malaysiakini
03/28/2019
Shika Corona strums her guitar on a Kuala Lumpur stage, the crowd dancing as she launches into a chorus, “Gender doesn’t lie between your thighs!” Shika, 42,…
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Added on: 04/02/2019

Letter to Prime Minister Plenković on Balkans Trans and Intersex Pride March

Human Rights Watch
03/27/2019
We write to urge you to provide appropriate security and protection to ensure the rights to freedom of assembly and expression are protected during the March 30,…
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Added on: 04/02/2019

Chinese gay rights activists out to challenge censored cut of Freddie Mercury movie Bohemian Rhapsody

South China Morning Post
03/29/2019
Yanzi, founder of the Guangzhou-based LGBT Rights Advocacy of China group, this week asked Chinese film-goers what they thought about the censored version of Bohemian Rhapsody, the…
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Added on: 04/01/2019

No matter their allegiance, Ukraine’s politicians are ignoring LGBT rights

Open Democracy
03/29/2019
Ahead of Ukraine’s presidential elections, the problems of the country’s LGBT community are being ignored by our leading politicians. None of the leading candidates’ programmes even mention…
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Added on: 04/01/2019

Calgary LGBT advocates protest UCP plan they say would ‘out’ kids

CBC News
03/29/2019
Hundreds of people marched in southwest Calgary Thursday in support of gay-straight alliances, and to oppose a plan that they say could see LGBT kids outed without…
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Added on: 04/01/2019

Uganda: Queer-themed magazine focuses on mental health

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/29/2019
The new 52-page magazine is focused on mental health and intimate-partner violence within the sex worker and LGBTQ communities. Copies are been widely distributed across the country…
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Added on: 04/01/2019

The LGBT advocate set to be an MP

Bangkok Post
04/01/2019
Ranked 9th on the Future Forward Party (FFP) list, award-winning filmmaker and LGBT advocate Tanwarin Sukkhapisit will almost certainly become Thailand’s first transgender MP. She has been…
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Added on: 04/01/2019

Lebanon court ‘acquits military personnel’ in sodomy case

Al Jazeera
03/30/2019
Judge Peter Germanos on Saturday cleared the group of charges of committing sexual acts “contrary to nature” and declined to issue warrants for their arrest, the Daily…
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Added on: 03/31/2019

70 percent of Singaporeans disapprove of same-sex relations, study finds

Gay Star News
03/30/2019
Almost 70 percent of people in Singapore disapprove of same-sex relationships, a recent study has found. The number of people who disapprove was highest among Singaporean Muslims,…
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Added on: 03/31/2019

Cayman Islands legalises same-sex marriage in historic ruling

The Independent
03/30/2019
The Cayman Islands has legalised same-sex marriage after a judge ruled prohibitions on such relationships was unconstitutional. The decision marked a personal victory – and the end…
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Added on: 03/31/2019

For many Native Americans, embracing LGBT members is a return to the past

Washington Post
03/29/2019
The sound of drums, singing and prayers marked the opening of a powwow in Phoenix on a Saturday afternoon this month. Marchers carried the flags of the…
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Added on: 03/31/2019

Transgender band plays upbeat songs in conservative Malaysia

Devidiscourse
03/28/2019
Shika Corona strums her guitar on a Kuala Lumpur stage, the crowd dancing as she launches into a chorus, “Gender doesn’t lie between your thighs!” Shika, 42,…
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Added on: 03/30/2019

Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian ‘fundamentalists’ pour millions of ‘dark money’ into Europe, boosting the far right

Open Democracy
03/27/2019
US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of ‘dark…
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Added on: 03/30/2019

CPI-M releases manifesto, calls for anti-discriminatory bill

Mumbai Mirror
03/29/2019
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) released its manifesto in New Delhi on March 28 calling for a comprehensive anti-discriminatory bill covering the LGBTQIA+ community of…
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Added on: 03/30/2019

France sees rise in conversion therapies to ‘cure’ homosexuality

France 24
03/27/2019
The film “Boy Erased” highlights controversial conversion therapies in the United States, which attempt to change homosexual children to heterosexual. This practice is surprisingly common in France. …
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Added on: 03/30/2019

Taiwan to amend LGBT education law

Gay Star News
03/27/2019
Taiwan’s education ministry has revised a 2004 law that promotes sexual orientation and gender identity education in the country’s schools. Luckily, the ministry’s proposed changes this week…
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Added on: 03/29/2019

LGBT refugee leader steps down

The Bay Area Reporter
03/27/2019
The Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration’s founder and leader announced he would be stepping down from the LGBT-focused organization after a decade of advocating for queers…
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Added on: 03/29/2019

New UCP candidate under fire for link to Christian group’s conversion therapy-style programs

CBC News
03/24/2019
A newly appointed United Conservative Party candidate strongly denies claims that when he promoted religious sexuality and relationship programming, he was supporting conversion therapy, a widely-discredited practice…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

Trump’s transgender ban on the military gets full legal blessing

New York Daily News
03/27/2019
The Trump administration’s long-wished-for transgender military ban now is officially – and legally – cleared to proceed. Different variations of the ban have been floating in legal…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

First LGBT-inclusive textbooks for elementary schools in Japan

Gay Star News
03/28/2019
Publishers of elementary school textbooks in Japan have included LGBT information in the latest editions of their books. Two out of five government-accredited publishers have included content…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

Zambian fleeing from arrest for Homosexuality denied Refugee Asylum in South Africa

Lusaka Times
03/28/2019
A young gay man who left a well-paid government job and fled from Zambia because of his sexual orientation has been denied refugee status by the South…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

Indonesian University Censors Lesbian Love Story

Human Rights Watch
03/26/2019
A student news website in Indonesia that published a story about a woman expressing her love for another young woman was ordered by university officials to shut…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

Brunei urged to halt introduction of strict new anti-LGBT+ laws

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/25/2019
Brunei must rowback on plans to implement changes to its penal code next month that could see LGBT+ people whipped or stoned to death for same-sex activity,…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

LGBT refugees protest Kenya arrests and jail time

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/26/2019
LGBT refugee activists gathered outside a Nairobi courtroom today to protest the mistreatment of 20 LGBT refugees who were arrested at an earlier protest and have been…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

New culture war’: Northern Ireland’s LGBT+ community fights for gay marriage

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/27/2019
Hidden away up several flights of stairs in the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, teenagers, many of them with shocks of red, blue and rainbow hair, relaxed…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

Majority of Americans back LGBTQ protections — but support is sliding

NBC News
03/26/2019
Nearly 70 percent support nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, though support has fallen since 2015. A majority of Americans across every state and…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

LGBT Groups Want Pete Buttigieg to Be More Than the ‘Gay Candidate for President’

The Daily Beast
03/21/2019
LGBT political movers and shakers were thrilled when Pete Buttigieg won a spot on the debate stage—but say he has to keep impressing them if he wants…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

Little Mix fly the LGBT flag at Dubai concert despite strict homosexuality laws in UAE

Metro
03/25/2019
Little Mix made quite the statement during their performance in Dubai over the weekend, proudly flying the rainbow flag to support LGBT+ rights. The Shout Out To…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

For transgender people, visiting family in Mexico often means hiding their gender identity

Santa Fe New Mexican
03/23/2019
In the pictures, Jess Enriquez Taylor wears artful makeup and her hair is carefully styled. But her face was bare as she rode the bus toward the…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

Political Rocks Stars Turn Up Heat Ahead of Thai Elections

Malaysia Sun
03/23/2019
From an upstart entrepreneur to a transgender person hoping to find a political voice for the LGBT community, this Sundays Thai election is proving inclusive even if…
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