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Added on: 02/11/2019

As Angola decriminalizes homosexuality, where does the African continent stand?

Deutsche Welle
02/10/2019
Angola has done away with criminalizing homosexuality, removing a notorious “vices against nature” provision in its penal code. Other African nations still punish people for same-sex relationships. The…
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Added on: 02/11/2019

Children raised by same-sex couples do better in school, new study finds

Washington Post
02/06/2019
Children of same-sex couples perform better in school than kids raised by a mom and a dad, according to new research from several European economists. The researchers…
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LGBTQ HATE INCIDENTS UP 54% IN 2018

The Jerusalem Post
02/10/2019
Harassment of members of the LGBTQ community increased dramatically in 2018, with a 54% increase in reported incidents of homophobia, the Nir Katz Center revealed on Sunday…
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Two transgender women joined migrant caravan. Only one survived journey to San Francisco.

San Franciso Chronicle
02/10/2019
Moments before paramedics rushed Roxsana Hernandez out of an ICE jail in New Mexico, Charlotte consoled her dying friend. They’d known each other only a few months,…
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Amnesty: Ukrainian Authorities ‘Slow To React’ To Attacks Against Journalists, Rights Advocates

Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
02/10/2019
Ukraine has failed to prevent or investigate “numerous” human rights violations committed last year against rights activists, political opponents, and ethnic minorities, according to Amnesty International. “2018…
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LGBTQ pride and Mexican culture in sweet harmony

ABC 7 News
02/09/2019
Mariachi music is one of Mexico’s most beloved forms of music. It’s also among the most traditional. After coming out as a gay man, Carlos Samaniego found…
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Can Businesses Turn Away LGBT Customers? Court Battles Bubbling Back Up

Oregon Public Broadcasting
02/10/2019
The original story behind the Masterpiece Cakeshop case is both undisputed and well known: a gay couple in Colorado walked into the bakery in 2012 and asked…
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Brazil education overhaul aims at ousting ‘Marxist ideology’, LGBT and gender movements

Associated Press
02/06/2019
President Jair Bolsonaro is taking his anti-leftist ideological war to Brazil’s classrooms and universities, causing angst among teachers and education officials who say the government wants to…
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Added on: 02/09/2019

Two suits challenge Singapore’s colonial-era anti-gay law

Erasing 76 Crimes
02/08/2019
Singapore is facing two lawsuits asking the courts to overturn the nation’s colonial-era anti-homosexuality law, Section 377A. Both constitutional challenges were filed after the Indian Supreme Court in…
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Added on: 02/08/2019

Australian senator: Kids shouldn’t have to know gay parents exist

Pink News
02/07/2019
Australian senator Ian Macdonald has said that people have the right to stop their children from learning about gay parents. Macdonald was chairing a Senate committee examining…
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Added on: 02/08/2019

Time to Talk Day: Health secretary pledges ‘focus’ on LGBT mental health

Pink News
02/07/2019
As the UK marks Time to Talk Day, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told that he will ensure that there is a “specific focus” on LGBT+ mental…
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Added on: 02/07/2019

Mumbai Hosts First Same Sex Wedding Party After SC Verdict

Mumbai Mirror
02/05/2019
For Vinodh Philip, there couldn’t be a better tribute than his wedding reception to the city that embraced him and saw him through his toughest turmoil. Nearly…
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Added on: 02/07/2019

LGBTI Students to get New Access to Bursary Program from Province

CBC
02/05/2019
The Nova Scotia government will broaden who is eligible for a bursary meant to promote diversity in the communications field, after Mount Saint Vincent University students and staff said they…
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Added on: 02/07/2019

When Religion Leads to Trauma

New York Times
02/05/2019
“We think of church as a place of healing and transformation, and it is,” says Michael Walrond Jr., pastor of the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem….
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Added on: 02/07/2019

Anastasia Pirveli: Georgia’s Transgender Star

Georgia Today
02/05/2019
Every day, I’m in touch with people who could be homophobic. It’s because of my strong way that people are very kind and polite, there are no…
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Added on: 02/07/2019

Alan Turing Voted Greatest Icon of 20th Century on British TV

The Advocate
02/06/2019
After nearly two months airing mini-documentaries about 20th-century movers and shakers, the BBC Two series Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century picked a winner along with seven…
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Added on: 02/06/2019

Why Some Members of Singapores’s LGBTI Community Prefer Life in the Shadows

South China Morning Post
02/06/2019
When news broke in December that Singapore’s High Court had allowed a gay couple to adopt their son conceived through a surrogate in the United States, it…
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Scottish Schools Celebrate LGBTI History Month with Tribute to Queer Icons

Gay Star News
02/04/2019
Scotland’s secondary schools are transforming corridors into tributes to icons like Marsha P Johnson this LGBTI History Month. ‘Icons: Who Made LGBT History’ is a booklet launched last…
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Added on: 02/06/2019

‘Boy Erased’ Erased from Brazilian Cinemas

Thomson-Reuters Foundation
02/04/2019
A decision by distributors not to release a film about gay conversion therapy has stirred controversy in Brazil and provoked dismay among the country’s LGBT activists. Boy…
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Added on: 02/06/2019

‘Space to coexist’: Inside South Africa’s LGBT-friendly Mosque

Devidiscourse
02/05/2019
Neatly laid out and facing Mecca, it is the colourful prayer mats arranged in a rainbow pattern that offer the first clue that the Masjid Ul-Umam mosque…
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Added on: 02/05/2019

India’s doctors: from ‘conversion’ to conversation on LGBT+ issues

Thomson-Reuters Foundation
02/04/2019
It started with a homophobic post on social media. Dr. Prasad Raj Dandekar, a radiation oncologist based in Mumbai, was scrolling through his Facebook feed one evening…
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Poland’s first openly gay mayor creates new party ‘Spring’

Deutsche Welle
02/03/2019
Poland’s first openly gay politician founded a new progressive party on Sunday ahead of European and Polish elections this year. Robert Biedron, who named the party “Wiosna”…
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Added on: 02/05/2019

CA would ban infant intersex surgeries under Wiener bill

The Bay Area Reporter
02/04/2019
California would become the first state in the nation to ban surgeries performed on intersex infants if state lawmakers approve a bill authored by gay state Senator…
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Added on: 02/05/2019

Victoria to become first Australian state to ban conversion therapy

Pink News
02/03/2019
Victoria is set to become the first state in Australia to introduce a ban on conversion therapy. Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria (head of government) made the…
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Added on: 02/04/2019

LGBT Organization makes significant marks for inclusion of LGBT families in Belize

Breaking Belize News
02/03/2019
Our Circle, an LGBT advocacy group based in Belize is launching new projects aimed at strengthening ties within the local LGBT community. The organization has launched their…
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Added on: 02/04/2019

Violent comments against student who kissed his male partner are ‘worrying’: Inter-University LGBT Network

Coconuts Singapore
02/03/2019
The recent online vitriol some Singaporeans have spewed on a man from a local junior college who was seen on an Instagram post kissing his male partner…
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Added on: 02/04/2019

Pride Parade 2019: Mumbaikars celebrate decriminalisation of homosexuality with love, liberty & fervour

Mirror Now
02/02/2019
The commercial capital of the country celebrated its first Pride Parade after the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality in September last year on Saturday. Hundreds of people were…
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Added on: 02/04/2019

Same-sex couples to file suits for marriage equality in several courts on Feb 14

Japan Today
02/02/2019
Chizuka Oe and Yoko Ogawa have lived together in a relationship of mutual trust for almost 25 years since they fell in love after their first encounter…
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Added on: 02/03/2019

Gay cure therapy ban could be blocked because it limits ‘free speech’.

Pink News
02/01/2019
A US federal magistrate judge has said that a ban on gay cure therapy should be blocked because it violates constitutional free speech protections. Evangelical law firm…
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Added on: 02/02/2019

Film on lesbian romance hailed for pushing boundaries.

Straits Times
02/01/2019
A Bollywood movie about a family accepting their daughter is a lesbian was hailed on Friday (Feb 1) for pushing the boundaries of cinema in socially conservative…
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