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Added on: 01/22/2019

Beijing LGBT Center Celebrates 10 Years of Inclusivity

01/22/2019

With the end of January 2019 fast approaching, and with it, Chinese New Year just around the corner, it’s time again to look back and remember personal achievements over…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

Activists say they are helping people flee new anti-gay purge in Chechnya

01/21/2019

LGBT activists say they have begun helping people flee from the Russian republic of Chechnya amid what they claim is a new wave of detentions and torture targeting the gay…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Egypt sentences TV host to year in jail over gay interview

01/20/2019

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced a television host to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed al-Gheiti,…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

To what Extent are Human Rights respected in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

01/20/2019

There was little visible progress on human rights during 2018. Authorities failed yet again to end structural and political discrimination against Jews, Roma, and other minorities. There…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

South Korea slipping on LGBTI rights, activists warn

01/18/2019

South Korea’s fledging LGBTI movement has triggered a conservative backlash, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned this week. In it’s 2019 world report, HRW said leaders had done little…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Russia website calls for ‘gay hunters’ to attack LGBTIs across the country

01/20/2019

A website that gamified hunting gay men in Russia has been reactivated and is now calling for ‘gay hunters’ in several regions. In April 2018, Saw-inspired website пила (Russian for ‘saw’)…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Australian politician Mark Latham pledges to gut transgender rights

01/20/2019

Australian One Nation politician Mark Latham has unveiled a series of new anti-transgender policy pledges. Latham was once the leader of Australia’s centre-left Labor Party, but is…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities

01/20/2019

When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

How Chester’s first LGBT+ choir are taking the city by storm

01/20/2019

Chester’s only LGBT+ choir is looking for new members of all ages and diversities to complete their ensemble. Proud Marys, who formed in November 2017, already have…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Dillian gets humanitarian protection

01/19/2019

“I feel vindicated.” That was the reaction of Dillian Johnson in an emailed response moments after he was told that he had been granted humanitarian protection by…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Court Decisions on LGBT Rights Echo ‘A Wild Wish’

01/17/2019

More than two centuries ago Mary Wollstonecraft laid the foundations for feminist thought with a simple premise: lack of equal opportunity diminished individual self-worth and hobbled social…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

The ‘angels’ helping migrants at US-Mexico border

01/16/2019

Hugo Castro rubs his temples before joining the sea of evening rush-hour traffic that snakes all the way from San Diego to the Mexican border. The beat-up…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Three billboards outside Nanjing: Chinese artist takes aim at gay ‘conversion therapy’

01/19/2019

On a hazy day this week, a convoy of three white trucks is making its way through the streets of Nanjing, in eastern China. They are covered…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Activists: Chechen Authorities Order Families to Kill LGBT Family Members

01/18/2019

Russian campaigners have told The Daily Beast that Chechen authorities have ordered people to kill LGBT members of their own families, and have demanded ransoms for the release of detained LGBT…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

EP resolution another example of hostility towards Azerbaijan

01/19/2019

The resolution of the European Parliament regarding the case of Mehman Huseynov in Azerbaijan is another example of hostility towards Azerbaijan as a whole. The resolution is…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Vigilante Raid on Indonesian HIV Group

01/17/2019

This week a militant Islamist group in Indonesia raided the offices of an HIV prevention organization on suspicion that the group had been conducting “LGBT activities.” The…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Gay couple to join Japan legal challenge after marriage bid fails

01/18/2019

A couple who failed in an attempt to register their same-sex marriage in Japan vowed on Friday to take legal action to force the country to legalize…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Indian trailblazers #RideWithPride after gay sex ban lifted

01/18/2019

Bollywood makes a lesbian rom-com, a transgender woman bags a key opposition party post and judges green light same-sex couples living together – just some of the…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Using queer cartoons to promote LGBT+ rights in Bangladesh

01/17/2019

In April 2016, the police found the bodies of Xulhaz Mannan and Tonoy Mahbub, two prominent LGBT+ rights activists, in an apartment in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital….

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Facing domestic threat in Hlaingthaya

01/17/2019

“Our township is the most crowded, has the most crime and is the most concerning for city administrators,” bemoaned U Myo Nay Aung, administrator of No.1 ward,…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Kyrgyzstan man has ‘gay’ carved into stomach in homophobic attack

01/16/2019

A bisexual man from Kyrgyzstan was forced to leave the country after suffering two homophobic attacks within the same month. The man, who is in his 20s,…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Everyone in Armenia has the right to protection: MP on LGBT rights

01/16/2019

Everyone, including sexual minorities, have rights, and if they turn to the relevant Commission, we will discuss any issue, member of the Prosperous Armenia Party, candidate for…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Watch: Former volunteer Ukrainian soldier challenges LGBT taboos

01/17/2019

The LGBT community in Ukraine is often under attack but one volunteer soldier has gone public about his sexuality. Viktor Pylypenko, 31, decided to come out after…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Suspect arrested over murders of Bangladesh LGBT activists in 2016

01/16/2019

Police in Bangladesh have reportedly arrested one of the main suspects involved in the murders of LGBT+ activists Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy. Mannan, the founder…

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Added on: 01/17/2019

LGBTI Families Protest Over Lack of Legal Recognition as Parents

01/16/2019

A number of LGBTI families have held a protest outside Leinster House calling for same-sex couples to be given legal recognition as parents. The provision allowing for the…

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Added on: 01/17/2019

LGBTI Book is Pulled From School Libraries for Not Being ‘age appropriate’

01/16/2019

A book with LGBT+ characters has been removed from libraries in elementary schools in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, for not being “age appropriate.” The Ottawa Catholic School Board quietly…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

Over 100 Anglican clergy, critical of their bishops’ LGBT guidance, threaten to go elsewhere

01/16/2019

More than 100 Anglican priests in the Diocese of Oxford signed a letter critical of their bishops’ advice permitting active homosexuals to receive communion and to be…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

New York bans gay conversion therapy, and passes historic trans protection law

01/15/2019

The state of New York has passed bills banning gay conversion therapy and adding gender identity to its anti-discrimination legislation. The state’s legislative body approved the bills on Tuesday…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

Tunisia: Engineer loses job, faces trial for old videos on his phone

01/15/2019

A Tunisian man who worked in Dubai for the past five years lost his job and now faces criminal homosexuality charges in a Tunisian court — all…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

The murder of Gdansk mayor Paweł Adamowicz reflects Poland’s increasingly toxic political climate

01/15/2019

In 2017, a far-right youth organisation called All-Polish Youth issued a series of “political death certificates” announcing the demise of high-profile pro-European politicians. Among them was Paweł…