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Added on: 04/22/2022

Nations with anti-LGBT laws: 49% Muslim, 44% Christian

04/20/2022

Almost half of the world’s 71 countries that have anti-LGBT laws are nations where a majority of the citizens are Muslims. By comparison, Christian-majority countries account for slightly…

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Added on: 04/21/2022

Fifty Years On, Norway Apologises for Law That Criminalised Gay Sex

04/21/2022

OSLO (Reuters) – The Norwegian government formally apologised to gay men on Wednesday for a law that once criminalised sexual intercourse between men. Some 119 individuals were…

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Added on: 04/21/2022

NYC’s oldest gay bar — home to major pre-Stonewall public action for LGBTQ rights — gets commemorative plaque

04/20/2022

Julius’ Bar, New York City’s oldest continuously operating gay bar, and home to a pivotal pre-Stonewall public action for LGBTQ rights, is finally getting a commemorative plaque…

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Added on: 04/21/2022

South Korea’s top court overturns convictions of gay soldiers

04/21/2022

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a military court ruling that convicted two gay soldiers for having sex outside their military…

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Added on: 04/21/2022

The film Putin doesn’t want the world to see: Firebird, a gay love story about fighter pilots

04/21/2022

Oleg Zagorodnii is sitting in the cafe he owns in Kyiv, beneath a brightly coloured painting of Aladdin smiling down from the wall behind. “It is just…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

India’s first openly gay prince endured years of torturous conversion therapy. Now, he’s fighting to make the practice illegal.

04/19/2022

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the 39th direct descendant of India’s Gohil Rajput dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12. But he could only live his truth…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

From backstage to spotlight: LGBTQ samba group takes on Rio carnival.

04/19/2022

For the first time ever, a majority-LGBTQ samba outfit will take part in Rio carnival’s famous street parades, flaunting rather than hiding their sexual identity. In the…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

LGBTQ Agenda: LGBTQ group disappointed court rules diversity law is unconstitutional.

04/19/2022

Members of LGBTQ and other minority business associations have expressed disappointment at a recent court decision that has ruled a California law aimed at increasing diversity on…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

Look Inside Lambda Warszawa, the Organization Helping LGBTQ Ukrainian Refugees.

04/19/2022

A deeply Catholic country, Poland has long been a fraught place for LGBTQ people. But in 2015, when President Andrzej Duda was elected, anti-LGBTQ sentiments increased amid…

World Voices

Added on: 04/19/2022

Seoul Queer Culture Festival – Celebrating Korean LGBTI Pride

Hunter Slingbaum

Alturi Contributor

For the past decade or so, South Korea has been experiencing a surge in widespread international attention. The rise of K-Pop (Korean pop music) and K-Dramas (Korean…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

Same-Sex Marriage Foes Get Band Back Together for ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Push.

04/18/2022

As social conservatives across the country push a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children, many veterans of the…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

Gay civil partnership bill included in Thai government agenda.

04/18/2022

More equal rights for same sex couples has moved up a notch after the Thai government included them in legislation planned before the end of the year….

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Added on: 04/19/2022

The Mohyeddin Family’s Radical Restaurant Mission.

04/18/2022

If Samira Mohyeddin had grown up in Iran, she would be a different person. She would not be able to sing or dance in public, or leave…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

We did not run away’: Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community fights homophobia on the frontlines.

04/18/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, members of the LGBTQ+ community and activists have been visibly joining and helping Ukraine’s army – with some hoping their participation…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 04/19/2022

Seoul Queer Culture Festival – Celebrating Korean LGBTI Pride

Hunter Slingbaum

Alturi Contributor

For the past decade or so, South Korea has been experiencing a surge in widespread international attention. The rise of K-Pop (Korean pop music) and K-Dramas (Korean…

Global News

Added on: 04/18/2022

LGBT+ Afghan deaths ‘preventable’ if West had prioritised evacuations, campaigners say

04/17/2022

The deaths of LGBT+ people in Afghanistan could have been prevented if Western governments had prioritised their evacuation after the country fell to the Taliban, campaigners have…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

How a small queer collective brought ‘Pride’ back to Assam

04/17/2022

As the world continues to push for more tolerance along the lines of gender identity and sexual orientation, the LGBTQIA+ community in India is constantly finding its voice…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

Gay Missouri lawmaker to GOP colleague: ‘I’m not afraid of you anymore’

04/16/2022

Drama erupted in the Missouri State House over a proposed law that would prevent trans women from participating in women’s sports. In a passionate speech on Thursday, state…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

The dark past of an Australian prison where convicted homosexuals were sent to separate from ‘normal’ inmates – and authorities bizarrely tried to ‘CURE’ them

04/17/2022

It is now the state’s preferred prison for celebrity inmates, but Cooma Correctional Centre has a dark past which in the 1950s saw it designated as the…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

This organization is helping LGBTI people imprisoned in Senegal

4/15/22

The situation for LGBTI people in Senegal continues to deteriorate. Homophobic marches are organized and arrests are carried out against LGBTI people. In August 2020, the Free…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Kansas governor vetoes ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports for second year in a row

4/15/22

Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Friday a bill that would ban transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports, the second year in a row she has made such…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Murders of two gay men in Ireland serve as brutal reminder that LGBT+ people still aren’t safe

4/14/22

In September 1982, a gay man called Declan Flynn was brutally murdered in Dublin’s Fairview Park by a group of teenage boys for the simple crime of…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Russia Adds Prominent Journalists, LGBT Activists To Registry Of ‘Foreign Agents’

4/16/22

The Russian Justice Ministry has added several journalists, including some who have collaborated with RFE/RL, and two LGBT rights activists to its registry of foreign agents. Two…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

The library sheltering queer refugees fleeing Ukraine

4/15/22

This is not the story I planned to write. Initially, it was about Biblioteka Azyl, the queer library Filip Kijowski founded at Lublin’s Galeria Labirynt in 2020…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

This organization is helping LGBTI people imprisoned in Senegal

4/15/22

The situation for LGBTI people in Senegal continues to deteriorate. Homophobic marches are organized and arrests are carried out against LGBTI people. In August 2020, the Free…

Global News

Added on: 04/16/2022

Kosovo’s underground LGBTQ community leads ‘double life’

4/15/22

The Kosovo couple have hidden their relationship for eight years. Whenever they meet in public, common friends are invited in order not to raise suspicion. They also…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

Transgender migrants in Juarez wait chance to apply for U.S. asylum

4/15/22

Alejandra Gomez, a transgender woman, left her native Honduras a few months ago, fleeing discrimination and threats of violence. “That is the reason I am here,” Gomez…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Brooklyn Man Cuffed on Arson Charges at LGBTQ+ friendly Rash Nightclub

04/14/2022

A suspect has been arrested for starting a fire that injured two people at Bushwick’s Rash, a popular nightclub within the city’s LBGTQ+ community. John Lhota, 24, was…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Man Attacks Chair of Ukrainian LGBT Rights Group

04/14/2022

(WB) A man on Thursday attacked the chair of an LGBT rights group in Ukraine with pepper spray. Insight Chair Olena Shevchenko in a Facebook post said the…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Thousands expected at LGBT vigils for Sligo murder victims

04/14/2022

Thousands of people are expected to attend vigils over the coming days to honour the memory of two men, Aidan Moffitt 41, and Michael Snee 58, found…