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Added on: 07/26/2024

Ghana’s top court upholds law criminalizing gay sex

07/25/2024

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a six-decade-old law criminalizing gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Namibia: Government Appeals Historic Same-Sex Ruling

07/25/2024

The Government of Namibia has chosen the wrong side of history by challenging the recent High Court ruling that declared the country’s apartheid-era ban on same-sex intimacy…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

All 45 Gay Women’s Soccer Players Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics

07/25/2024

It’s hard to believe it was little over a year ago. Just 12 months ago, the best women’s soccer teams from across the globe and their fans…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

07/25/2024

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Police Investigate Chilling Grindr Attacks in Canberra

07/24/2024

In distressing news, ACT Police are investigating two alleged homophobic assaults in Canberra, where gay men were lured via dating apps such as Grindr, and attacked. These…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events

07/23/2024

In June, the LGBT+ association Kap Caraïbe in the French Caribbean island of Martinique had to cancel many of the events it planned as part of Pride…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Here’s what Project 2025 says about gay marriage, LGBTQ+ rights

07/23/2024

Nothing in Project 2025 proposes banning gay marriage, but it does have several policy proposals that are anti-LGBTQ+….

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Added on: 07/23/2024

‘A big F’: LGBTQ+ groups disappointed with Marcos SONA

07/23/2024

LGBTQ+ groups are disappointed with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) as he did not mention equal rights as a priority issue…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

US Asks Supreme Court to Unblock Transgender Student Protections

07/22/2024

The Biden administration wants the US Supreme Court to step in and limit lower court orders that fully blocked it from extending protections against sex discrimination in…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

Out of the closet, out of care: LGBTQ communities in Malawi struggle to access health care

07/22/2024

In Lilongwe, Malawi, 24-year-old Cleo Jones recalls feeling more comfortable around girls than boys during childhood. Jones came out as queer and nonbinary at the age of…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

Israel LGBTQ+ Medical Society launches course on transgender-friendly protocols

07/22/2024

When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Police advice to LGBTQ+ individual to avoid public restrooms ruled as rights violation

07/21/2024

A court has ruled that police advising an LGBTQ+ individual, who was undergoing the process of gender correction and changing their resident registration number, to avoid using…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Trans Housing Coalition Receives Grant to Fight Trans Homelessness in Atlanta

07/21/2024

Trans Housing Coalition will be expanding its Housing First Program after receiving a grant from Health Care Advocates International’s HCAI Fund. The non-profit, an Atlanta-based trans-led organization aimed…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

From fear to freedom: LGBTQ+ migrants seek safe haven in Germany

07/21/2024

Faced with rape threats, forced conversion therapy, and the necessity to flee their homeland, four queer individuals share their experiences with DW. “The Russian police threatened to…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Bangladesh Supreme Court sets aside government jobs for third-gender people

07/21/2024

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled today that 1 percent of government jobs must be set aside for third-gender people and those with physical challenges. The human rights…

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Added on: 07/21/2024

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act challenged at Supreme Court

07/19/2024

Following months of preparations, the long-awaited joint appeal to the Supreme Court of Uganda against the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) was formally lodged on July 11 by 22…

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Added on: 07/21/2024

‘Better days’ ahead for South Korea LGBTQ couples after landmark ruling

07/20/2024

When South Korea was run by a military-backed authoritarian government in the 1970s, a “coffee house” where lesbians secretly gathered was an easy target. The country has…

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Added on: 07/20/2024

Marriage equality comes to Aruba and Curacao; South Korea sees progress on LGBTQ unions

07/19/2024

The global push to recognize the rights of LGBTQ couples continued in separate parts of the world this month when the Dutch Supreme Court ordered the legalization…

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Added on: 07/20/2024

Turkey Bans Transgender Art Exhibition Amid Intensified LGBTQ+ Crackdown

07/19/2024

Turkish authorities have banned an exhibition that explores the art and history of the country’s transgender community, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. Authorities shut down the exhibition,…

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Added on: 07/19/2024

House to review anti-homosexuality law

07/18/2024

Capitol Hill, Liberia, July 19, 2024 – Liberia’s House of Representatives has instructed its committees on Gender, Health, and Judiciary to review the request for the amendment…

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Added on: 07/19/2024

This African country never outlawed homosexuality… until now

07/18/2024

The military junta ruling the West African county of Burkina Faso announced that homosexual acts will now be a punishable offense. As such, the nation is the…

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Added on: 07/19/2024

What is Trump running mate J.D. Vance’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights?

07/18/2024

LONDON – Donald Trump’s decision to name J.D. Vance as his running mate for November’s U.S. election has been criticised by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, who say the…

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Added on: 07/19/2024

In landmark ruling, South Korea’s top court confirms state benefits for gay couples

07/18/2024

SEOUL, July 18 (Reuters) – South Korea’s supreme court on Thursday upheld a ruling that a same-sex partner was eligible for spousal benefits from state health insurance,…

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Added on: 07/18/2024

Ghana supreme court defers ruling on anti-LGBTQ bill

07/17/2024

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred its ruling on a request to restrain parliament from transmitting a highly contested anti-LGBTQ bill to President Nana Akufo-Addo for his final…

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Added on: 07/18/2024

Dutch Supreme Court Allows Gay Marriage in Aruba and Curaçao

07/17/2024

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled that Aruba and Curaçao must allow same-sex couples to marry, overturning an existing prohibition on the practice in those constituent…

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Added on: 07/18/2024

One year later, Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law is destroying families, lives, & future peace

07/17/2024

In May 2023, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the world. A year on, the law has worsened the state of LGBTQ+…

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Added on: 07/18/2024

Nearly half of 18 to 24 year olds are ‘not fully straight’, new survey shows

07/16/2024

Findings in the Global Sex Survey, marking condom company Durex’s 95th anniversary, suggested society is becoming more open to sexual diversity than ever before. Forty-four per cent…

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Added on: 07/17/2024

Tel Aviv backs housing for transgender community with support from religious factions

07/16/2024

The Tel Aviv City Council has approved a proposal by council member Reut Nagar to consider allocating part of the city’s affordable housing project to the transgender…

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Added on: 07/17/2024

We Are Being Killed’: A Gay Man Forced To Escape Turkmenistan

07/16/2024

David Omarov, a native of Turkmenistan, says he was arrested and tortured there for being gay — a crime under the country’s repressive regime. He was also…

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Added on: 07/17/2024

California bans forced outing of LGBTQ+ students as Gov. Gavin Newsom signs landmark law

07/16/2024

California has enacted a landmark law banning schools from outing LGBTQ+ students to their parents or guardians, becoming the first state to ban forced outing. Democratic Gov….