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Added on: 09/16/2021

The Team of Maribor Pride — Maribor Youth Cultural Center, Slovenia

Alturi Contributor

How did you each become involved in LGBTI activism? Matej: I’ve engaged in it more actively for the past couple of years. I didn’t fully unpack my…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Islamist Backlash Cancels Bulgarian LGBT Star’s Concert in Turkey

09/14/2021

A scheduled performance at the Balkan Fair in Bursa in Turkey by pop-folk singer Vasil Trojanov Boyanov, better known by his stage name Azis, was cancelled on…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Trailblazer in transgender treatment: Professor Hwang Na-Hyun of KUAH

09/14/2021

People who have a gender identity that differs from the sex assigned at birth are known as transgender. While the term was something many avoided addressing, transgender…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

‘Showing Its Teeth’: EU’s Path to a Showdown Over LGBTQ Rights

09/14/2021

The European Union has a dismal track record when it comes to disciplining countries within its ranks. But this month it opened several new fronts in its…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021

Anti-trans legislation will have drastic effects on intersex people & their healthcare

09/14/2021

For months, a conservative-backed wave of anti-transgender legislation has taken the country by storm, leading this year to have the most anti-LGBTQ laws enacted in American history….

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Added on: 09/15/2021

2 transgender men in court fight over changing sex listed on Hong Kong ID cards

09/13/2021

A person does not have to undergo complete sex reassignment surgery to be considered as having changed into a man or woman, lawyers for two transgender men…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Harassment led transgender nurse to develop health issues

09/13/2021

A labor ministry office in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, concluded that a transgender hospital worker’s mental health issues were the result of months of being misgendered by other…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

Queer South Koreans Hope for an Anti-Discrimination Law to End Decades of Discrimination

09/13/2021

This article can be read in Korean here. Receiving even the most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in…

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Added on: 09/13/2021

Two New Jersey agencies are working with HRC toward fully LGBTQ inclusive foster care

09/12/2021

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a new report, 2021 Change-Makers, highlighting the HRC Foundation All Children-All Families (ACAF) program’s partnership with 119 organizations—a 19 percent…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

Hundreds protest against rise in homophobic attacks in Madrid

9/12/21

Hundreds of people gathered in central Madrid on Saturday to call for better protection for LGBT rights after a series of homophobic attacks that have shocked Spain…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

Ugandan government shamefully claims queer people fleeing its homophobia are fake ‘economic gays’

9/12/21

Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by life imprisonment in Uganda, which has some of the strictest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world. Most queer Ugandans survive by staying…

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Added on: 09/11/2021

OPINION: Invest in the LGBT+ movement and change will come

9/10/21

By the time I have my last day at the end of this week, I will have served as executive director of OutRight Action International for nine…

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Added on: 09/11/2021

Spain searches for answers after string of homophobic attacks

9/10/21

More than four decades after Spain lifted laws that made homosexuality illegal and 16 years after becoming a pioneer in the introduction of same-sex marriage, a surge…

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Added on: 09/11/2021

Could Texas abortion ban strategy be double-edged sword?

9/11/21

The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button…

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Added on: 09/10/2021

Hungary Says It Won’t Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Law for EU Pandemic Aid

09/10/2021

Hungary won’t repeal a law that critics, including the European Union’s executive, say discriminates against the LGBTQ community, even if that’s the price of accessing billions of…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

Sex education becomes battlefield in U.S. culture war over LGBT+ rights

09/08/2021

Sex education is emerging as the next battleground in a U.S. culture war over LGBT+ rights, as some conservative state legislators seek to keep discussion of sexual…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

Spain’s PM to convene hate crime commission after suspected homophobic assault

09/07/2021

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will chair on Friday an urgent meeting of Spain’s commission against hate crimes amid an uproar over a suspected homophobic assault on a…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

Radical groups targeting gay men warns Spanish minister after Madrid attack

09/08/2021

Spain’s government has warned about a rise in hate crimes by radical groups after a brutal assault on a gay man by hooded men who carved the…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

The Guardian accused of ‘censoring’ Judith Butler interview comparing TERFs to fascists: ‘Cowards’

09/08/2021

The Guardian has been accused of “censoring” feminist icon Judith Butler after the newspaper deleted part of an interview in which they compared trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs)…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

Anger over UCT Vice Chancellor’s “harmful” webinar on LGBTIQA+ community

09/07/2021

Gender diversity organisations have slammed UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng for hosting a social media seminar described as “harmful and hurtful” to the LGBTIQA+ community. Titled, What does…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

Tory MP demands government act on ‘cruel and unusual’ trans healthcare crisis

09/07/2021

Tory MP Crispin Blunt has condemned the “unacceptable crisis in trans healthcare” and demanded the government pay for trans patients to have gender-affirming surgeries abroad. Blunt, who…

World Voices

Added on: 09/08/2021

Masen Davis – Transgender Europe

Dorian Coleman

Alturi Contributor

Masen began his path in activism college and by going to antiwar and pro-choice marches. He also found inspiration in his mother, a feminist. “I have always…

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Added on: 09/08/2021

Misinterpretation of conversion therapy ban bill causing confusion in some churches

09/07/2021

Concerns have been raised about how far the proposed legislation goes, and whether parents could be criminalised for having conversations with their children about their sexuality or…

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Added on: 09/08/2021

LGBT groups slam partylist for backing Sara Duterte 2022 bid, say Dutertes ‘no ally to us’

09/07/2021

More than 40 LGBTQ+ organizations and individuals on Monday denounced a partylist claiming to represent their community after it issued a statement backing Davao City Mayor Sara…

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Added on: 09/08/2021

Georgian ombudsman names priest, blogger as organizers of July 5 anti-LGBTQ rally and calls for their prosecution

09/06/2021

The ombudsman calls for the prosecution of an ultra-nationalist journalist and an archpriest of the Georgian Orthodox Church for organizing violence against journalists and LGBTQ rights activists….

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Added on: 09/06/2021

Church in Wales to vote on blessings for same-sex marriages

09/05/2021

Same-sex couples can now have their marriage blessed by the Church in Wales after a vote was held. However, the church will still not marry same-sex couples….

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Added on: 09/06/2021

2023 European Games host Council refusal to withdraw anti-LGBT resolution puts EU funding at risk

09/05/2021

The Council in Malopolska, which includes Kraków, has voted to re-affirm its status as an “LGBT-free zone”, despite the European Union (EU) threatening to remove billions of…

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Added on: 09/06/2021

The Supreme Court could allow attacks to marriage equality just as they are with abortion

09/05/2021

The five right-wing justices of the Supreme Court who decided to uphold Texas’s anti-abortion law last week are sending a strong signal about the shaky future of…

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Added on: 09/05/2021

Local walking tour takes deep dive into the world of Hong Kong’s LGBT community

9/4/21

Beneath a rainbow-coloured umbrella, tour guide Michael Tsang Chi-fai addresses a rapt audience about a four-hour walk ahead. “We’re going to visit different places you may have…

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Added on: 09/05/2021

Thousands protest for social justice, inclusion in Germany

9/4/21

Thousands of activists protested Saturday in Berlin for a more inclusive and progressive society, the German news agency dpa reported. Over 350 organizations including Amnesty International, Fridays…