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Added on: 04/30/2024

How a digital archive is preserving Canada’s history of LGBTQ+ activism

The Conversation
04/29/2024
LGBTQ+ organizations in Canada are gearing up for a “Rainbow Week of Action” that will feature rallies across the country calling on governments to do more to…
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Added on: 04/30/2024

Hong Kong transgender activist gets ID card reflecting gender change after yearslong legal battle

KOB News/Associated Press
04/29/2024
A Hong Kong transgender activist on Monday received a new ID card reflecting his gender change, after a yearslong legal battle to change the document, and he…
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Added on: 04/30/2024

Transgender health care must be paid for by state insurance, says an appeals court

NPR
04/29/2024
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that state health insurance plans must provide coverage for gender-affirming care in North Carolina and West Virginia. Trans advocates say…
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Added on: 04/30/2024

Michelangelo and the most sublime declarations of gay love in art

The Guardian
04/29/2024
Tommaso de’ Cavalieri was the light of the age, unique in the world – at least in the eyes of the man who loved him. That ardent…
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Added on: 04/29/2024

Passage of harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law in Iraq draws diplomatic backlash

Associated Press
04/28/2024
BAGHDAD (AP) — Human rights groups and diplomats criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison…
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Added on: 04/29/2024

‘Queer Storytime for Palestine’ drag event for children causes outrage

Jerusalem Post
04/28/2024
A Massachusetts-based pro-Palestinian drag event for children from two weeks ago has drawn international criticism, according to global media reports from the last week. Drag queens were recorded encouraging young…
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Added on: 04/29/2024

The 1st Diversity Expo is coming, which will bring products and services to the LGBT public to São Paulo

Acapa
04/28/2024
A EXPO Diversity, event aimed at the end consumer, aimed at the public, LGBT and people who value culture, entertainment and quality products, will take place at the event…
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Added on: 04/29/2024

Group of gay footballers ‘set date to reveal identities imminently with couples in hiding’

Towleroad
04/28/2024
A group of professional footballers from Germany will reportedly come out as gay next month before the final weekend of the season. According to German outlet Preussische…
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Added on: 04/28/2024

Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care

CNN
04/27/2024
The Biden administration announced a new rule Friday expanding safeguards against potential discrimination of gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care, in a reversal of Trump-era limitations…
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Added on: 04/28/2024

Russia seeks to ban non-existent ‘anti-Russian separatist movement’

Novaya Gazeta
04/27/2024
The Russian Justice Ministry is looking to ban the “anti-Russian separatist movement” as an extremist organisation, it announced Friday. The movement’s goal is to “destroy Russia’s multinational…
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Added on: 04/27/2024

A trans man facing persecution in Russia heard of ‘trans refuge’ state and fled to Minnesota

MPR News
04/26/2024
Erik Beda’s mere existence is practically a death sentence in Russia. He’s transgender, which is illegal and considered an act of terror in the country. “There is…
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Added on: 04/27/2024

Ghana and Uganda echo each other’s clamp down on gay people

Institute for Security Studies
04/26/2024
Ghana, despite its more solid reputation for democracy and respect for human rights than authoritarian Uganda, is joining it in more stringently criminalising homosexuality – and vacillating…
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Added on: 04/27/2024

4 States Tell Schools to Ignore New Title IX Rules That Protect LGBTQ Students

Truthout
04/26/2024
On Friday, the Biden administration released its final Title IX rules, which include protections for LGBTQ+ students by clarifying that Title IX forbids discrimination based on sexual…
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Added on: 04/27/2024

UK primary school jumps to defence of ‘well-regarded’ trans teacher following parents’ complaints

Pink News
04/26/2024
A primary school in Southampton has issued a letter in defence of a “well-regarded” transgender supply teacher after complaints from parents. Bitterne Church of England Primary School…
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Added on: 04/26/2024

European Union confident Ghana’s Anti-gay bill will not become a law

Legal Planet
04/26/2024
In August of 2005 when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, the combination of torrential rain and flawed infrastructure proved deadly. More than 1,800 people…
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Added on: 04/26/2024

LGBTQ Data No-go For Personalised Online Ads: EU Adviser

Barrons
04/25/2024
Internet users’ public expression of their sexual orientation does not authorise using this data “for the purposes of personalised advertising,” a legal adviser at the EU’s top…
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Added on: 04/26/2024

Congo lawmaker wants jail, not slavery, for LGBT people

Erasing 76 Crimes
04/25/2024
Congolese member of parliament and former presidential candidate Constant Mutamba is standing by his bill that would criminalize gay sex for the first time in the Democratic Republic…
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Added on: 04/26/2024

The journey of LGBT Thailand

Thaiger
04/25/2024
In Thailand, the perception of a welcoming atmosphere for LGBT individuals paints a picture of acceptance that many countries strive for. However, the layers of reality for…
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Added on: 04/25/2024

The “radical feminist” group helping push Ohio’s trans bathroom ban

Ohio Capital Journal
04/24/2024
A “radical feminist” group called the Women’s Liberation Front, that has helped shape anti-trans laws nationwide, has also played a role in a proposed Ohio law that…
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Added on: 04/25/2024

UK minister claims Rwanda is safe for gay migrants – these queer organisations disagree

MSN
04/24/2024
A UK minister has claimed that Rwanda is a “progressive” country where LGBTQ+ migrants will be safe, despite warnings from queer charities. Illegal migration minister Michael Tomlinson praised Rwanda’s…
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Added on: 04/25/2024

Legislating Identity: A Critical Analysis of the Anti-LGBT Bills in Kenya and Ghana

The Jurist
04/24/2024
Recent Afrobarometer survey data (Round 8, 2019-2021) paints a stark picture with 86% of Kenyans and 93% of Ghanaians expressing intolerance towards the LGBT community. This high level of…
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Added on: 04/25/2024

QueerMandu

KALW
04/24/2024
There’s a new rainbow rising over Nepal. This is Sandip Roy in Kathmandu. The Himalayan country has always been known for tourism – Mountains forests old capital cities and…
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Added on: 04/24/2024

Tokyo Rainbow Pride Celebrates 30 Years

Star Observer
04/24/2024
Over the weekend in Japan, 15,000 people took part in the 2024 Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade, one of the biggest LGBTQIA+ events in Southeast Asia. All colours…
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Added on: 04/24/2024

New federal rule bars transgender school bathroom bans, but it likely isn’t the final word

Associated Press
04/23/2024
A new rule from President Joe Biden’s administration blocking blanket policies to keep transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict…
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Added on: 04/23/2024

Louisiana education chief tells schools to ignore new Title IX rules for transgender students

The Hill
04/22/2024
Louisiana’s top education official on Monday instructed schools to ignore new Title IX rules unveiled by the Biden administration, warning that extending the civil rights law’s protections…
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Added on: 04/23/2024

Dominica court overturns anti-sodomy law

Erasing 76 Crimes
04/22/2024
The High Court of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica has ruled that Dominica’s law against consensual same-sex intimacy is unconstitutional. The judgement against the anti-sodomy law…
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Added on: 04/23/2024

In the Olympics of Drag, Taiwan just took the gold

The Interpreter
04/23/2024
For Taiwan, which often finds its international participation constrained – barred from a World Health Organization membership and competing under the “Chinese Taipei” flag at the Olympics…
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Added on: 04/22/2024

In Australia, women-only app becomes latest front in war over trans rights

Al Jazeera
04/21/2024
Sydney, Australia– Sall Grover says she did not think twice when she blocked Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman, from her Australian-based women-only app Giggle for Girls. “It…
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Added on: 04/22/2024

Gov. Greg Abbott Wants to ‘End’ Trans Teachers Expressing Their Gender in Texas

Rolling Stone
04/21/2024
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that he wants to end transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from expressing their gender while teaching in the state. At a speech delivered Friday…
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Added on: 04/22/2024

Venice Biennale platforms LGBTQ , outsider and Indigenous artists

Vancouver Island Free Daily
04/21/2024
Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition that opened Saturday, curated for the first time by…
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