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Added on: 06/09/2021

Almost all Australian LGBTQ+ high school students hear homophobic language at school, study finds

06/08/2021

More than 90% of LGBTQ+ students hear homophobic language at school, with more than one in three confronted with slurs on a daily basis, a study of…

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Added on: 06/09/2021

LGBT activists denied bail in Ghana

06/08/2021

A Ghanaian court on Tuesday denied bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested nearly three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, their lawyer…

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Added on: 06/09/2021

Pride flags lowered and burned in Waterford

06/08/2021

PRIDE FLAGS celebrating the LGBT community and Pride Month have been lowered and burned in Waterford city in what has been described as a ‘disgusting act’. As…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Uzbekistan: Top lawmaker calls for deporting the LGBT community en masse

06/07/2021

The head of one of Uzbekistan’s leading political parties has suggested depriving gays, lesbians and transgender people of citizenship and deporting them as a way of ending…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Lesbian couple in China sues over hetero-only ‘couples discount’

06/07/2021

It’s certainly not Pride month in China. A lesbian couple is suing a zoo in Guangzhou as well as the tourism booking service Ctrip after they were…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Intersex people on the importance of being understood, their inclusion in upcoming census

06/07/2021

Usually the Queen’s Birthday Honours have been divided into men and women, but this year for the first time, there’s a third column after Mani Mitchell, who…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Daniyar Sabitov & Anatoly Chernoussov, Kazakhstan

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Can you start by telling me a bit about yourselves? How did you meet and what led you to create Kok.team? Daniyar Sabitov [D]: We have been…

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Added on: 06/07/2021

Japanese LGBTQ groups and supporters stage rally in Tokyo, demand equal rights

06/06/2021

Japanese sexual minority groups and their supporters staged a rally outside Tokyo’s iconic Shibuya Station on Sunday calling for equal rights and public support for enacting a…

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Added on: 06/07/2021

KILL THE BILLS: PROTESTERS RALLY IN SYDNEY AGAINST MARK LATHAM’S ANTI-TRANS LAWS

06/06/2021

As a pair of “transphobic” law reforms proposed by One Nation’s Mark Latham make their way through the NSW parliament, community groups are amping up their rally…

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Added on: 06/06/2021

Ugandan court frees dozens of gay men on bail after days in jail

6/5/21

A court in Uganda granted bail on Friday to 39 people, most of them gay men, held for days after what police said was a raid on…

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Added on: 06/06/2021

Hundreds of Catholics share sacred blessings with LGBT+ worshippers in defiance of Vatican

6/5/21

Hundreds of Catholics stepped forward to bless LGBT+ people during a virtual service in response to the Vatican’s ban on blessings for same-sex couples. The live-streamed event…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

Ghana court delays bail decision for 21 detained LGBT+ activists

6/4/21

A Ghanaian court on Friday delayed its ruling on a bail application for 21 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) activists detained two weeks ago for an…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

Groups Come Together to Create Safe Spaces for Asian American LGBTQ Community

6/4/21

Several groups in the D.C. area are raising awareness about what it means to be LGBTQ and Asian American. “We exist in so many different ways, and…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

Tax rebate for Bangladesh companies hiring transgender people

6/4/21

Bangladesh has declared a tax rebate for companies hiring transgender people to boost the government’s social inclusion efforts for the marginalised group in the Muslim-majority South Asian…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

Thousands join Jerusalem Pride march in call for LGBT rights

06/03/2021

Thousands of people marched through Jerusalem on Thursday in the annual Pride parade, celebrating LGBTQ rights in the conservative city amid heavy police security. Pride events in…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

Namibia: Landmark test for stance against gay marriage

05/21/2021

Two couples challenging the government’s refusal to recognise same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia are now waiting for three judges to announce their decision following a combined hearing…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

New bill won’t “discriminate”, Cook Islands government says

06/03/2021

Same sex rights groups are expressing guarded optimism after Government disclosed that work is underway to ensure new criminal legislation will not contain clauses that discriminate against…

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Added on: 06/03/2021

Pride month: The LGBT history you probably didn’t learn in school

06/02/2021

If you think we live in an open-minded, sex-positive society now, just wait until you hear what may have been going on down the Yorkshire mines in…

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Added on: 06/03/2021

St. Petersburg prosecutors drop claim on blocking the Russian LGBT Network’s website

05/02/2021

The St. Petersburg Central District Prosecutor’s Office has withdrawn a claim seeking to block the website of the advocacy group Russian LGBT Network, due to a lack…

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Added on: 06/03/2021

Boaters rescue group hurling anti-gay abuse at them after their boat explodes

05/02/2021

It could be viewed as a dramatic demonstration of the concept of karma: a group of young boaters hurling homophobic abuse towards another vessel flying gay pride…

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Added on: 06/02/2021

LGBTQ life in Africa: Arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests

05/31/2021

The staggering pace of arrests of LGBTQ citizens continued today, as Uganda Police raided an LGBTQ shelter and detained 44 members of the LGBTQ community, repeating a…

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Added on: 06/02/2021

How the Religious Right Made Same-Sex Marriage a Gay Rights Crusade

06/01/2021

In 1989, when The New Republic published Andrew Sullivan’s “Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage,” few L.G.B.T.Q. activists took the proposition seriously. They…

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Added on: 06/02/2021

Chile’s Pinera to push same-sex marriage bill long stuck in Congress

06/01/2021

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said on Tuesday he would seek to expedite a same-sex marriage bill that has languished in the historically conservative South American nation for…

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Added on: 06/02/2021

New foundation seeks to help LGBT rights movement in Poland

06/01/2021

A Nobel laureate, a Netflix star and a fashion model are among the board members who helped launch an initiative Tuesday to raise money for LGBT rights…

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Added on: 06/01/2021

Ugandan LGBTQ activists respond to government attempts to further criminalize homosexuality

05/31/2021

LGBTQ Ugandan activists are mobilizing against the Sexual Offenses Bill 2019 before Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs it into law. Members of Uganda’s Parliament caught LGBTQ Ugandan…

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Added on: 06/01/2021

Dirco silent on homophobia row as SA embassy refuses to affirm gay rights in Poland

05/31/2021

For the past eight years, South African diplomats in Poland have signed an annual letter alongside other embassies affirming gay rights in one of the most homophobic…

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Added on: 06/01/2021

Homophobic Nationalists Disrupt Bulgarian LGBT Events

05/31/2021

A group of around 25 to 30 nationalists attempted to halt the screening in Sofia on Sunday evening of a film depicting a relationship between two women….

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Added on: 05/31/2021

Outcry after homophobic attacks in Barcelona

05/30/2021

The Observatory Against Homophobia (OCH) said five gay men had been injured in three separate attacks. In the most serious incident, a man needed facial surgery after…

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Added on: 05/30/2021

Why the LGBTQ community sidelined police for Pride

05/29/2021

The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar in New York City, was no different than many others before it. For decades, before…

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Added on: 05/30/2021

Christian bigot sues for right to discriminate against staff for being gay, trans

05/29/2021

A Christian management company is suing for the right to discriminate against workers for being members of the LGBT+ community, having sex and using Grindr. In June…