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Added on: 06/03/2021

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

BBC
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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Global News

Added on: 06/03/2021

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

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The St. Petersburg Central District Prosecutor’s Office has withdrawn a claim seeking to block the website of the advocacy group Russian LGBT Network, due to a lack…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

Added on: 06/03/2021

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

The Guardian
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

Erasing 76 Crimes
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

New York Times
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

Reuters
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

Associated Press
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

The Seattle Lesbian
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

Defend Truth
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

Balkan Insight
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

MSN
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

ABC News
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

Pink News
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…
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Added on: 05/29/2021

WATCH: Transgender Albanians battle taboos

Agence France Presse
05/28/2021
Transgender people find little acceptance in conservative societies like Albania. After years of isolation, members of the transgender community decided to confront taboos by launching a photo…
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Added on: 05/29/2021

I Am Samuel: the film aiming to ‘change the narrative’ on being gay in Kenya

The Guardian
05/28/2021
Samuel Asilikwa grew up in rural Kenya. There was a strict template for masculinity, informed by centuries of tradition – and intolerance. In a new documentary about…
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Added on: 05/29/2021

Japan ruling party abandons LGBT bill as consensus elusive

Nikkei Asia
05/28/2021
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday gave up on legislation to promote public awareness of sexual minorities, proving unable to overcome opposition within its own ranks….
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Added on: 05/29/2021

Namibia considers scrapping colonial-era gay sex ban

Reuters
05/28/2021
Namibia could soon scrap a colonial-era law that criminalises gay sex between men, the justice minister said on Friday, calling the legislation “outdated and discriminatory”. The law…
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Added on: 05/28/2021

Jewish Press Editor-in-chief, Caught on Film Storming the U.S. Capitol, Is Fired

Haaretz
05/27/2021
Nearly five months after joining a violent mob in storming the U.S. Capitol building in a failed bid to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election,…
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Added on: 05/27/2021

Major donors urge Ghana to respect LGBT+ rights amid crackdown

Openly News
05/25/2021
Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in…
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Added on: 05/27/2021

Cops raid Bangkok gay sauna party, nab 62

Bangkok Post
05/24/2021
Police raided a gay sauna in Wang Thonglang district of the capital yesterday before dawn after a tip-off that a party of drugs and debauchery would be…
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Added on: 05/27/2021

Americans Strongly Support Trans Rights — In Some Cases

NPR
05/26/2021
Americans strongly support trans service members being in the military — even as they say trans athletes should compete in sports according to the sex listed on…
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Added on: 05/26/2021

Lithuania parliament votes against debating same-sex partnership bill

Reuters
05/25/2021
Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday voted narrowly against debating a bill legalising same-sex civil partnerships, but supporters said they would adjust the proposal and eventually resubmit it to…
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Added on: 05/26/2021

LGBT Groups Join Hydropower Protest, Ask Leaders to Condemn Homophobic Violence

Civil.ge
05/25/2021
Two key local LGBT rights groups, the Tbilisi Pride and the Equality Movement reiterated their support for the protest against Namakhvani Hydropower Plant, now held in the…
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Added on: 05/26/2021

Japan: New Momentum to Reform Transgender Law

Human Rights Watch
05/25/2021
Transgender people in Japan face continuing barriers to changing their legally recognized gender, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Japanese government should heed…
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Added on: 05/26/2021

Gay activists in Ghana demand release of 21 people arrested at LGBTQI conference

CNN
05/25/2021
Ghana’s LGBTQ community has called for the release of 21 people, who were arrested by security forces last week while attending a conference in the southeastern city…
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Added on: 05/25/2021

No safe haven: gay and transgender Africans fleeing persecution at home attacked in refugee camps

The Telegraph
05/24/2021
When Bijoux Ferrazza realised she was transgender, she took a good look around her. Transgender women are nowhere to be seen in Cameroon. Every once in a…
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Added on: 05/25/2021

Members of the LGBTQ community share reality of being queer in South Korea

Talon Marks
05/24/2021
“I went to this bar and they were doing this competition. And then I was like ‘Oh shit! It exists here, that’s so cool. I have been…
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Added on: 05/25/2021

Hong Kong’s Transgender Community Speaks Out Against Stigma

The Diplomat
05/24/2021
In Hong Kong, transgender people are far from accepted. Members of the community spoke out against discrimination after a survey published ahead of the International Day Against…
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Added on: 05/25/2021

Japanese politicians refuse to pass LGBTQ rights bill as Olympics approach

LGBTQ Nation
05/24/2021
Advocates around the world are calling foul on Japan, worrying that the country won’t meet their pledge to pass a LGBTQ rights law before hosting the Olympics…
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Added on: 05/24/2021

SENEGALESE RALLY TO CRIMINALISE HOMOSEXUALITY

Eyewitness News
05/23/2021
Several hundred protesters rallied Sunday in Dakar to demand that homosexuality be made a crime in Senegal, according to AFP journalists. It is not illegal to identify…
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