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Added on: 09/05/2020

New Law Would Make it Illegal for Trans Russians to Change Legal Gender

Them.
09/04/2020
Russian politicians are weighing a chance to the country’s Family Code that would prevent transgender citizens from changing their legal gender to match their actual gender. The…
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Added on: 09/05/2020

Transgender people find refuge in Haitian Center

NY Carib News
09/04/2020
The Kay Trans Haiti center located in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is funded by a Spanish healthcare company and the United Nations Development Program and provides lodging and…
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Global News

Added on: 09/05/2020

Civil partnerships now legal in the Cayman Islands

Cayman News Service
09/04/2020
Governor Martyn Roper assented to what is now called the Civil Partnership Law on Friday, paving the way for same-sex couples in the Cayman Islands to register…
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Added on: 09/04/2020

Family of transgender woman slain by U.S. Marine in Philippines contests killer’s early release

Washington Post
09/03/2020
A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines will remain behind bars while a court considers an appeal against a decision to release…
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Added on: 09/04/2020

App to fill gap on LGBT+ discrimination in Hong Kong

Reuters
09/03/2020
LGBT+ people in Hong Kong can log discrimination through a new mobile app backed by one of the city’s most prominent property heiresses, in a first for…
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Added on: 09/04/2020

Barbarism and disinformation: The authoritarian response to peaceful dissent

IFEX
09/03/2020
The presidential election in Belarus on 9 August was conducted the way many previous elections were conducted: opposition candidates were harassed and hounded out of the country;…
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Added on: 09/04/2020

LGBT+ activist behind ‘Polish Stonewall’ not afraid to die

Reuters
09/03/2020
The LGBT+ activist whose arrest sparked protests that were dubbed the “Polish Stonewall” says she is not afraid to resume her hunger strike and die if that…
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World Voices

Added on: 09/03/2020

Nasta Mantsevich – Makeout, Belarus

Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
What was it like to grow up as a queer person in Belarus? My story was, to a large extent, about invisibility. When I was growing up,…
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Bringing Diversity to China’s Workplaces, One Voice at a Time

Sixth Tone
08/31/2020
As Anna remembers it, there were a dozen women standing outside the ladies’ room, barring one of her fellow tutors from going in. The reason? She looked…
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Homophobic group’s offices declared COVID-19 outbreak site

Pink News
08/30/2020
The Colorado headquarters of the viciously anti-LGBT+ organisation Focus on the Family, which insists being gay causes “death and disease”, has been declared a COVID-19 outbreak site….
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Nationalists fought with participants of the LGBT festival in Odessa

Pledge Times
08/30/2020
As noted by law enforcement officers, opponents of the LGBT movement sprayed gas in the crowd and pelted the activists with eggs. The perpetrators also shouted obscene…
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Added on: 08/30/2020

Japan monk and makeup artist empowering sexual minorities, celebrating diversity’s beauty

The Mainichi
08/29/2020
A monk who also works as a makeup artist is celebrating their own sexual diversity and spreading the message in Japan that different is beautiful. Kodo Nishimura,…
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Global News

Added on: 08/30/2020

Student goes viral after drowning out homophobic, racist demonstrator with his trombone

Pink News
08/29/2020
A US college student has gone viral after he used his trombone to drown out a homophobic and racist demonstrator on campus. According to WLTX, Trey Hogan…
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Added on: 08/30/2020

Grumpy Virgin bows out as drag becomes a political act in Turkey

The Guardian
08/29/2020
For decades in Turkey, there was no higher honour than being made fun of by Huysuz Virjin (Grumpy Virgin), the country’s first drag queen, beloved for her…
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Added on: 08/30/2020

‘We Are Making Up For Lost Time’: Tracking Little-Known Stories Of African American, LGBTQ And Women’s Colorado History

Colorado Public Radio
08/30/2020
There’s a growing movement to locate places in Colorado where historic events happened but were never recorded. The Colorado Historical Foundation is on a mission to change…
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Global News

Added on: 08/29/2020

Yurok Tribe joins federal lawsuit over data on tribal, LGBTQ foster youth

Times Standard
08/28/2020
The Yurok Tribe is one of more than half-a-dozen parties that sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families on…
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Added on: 08/29/2020

As China’s Schools Reopen, LGBT Families Feel Pride — and Prejudice

Sixth Tone
08/28/2020
Before his son started school last year, Su Ge spent weeks researching kindergarten options in the eastern city of Nanjing. After much deliberation, he selected the most…
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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

Rights Africa
08/28/2020
The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…
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Global News

Added on: 08/28/2020

Abruptly canceled, ShanghaiPRIDE could be harbinger for China’s civil society

PRI
08/27/2020
Annual Pride celebrations are not common in cities across China, but the city of Shanghai is an exception, where Pride events have occurred for a dozen years….
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection to Be Auctioned for Charity

New York Times
08/27/2020
Owning a private collection of nearly 140 artworks by luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein would be a godsend for most arts organizations, but…
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Is ‘gay TikTok’ safe from Trump? LGBTQ users on edge over ban threat

NBC News
08/27/2020
Steven King, a popular content creator on the social media platform TikTok, said he stumbled across the video-sharing app by accident early last year. “I saw an…
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Uganda officials ignore criminal summonses for LGBTQ torture

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/27/2020
A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer each ignored a summons requiring him to show up in court yesterday to face criminal charges of torture…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

Gay activist braves social curbs to help marginalized

Jakarta Post
08/27/2020
Gay activist Hartoyo has had to overcome both physical and virtual curbs on his movement so that he may continue to feed the urban poor, persecuted members…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

New Zealand: Young queer and trans people face growing housing barriers

RNZ
08/25/2020
RainbowYOUTH homelessness support worker Therese Go says they have seen an increase in referrals from social workers, nurses and school counsellors who are concerned the young Aucklanders…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

Uproar as same-sex couples to be counted as ‘other relatives’ in Japan census

The Mainichi
08/26/2020
A national census, conducted once every five years, will be held this fall to collect information from all residents and households in Japan, but same-sex couples are…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

Teacher ‘put on leave’ after Republican complains about her supporting LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter

Pink News
08/26/2020
A teacher in Texas has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after she allowed students to submit their pronouns and posted LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter…
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World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Slava Melnyk – KPH: Campaign Against Homophobia

Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…
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World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Tarek Zeidan – Helem, Lebanon

Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become interested in this type of activism? When I was younger, I worked a lot with the trans sex worker community because I used…
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Global News

Added on: 08/25/2020

Coronavirus and stigma among priorities for India’s new transgender council

Reuters
08/25/2020
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Discrimination, housing and the impact of COVID-19 are among the top priorities for India’s new National Council for Transgender Persons, two…
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Added on: 08/25/2020

Nigerian lesbian love film to go online to avoid censorship board

NBC News
08/24/2020
LAGOS – Two young women fill the screen, reclining on a bed, talking about their hope of having children. They are protagonists in a new Nigerian film…
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