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Added on: 05/13/2020

Contact tracing South Korea’s latest coronavirus outbreak exposes LGBT+ people to hate

05/13/2020

A new coronavirus outbreak in the South Korean capital, Seoul, has also seen a rise in homophobic hate speech. The southeast Asian nation has achieved enviable results…

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‘No one wants to be tested:’ Social stigmas are crippling coronavirus containment

05/12/2020

Public health officials around the world have agreed that testing and contact tracing are vital to containing the coronavirus pandemic. But for many people, coming forward to…

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Added on: 05/13/2020

Uganda court sets bail hearing for 19 LGBT detainees

05/12/2020

May 18 is the new date when 19 members of Children of the Sun Foundation (CosfUganda) who were arrested at the Cosf shelter are expected to be…

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Added on: 05/13/2020

LGBT community hit hard by COVID-19 lockdown in Lakhimpur

05/12/2020

The LGBT community in Assam’s Lakhimpur district is hit hard by the impact of nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown. The victims are four transgender persons in the district who…

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Added on: 05/13/2020

Michigan woman at center of transgender civil rights case dies at 59

05/12/2020

The Michigan woman at the center of a high-profile transgender rights case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court has died, her family said. Aimee Stephens, 59, who…

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Added on: 05/12/2020

LGBT+ adults in US are more than twice as likely to be homeless

05/11/2020

Almost one in five LGB adults in the US has experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. Moreover, trans people are even more likely to be…

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Added on: 05/12/2020

Germany becomes the fifth country in the world to ban conversion therapy

05/11/2020

Germany has become the fifth country in the world to ban ‘conversion therapy’ of LGBT+ minors. The new vote in the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, confirms a ban…

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Added on: 05/12/2020

Gender-based lockdown rules that fuelled rise in violence against transgender people to be lifted

05/11/2020

Gender-based lockdown rules in Bogotá, Colombia, will be lifted after they fuelled a wave of violence against transgender people living in the city. Bogotá’s mayor, Claudia Lopez,…

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Added on: 05/12/2020

South Korea struggles to contain new outbreak amid anti-gay backlash

05/11/2020

Authorities in South Korea are struggling to contain a new coronavirus outbreak linked to the capital’s nightclub district as a backlash against the country’s gay community increases,…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

Opinion: Little Richard’s Queer Triumph

05/10/2020

It was during a 1966 concert in Paris when Little Richard, drenched in sweat, told a mostly white audience, “I’m ready, ready, ready teddy, I’m ready, ready,…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

Canada to memorialize LGBT victims of Cold War-era ‘gay purge’

05/10/2020

Todd Ross was a naval combat information operator on the HMCS Saskatchewan in 1989 when he was called out over the public address system, escorted off the…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

Franklin Graham Is Taking Down His N.Y. Hospital, but Not Going Quietly

05/10/2020

The last patients have been discharged from the Central Park field hospital run by Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical organization led by the Rev. Franklin Graham. Its white…

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Added on: 05/10/2020

Flexible Salafis: The Growing Political Power of ‘Woke,’ Modernist Islamism

05/09/2020

Imam Omar Suleiman rarely talks about da’wah – the Islamic duty of proselytization. He never talks about Islamist designs for an Islamic state. Instead, America’s leading Islamic…

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Added on: 05/10/2020

Radical Russian Imperial Movement Expanding Global Outreach

05/09/2020

The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a white supremacist group based in St. Petersburg, is increasingly expanding its outreach beyond Russia through the establishment of transnational networks with…

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Added on: 05/10/2020

Brazil’s Supreme Court throws out rules that limit gay men donating blood

05/09/2020

Brazil’s Supreme Court has overturned rules that limit gay and bisexual men from donating blood in a decision considered a human rights victory for LGBT+ people in…

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Added on: 05/10/2020

25 wedding photos show the very first LGBT couples to marry in their countries and the stories behind them

05/09/2020

In February, 27-year-old Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples, 26, became the first gay couple to legally marry in Northern Ireland. The country is the world’s latest to…

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Added on: 05/09/2020

LGBT groups launch petition to allow cross-national same-sex marriage

05/08/2020

Scores of volunteers from LGBT groups in Taiwan embarked on a signature campaign Saturday to petition the government on laws that restrict same-sex marriage between couples from…

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Added on: 05/09/2020

The millennials changing the face of sex education in Vietnam

05/08/2020

Tu Nguyen never had a formal sex education (sex-ed) class at his school in Hanoi, nor was he trained as an educator on the subject, but he…

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Added on: 05/09/2020

LGBT sector tapped to lead rice distribution to barangays

05/08/2020

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has assigned the city’s LGBT sector to manage the city’s next round of rice distribution after receiving complaints from residents that barangay…

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Added on: 05/09/2020

Aimee Stephens, transgender woman at center of pending landmark Supreme Court case, is in hospice care

05/08/2020

Aimee Stephens made national headlines when she said she was fired from her job at metro Detroit-based GR & RG Funeral Homes in 2013 after coming out…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

Activists call on Tinley Park to show support for gay rights in Polish Sister City

05/07/2020

Activists in Europe are calling on Tinley Park residents and village officials to show support for gay rights in a Sister City community in Poland. European rights…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

Lebanon’s LGBT People Are Reclaiming Their Power

05/07/2020

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their rights in Lebanon are part and parcel of the nationwide protests that began on October 17, 2019, Human…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

Korean media’s focus on ‘gay’ club in COVID-19 case further stigmatizes LGBT people

05/07/2020

A 29-year-old man living in Yongin tested positive for COVID-19. He went clubbing in Itaewon, a party district in Seoul, when he had no symptoms, exposing at…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

Minister defends Germany’s limited gay therapy ban

05/07/2020

Germany’s ban on so-called gay conversion therapies needs to be robust enough to withstand court challenges, Health Minister Jens Spahn said in response to criticism that his…

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Added on: 05/07/2020

Forced exorcisms touted as ‘cure’ for LGBT Indonesians

05/06/2020

Andin is haunted by memories of being forced into an exorcism to “save” her from being transgender — a ritual that could become mandatory for Indonesia’s LGBT…

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Added on: 05/07/2020

One in three trans people targeted for ‘conversion therapy’ in Colombia

05/06/2020

One in five LGBT+ people have undergone “conversion therapy” to make them straight in Colombia, rising to one in three trans people, researchers said on Wednesday, amid…

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Added on: 05/07/2020

Kenya LGBT refugee protest ends with tear gas and batons

05/06/2020

Police attempted to disband a protest of about 60 LGBT refugees outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee’s office in Kakuma, Kenya at the end of…

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Added on: 05/07/2020

Same-sex marriage is still illegal in Tunisia!

05/06/2020

Thirty-five LGBTQ+ and human rights groups united today to dispel the false belief, spread by flawed news articles, that Tunisia has accepted same-sex marriage. The 35 organizations…

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Added on: 05/06/2020

U.S. lawmakers push for ‘invisible’ LGBT+ coronavirus patients to be counted

05/05/2020

Authorities must count how many novel coronavirus patients are LGBT+ as they face greater health risks than the population at large, a California lawmaker said on Tuesday,…

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Added on: 05/06/2020

Turkey’s president Erdogan orders children to stop drawing rainbows in case they turn people gay

05/05/2020

Children in Turkey have reportedly been ordered to stop drawing rainbows as authorities believe it is part of a “plot” to turn them gay. Turkey has seen…