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Added on: 03/07/2020

Chile changing: transgender student leader lends voice to renewed protests

03/06/2020

As the long southern hemisphere summer holiday draws to an end this month, students in Chile are returning to college – but not always to classes. Many…

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Added on: 03/06/2020

Queer Mormons say they’ve been put in danger by ‘cruel’ university as it U-turns on homosexuality policy

03/05/2020

The Mormon Brigham Young University (BYU) has backtracked on removing a ban “homosexual behaviour”, announcing that “same-sex romantic behaviour” is still outlawed. BYU in Utah is run…

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Added on: 03/06/2020

This ‘gay, atheist, leftist’ is taking on Poland’s right-wing government — by running for president

03/05/2020

When Robert Biedron showed up in this historic city’s main square to lead a rally in his bid to be president, he was bracing for a fight…

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Added on: 03/06/2020

POLISH ACTIVISTS FACE LEGAL ACTION OVER ‘ATLAS OF HATE’

03/05/2020

Several Polish municipalities have announced that they plan to sue a group of activists who created an “Atlas of Hate” map, depicting municipalities covering one-third of the…

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Added on: 03/05/2020

How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet

03/04/2020

Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would…

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Added on: 03/05/2020

Hong Kong court rules in favor of gay couple seeking public housing

03/04/2020

A Hong Kong court on Wednesday ruled that married same-sex couples have the right to apply for public housing, in a move that could make it easier…

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Added on: 03/05/2020

Funds running out, Kenya LGBT refugee program seeks help

03/04/2020

LGBT refugees in Nairobi, Kenya might soon find themselves homeless and without any source of income as funding for housing and other programs is rapidly drying up….

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Added on: 03/04/2020

Putin Proposes Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage

03/03/2020

President Vladimir V. Putin has proposed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in what political analysts suggest is an effort to raise turnout for a constitutional referendum…

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Added on: 03/04/2020

LGBTQ people fought for decades to be recognized in the census. This time they will be — sort of.

03/03/2020

Kayla Bates knows the 2020 census is important, but filling it out will mean yet another form that won’t allow the 30-year-old to correctly self-identify. “If you…

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Added on: 03/04/2020

Pakistan court gives green light to women’s march – with conditions

03/03/2020

A Pakistani court on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the country’s largest women’s rights event but told organizers to ensure participants adhere to “decency and moral values”….

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Added on: 03/03/2020

Indonesia doubles down on move to ban homosexuality and send ‘offenders’ to ‘rehab’ clinics

03/03/2020

Indonesia is proposing legislation that would force LGBT+ people into treatment to “cure” their sexuality or gender identity. The “Family Resilience Bill” would force LGBT+ people into…

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Added on: 03/03/2020

100 LGBT filmmakers to boycott Tel Aviv festival to support queer Palestinians

03/03/2020

Over 130 filmmakers from around the world, including at least 100 from the LGBT community, have pledged to boycott an upcoming government-sponsored gay film festival in Tel…

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Added on: 03/03/2020

Malaysian band’s new song encourages LGBTs to die and YouTube lets it keep on playing

03/03/2020

LGBT+ Malaysians have criticized popular punk-rock band Bunkface for an ‘extremist anthem’ that calls for the death of LGBT+ people. The multi-award winning band has been popular…

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Added on: 03/03/2020

‘Whiplash’ Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From Obama To Trump

03/02/2020

At the heart of a story now playing out in schools, workplaces and courts across the U.S. is a disagreement over the legal meaning of the word…

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Added on: 03/02/2020

Slovak election hands democrats vital test

03/01/2020

Populist businessman Igor Matovic is set to become Slovakia’s next prime minister after his Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (Olano) movement enjoyed a surge of support in…

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Added on: 03/02/2020

Polish LGBT activists protest at Warsaw church against Catholic archbishop

03/01/2020

Several dozen activists protested in front of a Warsaw church guarded by police on Sunday as a Catholic archbishop, criticized for his anti-LGBT language, celebrated mass. Last…

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Added on: 03/01/2020

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

03/01/2020

Every wedding is an important day. But some marriages make history — such as the unions that signal a country’s acceptance of LGBT rights for the first…

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Added on: 03/01/2020

Tickets are now on sale for London’s first ever Muslim LGBT+ Pride

02/26/2020

Tickets are officially on sale for London’s first LGBT+ Muslim Pride festival, bringing together artists and advocates for an event that organisers hope will spotlight a community…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Shameful statistic staining Australia: Young LGBTI people twice as likely to be homeless

02/28/2020

A group of 1000 people will come together this weekend to stand in the shape of a house to raise awareness of a shameful statistic about the…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Washington state passes ban on gay and trans panic defenses for homicide

02/28/2020

A measure prohibiting homicide defendants from claiming a defense based on panic over a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been passed by lawmakers in Washington…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Four years, two continents: a gay Chinese couple’s journey for a surrogate son

02/28/2020

Before Qiguang Li could pass through customs and step on to US soil for the first time, he faced a three-hour detention where he learned that he…

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Added on: 02/28/2020

The Fight for LGBT Rights in Vietnam Still Has a Long Way To Go

02/27/2020

Prejudice, discrimination, and stigma against the LGBT community in Vietnam still loom large. Change will take concerted efforts. On September 14, 2019, on a sunny Saturday afternoon…

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Added on: 02/28/2020

Top Imam vows to stop ‘demonic’ LGBT conference from coming to Ghana

02/27/2020

The Pan Africa ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) is set to hold its 2020 annual conference in Accra, Ghana, in July. It will…

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Added on: 02/28/2020

Lesbian speaks about the heartbreaking process of trying to ‘prove’ sexuality to the government

02/27/2020

A lesbian from Zimbabwe has spoken out about how it took five gruelling years to convince the Home Office that she’s gay and should be granted asylum….

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Added on: 02/27/2020

As survivors speak out, 9 countries seek to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’

02/26/2020

From electric shocks to ‘praying away the gay’, global momentum is growing to ban so-called “conversion therapy”, with bills drawn up in nine countries, a rights group…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

‘Return the key’: the parents who reject their gay children

02/26/2020

Chris Jewell was in tears after a big, intense fight with his boyfriend of five years. So big, the police were called. Highly distressed, he phoned someone…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

Afro-Feminist Resistance in Brazil’s Carnival

02/26/2020

In Southern Brazil, the all women’s carnival block Cores de Aide is marching for political resistance and in defense of women, who have been particularly under attack…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

Pro-Trump preacher says Pete Buttigieg should be jailed for talking to 9-year-old about being gay

02/26/2020

A pro-Trump preacher has said that Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg should be jailed for speaking to a nine-year-old. Dave Daubenmire, more commonly known as right-wing internet persona…

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Added on: 02/26/2020

Priest who compared LGBT-inclusive education to Nazism invited to speak in UK parliament

02/26/2020

An anti-abortion Anglican priest who said LGBT-inclusive education is “state-sponsored abuse” and comparable to Nazism has been invited to speak in UK parliament. Reverend Lynda Rose was…

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Added on: 02/26/2020

Acting intelligence head Richard Grenell’s push to decriminalize homosexuality has yielded little

02/25/2020

Donald Trump became the first president to name an openly gay person to a Cabinet-level position Wednesday when he announced that Richard Grenell would serve as his…