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Added on: 01/20/2020

Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis and bigots

01/16/020

Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups. The BBC discovered the issue and that…

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Added on: 01/20/2020

Human Rights in the South Caucasus: 2019 victories and losses

01/20/2020

The Human Rights Watch report states that Azerbaijani authorities continue to exact tight control over the political system and persecute critics. There was at least one known…

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Added on: 01/19/2020

LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth

01/18/2020

At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of…

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Added on: 01/18/2020

Sponsor of controversial Tennessee adoption bill has 2nd bill aimed at LGBT community

01/17/2020

A Tennessee lawmaker who earlier this week passed a controversial measure that lets faith-based agencies reject LGBT couples wishing to adopt or provide foster care to children…

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Added on: 01/18/2020

Malaysia, where gay sex is illegal, used to be home to a community of gender non-conforming shamans

01/17/2020

Homosexuality is doubly illegal in Malaysia as it is banned by the country’s secular, colonial-era legal code, as well as its special Islamic courts. LGBT+ people have…

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Added on: 01/18/2020

‘Anti-sexual deviance propaganda’ bill mysteriously on priority list

01/18/2020

The massive 2019-2024 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) set by the House of Representatives lists 248 bills, including four proposed omnibus laws, an ambitious undertaking considering that the…

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Added on: 01/17/2020

Swedish crown princess makes history with first-ever visit to an LGBT organisation

01/16/2020

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband Prince Daniel have made a historic royal visit to an LGBT+ organisation, sending a clear message of support in…

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Added on: 01/17/2020

Iranian militia declares Iraq not for ‘filthy homosexuals, collaborators’

01/16/2020

An official for the Iranian-sponsored Popular Mobilization Units declared in a video that Iraq is not a country for homosexuals or collaborators, and that his organization will…

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Added on: 01/17/2020

South Korea to decide on first transgender soldier amid debate

01/16/2020

South Korea’s military said on Thursday it will hold a meeting to discuss whether it will discharge the first soldier to have undergone gender reassignment surgery, which…

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Added on: 01/16/2020

Israeli minister’s homophobic comments spark huge protest

01/15/2020

More than 3,000 students gathered in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, waving signs reading: “I don’t want to be normal”, in response to last week’s homophobic comments by…

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Added on: 01/16/2020

Trans Activist Runs for Congress in Peru

01/15/2020

Gahela Tseneg Cari Contreras is running for Congress in Peru, but the name she has gone by her entire adult life will apparently not be on the…

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Added on: 01/16/2020

Queer K-pop: chorus grows for gay rights in Asia

01/15/2020

Wearing bright bow ties and dark dress, a group of South Korean women belt out song after song about the joy and stigma of being gay –…

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Added on: 01/16/2020

Tennessee governor says he will sign anti-gay adoption bill

01/15/2020

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday that he’ll sign into law a measure that would assure continued taxpayer funding of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies even…

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Added on: 01/15/2020

Chastity campaigner banned from schools over LGBT comments

01/14/2020

A number of talks due to be given in Ireland this week by Jason Evert, the American Catholic campaigner who promotes conservative Catholic teaching around sex and…

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Added on: 01/15/2020

Malaysia: Human Rights Reforms Stall

01/14/2020

Malaysia’s promised human rights reforms stalled in 2019 as the government either backed away from or delayed action on its campaign commitments, Human Rights Watch said today…

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Added on: 01/15/2020

Indonesia rights body condemns LGBT raids ordered by mayor after UK rape case

01/14/2020

Indonesia’s human rights commission on Tuesday condemned plans by a mayor to launch raids targeting the LGBT community in his city after a local man was convicted…

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Added on: 01/15/2020

Russia: Race to the Bottom on Rights

01/14/2020

Repression escalated in Russia during 2019 as the government answered rising civic and political activism with bans, repressive laws, and showcase prosecutions, Human Rights Watch said today…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

House Democrats to ask ICE to release all transgender immigrants in custody

01/13/2020

House Democrats are preparing to ask the Department of Homeland Security to release all transgender immigrants being held at long-term federal immigration facilities. Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

Grief over death of Young Liberal Wilson Gavin after drag queen protest

01/13/2020

Friends and opponents alike have expressed their grief after the death of Wilson Gavin, the leader of a rightwing student club at the University of Queensland, who…

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Added on: 01/13/2020

Bhutan: Historic opportunity to decriminalize same-sex relationships

01/09/2020

Bhutan must seize an historic opportunity to secure equal rights for LGBTI people in the country, Amnesty International said today, calling on the upper house of parliament…

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Added on: 01/13/2020

AIDS, the Catholic Church and LGBT issues today

01/12/2020

In the series finale of ‘Plague,’ we look at what’s happening in the church in HIV and AIDS care today and then reflects on comments and questions…

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Added on: 01/12/2020

Israel Justice minister blasts education minister’s ‘backwards’ remarks on LGBT couples

01/11/2020

Justice Minister Amir Ohana lambasted Education Minister Rafi Peretz on Saturday for comments Peretz made in a newspaper interview, where he appeared to call same-sex marriage unnatural….

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Added on: 01/12/2020

Was Oman’s Late Sultan the ‘Only Gay Monarch’ in the World and Why Do People Care?

01/12/2020

Although Sultan Qaboos’ sexuality has been open to question for decades, the recent death of the 79-year-old Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said on Friday night…

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Added on: 01/12/2020

Glam Slam event rolls out welcome mat for Margaret Court

01/11/2020

As the organiser of Australia’s biggest LGBTQI tennis tournament, the Glam Slam, Rowen D’Souza finds it useful to be ‘‘a little bit cheeky’’. In November at a…

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Added on: 01/12/2020

Right wing students accost drag queen at children’s library event to ‘defend LNP values’

01/11/2020

An Australian pop star has slammed a group of right wing student protestors for yelling anti LGBT slogans at a family event featuring a drag queen. In…

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Added on: 01/11/2020

Depok mayor calls for more anti-LGBT raids in wake of Reynhard Sinaga case

01/11/2020

In response to reports that the family of Reynhard Sinaga, an Indonesian convicted serial rapist in the United Kingdom, lives in Depok, West Java, the city’s mayor…

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Added on: 01/11/2020

Brazil top court rejects attempt to remove LGBT movie from Netflix

01/10/2020

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lower court’s decision to remove a Netflix comedy that displayed Jesus Christ in a gay relationship. Minister Dias Toffoli stated…

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Added on: 01/11/2020

Trump Adviser Promoted Gay Conversion Therapy and Said HIV Was ‘God’s Moral Law’

01/09/2020

President Donald Trump recently appointed anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ cable news pundit Jenna Ellis as a senior legal adviser to him and his campaign. Ellis has promoted harmful…

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Added on: 01/10/2020

Prominent Tunisian LGBT+ activist flees death threats

01/09/2020

A former presidential candidate and leader of Tunisia’s largest LGBT+ rights group said he has been forced to flee to France after “very serious” death threats from…

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Added on: 01/10/2020

Indonesia’s LGBT community fears repercussions after UK’s ‘most prolific rapist’ jailed

01/09/2020

When the reports surfaced about Britain’s “most prolific rapist” Reynhard Sinaga — an Indonesian national sentenced to life for 150 crimes, including 136 rapes against men —…