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Added on: 09/05/2019

More than 50% of gay men in Hong Kong fear coming out, study finds

Pink News
09/04/2019
Around one in two gay men fear coming out to their loved ones in Hong Kong, a damning study has revealed. Against rapidly climbing HIV diagnoses and…
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Added on: 09/05/2019

Year after India gay ruling, a battle to change attitudes

Inquirere
09/05/2019
Vivek Kishore and Vishwa Srivastava hit it off soon after meeting at a cafe, little knowing what lay in store for them as a gay couple in…
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Added on: 09/05/2019

LGBTQ MPs quit Britain’s Liberal Democratic party after dramatic defection of ex-Tory Phillip Lee: ‘a homophobe, a xenophobe’

New York Daily News
09/04/2019
The party is over for some members of Parliament in the U.K. Former-member of the Conservative Party Phillip Lee might have messed up Boris Johnson’s Brexit chances…
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Added on: 09/05/2019

Groundbreaking report reveals reach of conversion therapy

Bay Area Reporter
09/04/2019
A first-of-its-kind report documenting conversion therapy around the world highlights the pervasiveness of the practice. The 73-page report, “Harmful Treatment: The Global Reach of So-Called Conversion Therapy,”…
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Added on: 09/05/2019

UK introduces new regulations to teach about LGBT and same sex relationships in schools

The Guardian
09/05/2019
This school year marks the beginning of the end of a decades-long campaign to get an inclusive education system in the UK. Despite recent controversy by some…
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Global News

Added on: 09/04/2019

Former Gay Conversion Leader Denounces ‘Harmful’ Movement After Coming Out

HuffPost
09/03/2019
The South Carolina-based founder of one of the nation’s largest “gay conversion” programs issued a formal apology for his role in the discredited movement this weekend ―…
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Added on: 09/04/2019

‘Disco outside the Dáil’ protest against Pence visit

Irish Times
09/03/2019
A “Disco outside the Dáil” organised in protest against the visit of US vice-president Mike Pence drew a crowd to Kildare Street this afternoon. Protesters led by…
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Added on: 09/04/2019

Lebanon: End Systemic Violence Against Transgender Women

Human Rights Watch
09/03/2019
Transgender women in Lebanon face systemic violence and discrimination, Human Rights Watch, Helem, and MOSAIC said in a report and video released today. Transgender women face discrimination…
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Added on: 09/04/2019

Conversion Therapy Crusader Comes Out As Gay

NBC
09/03/2019
The Post and Courier has reported that the Hope for Wholeness founder 51 year-old McKrae Game came out as gay, nearly two years after he was fired…
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Global News

Added on: 09/03/2019

Inside the Supreme Court Discrimination Cases That Could Change LGBTQ Rights

Daily Beast
09/03/2019
On Oct. 8, the High Court is set to hear three landmark LGBTQ workplace-discrimination cases. They are as intensely personal as they are political. Until 2012, Aimee…
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Global News

Added on: 09/03/2019

TOP PA DIPLOMAT IN UK DENIES DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LGBTQ IN THE WEST BANK

Jerusalem Post
08/03/2019
In August, the Palestinian Authority banned the LGBTQ group Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society from carrying out any activity in the West Bank….
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Global News

Added on: 09/03/2019

New campaign raises awareness of dangers faced by LGBTQ people in UK immigration detention

Gay Times
08/03/2019
UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group have launched an important new campaign. The organisation’s first national social media campaign #LendYourVoice aims to raise awareness around the discrimination…
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Added on: 09/03/2019

‘Everyone needs a place’: Gay couple fights for Hong Kong public housing

Reuters
08/02/2019
Like many young married couples in Hong Kong, Nick Infinger and his partner struggled to find a home they could afford. So last year, they applied for…
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Added on: 09/02/2019

Groups argue law doesn’t protect transgender woman from workplace bias

Detroit News
09/02/2019
More than three dozen groups, from Christian colleges to feminists, filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with a Michigan funeral home business that…
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Added on: 09/02/2019

Appeal to stop gay marriage opens in Cayman Islands

Reuters
08/28/2019
A lawyer representing a lesbian couple whose court victory legalized same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands five months ago said a government appeal against the ruling, which…
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Global News

Added on: 08/31/2019

The (queer) year that was

Hindustan Times
08/31/2019
If you’re a queer Indian, the reading down of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (a colonial-era law that criminalised consensual adult same sex relationships) on…
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Added on: 08/31/2019

Parents demand action after students from LGBTQ club in California HS allegedly harassed by group holding MAGA flags

New York Daily News
08/30/2019
A high school in Bakersfield, Calif., is investigating an alleged incident of harassment against students who participated in a meeting of an LGBTQ club. According to multiple…
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Added on: 08/30/2019

SOGIE bill won’t spoil rights of non-LGBTQ, says former DSWD chief

Inquirer.net
08/30/2019
Rights are not rice cakes that should be divided. This was the case posed by former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo on Friday, as she took up…
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Added on: 08/30/2019

It’s been long march for LGBTQ rights — Straight Pride boosters skip over that

Boston Globe
08/29/2019
On Saturday there will be a Straight Pride Parade, where people will be marching many of the same streets as the Boston Pride Parade. The proponents of…
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Global News

Added on: 08/30/2019

Principal Who Banned a Book With LGBTQ Themes Arrested for Child Porn

The Advocate
08/298/2019
Phillip Todd Wilson had removed books parents objected to because of gay characters and controversial content. A high school principal who once banned books with LGBTQ content…
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Added on: 08/30/2019

Religious discrimination bill: Coalition accused of creating a ‘Trojan horse for hate’

The Guardian
08/29/2019
Christian Porter releases bill, which will stop employers from limiting workers’ religious expression in private following fallout from Israel Folau’s sacking. LBTQI advocates have condemned the government’s…
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Added on: 08/29/2019

Another resignation shakes LGBT Republican group after Trump endorsement

Yahoo! News
08/27/2019
The executive director Jerri Ann Henry of the Log Cabin Republicans, group working with Republicans advocate equal rights for lesbian and gay people, has stepped down from her…
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Global News

Added on: 08/28/2019

Victorian MPs vote to allow trans and gender-diverse to change sex recorded on birth certificate

Guardian
08/28/2019
On Tuesday in Victoria, Australia, a new law was passed to allow trans and gender-diverse people to change their recorded sex on their birth cirtificates. Following much…
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Added on: 08/28/2019

How will the LGBT issue influence the Polish election?

Emerging Europe
08/20/2019
The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issue has been one of the main sources of political controversy in Poland over the summer months, and is potentially…
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Global News

Added on: 08/28/2019

China’s Parliament Says No to Marriage Equality

Gay City News
08/23/2019
Barely three months after Taiwan solidified same-sex marriage rights, political leaders in Beijing are shutting down any discussion of extending those rights to the Chinese mainland. Zang…
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Added on: 08/28/2019

Poland’s Populist Government Has Declared War on the LGBTQ Community

VICE
08/27/2019
There were drag queens and rainbow flags, dancing and chants of “Love everyone.” But the first ever Pride March in the Polish city of Bialystok last month…
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Added on: 08/27/2019

Shining a light on lesbian experiences in Nigeria

Mail & Guardian
08/22/2019
“If you haven’t come out to yourself, it’s difficult to come out to [other] people … At first, it might look like a difficult task, like something…
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Global News

Added on: 08/27/2019

An Exploration of LGBTQ Jamaican Identity—and Lots of Food

The Advocate
08/26/2019
A giant wall of Chinese takeout boxes was the background to an array of smiling, brown, queer faces — their hands darting to and from trays of…
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Global News

Added on: 08/27/2019

Kentucky clerk who refused same-sex marriage licenses can be sued

Reuters
08/26/2019
The Kentucky county clerk who in 2015 gained widespread attention for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples may be sued for damages by two of…
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Added on: 08/26/2019

Israeli Arabs indicted for attempted honor killing of gay teen

Arutz Sheva
08/26/2019
Three Israeli Arab men from northern Israel were indicted in Tel Aviv Sunday in connection with the stabbing of a gay teenager in Tel Aviv last month,…
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