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Added on: 04/17/2019

Malaysian LGBT rights activist Numan Afifi questioned by police

Pink News
04/16/2019
Malaysian LGBT+ rights activist Numan Afifi is being questioned by police over a speech highlighting discrimination against the queer and trans community. Afifi, who founded a LGBT+…
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Global News

Added on: 04/17/2019

LGBT couples speak of their suffering in lawsuit seeking marriage for all in Japan

Japan Times
04/15/2019
In the first oral argument of an unprecedented trial challenging the constitutionality of Japan’s same-sex marriage ban, LGBT couples spoke Monday of their experiences, aiming to highlight…
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Added on: 04/17/2019

Peru law-and-order official takes on new battle: legalizing gay marriage

Reuters
04/16/2019
Susel Paredes often finds herself in dangerous situations, donning a bulletproof vest to lead high-profile police operations and breaking up cartels of street vendors in one of…
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Added on: 04/16/2019

Millennial activism: Daryl Yang fights for LGBT issues and more

The Straits Times
04/14/2019
In 2014, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) published a set of FAQs on youth sexuality and received backlash for being affirming of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
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Added on: 04/14/2019

Turkish professor calls homosexuality a ‘secret service conspiracy’

Ahval News
04/12/2019
A Turkish professor has said homosexuality is a “secret service plot” employed by unnamed actors against countries that are seen as a threat, news website T24 reported…
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Added on: 04/14/2019

Lesbian conference in Ukraine targeted by anti-LGBT protesters

Pink News
04/12/2019
Anti LGBT+ protesters descended on a hotel yesterday (April 11) in Kiev, Ukraine where the European Lesbian Conference (ELC) was due to kick off. Dozens of protesters…
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Added on: 04/13/2019

Women’s group: LGBT community faces sex, gender taunts

News Day
04/13/2019
Folade Mutota, executive director for the Women’s Institute for Alternative Development today said taunting about sex and gender was the most prevalent form of sexual harassment reported…
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Added on: 04/13/2019

The LGBT Equality Act began life in 1974. It’s still waiting to be passed.

Daily Beast
04/12/2019
When the news broke that Rep. Bella Abzug had introduced a bill to protect lesbian and gay people from discrimination to Congress, David Mixner cut out the…
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Added on: 04/13/2019

One Man Is Allegedly Targeting Gay German Teenagers In A Sweeping Harassment Campaign

BuzzFeed News
04/12/20219
On April 18, 2016, Max walked down the hall at his high school in Bremen, a midsize city in Northern Germany. He opened the glass door of…
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Added on: 04/12/2019

Alarm bells sound over ‘outings’ in Japan’s LGBT community

The Mainichi
04/12/2019
People having their sexual orientation or gender identity revealed without their consent has become a deepening problem in Japan, a country known for its culture in which…
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Added on: 04/12/2019

Councillors in Castlegar, B.C., condemn controversial comments made at public meeting, offer apology

CBC News
04/10/2019
Two city councillors and the mayor of Castlegar have condemned controversial comments made during a question period at last week’s televised council meeting. During question period, resident…
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Added on: 04/12/2019

Same-sex marriage will never happen in Fiji: PM

FBC News
04/08/2019
“As long as we are in government – Fiji will not allow same-sex marriage.” This is the statement from Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama while opening the Raralevu…
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Added on: 04/10/2019

Calls for pastor who celebrated Orlando massacre to be banned from Ireland

Pink News
04/09/2019
A petition has been signed almost 5,000 times calling for anti-LGBT+ pastor Steven Anderson to be banned from entering Ireland. Anderson—a preacher with the Faithful Word Baptist…
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Added on: 04/10/2019

Buggery remains a crime, but UK hopes Guyana Govt. will soon facilitate gay rights

Guyana Standard
04/09/2019
While Guyana and the United Kingdom (UK) continue to enjoy a healthy and fruitful relationship, and rarely butt heads when it comes to policies and laws, High…
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Global News

Added on: 04/10/2019

Luxembourg’s gay premier praises Mexico LGBT+ progress, sees more work ahead

Reuters
04/09/2019
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel addressed the Mexican Senate on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to advance LGBT rights in the country of some 120 million people. On…
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Added on: 04/09/2019

Poland’s Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People

New York Times
04/07/2019
Growing up in a small city in southern Poland, part of a religious family and conservative community, Maciej Gosniowski was told again and again that something was…
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Added on: 04/08/2019

‘It’s dangerous to go out now’: young, gay and scared in Brunei

The Guardian
04/06/2019
Draconian new laws have spread unease rather than outright panic in a population that is used to finding ways around legislation. A day after it became legally…
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Added on: 04/07/2019

Paraguay’s LGBT community feels outcast amid conservative shift: “We are forgotten”

US News
04/05/2019
Paraguay’s LGBT communities are feeling increasingly isolated amid a conservative shift in the Latin American country, even after they celebrated the global success of local lesbian drama…
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Added on: 04/07/2019

Ben Hunte says BBC Africa asked him to remove social media ‘for being gay’

Pink News
04/05/2019
BBC News’ LGBT Correspondent Ben Hunte has claimed that in his former role at BBC Africa he was asked to remove his social media over fears that…
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Added on: 04/07/2019

Belfast church protest by LGBT group against ‘conversion therapy’

Belfast Newsletter
04/06/2019
LGBT group the Rainbow Project has organised a protest at a south Belfast church on Saturday morning against what they have labelled “conversion therapy”. Windsor Baptist has…
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Global News

Added on: 04/06/2019

This Rainbow-Loving American LGBT Activist Has Been Denied Entry by Cuba’s Government

Hornet
04/05/2019
Michael was in Cuba last May for Idahot, and he’d arrived on a mission: With literally hundreds of rainbow trinkets in tow — rainbow and trans flags,…
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Added on: 04/06/2019

Transgender woman violently attacked by mob in Paris

Pink News
04/03/2019
A transgender woman has opened up about her terrifying experience of being assaulted by a group of men at a rally in Paris on Sunday. The woman…
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Added on: 04/06/2019

Gay Artist Wants to Change Poland, Starting With One Village

The New York Times
04/04/2019
The Polish artist Daniel Rycharski sat in his childhood home recently and considered the idea of fitting in. In many ways, Poland is a highly polarized country….
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Added on: 04/06/2019

New Study: LGBT People A ‘Fundamental Part of The Fabric Of Rural Communities’

NPR
04/04/2019
LGBT people are typically depicted as city and coastal dwellers. And those who live in rural America are often characterized as people yearning to escape rural life…
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Added on: 04/05/2019

Verona protests: Tens of thousands of campaigners march against ‘medieval’ anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion conference

The Independent
04/01/2019
Tens of thousands of campaigners descended on the streets of Verona over the weekend to show their opposition to an anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion conference whose self-avowed goal…
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Added on: 04/05/2019

All the countries ignored in the Brunei backlash

News.com AU
04/05/2019
Brunei’s harsh new laws targeting LGBT people have shocked the world and prompted global condemnation. High-profile celebrities from George Clooney to Ellen DeGeneres have called for a…
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Added on: 04/04/2019

Joko Widodo: how ‘Indonesia’s Obama’ failed to live up to the hype

The Guardian
04/03/2019
Five years ago he was south-east Asia’s democratic poster boy, Indonesia’s Obama. His face plastered across Time magazine with three words: A New Hope. When Joko Widodo,…
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Added on: 04/04/2019

Spain’s health minister calls for end to gay ‘conversion therapy’

Reuters
04/03/2019
Spain’s health minister called on Wednesday for so-called conversion therapy to be abolished after a report that a branch of the Catholic Church had offered to “cure”…
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Added on: 04/04/2019

LGBT: The pilot who came out as transgender at 58

BBC
04/04/2019
Captain Cat Burton always knew she wanted to be a pilot after her father took her in a jet fighter when she was just six months old….
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Added on: 04/03/2019

LGBT centre raided in Russia and volunteers detained inside

Metro
04/01/2019
An LGBT+ centre in Russia has been raided for reportedly ‘conflating’ rules on ‘gay propaganda’. Officers arrived at Rakurs, a community centre based in Arkhangelsk, on March…
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