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Added on: 10/04/2022

Transgender Guatemalan woman’s deportation case to get U.S. Supreme Court review

10/03/2022

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it will take up a transgender Guatemalan woman’s bid to avoid being deported after a U.S. immigration board said…

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Added on: 10/04/2022

Ukraine: Amid War, LGBTI People Fight for Equal Rights

10/03/2022

In late September, the LGBTI community in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv defied ongoing shelling to hold a week of Pride events under the slogan, United as…

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Added on: 10/04/2022

German Interior Ministry Aims to Offer Better Protection for Queer Refugees

10/03/2022

The German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, has required the decision makers of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to review the asylum procedures for queer…

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Added on: 10/03/2022

A Portland initiative to help unhoused LGBTQ people is facing backlash

10/02/2020

The American Rescue Plan provided more than $5 billion for housing and services for homeless people, and cities are using that money in a variety of ways….

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Added on: 10/03/2022

How the Chinese internet saw Cuba’s vote on gay marriage, surrogacy

10/02/2022

Cuba’s legalisation of same-sex marriage and “altruistic” surrogacy has revived debate half a world away in a major trading and ideological partner, China. In a national referendum…

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Added on: 10/03/2022

A trans woman made a map of affirming clinics. Hateful people turned it into a hit list

10/02/2022

When transgender activist Erin Reed first started transitioning, she found it difficult to locate gender-affirming health centers that provide informed consent around hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and…

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Added on: 10/02/2022

Religious Freedom vs. Gay Rights: Why mainstream Jewish groups didn’t defend Yeshiva University

10/02/2022

The latest exchange in the ongoing battle between Yeshiva University and the YU Pride Alliance, a student LGBTQ club, allowed for at least a temporary ceasefire between…

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Added on: 10/02/2022

Iceland publishes robust LGBTQ+ action plan which puts the UK to shame

10/01/2022

Iceland has published its action plan on LGBTQ+ issues for the years 2022 to 2025, which includes an end to discrimination for queer blood donors, training in…

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Added on: 10/02/2022

Tennessee GOP urges pediatric clinic to stop providing gender-affirming surgeries

10/01/2022

A group of GOP lawmakers in Tennessee sent a letter Wednesday to Vanderbilt University Medical Center calling on the hospital’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic — the only one…

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Added on: 10/01/2022

LGBT organizations in Spain are pressuring the government to pass the ‘trans law’

09/30/2022

Three LGBT organizations have met with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), the main party of the governing coalition in Spain, seeking the passage of the “trans…

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Added on: 10/01/2022

Pakistan launches anti-harassment hotline for trans people

09/30/2022

Pakistan on Friday launched a hotline for transgender people in an effort to protect them from discrimination and harassment, a senior government official said. Trans people in…

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Added on: 10/01/2022

Exclusion of Intersex People: A Systemic Conundrum

09/30/2022

John Karanja attempted suicide three times before realising that his life, after all, had meaning. Karanja, who was born Dorcas Wangui in 1993, did not notice his…

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Added on: 09/30/2022

UN experts demand stay of execution for two women activists sentenced to death in Iran

09/28/2022

UN experts are demanding a stay of execution for two women LGBT rights activists in Iran, Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubdar, who have been sentenced to death…

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Added on: 09/30/2022

Dominica High Court accepts challenge to sodomy laws

09/27/2022

A constitutional challenge against laws that criminalize same-sex intimacy in the Caribbean country Dominica was to be heard today at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, acting as…

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Added on: 09/30/2022

Pakistan’s Progressive Transgender Law Faces Opposition 4 Years Later

09/28/2022

Pakistan is considering amending a landmark transgender rights bill passed in 2018 that some legislators and clerics argue contradicts Islamic teachings on gender identity. Rights activists, however,…

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Added on: 09/30/2022

‘Lift this country up’: Trans pioneer Erika Hilton seeks Brazil election win

09/28/2022

No one does political rags to riches stories quite like Brazil, but even in a nation where the most celebrated president in decades once shined shoes to…

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Added on: 09/29/2022

The Anti-LGBTQ+ Views of Italy’s Likely New Leader, Giorgia Meloni

09/29/2022

LGBTQ+ Italians are concerned about the views of the country’s presumptive new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. Meloni is leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), a…

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Added on: 09/29/2022

Russians Are Fleeing Putin’s Draft. But in Georgia, Few Are Happy About a Fresh Influx

09/29/2022

It’s not hard to understand why Nikolai Shushpan, who is gay, made the decision to become one of the thousands of Russians to flee to Georgia after…

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Added on: 09/29/2022

Qatar UN ambassador calls on God to ‘curse’ gay people in resurfaced tweet

09/29/2022

Qatar’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has deleted her Twitter account after it was revealed she had published numerous homophobic and antisemitic comments online. Hend Al-Muftah…

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Added on: 09/28/2022

Situation in UAE increasingly worrying for international LGBTQ community

09/27/2022

A kiss, a hug or holding hands — acts of fondness by same sex couples in public have always been out of the question in the United…

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Added on: 09/28/2022

Cardinals Cupich, Dolan blast HHS plan to require transgender procedures over religious objections

09/27/2022

Two of America’s most prominent Roman Catholic leaders — Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich and New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan — said Tuesday that a Biden administration proposal…

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Added on: 09/28/2022

Nigeria’s Queer Population is Facing an Impossible Decision

09/27/2022

Two years ago, during the Endsars peaceful protests in Nigeria, the younger generation did something that shocked the whole country and Nigerians everywhere. They walked and worked…

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Added on: 09/28/2022

Transgender rights’ bill referred to Senate standing committee

09/26/2022

Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Monday referred the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) (Amendment) Bill, 2022, to the relevant standing committee for debate in order to reach…

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Added on: 09/28/2022

Alex Meszaros — Identity.Education, Romania

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Can you tell me a bit about yourself and what led you to join Identity.Education? In 2018, I was studying psychology, and for my Bachelor’s degree, I…

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Added on: 09/27/2022

“Love Is Love” — Meet The Trailblazer Who Broke The Mould For LGBTQ+ Rights In Malaysia

09/26/2022

What does it truly mean to live a life worth living? Is it the clothes you wear or the food you eat? Or is it standing for…

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Added on: 09/27/2022

Cancellation of Taiwan Pride event shows China’s influence extends far beyond its borders

09/26/2022

WorldPride 2025 would have been the first time a global lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) event was held in Asia. Originally scheduled to be held…

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Added on: 09/27/2022

Italy’s ‘next PM’ Giorgia Meloni is a far-right leader who rallied against ‘LGBT lobbies’

09/26/2022

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, who has rallied against “LBGT lobbies” and so-called “gender ideology”, is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister. Projections based on the…

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Added on: 09/27/2022

Cubans approve gay marriage by large margin in referendum

09/26/2022

Cubans approved gay marriage and adoption overwhelmingly in a Sunday referendum backed by the government that also boosted rights for women, the national election commission said on…

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Added on: 09/26/2022

Cuba holds unusual vote on law allowing same-sex marriage

09/25/2022

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba held a rare referendum Sunday on an unusually contentious law — a government-backed “family law” code that would allow same-sex couples to marry…

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Added on: 09/26/2022

New Netflix documentary follows life of Australian trans teen who challenged laws to affirm gender

09/25/2022

When she was 10, Georgie Stone became the youngest person in Australia to receive hormone blockers. Stone is transgender and had to go to court to fight for…