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Added on: 07/29/2022

Russia’s LGBT Community Braces For More Persecution As Duma Readies Stricter Propaganda Law

07/28/2022

Anna Kosvinitseva is a web designer in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan who has been working mostly from home for the past few years. She says…

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Added on: 07/28/2022

Retired gay foreigners targeted in Thai bill

07/28/2022

Two foreigners will be able to get legal recognition for longstay visas in an amendment to the civil union bill agreed by a parliamentary committee. Spokesperson Thanikarn…

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Added on: 07/28/2022

Morocco’s former PM condemned for sharing debunked homophobic theory about monkeypox

07/27/2022

Morocco’s former prime minister Saad Eddin El Othmani is under fire for sharing a homophobic theory regarding monkeypox, as the virus spreads rapidly worldwide. “The vast majority of…

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Added on: 07/28/2022

Europe’s Monkeypox Outbreak Sparks Fears of Anti-LGBTQ+ Backlash

07/27/2022

LONDON, July 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — When Louis, a 29-year-old gay man, realised he had caught something “nasty”, the doctor initially thought it was herpes. His…

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Added on: 07/27/2022

EU’s suit against Hungary over anti-gay law isn’t a sure win for LGBT rights in Europe.

07/26/2022

The European Commission is taking legal action against Hungary at the European court of justice, escalating a longstanding dispute over the country’s anti-LGBT laws. This is an…

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Added on: 07/27/2022

Life as an LGBTQ refugee in Turkey.

07/26/2022

Same-sex relationships may have never been criminalized in Turkey as in many other predominantly Muslim nations, but LGBTQ individuals continue to be seen as depraved or deviant…

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Added on: 07/27/2022

LGBTQ activists angered by Baja California governor’s stance on conversion therapy.

07/26/2022

The memories remain raw for 27-year-old Benjamin Sanchez. As the teenage son of a pastor in an ultra-Christian community of Tijuana, his identity was considered a sin….

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Added on: 07/27/2022

Texas suing USDA over requirement to add LGBTQ protections to nutrition programs’ nondiscrimination policies Texas suing USDA over requirement to add LGBTQ protections to nutrition programs’ nondiscrimination policies.

07/26/2022

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced in May that it would expand its definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Paxton and…

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Added on: 07/26/2022

GOP congressman attends gay son’s wedding after opposing protections for same-sex marriage.

07/25/2022

GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attended his gay son’s wedding last week, three days after opposing a bill in the US House that would enshrine protections for same-sex…

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Added on: 07/26/2022

Buenos Aires officials sued over unjust ban on gender-neutral language in schools.

07/25/2022

Authorities in Buenos Aires are being sued after banning gender-neutral language from being taught in schools. Local officials were collectively taken to court by political groups after…

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Added on: 07/26/2022

Motion to oppose same-sex marriage forces rethink of Anglican summit.

07/25/2022

The archbishop of Canterbury has been forced into a last-minute rethink of plans to ask Anglican bishops to oppose same-sex marriage when they meet this week for…

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Added on: 07/26/2022

WQMD – Experiences, Stories and Evolution of SA Drag Culture.

07/25/2022

The art of drag has taken the world by storm, with the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise making it a truly global phenomenon. In this episode, Shenay sits…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Same-Sex Marriage Bill Advances in US Congress

07/24/2022

The U.S. Congress may be on the cusp of passing legislation that would codify recognition of same-sex marriages under federal law, solidifying the right of LGBTQ couples…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Double the risk for Russian tennis star speaking out on LGBTQ rights and war in Ukraine

07/24/2022

Russia’s top female tennis player, Daria “Dasha” Kasatkina, has done something no Russian athlete of her rank has done before — she came out. While seeing a professional athlete from Canada or the…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Glasgow bagel business owner on mission to help young LGBT Scots

07/24/2022

IAN Brooke still looks over his shoulder when walking along a street when his husband takes his hand. The 42-year-old does it instinctively to see who might…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Gender-affirming Care: Thailand’s Transgender People Lead By Example

07/24/2022

According to the article published in The Lancet last year, “transgender-specific data could benefit efforts in Asia to identify gaps in HIV response for transgender people.” Despite…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

At Least 25 States Are One Supreme Court Decision Away From Banning Same-Sex Marriage

07/23/2022

In his decision to help gut Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Thousands join Budapest Pride march in sweltering heat

07/23/2022

In sweltering temperatures, thousands of Hungarians took part in the annual Budapest Pride march on Saturday, vowing to keep up their fight against government policies on LGBTQ…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Delhi: Dispute between transgender individuals and police escalates at Dwarka

07/23/22

A dispute early Friday morning at a police station in Dwarka between transgender individuals from the Garima Greh shelter and police escalated, with the transgender individuals alleging…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

President Ramkalawan Meets Members of LGBTI Seychelles

7/22/22

President Wavel Ramkalawan received the Chairperson of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Seychelles Association, Mr. Naddy Vidot, at State House yesterday morning. LGBTI Seychelles…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

Greece bans genital surgery on non-consenting intersex babies

7/22/22

The parliament of Greece passed a law earlier this week banning “sex-normalizing” surgeries for babies born intersex. Intersex children are born with any number of chromosomal, gonadal,…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

Lebanon presses on with its crackdown on LGBTQ community

7/22/22

Nour never felt entirely safe as a queer person in Lebanon. But in the past few years, the 25-year-old pharmacist had begun letting his guard down, meeting…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

Six Texas lawsuits targeting gay marriage, LGBT rights after the fall of Roe vs. Wade

7/21/22

In the wake of the toppling of Roe v. Wade and with Justice Clarence Thomas urging the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit rulings on gay sex and…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

South Africa Islamic group issues edict that condemns homosexuality

7/21/22

A group of queer Muslims in South Africa have rejected the South African Muslim Judicial Council’s new edict that condemns homosexuality as sinful and unIslamic. The fatwa…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

Costa Rica family court validated adoption for a same-sex couple

7/21/22

Same-sex couples will be able to adopt from now on without any prejudice since a family court and the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) – which…

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Added on: 07/21/2022

LGBTQ+ Nigerians fear violence after sharia court death sentence

07/29/2022

By Pelumi Salako – ILORIN, Nigeria, July 18 (Openly) – A Nigerian sharia court’s decision to sentence three men to death by stoning for homosexual acts could trigger…

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Added on: 07/21/2022

Oklahoma town’s first openly gay mayor resigns over harassment, threats ‘bordering on violence’

07/19/2022

Adam Graham, the first openly gay mayor of The Village, a town just outside Oklahoma City, has resigned, writing in a resignation letter that he no longer…

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Added on: 07/21/2022

Three strategies to survive being LGBTIQ+ in Nigeria

07/19/2022

Nigeria’s discriminatory laws against LGBTQI+ people continue to have a huge negative impact on the lives of LGBTIQ+ folks living in the country. LGBTQI+ people are subjected to…

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Added on: 07/20/2022

U.S. House passes bill protecting marriage equality

07/19/2022

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill protecting gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade imperiled similar precedents…

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Added on: 07/20/2022

China’s Tsinghua University Punishes Students for LGBTQ Flags

07/19/2022

Two students at one of China’s most prestigious universities were issued warnings for distributing LGBTQ rainbow flags, highlighting how the nation’s increasing intolerance for sexual diversity is…