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Added on: 12/14/2021

Senegalese lawmakers draft tougher laws against LGBT

12/13/2021

A group of Senegalese lawmakers has drafted a law that would tighten already repressive laws against same-sex relations, lengthening potential jail terms for those convicted of LGBT+…

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Added on: 12/14/2021

Vatican office apologises for hurting Catholic LGBTQ community

12/13/2021

A Vatican department has apologised for “causing pain to the entire LGBTQ community” by removing from its website a link to resource material from a Catholic gay…

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Added on: 12/14/2021

Analysis: Hungary’s Orban banking on anti-LGBT campaign in tough re-election bid

12/13/2021

Prime Minister Viktor Orban is casting himself as the defender of traditional Hungarian values against “LGBT ideology” for the 2022 election in which his party may be…

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Added on: 12/14/2021

‘A safe place.’ For LGBT asylum seekers, a new shot at life

12/13/2021

The church volunteers assembled furniture and hung decorations in the newly renovated apartment building. They laid out nearly every necessity, down to the bath towels, bed linens,…

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Added on: 12/13/2021

Sindh becomes first province in Pakistan to reserve seats for transgender, people of determination in local councils

12/12/2021

Karachi: Sindh has become the first province in the country to reserve one per cent seats each for people of determination and members of the transgender community…

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Added on: 12/13/2021

Inclusion and Criminalisation – the two sides of the LGBTQ+ debate in Ghana

12/12/2021

Kofi is a respectable, married man with two children. He also describes himself, however, as a “man having sex with a man” (MSM). No one in his…

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Added on: 12/13/2021

Al-Azhar rhetoric alarms LGBTQ community

12/12/2021

Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s highest religious authority, has warned against media content that “normalizes” homosexuality. The warning came in a Dec. 5 tweet on Al-Azhar’s official Twitter account that condemned…

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Added on: 12/13/2021

Iran arrests lesbian for ‘supporting homosexuality’

12/12/2021

The 6G Iranian and Lesbian and Transgender Network reported Tuesday on its website that an Iranian lesbian named Sarah was arrested in the province of West Azerbaijan while…

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Added on: 12/12/2021

Does victorian morality hold India’s legality of same-sex marriage at bay?

12/11/21

As the legality of same-sex marriage gets approval in Latin America’s Chile, the 31st such country in the world, the stand of a diverse country like India…

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Added on: 12/12/2021

Thousands urge Polish MP to kill horrific LGBT+ ‘promotion’ bill that would ban Pride

12/11/21

The bill has been pushed by the conservative Life and Family Foundation, which recently lobbied successfully for a restriction on abortion rights. It was introduced as a…

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Added on: 12/12/2021

Tunisia: LGBT activist’s assault seen as a pattern by police

12/11/21

A prominent LGBTQ activist in Tunisia has reported that two men, one dressed in police uniform, threw him to the ground, beat and kicked him during an…

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Added on: 12/12/2021

How dismantling Roe v Wade could imperil other ‘core, basic human rights’

12/11/2021

Constitutional scholars in the US said a litany of rights, from same-sex marriage and sex to birth control and in vitro fertilization, could come into question if…

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Added on: 12/11/2021

LGBTQ Community in Tunisia Forcibly Outed to Public, Face Police Brutality: Activists

12/10/21

Tunisian LGBTQ activists are demanding change after a series of brutal attacks and harassment campaigns. The Associated Press interviewed activists in the North African country, including Tunisian…

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Added on: 12/11/2021

Transgender and intersex rights are human rights

12/10/21

As South Africa marked International Human Rights Day on 10 December, activists called on the government to escalate efforts to promote legal gender recognition and end intersex…

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Added on: 12/11/2021

LGBTQ+ Iranians Are Suffering and Dying While the World Yawns

12/10/2021

Observing Human Rights Day every year on December 10 may pass people by without a moment’s thought — another unnecessary day which no one is aware of…

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Added on: 12/10/2021

Tunisia: LGBT activist’s assault by police seen as a pattern

12/09/2021

TUNIS, Tunisia — A prominent LGBTQ activist in Tunisia has reported that two men, one dressed in police uniform, threw him to the ground, beat and kicked…

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Added on: 12/10/2021

Chile’s Pinera signs historic same-sex marriage bill into law

12/09/2021

SANTIAGO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Chile’s center-right President Sebastián Piñera signed into law a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Thursday, days after it was approved by Congress…

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Added on: 12/10/2021

New Zealand passes law making it easier to change sex on birth certificates

12/09/2021

New Zealand’s rainbow community will be allowed to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates without providing evidence of a medical procedure, after a bill to recognise…

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Added on: 12/09/2021

“As Chile legalises same-sex marriage, where in Europe is making the most progress on LGBT rights? “

12/08/2021

Chileans have been celebrating after their Congress approved equal marriage yesterday. Votes by politicians were overwhelmingly in favour of the legislation, with the Senate voting 21-8 in…

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Added on: 12/09/2021

There is nothing to cure’: Senators back ban on LGBT ‘conversion therapy’

12/08/2021

France’s Senate has overwhelmingly voted in favour of a ban on so-called LGBT conversion therapy. The bill was approved at its first reading on Tuesday, with 305…

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Added on: 12/09/2021

“Depression rising among LGBT people in conservative-ruled Poland, survey finds “

12/08/2021

WARSAW, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The number of Polish LGBT people with depression rose by more than half between 2017 and 2020, according to a new study,…

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Added on: 12/08/2021

Trans people waiting years for gender healthcare as demand surges

12/07/2021

When British tattoo artist Eva Echo found the courage to come out as transgender, she quickly sought specialist medical care to help her transition. More than four…

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Added on: 12/08/2021

Tokyo governor plans to introduce de facto same-sex marriage next year

12/07/2021

Tokyo Metropolitan government will start a system that effectively allows same-sex marriage in Japan’s capital in the next fiscal year from April, Japan’s Kyodo news wire reported…

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Added on: 12/07/2021

Argentina made history by legally recognising non-binary people, but now they’re left ‘in limbo’

12/06/2021

Argentina made history in July as the first country in Latin America to legally recognise non-binary people – but people issued with documents showing their gender as…

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Added on: 12/07/2021

Thai court’s marriage ruling riles LGBTQ activists

12/06/2021

A statement in which Thailand’s Constitutional Court has argued that permitting same-sex marriage in the country would violate the “natural order” has angered LGBTQ activists and rights…

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Added on: 12/06/2021

MAC plans gay marriage for Chinese

12/05/2021

Same-sex marriages involving a Chinese spouse might soon be recognized, as the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday said it plans to amend cross-strait regulations to conform with…

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Added on: 12/06/2021

Victoria bans religious schools from sacking staff for being LGBT

12/05/2021

The Victorian government has passed laws banning religious schools from sacking or refusing to hire staff based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. The state parliament’s…

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Added on: 12/06/2021

Anti-LGBT+ hate group appeals to Supreme Court to stop people calling it a hate group

12/05/2021

An anti-LGBT+ hate group has asked the US Supreme Court to allow it to sue the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to overturn its hate group status….

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Added on: 12/05/2021

Watch Botswana’s queer community rejoice as cruel bid to re-criminalise gay sex fails

12/5/21

The LGBT+ community in Botswana, and indeed around the world, breathed a huge sigh of relief on Monday (29 November) after the country’s Court of Appeal upheld…

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Added on: 12/05/2021

Lewis Hamilton condemns ‘terrifying’ LGBTQ+ laws before Saudi Arabian GP

12/2/21

Lewis Hamilton has said he is not comfortable competing in Saudi Arabia given its repressive laws regarding the LGBTQ+ community. Speaking before this weekend’s grand prix in…