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Added on: 10/16/2021

Most Russians Oppose Same-Sex Relationships – Poll

10/15/21

More Russians oppose same-sex relationships than they did nearly a decade ago, according to a new survey released Friday. Russia’s independent Levada Center pollster said 69% of…

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Added on: 10/16/2021

Namibian Court Grants Citizenship to Gay Couple’s Son in LGBTQ+ Rights ‘Win’

10/15/21

A court in the Southern African country of Namibia ruled on Wednesday that the son of a gay couple is a Namibian citizen by descent. The ruling…

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Added on: 10/16/2021

The construction of Chinese patriotic masculinity: ‘sissies will ruin the nation’

10/15/21

Many cultural-political scholars have suggested that nationalism involves active control over a population’s biological traits such as health, reproduction, gender, sexuality and more. China’s recent campaign against…

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Added on: 10/16/2021

Texas House votes to keep transgender girls out of female sports

10/15/21

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that bans transgender women and girls from participating in female school sports after three previous attempts failed, all but…

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Added on: 10/15/2021

Sex Education’s’ gay teen Eric takes a risky trip to Nigeria. How realistic is it?

10/15/2021

In season 3 of the popular Netflix series Sex Education, the character named Eric Effiong goes to Nigeria. It is a risky trip. Eric is a gay teenager…

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Added on: 10/15/2021

Ghana’s parliament to vote on what could be world’s toughest anti-gay laws

10/14/2021

A video has emerged in Ghana of a gay man being beaten by a mob and doused in animal blood, as the country’s MPs prepare to vote…

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Added on: 10/15/2021

I have not taken money to fight LGBT Bill; I’m not a pimp – Akoto Ampaw

10/15/2021

Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, the leader of the group of lawyers and professors opposing the anti-gay Bill in Parliament has rubbished allegations that he is championing the course…

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Added on: 10/14/2021

‘Enraged’ allies plan powerful show of solidarity with under-attack LGBT+ community in Birmingham

10/13/2021

There was an outpouring of anger on social media over the weekend when John-Paul Kesseler, 38, posted a photo of himself with blood pouring down his face…

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Added on: 10/14/2021

Botswana Court Reserves Judgement After State Appeals Gay Sex Ruling

10/13/2021

GABORONE — Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Tuesday reserved judgement in a case in which the state seeks to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalized same sex relations….

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Added on: 10/14/2021

Ghanaian chief threatens to storm parliament to force through anti-LGBT+ bill

10/13/2021

The “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021”, leaked in July this year, would criminalise everything from sex toys, to trans medical…

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Added on: 10/14/2021

Lithuania’s ‘gay propaganda’ law looms over fight for same-sex unions

10/14/2021

VILNIUS, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As the target of constant homophobic abuse as a teenager, Rimas Prokopovicius rarely heard anything positive about gay people when…

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Added on: 10/13/2021

Trans Man Fights Japan’s Sterilization Requirement

10/12/2021

A Japanese transgender man, Gen Suzuki, 46, has filed a court request to have his legal gender recognized as male without undergoing sterilization surgery as prescribed by…

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Added on: 10/13/2021

Botswana appeals ruling allowing gay sex, court delays judgment

10/12/2021

Botswanan judges on Tuesday postponed ruling on a case in which the government is seeking to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, saying the matter…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Outrage after gay woman diagnosed at Spanish hospital with ‘homosexuality’

10/11/2021

A family and an LGBT collective in south-east Spain are demanding answers and an apology after a 19-year-old lesbian woman who visited a gynaecologist over a menstrual…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

LGBTI organisations say next government must enshrine rights in coalition deal

10/11/2021

Gender equality organisations will be urging the future coalition parties to include LGBTI rights in the government accord at a symposium being held in Assen on Monday….

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Wyoming librarians may face criminal charges for stocking LGBTQ books

10/11/2021

Local prosecutors in Wyoming may consider charging librarians for having books in the library’s collection that include information about reproduction, sex, or being gay. The books were…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Ghana church leaders intensify pressure on parliament to pass anti-gay bill

10/11/2021

Dis move dey follow from recent calls by some academics and lawyers who start dey criticize de anti-LGBTQ Bill. Pentecost, Anglican Church state dema position. House of…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

Poland’s LGBTQ+ community potentially at risk after court challenges primacy of EU laws

10/10/2021

On Thursday, the country’s constitutional tribunal ruled that the EU and some of its key treaty articles go against Poland’s own constitution. Back in March, the country’s…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

‘TUPAD for all’, Bello tells LGBTQ workers in Laguna

10/10/2021

The financial aid given by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is for all workers hardest hit by the pandemic, including members of the lesbian, gay,…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

UGANDA RECOGNISES ITS FIRST TRANSGENDER CITIZEN, CLEOPATRA KAMBUGU

10/10/2021

Cleopatra Kambugu, a Ugandan activist who advocates for sexual and gender minorities, has made history as the first transgender person in Uganda to have their new gender…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

North Carolina lieutenant governor won’t resign over anti-LGBTQ+ remarks

10/10/2021

The Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina has said he will not resign or back down over remarks in which he called transgenderism and homosexuality “filth”. Mark…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

‘Why are you attacking me? I’m great’: 8-year-old transgender girl asks lawmakers to oppose sports ban bill

10/7/21

During a marathon hearing Wednesday that lasted more than 10 hours, a transgender child pleaded with Texas House lawmakers to halt a bill that would prevent her…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

Tom Daley calls for Olympic ban on countries where being gay is punishable by death

10/8/21

British Olympic diver Tom Daley said that he will make it his “mission” to stop countries where homosexuality is punishable by death from competing in the Olympics….

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Added on: 10/10/2021

China’s LGBT community caught up in Xi Jinping’s widening crackdowns on big tech, education and celebrities

10/7/21

On August 13 last year, the organisers of Shanghai’s long-running LGBT pride festival abruptly announced the event was being cancelled indefinitely without explanation. The news came as…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

LGBTQ+ bill criminalizes persons who promote sympathy for the act, not persons involved — Sam George insists

10/9/21

The lead proponent of the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill which is before Ghana’s Parliament, Sam George has explained that the bill does not criminalize homosexuals but those who promote…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Turkish court acquits students of organising 2019 gay pride march

10/8/21

Turkey has acquitted 19 people who had been prosecuted for organising and participating in a Pride march. A Turkish court had ruled that the students and academic…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Portugal to stamp out anti-gay prejudice in blood donations

10/8/21

Portugal’s parliament approved four bills Friday that enshrine in law the country’s rules and procedures on blood donations, amid reports people are being turned away due to…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Alice Nkom, Cameroon’s tireless defender of LGBTQ rights

10/8/21

Nkom’s cane is the only thing that betrays the age of this great lady, whom her young clients call “Mama”. At 76, Nkom may be Cameroon’s oldest…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

N.C. lieutenant governor faces calls to resign for calling LGBTQ people ‘filth’

10/8/21

Multiple North Carolina state representatives are demanding that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican, resign after a video surfaced showing him describing the LGBTQ community as “filth.”…

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Added on: 10/08/2021

France moves closer to banning so-called gay conversion therapy

10/06/2021

France’s parliament has unanimously backed proposed legislation that would ban so-called gay conversion therapy. The new law would introduce prison sentences and fines for people who attempt…