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Added on: 04/24/2024

Wales is latest UK nation to pause puberty blockers for under-18s

04/23/2024

Wales has become the latest UK nation to pause the use of puberty blockers by under-18s. The physically reversible hormone blockers, which suppress unwanted elements of puberty…

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Added on: 04/24/2024

Tokyo Rainbow Pride Celebrates 30 Years

04/24/2024

Over the weekend in Japan, 15,000 people took part in the 2024 Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade, one of the biggest LGBTQIA+ events in Southeast Asia. All colours…

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Added on: 04/24/2024

New Queer Future Beckons for Former Sydney Police Station

04/23/2024

Not-for-profit Qtopia has applied to permanently transform a former police station into the Sydney Centre for Queer History and Culture. Along with Create NSW—the NSW Government’s arts…

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Added on: 04/23/2024

Lawsuit in London to allege Grindr shared users’ HIV status with ad firms

04/22/2024

Grindr faces the prospect of legal action by hundreds of users who will allege that the dating app shared highly sensitive personal information, including in some cases…

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Added on: 04/21/2024

Learning Love and Loyalty in the AIDS Crisis

04/20/2024

David called me on Saturday, April 23, 1994, to tell me Bill died that morning at 8:35. Now it was over. The inevitability, the feelings of resignation,…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

US Supreme Court lets Idaho enforce ban on transgender care for minors

04/15/2024

The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let a Republican-backed law in Idaho that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender minors broadly take effect after a federal judge…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

Trans youth dying in suicide “epidemic” as UK increasingly restricts gender-affirming care

04/15/2024

Transgender 15-year-old Jason Pulman died by suicide after his country’s medical system told him he’d have to wait 26 months for his first gender-affirming care appointment. His…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

First China transgender clinic deals with ‘visitors’ as it embraces country’s 4 million people with body dissatisfaction

04/15/2024

For China’s transgender population of four million – and those with empathy for them – they are people whose souls are trapped in the wrong body. At…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

What Canadian doctors say about new U.K. review questioning puberty blockers for transgender youth

04/15/2024

A long-anticipated — and contentious — national review of gender-affirming care for youth in England was released last week, resulting in headlines across the U.K. saying that…

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Added on: 04/13/2024

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly Vetoes Bill That Would Strip Away Access to Essential Health Care for Transgender Youth

04/12/2024

Today, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed SB 233, which, if enacted, would ban crucial, medically necessary health care for transgender youth. This is the latest anti-LGBTQ bill…

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Added on: 04/10/2024

What are the key findings of the NHS gender identity review?

04/09/2024

A review into the NHS’s gender identity services has found that children and young people have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on…

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Added on: 04/09/2024

Behind the movement that brought homosexuality — and psychiatry’s power — to a vote 50 years ago

04/08/2024

Fifty years ago, the nation’s psychiatrists effectively put gay people’s mental health — and their very place in society — to a vote. Five months prior, on…

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Added on: 04/02/2024

Africa Pride 2024 will celebrate love in the face of hatred and homophobia

04/01/2024

A coalition of African LGBTQ+ rights group has announced plans for a continent-wide celebration of Pride. Africa Pride 2024 events will consist of online programs and a…

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Added on: 03/26/2024

Amid book bans, DEI cuts and ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws, 7 states will mandate LGBTQ-inclusive curricula

03/25/2024

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed a law last week that includes a mandate for the state’s public schools to teach LGBTQ history, as red and…

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Added on: 03/16/2024

Bahrain: Continued Denial of Legal Gender Recognition and Gender-affirming Healthcare for Transgender People in the Name of Islamic Sharia

02/07/2024

In a recent judgment from May 2023, a Bahraini lower court rejected a transman’s application to obtain legal gender recognition and access gender-affirming healthcare, citing Islamic Sharia….

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Added on: 03/10/2024

In Argentina, feminists and LGBT groups challenge Javier Milei

03/09/2024

Around a hundred women, transgender, and non-binary people gathered on Wednesday, March 6 on the patio of the Hotel Hector Quagliaro in Buenos Aires, loaned by the…

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Added on: 03/09/2024

In Argentina, feminists and LGBT groups challenge Javier Milei

04/08/2024

Around a hundred women, transgender, and non-binary people gathered on Wednesday, March 6 on the patio of the Hotel Hector Quagliaro in Buenos Aires, loaned by the…

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Added on: 03/06/2024

Russian LGBTQ+ ‘Conversion Therapy’ Isolates Patients for Months – Report

03/05/2024

At least a dozen clinics in Russia “secretly” conduct so-called conversion therapy, an abusive practice used to forcibly “cure” LGBTQ+ people, the U.S.-funded broadcaster Current Time reported…

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Added on: 03/02/2024

Ghana’s parliament passes anti-LGBTQ law

02/29/24

Ghana’s parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that further clamps down on the rights of LGBTQ people in the West African country. The “Human Sexual Rights and…

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Added on: 02/28/2024

Christchurch Youths Sentenced in Unprovoked Attacks on Gay Men, Victim Speaks Out

02/27/2024

In a harrowing series of events that shook Christchurch, five youths have been sentenced for their roles in unprovoked attacks on gay men, including a distressing assault…

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Added on: 02/20/2024

Pride And The City: Creating Queer Third Spaces In Bengaluru

02/20/2024

In the last few years, potentially due to the pandemic-caused confinement at home, the topic of third places has gained prominence in popular discourse. They can be…

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Added on: 02/20/2024

Russian security services drag ‘gay night’ party-goers out into snow and beat them

02/18/2024

Russian police raided a party they accused of spreading LGBT propaganda and beat its attendees in the snow, as part of a crackdown sweeping the country. The…

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Added on: 02/20/2024

Supreme Court Could Kill College Transgender Sports

02/18/2024

Riley Gaines, a former NCAA athlete turned political campaigner, has expressed confidence the Supreme Court will end up ruling against transgender women being allowed to compete in…

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Added on: 02/16/2024

Zimbabwe Government Rejects LGBT Scholarship Offer as ‘Unlawful and Unchristian’

02/15/2024

The Zimbabwean government has issued a stern rejection to what it labels as ‘so-called’ LGBT scholarships, branding them as unlawful and unchristian. In a recent press statement,…

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Added on: 02/16/2024

How Latin Americans Are Learning To Embrace The “Coming Out” Of LGBTQ+ Loved Ones

02/15/2024

Jorge Apolaya, a 45-year-old Peruvian, is pained to recall his mother’s disappointment in 2007, when she heard him admit he was gay and liked men. Activists like…

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Added on: 02/14/2024

India’s queer youth find both hope and despair online

02/13/2024

In 2016, when Roshni Singh was in Class 9, Reliance Jio launched an offer wherein it provided customers with free SIM cards, along with 1 gigabyte of…

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Added on: 02/13/2024

Anti-LGBT bills led to more suicides in Poland, research finds

02/12/2024

Analysis led by Chad Meyerhoefer shows harmful effects regardless of whether laws passed, with potential parallels to current U.S. “bathroom bills.” A coordinated political effort against LGBT…

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Added on: 02/11/2024

What are Alberta’s proposed gender rules?

02/09/2024

The Canadian province of Alberta has proposed a range of gender policies restricting surgery and hormone treatment for minors – measures criticised by doctors, teachers and rights…

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Added on: 02/03/2024

Trudeau decries Alberta transgender policies: “most anti-LGBT in the country”

02/02/2024

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling Alberta’s new proposals on the treatment of transgender youth the “most anti-LGBT of anywhere in the country.” Trudeau says that if…

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Added on: 01/28/2024

Closeted men were less likely to get the Mpox vaccine for a very surprising reason

01/27/2024

Closeted men who have sex with men were less likely to get vaccinated or treated for Mpox than those who were out, according to a new study….