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Added on: 04/18/2024

Out in the World: Anti-LGBTQ bills, laws are spreading around the world

04/17/2024

Anti-LGBTQ bills and new laws are spreading around the world, including in several African nations and the former Soviet republic of Belarus. The proposed or approved legislation in…

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Added on: 04/17/2024

Uganda: Activists Appeal Shock Anti-Homosexuality Law Ruling

04/16/2024

Twenty-two individuals have filed an appeal with Uganda’s Supreme Court against the Constitutional Court’s recent refusal to strike down the country’s vile Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA). The Supreme…

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Added on: 04/17/2024

Iraq postpones vote on bill to impose death penalty for same-sex acts

04/16/2024

The Iraqi parliament is threatening to pass a long-delayed anti-LGBTQ bill that would impose the death penalty for same-sex intimacy. Although Iraq does not currently have an…

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Added on: 04/15/2024

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

04/13/2024

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law…

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Added on: 04/12/2024

Ghana ruling party presidential candidate says he opposes same-sex relations

04/11/2024

ACCRA (Reuters) -The presidential candidate of Ghana’s ruling party, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, said on Thursday he was opposed to “the practice of homosexuality”, a stance he promised…

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Added on: 04/12/2024

Government recognised violation of rights of LGBT representatives, however…

04/11/2024

On 11 April, the European Court of Human Rights announced a decision on the complaints of 24 representatives of the LGBT community. The complaint was related to the…

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Added on: 04/11/2024

UN LGBTQ Rights In Columbia Briefing

04/10/2024

For the first time in its 78-year history the United Nations Security Council received a full briefing in a regular session on security issues impacting LGBTQ people…

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Added on: 04/10/2024

Son Seok-gu’s gay chart remark reflects Korea’s evolving stance toward LGBTQ+ community

04/09/2024

The perception of the LGBTQ+ community is shifting. Stars like Son Seok-gu are expressing pride in the affection they receive from their gay fan bases. Their heartfelt…

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Added on: 04/09/2024

MP says criminalizing homosexuality is needed to promote ‘cultural sovereignty’

04/08/2024

A Congolese legislator has proposed a bill to criminalize homosexuality in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony that is home to 99 million people,…

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Added on: 04/09/2024

Vatican opposes anti-LGBTQ legislation, top cardinal says

04/08/2024

The Vatican is against laws that criminalize same-sex acts, as enforced by a number of countries with the support of Catholic groups, the head of the Vatican’s…

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Added on: 04/08/2024

Group urges government to protect transgender people

04/07/2024

On World Health Day yesterday, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) urged the government to better care for the health rights of transgender and…

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Added on: 04/06/2024

A Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist was stabbed and left for dead in the street. Now, he recounts his escape to Canada

04/05/2024

The scar on Steven Kabuye’s right arm runs over a foot long. At the base of his torso, a small puncture wound marks where a knife almost…

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Added on: 04/06/2024

Uganda cited Dobbs to back an anti-LGBTQ crackdown. Americans should be worried too.

04/05/2024

The ripple effects of Dobbs continue to emerge in unexpected places — and to threaten other civil liberties. Yesterday, Uganda’s constitutional court, the country’s second-highest judicial body,…

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Added on: 04/05/2024

Gay rights activists call for more international pressure on Uganda over anti-gay law

04/04/2024

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the…

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Added on: 04/05/2024

United Nations Passes Groundbreaking Intersex Rights Resolution

04/04/2024

The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed its first ever resolution affirming the rights of intersex people, signaling growing international resolve to address rights violations experienced…

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Added on: 04/04/2024

Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejects petition against anti-gay law

04/03/2024

Uganda’s Constitutional Court has rejected a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned internationally as one of the toughest in the world. The court…

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Added on: 04/03/2024

Ugandan court to issue verdict in petition against tough anti-gay law

04/02/2024

Uganda’s constitutional court is due on Wednesday to deliver a verdict on a petition seeking to annul the country’s tough Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), a lawyer for the…

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Added on: 04/02/2024

LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps

04/01/2024

Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag in her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the…

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Added on: 03/30/2024

Gay Man Jailed in Qatar Provisionally Freed Pending Investigation

03/21/2024

A gay British-Mexican, who was entrapped by police in Qatar on Grindr, has been provisionally released from prison after a global campaign for his freedom. Manuel Guerrero…

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Added on: 03/30/2024

FOR TRANS MIGRANTS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOMES, THE VIOLENCE CONTINUES AT OUR BORDER

03/29/2024

A few months ago in Tijuana, Mexico, our Director of Research and Analysis for Refugee Protection Christina Asenico met two couples from Russia – three of the…

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Added on: 03/29/2024

What does Senegal’s new president have in store for LGBTQ people?

03/28/2024

Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected President of Senegal on Sunday, collecting 51% of the votes compared to his challenger, Amadou Ba, from the ruling party of outgoing…

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Added on: 03/29/2024

Ugandan LGBT rights group caught between a rock and a hard place

03/28/2024

Last week, in another blow to freedoms of association and expression in Uganda, a Ugandan court rejected a petition brought by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a leading group advocating for the rights of…

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Added on: 03/29/2024

Shuttered Siberian Queer Bar Fined for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

03/28/2024

A queer bar in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has been fined for “LGBT propaganda,” local police said Thursday, a month after the bar announced its closure over…

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Added on: 03/28/2024

Nine men sentenced to death by ‘crucifixion and stoning’ for alleged sodomy by Houthi court

03/27/2024

Nine men were sentenced to death by a Houthi court in Yemen in a mass trial based on “dubious” charges of sodomy, a human rights organisation has…

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Added on: 03/28/2024

Uganda’s anti-LGBTQI+ speaker at the center of a corruption scandal

03/27/2024

In what looks like a deliberate bid to redirect intense public scrutiny away from grave allegations implicating her in a seemingly multibillion-shilling corruption scandal, Uganda Parliament speaker…

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Added on: 03/28/2024

National Security Council meets with Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist

03/27/2024

WASHINGTON | The U.S. National Security Council met with Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist Frank Mugisha on Monday, according to a spokesperson who reaffirmed America’s opposition to civil…

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Added on: 03/27/2024

The horrific reality of transgender individuals in Texas prisons

03/26/2024

Even as people fight for justice, some cries remain unheard and voices unanswered. In American society, many of these lost voices belong to the incarcerated, who are…

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Added on: 03/27/2024

In Azerbaijan authorities remain silent over the murder of a trans woman

03/26/2024

Azerbaijan’s LGBTQI+ community was rocked by the news of yet another murder of a trans woman whose body was found on March 12 on the outskirts of…

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Added on: 03/26/2024

This is the full, shocking story of the decade-long destruction of LGBTQ+ rights in Putin’s Russia

03/25/2024

On March 22 2024, Russia’s financial watchdog added the “LGBT movement” to its “terrorists and extremists” blacklist, the most recent move in a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights…

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Added on: 03/24/2024

Mexico: Attacked For Being A Lesbian, Imprisoned For Self-Defense

03/23/2024

A call for solidarity and mutual aid for Chío in the State of Mexico. Chío has spent the last 11 months in prison for defending herself against…