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Added on: 08/21/2022

CNA Explains: The history of 377A and how some countries have repealed it

Channel News Asia
08/19/2022
A controversial law that criminalises sex between men in Singapore has been thrust into the spotlight again, amid an ongoing government review which seeks to find the…
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Added on: 08/21/2022

Some LGBTQ Afghans Are Finally Safe. Thousands Are Not.

The Daily Beast
08/20/2022
It was “so hard” to leave his family in Afghanistan, Talha told The Daily Beast. Then he began crying, recalling the desperate dash to get out of…
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Added on: 08/19/2022

Rights groups ask Defense Ministry to stop sales of phone hacking tool to Uganda

Times of Israel
08/17/2022
Human rights groups have reportedly asked the Defense Ministry to stop permitting an Israeli company to sell its phone hacking tool to Uganda, claiming it is used…
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Added on: 08/19/2022

OPINION: We need more South Asian queer stories and voices

Thomson Reuters Foundation
08/18/2022
Shivani Dave is a freelance journalist and broadcaster at Openly and Virgin Radio. Growing up I never thought Brown people could be LGBTQ+. That’s an absolutely ridiculous thought,…
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Added on: 08/19/2022

The situation as a Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugee in Kenya is as terrible as you can imagine

Thomson Reuters Foundation
08/17/2022
Geoffrey Rainbo* is an LGBTQ+ refugee from Uganda (@GeoffreyRainbo). I am a Ugandan gay man living in Nairobi after being relocated from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-western…
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Added on: 08/17/2022

Why Nayyab Ali puts her life on the line to protect trans Pakistanis

The Christian Science Monitor
08/16/2022
In the basement of a residential building in a developing part of Islamabad, a dozen or so transgender women are sitting in a circle on the floor….
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Added on: 08/15/2022

Indian mothers explain how they ‘came out’ as proud parents to their LGBTQ+ kids

Pink News
08/14/2022
Four years after India repealed Section 377 – the British colonial era law used to criminalise LGBTQ+ people – being openly queer and Indian comes with its fair…
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Added on: 08/14/2022

Churches in East Africa can help to change attitudes to LGBT rights, says charity

Church Times
08/12/2022
Churches in East Africa have a necessary part to play in changing attitudes and policies concerning LGBTIQ+ rights, the international charity the Arcus Foundation has said. Last…
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Added on: 08/12/2022

Maldives police arrest four men and target dozens more over leaked gay sex videos

Pink News
08/12/2022
Police arrested a Bangladeshi sex worker on 12 July, who they claim filmed his encounters with men with intentions to blackmail them, according to Human Rights Watch. Police…
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Added on: 08/12/2022

U.S. Special Envoy Stern Set To Visit India & Nepal To Promote Human Rights Of LGBTQI+ Community

Republic World
08/10/2022
Jessica Stern, a special envoy of the US, will embark on a 8-day trip to India and Nepal in order to promote the human rights of the…
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Added on: 08/11/2022

“I Don’t Want to Change Myself” Anti-LGBT Conversion Practices, Discrimination, and Violence in Malaysia

Human Rights Watch
08/10/2022
In February 2021, Nur Sajat, a cosmetics entrepreneur, failed to appear in court in the western Malaysian state of Selangor to answer to criminal charges for “insulting…
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Added on: 08/11/2022

Drugmaker Gilead to help fund monkeypox education for LGBTQ+ groups

Reuters
08/10/2022
Aug 9 (Reuters) – Drugmaker Gilead Sciences (GILD.O) plans to announce on Tuesday that it will provide up to $5 million in grants to help a coalition of…
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Added on: 08/10/2022

Seychelles president welcomes LGBTI activists

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/09/2022
The LGBTI community in the island nation of Seychelles has achieved a new level of social and political recognition. Evidence of that achievement came on July 21,…
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Added on: 08/10/2022

Meet 5 queer trailblazers making visibility matter in small-town America

LGBTQ Nation
08/09/2022
When Sylvia Ximi was in middle school, she recalls looking around her hometown of Prescott, Arizona, for any sign there were other queer people around. One low-slung…
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Added on: 08/10/2022

Being gay is not a disease, Vietnam tells its medical workers in bid to end anti-LGBTQ discrimination

CBS News
08/09/2022
Being gay is not a disease, Vietnam has told its doctors, as it called on medical workers to end discrimination against the LGBTQ community. Campaigners told AFP…
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Added on: 08/09/2022

Nigeria Won’t Guarantee Amnesty for Victims of Gay Dating App Scam

Metro Weekly
08/08/2022
On Sunday, July 31, six men were arrested in Nigeria’s central state of Nasarawa after being caught extorting thousands of dollars from closeted gay men as part…
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Added on: 08/08/2022

Archbishop of Canterbury condemns gay marriage, but Anglican bishops remain divided

Fox News
08/07/2022
The head of the Anglican Communion attempted to reinforce the church’s stance against homosexual marriage this week, but the move was squashed by outcry from various bishops. The controversy…
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Added on: 08/07/2022

Uganda suspends operations of charity championing LGBT rights

Reuters
08/06/2022
The Ugandan government has suspended the operations of a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, accusing it of working in the…
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Added on: 08/06/2022

Queer Iraqis alarmed over proposed law banning homosexuality

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/05/2022
Iraqi queer activists are raising alarms over a proposal to criminalise homosexuality in the Middle Eastern country. Although no law currently criminalises homosexuality directly in Iraq, authorities…
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Added on: 08/05/2022

Saudi sisters found dead in Sydney told acquaintance queer women ‘live in fear’ in their homeland

The Guardian
08/04/2022
Two Saudi sisters found dead in their beds in Sydney attended a girls-only queer event in January where they told acquaintances gay women “live in fear” in Saudi…
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Added on: 08/05/2022

No Nigeria amnesty guarantees for gay dating app victims

BBC
08/04/2022
Police in Nigeria have urged victims of a same-sex dating app scam to come forward to give evidence. But they have refused to offer them the assurance…
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Added on: 08/05/2022

Dominican Anglican church goes rogue on gay rights

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/04/2022
The current Lambeth conference of global Anglican bishops has been rocked with divisions over the issue of same-sex marriage.  In contrast, the primates (heads) of the global…
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Added on: 08/04/2022

Explainer: what makes Ghana’s anti-gay bill so extreme?

The Guardian
08/03/2022
Same-sex “conduct” is already illegal in Ghana, but MPs introduced a sweeping new anti-LGBTQ+ draft bill a year ago that would fully criminalisie LGBTQ+ people, along with rights…
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Added on: 08/04/2022

The Nigerians worried about a bill to outlaw cross-dressing

BBC
08/03/2022
Trans women and men and non-binary people in Nigeria are nervously eyeing a parliamentary proposal that seeks to criminalise cross-dressing. It aims to amend the Same-Sex Marriage…
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Added on: 08/03/2022

Hundreds hold ‘kiss-a-thon’ to support gay couple threatened in Colombia

Gay Times
08/02/2022
Hundreds of same-sex couples staged a ‘kiss-a-thon’ in a park in Bogotá, Colombia after a gay couple was attacked there. Santiago Maldonado and Jorge Esteban Farías were…
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Added on: 08/03/2022

Will Ghana introduce some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world?

The Guardian
08/02/2022
In February 2021, a community centre for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana was closed down weeks after it had opened, following a wave of protests. As our west…
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Added on: 08/02/2022

An Arabic anti-LGBTQ+ campaign is going viral on Twitter

Rest of the World
08/01/2022
In late June, an account launched on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Telegram called Fetrah — the Arabic word for “human instinct.” Soon after, the account posted a…
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Added on: 08/02/2022

Ugandan police accused of anti-gay bias in murder investigation

Open Democracy
08/01/2022
Ugandan police have been accused of homophobic bias and “extortion” following the brutal murder last month of a gay person who had previously been arrested and victimised…
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Added on: 08/01/2022

Saudi police arrest TikToker for alleged lesbian subtext

Q News
07/31/2022
Tala Safwan has five million followers on TikTok and 800,000 on YouTube. She lives in Saudi Arabia. Her content is similar to other young social media influencers…
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Added on: 08/01/2022

An interview with Emmie America: The defiant Russian fashion photographer and LGBTQ+ activist

Euro News
07/31/2022
In 2021, fashion photographer and activist, Emmie America, was detained and fined by Russian authorities, after organising a politically charged photo shoot in Moscow, where 25 participants…
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