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Added on: 03/07/2022

Trans and non-binary people trapped in war-torn Ukraine

03/04/2022

The main obstacles to Valeria Kolosova escaping from Ukraine are her passport and ID card, which identify the 24-year-old transgender woman as a man – meaning she…

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Added on: 03/05/2022

LGBTQ refugees fleeing Ukraine face discrimination in countries with anti-gay laws

3/4/22

Late on Thursday night, Viktória Radványi, communications director for Budapest Pride, drove with her girlfriend to the border between Hungary and Ukraine. They were picking up four…

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Added on: 03/05/2022

ABC’s James Longman on Russia Bringing Back the Iron Curtain

3/4/22

As Russian President Vladimir Putin presses hard on his invasion of Ukraine, the world is almost collectively turning against him, and that might be fine with Putin,…

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Added on: 03/04/2022

Queer Africans fleeing Ukraine face ‘grave danger’ even after reaching ‘so-called safe countries’

03/03/2022

Queer African people fleeing Ukraine are facing “intersecting violence”, campaigners have warned. More than one million people have fled Ukraine since Russia declared war. However, not all refugees are being treated…

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Added on: 03/04/2022

Will Russia bring its war on LGBTQ people to Ukraine?

03/03/2022

Zi Faámelu wants to escape the war in Ukraine, but her identity will not let her. The 31-year-old singer, who is transgender, has a passport that says she is…

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Added on: 03/04/2022

Turkey’s LGBT+ under increasing government pressure, report reveals

03/03/2022

A recent report by the LGBT+ advocacy group KAOS GL has revealed that Turkey’s LGBT+ community is feeling increasingly threatened under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. The…

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Added on: 03/03/2022

Russian soldiers captured after being found hiding in basement by Ukraine LGBT+ activists

03/01/2022

Members of an LGBT+ organisation in Ukraine captured a group of Russian soldiers they found hiding in their offices. Viktor Pylypenko told Israeli newspaper The Israel Hayom that he and…

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Added on: 03/03/2022

Moroccan journalist supports Putin’s war on Ukraine praising homophobic stance of ‘Russian civilisation’

03/01/2022

A Moroccan journalist is facing backlash from the gay community in the kingdom after he expressed support for Putin’s war on Ukraine, praising the Russian leader for…

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Added on: 03/03/2022

LGBT Ukrainians Fear They’re on Putin’s Kill List. Many Are Staying to Fight Anyway.

03/01/2022

For years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Ukraine have fought to be recognized as equal members of society. But now, as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…

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Added on: 02/28/2022

India’s LGBTQ+ ‘pioneer’ state bans abuse and boosts trans rights

02/27/2022

NEW DELHI – Police threats, slurs and even violence are all part of LGBTQ+ life in India, but a new rule could ease the onslaught in one southern…

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Added on: 02/28/2022

Gay activist stabbed to death by cousin in Azerbaijan

02/27/2022

Authorities in Azerbaijan say a cousin of local gay activist Avaz Hafizli stabbed him to death last Tuesday. Police conveyed the dead man to a morgue in a…

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Added on: 02/27/2022

A year of progress on global LGBTQ rights, but so much remains to do

2/26/22

U.S. support of worldwide LGBTQ rights during the first year of the Biden administration led to “significant progress” but “there is far to go”, according to an…

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Added on: 02/26/2022

Support group helps parents of LGBTQ Iranians in California

02/25/2022

In Iranian communities outside of the country, queer identity is still often seen as something that must be kept secret, and many suffer from social isolation within…

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Added on: 02/26/2022

Ukraine’s Gay Combat Volunteers Are Ready to Fight for Their Lives Against Anti-LGBTQ Putin

02/25/2022

Desperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s bigoted regime falling over Ukraine, LGBTQ combat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay community had…

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Added on: 02/25/2022

National Medical Commission forbids conversion therapy

02/22/2022

CHENNAI: Any doctor found engaged in conversion therapy — a controversial gender and sexual reorientation practice often slammed as pseudoscience — is liable to be prosecuted for…

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Added on: 02/25/2022

Kyiv Pride sends defiant message to Putin after Russia invades Ukraine: ‘We will never give up’

02/24/2022

There was widespread shock and condemnation across the world on Thursday morning (24 February) when the Russian president launched a “military operation” in Ukraine. He announced the decision…

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Added on: 02/24/2022

Some LGBTQ Ukrainians fear human rights abuses if Russia stays: “We will fight”

02/24/2022

Kyiv, Ukraine – Some LGBTQ people in Ukraine are fearing targeted human rights abuses if Russia occupies the country. “That would mean a direct threat to me and especially, well,…

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Added on: 02/24/2022

Poland’s President Should Veto Bill Targeting Sex Education

02/22/2022

Rights activists, students, and educators in Poland wait anxiously this week as the country’s president Andrzej Duda decides whether to sign a dangerous bill that would increase…

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Added on: 02/23/2022

Chechnya jails queer siblings on ‘fabricated’ charges after years of persecution and torture.

02/22/2022

A court in Chechnya has sentenced a pair of LGBT+ siblings to almost a decade’s detainment on seemingly bogus charges. On Tuesday (22 February), the Achkhoy-Martan district…

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Added on: 02/23/2022

Transgender woman Doski Azad’s ‘honour killing’ uncovers disturbing culture.

02/22/2022

WARNING: Distressing. Doski Azad had been in hiding from her own family. The make-up artist, 23, had been forced to move to another city and start a…

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Added on: 02/22/2022

REIGN OF DEATH Russia drawing up ‘kill list’ of gay & ethnic minority Ukrainians amid fears of a ‘human rights catastrophe’, US claims.

02/21/2022

Russia is drawing up a kill list including gay and ethnic minority Ukrainians if it invades, the US has claimed. In a chilling warning, America’s ambassador to…

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Added on: 02/22/2022

Protesters Demand Longer Prison Sentences for LGBTQ in Senegal.

02/21/2022

A group of men gathered around a burning gay flag in Dakar Sunday and chanted: “Senegal will never accept homosexuality.” Others held signs that read: “Senegal says…

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Added on: 02/21/2022

Education Minister tries to ban gay kids from boarding schools

02/20/2022

Kenyan Education Minister George Mahoga has caused controversy with a proposal to ban gay school kids from boarding schools. At the same time as Australia grappled with Citipointe…

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Added on: 02/20/2022

Saudi activist speaks on LGBTQ status in Kuwait

02/19/2022

Days after Kuwait’s constitutional court struck down a law that criminalizes “imitation of the opposite sex” – considered a breakthrough for the regional transgender community – journalist…

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Added on: 02/20/2022

Mexico issues first birth certificate recognising non-binary gender

2/19/22

An LGBT+ activist has become the first person in Mexico to be issued a birth certificate recognising his gender as non-binary. Fausto Martinez received the historic birth…

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Added on: 02/20/2022

Freestyle skiing-Kenworthy urges IOC to consider host’s human rights stance

2/18/22

Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, an advocate for LGBT+ rights, said on Saturday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should take a host nation’s stance on human rights issues…

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Added on: 02/19/2022

JOURNALIST UNCOVERS ‘WORLD’S ONLY GAY PRISON’ IN AUSTRALIA

2/18/22

For over half a century the shameful and scandalous history behind “world’s only gay prison” located in a small regional town in New South Wales, Australia, had…

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Added on: 02/19/2022

One UN human rights expert’s fight to eliminate ‘conversion therapies’

2/18/22

Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights violations, two billion…

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Added on: 02/18/2022

Egypt: Rights Defender’s Imprisoned Father At Risk

02/17/2022

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should urgently provide health care to Salah Soltan, the detained father of a prominent Egyptian rights defender living in the US, or immediately release…

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Added on: 02/18/2022

Kuwait court overturns law criminalising imitation of opposite sex

02/17/2022

DUBAI – Kuwait’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday overturned an article of the penal code criminalising the imitation of the opposite sex, in a move welcomed by Amnesty…