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Added on: 04/27/2023

UK government funded anti-LGBTQ+ organisation in Uganda, says report

04/26/2023

The UK government has been helping to fund the work of a virulently homophobic religious organisation in Uganda, whose leaders have backed a proposed law that would…

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Added on: 04/26/2023

‘Traumatizing’: The Transgender Chinese Struggling to Access Health Care

04/25/2023

Threatening notes. Physical assaults. False accusations. In his years dealing with the families of young transgender people in Beijing, Doctor Poon has seen it all. Since 2016,…

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Added on: 04/26/2023

The LGBTQ rights debate is testing Ukraine’s commitment to Europe

04/25/2023

When Russian troops swarmed Kyiv in early 2022, Andrii Kravchuk was summoned to serve. As he approached the military office to enlist, his heart raced. He wasn’t…

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Added on: 04/25/2023

Hungarian president vetoes controversial anti-LGBT law

04/24/2023

In a surprising move, Hungarian President Katalin Novak rejected the new law that restricts the rights of homosexual and transsexual people on April 21. It marks the…

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Added on: 04/25/2023

Russia Wants to Ban Transgender People Changing Gender on Passport

04/24/2023

Russia’s Justice Ministry is gearing up to make it tougher for transgender people to change their gender markers in their passports, which will make gender transition tougher…

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Added on: 04/25/2023

Ugandans flee as Kill the Gays gains momentum across Africa

04/24/2023

Gay Ugandans are fleeing the country as the government’s Anti-Homosexuality Act moves closer to becoming law. “The government and the people of Uganda are against our existence,”…

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Added on: 04/23/2023

Goa trust speaks up for rights of state’s 10,000-strong LGBT community

04/23/2023

With more than 10,000 persons from the LGBT community living in Goa, they are struggling for their right of ‘Same Sex Marriage since the last two decades…

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Added on: 04/23/2023

LGBT rights increasingly targeted by reactionary GOP

04/22/2023

About eight years ago, the United States Supreme Court changed my life. By their majority ruling that there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it meant…

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Added on: 04/22/2023

Welsh schools to get guidance on supporting transgender pupils

04/21/2023

National guidance for schools in Wales on how to support transgender pupils will be published during the next academic year. The Welsh government said it required “extensive…

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Added on: 04/22/2023

Japan LGBTQ groups urge government to guarantee equality

04/21/2023

Japanese LGBTQ activist groups delivered a statement to the government on Friday urging that Japan enact an anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriages ahead of a summit…

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Added on: 04/22/2023

Minnesota Senate passes transgender protections, abortion ‘refuge’ bills

04/21/2023

The Minnesota Senate Friday passed a trio of proposals aimed at legally safeguarding people who come to Minnesota for abortion and gender-affirming care and outlawing what’s called…

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Added on: 04/21/2023

Uganda’s president sends anti-LGBTQ bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

04/20/2023

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for “strengthening”, the ruling party’s…

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Added on: 04/20/2023

Gay Rwandan woman says government can’t protect LGBTQ+ refugees: ‘They won’t be safe’

04/19/2023

Like many in Rwanda, Maria was raised Christian, which made it even harder for her to accept her sexuality. She recalls spending “a lot of time in churches…

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Added on: 04/20/2023

Japan grants refugee status to woman from Uganda fearing LGBTQ persecution

04/19/2023

A Ugandan woman was granted refugee status Wednesday following a district court ruling last month ordering the government to do so over fears she could be persecuted…

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Added on: 04/20/2023

Global scientists urge Uganda’s president to veto anti-LGBTQ bill

04/19/2023

A group of leading global scientists and academics have signed an open letter urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to veto a hardline bill criminalizing homosexuality in the…

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Added on: 04/19/2023

Iran protests: LGBTQ community rises up

04/18/2023

“Are you a degenerate,” asked the security officer interrogating a young bisexual woman arrested during the recent anti-government protests in Iran. The interrogator had searched the woman’s…

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Added on: 04/18/2023

Indian government labels same sex-marriage ‘elitist’ as supreme court hearing begins

04/18/2023

The Indian government has expressed its vehement opposition to the legalisation of same-sex marriage, calling it an “urban elitist concept” that undermines religious and social values, as…

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Added on: 04/18/2023

Full Interview: Frank Mugisha on New Anti-LGBTQ Bill in Uganda That Could Impose Death Penalty

04/17/2023

Full interview with Ugandan LGBTQ activist Frank Mugisha about a draconian new anti-gay bill the country is on the verge of imposing, which makes it a crime…

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Added on: 04/18/2023

In Malaysia, Conservative Forces and Police Crackdowns Are Putting LGBTQ Lives at Risk

04/17/2023

On March 12, activists across Malaysia converged on the capital of Kuala Lumpur to take part in the latest iteration of the Women’s March, a yearly protest…

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Added on: 04/17/2023

Kaluma’s Bill seeks to criminalise gay relations

04/16/2023

Citizens will be free to apprehend individuals identifying as homosexuals if the Family Protection Bill becomes law. The Bill sponsored by Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma proposes that…

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Added on: 04/16/2023

Ban conversion therapy in Norway delayed

04/15/2023

Last week Friday, the Minister of Culture and Equality announced that a new law banning conversion therapy was delayed. Trettebergstuen pointed out that the delay is not…

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Added on: 04/16/2023

Russia may deport Chinese man for ‘LGBT propaganda’

04/15/2023

The Supreme Court in the Russian region of Tatarstan has rejected an appeal against an order to deport Chinese citizen Haoyang Xu over “LGBT propaganda.” The 21-year-old,…

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Added on: 04/16/2023

Meet the activist taking on Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ laws

04/15/2023

Frank Mugisha, Uganda’s most prominent LGBTQ rights activist, could face jail time after a new the bill is signed into law that would criminalize even identifying as…

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Added on: 04/15/2023

Young Queer People Are Being Put on Trial For Fighting Hate

04/14/2023

A Polish activist who faces up to five years in jail for allegedly attacking a van covered with anti-LGBTQ phrases says the case has left them “deeply…

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Added on: 04/15/2023

Are LGBT Rights Under Fire In Italy?

04/14/2023

At the beginning of March, the Municipality of Milan was forced to stop registering children born to homo-parental couples in Italy, also known as rainbow families. This…

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Added on: 04/15/2023

Hungary passes law allowing citizens to report same-sex parents to law enforcement

04/14/2023

Hungary has just passed a law empowering citizens to report same-sex families with kids to local authorities for violating the “constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the…

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Added on: 04/14/2023

They’re calling for our extinction’: Uganda activists call on EU to cut aid over anti-gay law

04/13/2023

Uganda’s LGBT community are living “in total fear” after a new bill was passed last month making it illegal to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender….

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Added on: 04/13/2023

Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life

04/12/2023

By Reuters – When Frank Mugisha came out two decades ago, being gay in Uganda could be lonely and uncomfortable, but it was rarely a matter of life…

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Added on: 04/12/2023

In Senegal, justice for LGBTI people is a long way off

04/11/2023

Orlando (pseudonym) is a founding member of the Association for the Universal Decriminalization of Homosexuality and the president of a support organization for vulnerable LGBTI people in…

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Added on: 04/11/2023

Uganda’s brutal anti-LGBTQ+ bill is making queer life there unbearable & it isn’t even law yet

04/10/2023

Earlier this month, the Ugandan parliament approved a bill that many believe to be the most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in history. Knowledge of the bill has gained…