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Added on: 12/18/2022

Veto of Discriminatory Poland Sex Ed Bill Shows Power of Protest

12/17/2022

In the last weeks, Polish students and activists regularly gathered in front of Warsaw’s Presidential Palace and across the country to demand respect for their rights. They…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

Court upholds Connecticut’s transgender athlete policy

12/16/2022

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

UN human rights expert backs Scottish government’s vital gender law reforms

12/16/2022

One of the UN’s leading voices on gender identity and LGBTQ+ rights has endorsed Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act reforms, which will be voted on next week. Victor…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

A new report proves that online anti-LGBTQ2S+ hate turns into real-life violence

12/16/2022

Coordinated online hate targeting doctors and hospitals providing gender-affirming care to youth leads to real-life violence, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)….

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Added on: 12/16/2022

Drag Queens Were Targeted by the Proud Boys. Whom Did the Police Support?

12/15/2022

In November, the First Unitarian Universalist Church and Red Oak Community School in Columbus, Ohio, announced a “Holi-Drag Storytime” event where drag queens would read books to…

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Added on: 12/16/2022

All the countries where homosexuality is illegal

12/15/2022

We’re well into a new decade, but equality for LGBTQ people around the world continues to not be a given. In fact, being part of the LGBTQ…

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Added on: 12/16/2022

Women ‘acting like men’ face cane, jail under Malaysia state law

12/15/2022

(Bloomberg) — A recent move by a Malaysian state to punish Muslim women for out-of-wedlock pregnancies and donning men’s clothing has drawn the ire of human rights…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Club Q Shooting Survivors Press Congress To Act On Guns

12/14/2022

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub testified Wednesday to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Transgender Qatari princess flees country fearing persecution

12/11/2022

A Qatari princess was granted asylum in the UK over fears that they would be persecuted for being transgender. Leaked documents obtained by the Sunday Times of…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Anti-Gay Bill: Ghanaian MPs must respect peoples’ rights – US Ambassador

12/11/2022

United States Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer has advised Ghanaians and their representatives in Parliament to respect international obligations and Domestic laws which centre on the need…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

Will Indonesia’s new ‘no sex before marriage’ laws target LGBT couples?

12/10/2022

Indonesia has just approved a long debated new penal code and a provision which has sex and co-habitation outside of marriage illegal has caused alarm. As soon…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

‘Our mere existence is illegal.’ As Moscow toughens anti-gay law, LGBTQ Russians fear for the future

12/10/2022

Young mothers Yana and Yaroslava don’t want to leave Russia with their 6-year-old son. But they fear a harsh new anti-gay law passed by Russian lawmakers will…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises

12/10/2022

Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred. As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

Indonesia’s new sex laws ‘nail in coffin’ for LGBTQ rights

12/09/2022

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s legislation banning sex outside marriage represents a major new threat to the LGBTQ community’s rights in the conservative country, where same-sex unions are not…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

Colorado shooter’s 2021 case dropped for lack of cooperation

12/09/2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter had charges dropped in a 2021 bomb threat case after family members who were terrorized in the…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

RUSSIA FREES OUT GAY BASKETBALL STAR BRITTNEY GRINER IN PRISONER SWAP FOR ARMS DEALER

12/09/2022

Out gay American basketball star Brittney Griner was freed by Russia, in exchange for the US releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the ‘Merchant of…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Ukraine’s only transgender correspondent has become a local legend

12/6/2022

I was shocked when I learned of LGBTQ Nation reporter Sarah Ashton-Cirillo – the only openly transgender war correspondent working in Ukraine. It was May, and I…

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Added on: 12/04/2022

Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ community has long struggled to find a ‘safe space’

12/03/2022

Finding a place for rainbows in a sea of red has often been a struggle for those who identify as LGBTQ+ in Colorado Springs, a city with…

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Added on: 12/04/2022

Influential Iraqi cleric launches anti-LGBTQ campaign

12/03/2022

An influential Iraqi cleric who announced his withdrawal from politics four months ago has broken a period of relative silence to launch an anti-LGBTQ campaign. Shiite cleric…

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Added on: 12/03/2022

LGBTQ Groups Seek Legal Ban On Swiss Conversion Therapy

12/02/2022

LGBTQ organisations in Switzerland are concerned that without swift action, the country could become a haven for conversion therapy, which is banned in neighbouring France and Germany….

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Added on: 12/03/2022

Inside The Secret Gay Neighborhood In Tehran, Iran Where People Are Risking Their Lives For Their Expression

12/02/2022

Historically, Iran has not been a safe place for cisgender women and LGBTQIA+ individuals. But homosexuality has not always been a crime in Iran. Some folks might…

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Added on: 12/03/2022

This man fled Qatar in fear of persecution because he’s gay. Now he’s pushing back

12/02/2022

Having been referred to as Qatar’s first person to come out publicly as gay, Dr. Nasser Mohamed thought having the World Cup on his home soil was…

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Added on: 12/02/2022

Russian drag queens ‘ready for the worst’ as LGBTQ law looms

12/01/2022

Backstage at a bar in Moscow, a troupe of drag queens surrounded by make-up palettes and sparkling costumes join hands before taking to the stage for what…

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Added on: 12/02/2022

Colombia: Guaranteeing justice and non-repetition in cases of gender-based violence during repression of National Strike must be central to any police reform

12/01/2022

Women and LGBTIQ+ protesters, journalists and human rights defenders suffered sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence at the hands of Colombia’s National Police and its…

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Added on: 12/01/2022

Singapore’s parliament strikes down ban on gay sex

11/30/2022

SINGAPORE — Singapore’s parliament on Tuesday voted to repeal a controversial law that criminalized consensual sex between men, in a landmark victory for the city-state’s LGBTQ community….

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Added on: 11/30/2022

LGBTQ Arabs Fear Backlash After World Cup ‘Spotlight’

11/29/2022

With rainbow flags and “OneLove” armbands, World Cup fans have protested against host Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ policies, but many queer Arabs fear a Western solidarity push could do…

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Added on: 11/30/2022

Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill sparks spike in “legally sanctioned” extortion

11/29/2022

Last year, Ghana’s parliament introduced a controversial new anti-LGBTQ bill that could further criminalise same-sex acts and identities. Although homosexuality was initially outlawed under colonial rule –…

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Added on: 11/29/2022

Anti-LGBTQ group sparks queer-affirming clergy response at Club Q memorial

11/28/2022

An evangelical group with anti-LGBTQ beliefs showed up at the Club Q memorial. Now a group of queer affirming clergy is standing watch in response….

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Added on: 11/28/2022

Taliban lashes and flogs Afghans in crowded football stadiums for ‘adultery and gay sex’

11/27/2022

The Taliban have flogged a group of people in a crowded football stadium for “moral crimes” including gay sex. Twelve people, including three women, were lashed in front…

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Added on: 11/28/2022

How the American anti-LGBTQ hate machine is posing a threat to Canadians

11/27/2022

Seth Compton woke early one morning in July to his phone buzzing furiously with new messages. A wave of hate, stirred up far away, was starting to…