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Added on: 07/01/2022

Pride: Amazon restricts LGBT goods in United Arab Emirates

06/30/2022

Online retail giant Amazon has restricted search results related to LGBT people and issues on its website in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The firm took the…

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Added on: 06/30/2022

Help us free 7 imprisoned LGBT victims of homophobia

06/29/2022

Elmer, Amir, Dick, Martin and Octavia are locked up in Cameroon’s Yaoundé Central Prison, serving sentences for whom and how they love. You can help get them out. Cam…

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Added on: 06/30/2022

KwaZulu-Natal LGBTQI+ community living in fear amid frequent attacks

06/29/2022

The group feels threatened and the continuous attacks have worsened matters. The LGBTQI+ community in KwaZulu-Natal says they are still not safe. This is despite various campaigns aimed…

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Added on: 06/29/2022

The Pink Foxes Organise to Protect Queer People in Dublin.

06/29/2022

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Dr Stephen Hatton waited nervously in a large room with red walls and a high ceiling on the first floor of Outhouse,…

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Added on: 06/29/2022

Shunned by law and society, Afghanistan’s LGBT community calls for help.

06/28/2022

Rejected by both law and the society, Afghanistan’s LGBT people have been facing a deeper crisis with the Taliban seizing power and implementing a strict form of…

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Added on: 06/29/2022

Norway police seek delay to Pride events after gay bar shooting.

06/28/2022

Norwegian police said on Monday all Pride events across the country should be delayed, citing security concerns after a deadly weekend rampage by a gunman at a…

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Added on: 06/28/2022

LGBTQ+ Nigerians Are Celebrating Pride Month in Defiance of Anti-Gay Law.

06/27/2022

YouTuber Victor Emmanuel knows first-hand how tough life is for people who are openly gay in Nigeria, where LGBTQ+ relationships and even same-sex displays of affection are…

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Added on: 06/28/2022

Discipline, teamwork, acceptance: why football is a lifeline for queer Cambodian teens.

06/27/2022

As a teenager Lorn “Leak” Sreyleak looked forward to playing football every week with friends in his home town of Kampong Chhnang. But the 15-year-old couldn’t help…

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Added on: 06/26/2022

Mawlawi tells security forces to stop LGBTQ gatherings

6/25/22

Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister has given instructions to security forces to stop gatherings of the LGBTQ community, following pressure from religious institutions. Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi…

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Added on: 06/26/2022

Horror on Oslo Pride day as gunman goes on deadly rampage at gay bar

6/25/22

Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people…

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Added on: 06/25/2022

In Bulgaria, A Bisexual Police Officer Set Up An LGBT Union. He Was Then Shunned.

6/24/22

Fed up with the discrimination he and his LGBT colleagues on the police force faced in Bulgaria, where “homophobia is a religion,” officer Petromir Genchev decided it…

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Added on: 06/24/2022

Should queer Nigerians celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month?

06/23/2022

Each year, the month of June is marked as “Pride Month”, a time when LGBTQ people all over the world partake in Pride marches and attend events…

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Added on: 06/23/2022

Donors free 11 LGBT prisoners in Cameroon. Next, maybe 9 more

06/22/2022

Only 13 months ago, a visitor to the Central Prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon, counted 11 inmates serving time for nothing other than whom they loved. None of…

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Added on: 06/22/2022

How Asexual People Feel Excluded From Queer Spaces, Complicating Their Identity.

06/21/2022

Asexuality is both straightforward and complicated to define. At the outset, it describes the orientation of somebody who doesn’t experience sexual attraction. But this is followed by…

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Added on: 06/22/2022

War crimes against LGBTQ people in Ukraine are “worse than people can imagine”.

06/21/2022

War crimes are a barbaric byproduct of conflict and combat. In an era of near incessant news coverage, the phrase has become a catch-all for heinous acts…

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Added on: 06/20/2022

Palestinian Activists Ban Concert for LGBTQ Community in Ramallah

06/19/2022

Palestinian activists shut down a concert for the LGBTQ community that was scheduled to take place in Ramallah over the weekend. East Jerusalem singer-songwriter and video artist…

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Added on: 06/19/2022

Anti-LGBTQ+ attacks by US extremist groups surge as right spews vitriol

6/18/22

In Idaho, police recently found 31 members of a white supremacist group packed into the back of a U-Haul truck, apparently on their way to an LGBTQ+…

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Added on: 06/18/2022

LGBTQ Tolerance Billboards Destroyed in Ghana

6/17/22

Rights activists in Ghana are protesting after a crowd, urged on by a member of parliament, tore down a billboard that promoted tolerance toward the LGBTQ community….

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Added on: 06/17/2022

Bulgaria’s Embattled LGBT Community Eyes Calmer Celebration This Year

06/17/2022

Sofia Pride marks its 15th edition this week with various activities, including exhibitions, film screenings and, on Saturday June 18, an open-air concert featuring some of the…

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Added on: 06/17/2022

Right-Wing Groups Target Pride Events Amid Rising Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

06/16/2022

Panda Dulce was just about to begin her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday in San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10 men marched…

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Added on: 06/17/2022

European LGBT Cops Won’t Wear Uniforms in Athens Pride Parade

06/16/2022

ATHENS – They won’t be wearing their uniforms but members of the European LGBT Police Association, after meeting in the Greek capital, said they will take part…

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Added on: 06/16/2022

Biden targets conversion therapy, transgender bans in Pride Month order

06/15/2022

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at curbing discrimination against transgender youth and drying up federal funding for the controversial practice of…

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Added on: 06/15/2022

How Kyiv’s L.G.B.T.Q. Community Found Shelter from the Russian Invasion.

06/14/2022

“The scariest thing was waking up,” Jul Sirous told me about the first couple of weeks after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in February. “What…

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Added on: 06/14/2022

Ugandan vlogger’s homophobic rant puts migrant workers at risk.

06/13/2022

A self-righteous Ugandan national living in the Middle East has released an excruciatingly homophobic online rant blasting Ugandans and other Africans for engaging in adult consensual same-sex…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Meet The LGBTQ Activists Fighting To Be Themselves Online In Malaysia

6/11/22

Many online attacks on LGBTQ Malaysians start with their fellow social media users (although some suspect that political or religious groups may be helping coordinate them). Individual…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Turkish police violently break up LGBT Pride parade at Ankara university

6/11/22

Turkish police attacked a group of students during a LGBT Pride parade at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University on Friday. Turkish police violently attacked students during a…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Congressional candidate pledges to ‘start executing’ Americans promoting ‘LGBTQ indoctrination’ for ‘treason’

6/11/22

Mark Burns, an unabashed Christian nationalist MAGA pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, declared that if he is elected, he will reinstate the House…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Azerbaijan’s embattled queer community holds “Pride event”

6/10/22

Azerbaijan’s small LGBTQ activist community gathered for a press conference for the first time in eight years, counting it as a victory amid the country’s not-so-queer-friendly social…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Meet the group that works to crack transgender cold cases

6/10/22

The walls of Anthony Redgrave’s office are filled with people whose stories have been cut short. He is a forensic genealogist. “We have to take care of…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Life As An LGBT Person In Central Asia

6/10/22

In Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, homosexuality is still a crime punishable by a prison sentence. It’s not against the law in Tajikistan, but LGBT people have no legal…