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Added on: 05/18/2019

U.N. urges calm after protests by LGBT+ refugees in Kenya turn violent

05/17/2019

The United Nations has urged LGBT+ refugees in Kenya to show “calm and restraint” after protests demanding better treatment turned violent, with police firing tear gas and…

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Added on: 05/16/2019

Fewer rainbows, less social media for China’s LGBT community

05/16/2019

China’s LGBT community has had a tough year: Censors have shut down social media forums, news media have curbed coverage of gay issues, and online shops have…

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Added on: 05/16/2019

Māori, Pasifika, LGBT and disabled over-represented in Auckland homeless count

05/16/2019

More than 3600 people were living without shelter or in temporary accommodation on one night in Auckland last year, and nearly 40 per cent of those were…

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Added on: 05/16/2019

How This Black Gay Politician Is Standing Up to the Far-Right Government in Brazil

05/16/2019

For his first two weeks in Brazil’s Congress in February, David Miranda was too scared to take the microphone. Far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro, known for homophobic and…

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Added on: 05/15/2019

Trump administration opposes Equality Act ‘filled with poison pills’

05/14/2019

The Trump administration does not support the Equality Act, which the House is expected to take a vote on Friday. “The Trump administration absolutely opposes discrimination of…

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Added on: 05/15/2019

A Queer Film Festival in Tunisia — Where Being Gay Is Illegal

05/14/2019

For four days in March, a sanctuary for queer and trans people sprung up in Tunisia — a country where being gay is illegal. Mawjoudin Queer Film…

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Added on: 05/15/2019

Eight Men Charged With Murder Of LGBT Activists In Bangladesh

05/14/2019

Eight men have been charged by police in Bangladesh for the 2016 murders of LGBT+ rights activists Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Tonoy. Mannan and Tonoy were brutally…

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Added on: 05/14/2019

Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey Most Restrictive On Gay Rights In Europe

05/13/2019

Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Armenia have the most restrictive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality laws and policies in Europe, a campaign group says. Azerbaijan scored just…

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Added on: 05/14/2019

‘I Knew I Had to Get Out to Survive’—Violence Drives LGBT Central Americans North

05/13/2019

The desperation of daily life in Honduras is driving thousands of people to join other Central American migrants in their long march northward toward what they hope…

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Added on: 05/14/2019

Record number of anti-LGBTQI+ attacks in France: report

05/14/2019

Assaults in France on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people hit a new record in 2018, “a dark year” for the LGBT community, French group SOS Homophobie…

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Added on: 05/14/2019

Turkey: ‘Appalling’ violence used against students holding Pride march

05/10/2019

Reacting to the news that a Pride march organized by students at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara has been violently broken up by police…

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Added on: 05/13/2019

Lavender Scare’ bill seeks to address midcentury purging of gay federal workers

05/09/2019

Democratic lawmakers are trying to make amends for a dark period in U.S. history — when thousands of federal employees were fired or forced to resign between…

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Added on: 05/13/2019

This group of gay Mexicans arrested in 1935 are inspiring people in 2019

05/10/2019

The internet has sent a picture of LGBTI Mexicans, purportedly arrested for homosexuality in 1935, viral in the past few days. The photo belongs to the collection…

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Added on: 05/12/2019

Cuban gay rights groups hold unauthorized march in Havana

05/12/2019

Gay-rights activists organizing on social media held an unauthorized march Saturday down eight blocks of one of Havana’s main thoroughfares before they were stopped by police. The…

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Added on: 05/12/2019

Brunei LGBT community living in fear despite sultan’s death penalty reprieve

05/10/2019

When the Sultan of Brunei last week announced a moratorium on the much-condemned death penalty for gay sex, some hailed the move as a major advance. But…

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Added on: 05/10/2019

Russian LGBTIs risk arrest by holding public vigil for gay Holocaust victims

05/10/2019

In an act of brave defiance, a group of LGBTI Russians commemorated the gay victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Leading LGBTI activist Petr Voskresenskii secretly planned the…

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Added on: 05/09/2019

This New Happiness Survey Is Asking LGBT People Around the World, ‘How Happy Are You?’

05/09/2019

Happiness and quality of life are both essential to people’s well-being. Yet in too many countries those qualities in LGBT people are seriously compromised due to the…

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Added on: 05/09/2019

Russia: New Anti-Gay Crackdown in Chechnya

05/08/2019

Police in Chechnya have carried out a new round of unlawful detentions, beatings, and humiliation of men they presume to be gay or bisexual, Human Rights Watch…

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Added on: 05/07/2019

Peru holds out some hope for Venezuelan migrants with HIV

05/06/2019

Sulaida Ramirez Davila sat in a support group for those with AIDS and HIV, like her son, Rafael Olivares. Tears welled up as she recalled her decision…

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Added on: 05/07/2019

Governments urged to keep pressure on Brunei after gay sex death penalty halt

05/06/2019

Diplomatic pressure on Brunei should not be eased until anti-LGBT+ laws are completely repealed, human rights advocates said on Monday, dismissing the Southeast Asian country’s move to…

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Added on: 05/07/2019

From Spain to Turkey, the rise of the far right is a clash of cultures not civilisations

05/06/2019

Vox and other extremists are making huge political gains for the first time in years. Their success risks tearing societies apart. I spent part of my childhood…

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Added on: 05/07/2019

LGBT in West Africa: Arrests, lynchings, discrimination, denial

05/06/2019

West African nations display a mix of mostly abusive responses to LGBT people, including denial that they exist, lynchings and arrests even without anti-homosexuality laws. The context…

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Added on: 05/07/2019

Jamaica: LGBTs Want Seat At National Table

05/05/2019

Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community are insisting that they be included in national campaigns that focus on the protection of the rights…

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Added on: 05/05/2019

LGBTI rights in the Balkans: A perpetual struggle

05/03/2019

Romanian Adrian Coman and his American-born partner Clai Hamilton had two major reasons to celebrate when they tied the knot last June. One of course, was their…

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Added on: 05/05/2019

LGBT in the Persian Gulf: Hiding is critical

05/03/2019

In the Persian Gulf, LGBT persons in general hide their sexual orientation and non-conforming gender identity. Expressing them could put them at grave risk of violence and…

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Added on: 05/02/2019

My LGBT-friendly mosque saved me from being radicalised’

05/01/2019

Sitting in my bedroom alone, a wave of fear washed over me. I was 12 years old, confused, and scared – I was beginning to realise I…

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Added on: 05/02/2019

LGBTs visit US-Mexico border, meet asylum seekers

05/01/2019

President Donald Trump threw asylum seekers and immigration advocates another wrench April 29, proposing new restrictions targeting the United States’ southwestern border. Late Monday, Trump ordered acting…

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Added on: 05/02/2019

Ex-president Da Silva: Brazil governed by ‘crazy people’

04/26/2019

From the federal police headquarters where he is serving a sentence for corruption and money laundering, Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the South…

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Added on: 04/30/2019

Saudi Arabia beheaded 5 men ‘proven’ to be gay under torture

04/28/2019

Saudi Arabia recently beheaded 37 men in a mass execution. Most were suspected spies and terrorists allegedly working on behalf of Iran, but one of the men…

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Added on: 04/30/2019

Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBT rights group

04/30/2019

One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by…