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Added on: 06/23/2019

How the US shapes queer activism in Liberia

06/22/2019

As the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean, dozens of queer Liberians and their friends and family gathered on a stretch of beach outside Monrovia, the West…

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Added on: 06/21/2019

LGBT community marks Pride Month with hope and fear

06/21/2019

The month of June is internationally recognized as the LGBT Pride Month. The month-long celebrations are aimed at fighting for equal rights, increasing social visibility, and celebrating…

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Added on: 06/21/2019

Gay refugees sent back to ‘homophobic Kenya camp’

06/19/2019

Kenya’s government has ordered a group of 76 refugees to return to a camp they had fled after some of them faced homophobic attacks, a UN agency…

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Added on: 06/21/2019

Iceland passes identification law dismissing lengthy medical process for trans people

06/20/2019

Iceland passed a law on Tuesday (18 June) making it easier for transgender and non-binary individuals to change their personal identification. The Icelandic Parliament passed the Gender…

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Added on: 06/20/2019

Transgender migrants find safe haven in Juarez

06/19/2019

A rainbow flag sways in the wind outside a pink two-story house in an out-of-the-way Juarez neighborhood. Inside, 38 men and boys tell jokes, try on new…

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Added on: 06/20/2019

LGBT rights across the world: Progress achieved in 50 years

06/19/2019

Fifty years since the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, which sparked an LGBT liberation movement in the U.S. and elsewhere, 36% of countries are yet…

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Added on: 06/18/2019

Scuffles break out at anti-trans rally in Vancouver

06/17/2019

Tempers flared between pro- and anti-trans rights protestors in Vancouver on Saturday (15 June). Several hundred people from both sides converged outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in…

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Added on: 06/18/2019

Zanele Muholi captures powerful portraits of South Africa’s LGBT community

06/16/2019

Last week, Botswana’s High Court made history when it overturned colonial-era laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations. The ruling, which came mere weeks after Kenya’s High Court ruled to uphold its…

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Added on: 06/16/2019

Understanding of LGBT realities ‘non-existent’ in most countries, says UN expert

06/12/2019

In a statement issued ahead of presenting his latest report to the Human Rights Council later this month, Victor Madrigal-Borloz urged States to collect more data in…

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Added on: 06/13/2019

Brazil transgender soccer team fights prejudice

06/12/2019

On a late May afternoon, the Bigtboys soccer team played its first match, a friendly game on a flood-lit neighborhood pitch bordered by chain-link fencing. With only…

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Added on: 06/12/2019

Pakistani transgender woman ‘kidnapped and tortured’ by gang

06/11/2019

A gang of thugs reportedly kidnapped and tortured a transgender woman in Mardan, Pakistan, shaving off her hair after she refused to give them money. Shakeela claims…

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Added on: 06/12/2019

Scores of LGBT+ refugees in Kenya slum face homophobic attacks, eviction

06/11/2019

Scores of LGBT+ refugees are in desperate need of emergency shelter after facing homophobic threats, violence and eviction warnings from community members in a Nairobi slum, the…

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Added on: 06/11/2019

Vatican issues guidance questioning modern gender identity

06/11/2019

The Vatican has released a new document challenging modern conceptions of gender identity. The 31-page teaching guidance, released on Monday, is titled Male and Female He Created…

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Added on: 06/10/2019

LGBT bullying in schools takes heavy toll, reveals Unesco report

06/10/2019

A few months ago, Orinam, an all volunteer collective of LGBTIQA+ people based in Chennai, celebrated its 15th anniversary. There they had an unexpected speakera 17-year-old who,…

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Added on: 06/10/2019

Munroe Bergdorf: NSPCC cuts ties with transgender activist

06/09/2019

Transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf says she is “unbelievably sad” that the NSPCC has cut ties with her, days after she revealed she was Childline’s “first LGBT+ campaigner”….

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Added on: 06/08/2019

Queer in the caravan: The dangers LGBT migrants face in search for asylum

06/07/2019

The journey north for migrants traveling through Mexico carries multiple risks—food insecurity, exposure to elements, assault, injury and more. Traveling with a caravan offers a measure of…

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Added on: 06/07/2019

NYPD apologizes for 1969 raid at Stonewall Inn gay bar, cradle of U.S. LGBT rights movement

06/07/2019

Nearly 50 years after a police raid at the Stonewall Inn catalyzed the modern LGBT rights movement, New York’s police commissioner apologized Tuesday for what his department…

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Added on: 06/06/2019

Thailand’s first cohort of transgender MPs make parliamentary history

06/05/2019

Smiling broadly, Tanwarin triumphantly cast her vote for prime minister as one of the first transgender MPs in Thailand, where tolerance for the LGBT community is not…

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Added on: 06/01/2019

Is your life expectancy different because you are LGBTQ+?

05/31/2019

What do you feel your life expectancy is? Do you think it is different because you are LGBTQ+? The current life expectancy for the “average” American is…

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Added on: 06/01/2019

In Colombia’s remote tribes, LGBT+ people face abuse, shame

05/31/2019

Colombia’s LGBT+ people who live in black and indigenous communities must cope with violence, humiliation and efforts to “cure” them of their sexual identities, according to research…

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Added on: 06/01/2019

Pakistan human rights minister appoints first transgender employee

05/30/2019

Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari has appointed a transgender woman to her department for the first time. Dr Mazari announced the appointment of Ayesha Moghul…

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Added on: 05/29/2019

World Health Organization removes “gender identity disorder” from list of mental illnesses

05/28/2019

The World Health Organization (WHO) will remove “gender identity disorder” from its global manual of diagnoses — a major win for transgender rights. The change was announced…

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Added on: 05/28/2019

Brazil’s LGBTQ Challenege: Live and Let Live or Discriminate and Hate?

05/27/2019

Last week’s vote by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) laid the foundation for landmark legislation which will include protection for sexual minorities in the nation’s anti-discrimination laws….

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Added on: 05/27/2019

Ann Widdecombe: Anti-LGBT Brexit Party politician wins seat in European elections

05/27/2019

As the European election results roll in, the Brexit Party’s Ann Widdecombe has made a surprise return to the frontline of British politics. The former Big Brother…

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Added on: 05/27/2019

Gillette ad features dad teaching trans son how to shave

05/26/2019

The latest advert from Gillette features a trans man being taught how to shave for the first time by his dad. The advert, as part of the…

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Added on: 05/26/2019

Brazil’s top court rules to make homophobia a crime

05/24/2019

A majority of judges in Brazil’s top court has voted to criminalize homophobia in a move welcomed by campaigners concerned about a rollback in gay rights and…

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Added on: 05/26/2019

Protesters demand end to killings of transgender women, Trump rollbacks

05/24/2019

Protesters chanting “black trans lives matter” and “we will not be erased” on Friday demanded an end to the killings of black transgender women in the United…

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Added on: 05/25/2019

Gay Ugandans regret fleeing to Kenya

05/24/2019

Hundreds of people in Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have fled the country to escape homophobia and persecution. But many are now stuck in…

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Added on: 05/25/2019

LGBT Hondurans march against hate

05/23/2019

I traveled to Honduras last week to document violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Violence abounds, according to Honduran LGBT activists, but there are…

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Added on: 05/24/2019

Taiwan man behind Asia’s first gay marriage law urges others to fight

05/23/2019

A leading Taiwanese gay activist on Thursday called on the LGBT+ community in other parts of Asia to take their battles to court after his successful legal…