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“Homoaffectionate Law” and a Revolutionary Change in The Legal System
By Nóra Blaskovits Maria Berenice Dias was the very first woman who became a justice of the state highest Court of Appeals in Brazil. An activist for the rights of the LGBT…
Where Love is Illegal
By Max Micallef William Lounsbury is the Head of Communications for the Witness Change non-profit organization. The non-profit holds the goal of ending human rights violations of marginalized communities around the world.…
Kakuma: From Celebration to Desperation
2018 has been a year of incredible highs and lows for LGBTI refugees in housed in Kenya’s sprawling Kakuma refugee camp. In early June, Refugee Flag Kakuma - a loose-knit organization of…
Instituto Nice Creates Opportunities for Trans Brazilians
“My dream is to get married and be able to guarantee my partner the right to stay on the small piece of land I have.” When Valeria Rodriguez heard this request from…
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ADDED ON: 04/04/2020
Queer artists will help us survive COVID-19
Recently, I’ve been transfixed by Larry Kramer’s gut-wrenching play “The Normal Heart.” Why am I so obsessed with Kramer’s work now? Because art is as vital as air in this time of…
ADDED ON: 04/04/2020
India: LGBT is the hardest hit group in these coronavirus times
The one group of people which is always gets excluded from discussion on any subject of national importance is LGBT or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. The impact of coronavirus has not…
ADDED ON: 04/04/2020
Supreme Court scraps April calendar, delays major cases amid pandemic
Citing the ongoing coronavirus public health crisis, the US Supreme Court on Friday cleared its calendar for April, extending an already historic delay of major legal cases, several of which have big…
ADDED ON: 04/04/2020
Panama’s Gender-Based Quarantine Ensnares Trans Woman
When Panama announced it would implement a gender-based quarantine schedule in response to COVID-19, transgender activists were alarmed. And with reason: on April 1, police detained a transgender woman alleging that she…
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