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Added on: 05/24/2021

Most Taiwanese support same-sex marriage two years after legalization: survey

05/23/2021

A government survey released on Sunday shows that Taiwanese people’s acceptance of same-sex marriage has significantly increased to 60.4 percent in 2021 from 37.4 percent in 2018…

Global News

Added on: 05/23/2021

Japanese Lawmaker Says LGBT Rights Go Against Preservation of Species Amid Record-Low Birth Rates

5/22/21

Japanese lawmaker Kazuo Yana of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has said that LGBT rights go against the preservation of species amid record-low birth rates in…

Global News

Added on: 05/22/2021

Vietnam’s first openly gay candidate seeks change with parliament run

5/21/21

As an LGBTQ activist, legal whizz-kid and Vietnam’s first openly gay candidate running for a seat in its rubber-stamp parliament, Luong The Huy is determined to lead…

Global News

Added on: 05/22/2021

Singapore Rebukes US Embassy Over LGBT Rights Event

5/21/21

Singapore’s government has told the U.S. Embassy “not to interfere” in local matters after it hosted a webinar with local LGBT advocates earlier this week. The invitation-only…

Global News

Added on: 05/20/2021

Japan LDP Puts Off LGBT Bill Approval amid Cautious View

05/20/2021

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday postponed approving a draft bill to promote understanding of sexual minorities as conservative members grew cautious about it. Their cautious…

Global News

Added on: 05/20/2021

Indonesian LGBT+ magazines find a second life online

05/18/2021

Two men embracing on a magazine cover was more than risqué for Indonesia, thought LGBT+ researcher Ais, when he first discovered a trove of retro LGBT+ zines…

Global News

Added on: 05/17/2021

Iran: How transgender people survive ultraconservative rule

05/26/2021

Iran’s state subsidizes gender reassignment surgery while prohibiting homosexuality. A long and continuing history of activism has helped transgender people bolster their community despite the discrimination they…

Global News

Added on: 05/16/2021

A card exempted a gay man from serving in Iran’s military. It may have cost him his life

5/15/21

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared’s future was brutally cut short last week when members of his family allegedly murdered him due to his sexual orientation, according to his partner and…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021

Pakistan: How has COVID impacted the LGBT community?

5/14/21

The coronavirus pandemic has made being LGBT+ in Pakistan significantly more difficult, in a country where those communities already face numerous challenges, including systemic oppression, social stigma…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021

Call for intersex inclusion as House panel excludes ‘intersex’ in sex definition of proposed anti-discrimination law

5/14/21

A conservative politician – Deputy Speaker Bienvenido Abante Jr. – succeeded in pushing for the exclusion of the term “intersex” from the definition of sex in the…

World Voices

Added on: 05/14/2021

Haru Ono – Family Rainbow, Japan

Kate Efron and Manae Yamaguchi

Alturi Contributors

Thanks so much for joining us, Ms. Ono. I would like to begin by asking you, ‘‘How did you get involved in LGBTQ+ activism?’’ Could you please…

Global News

Added on: 05/13/2021

‘It’s discrimination’: Beach resort issues ban on transgender people

05/21/2021

The local LGBT community slammed a local resort over alleged discrimination in its Facebook post announcing a ban on transgender people. The management of Isla Reta Beach…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021

HELL ON EARTH Inside Indonesia’s horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to ‘cure’ LGBT people and ‘pray away the gay’

05/11/2021

EXORCISMS have largely been confined to the history books – but they’re a grim modern-day reality in Indonesia. Many made to have the “treatment” don’t even have…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021

Japan’s Ruling Party LGBT Bill Falls Short

05/07/2021

Over the past six years, activists in Japan have pressed the Diet, the national parliament, to introduce a nondiscrimination law that protects the rights of lesbian, gay,…

Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021

Gay man brutally murdered and beheaded by family in Iran in ‘honour killing’

05/09/2021

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from service because of…

Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021

U.S. Supports Transgender Health Clinics in India

05/09/2021

The United States supports and advocates for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) people everywhere. In India — where transgender people…

Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Trans men mocked and denied entry to Egypt by border guards because they ‘do not look female’

5/8/21

Or Mizan and Titi Katan, both from Haifa, Israel, were travelling to Egypt for a five-day holiday in the Ras a-Satan resort in the Sinai peninsula when…

Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Iran’s anti-LGBT military law blamed for murder of gay man

5/8/21

Three men murdered 20-year-old Alireza “Ali” Fazeli-Monfared on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ahvaz allegedly because they learned the Iranian military exempted him due to “moral…

Global News

Added on: 05/07/2021

Taiwan court ruling on Macau citizen opens door to international same-sex marriages

05/06/2021

A high court on Thursday (May 6) ruled that same-sex marriage between a Taiwanese citizen and a Macau national should be recognized in Taiwan, opening the door…

Global News

Added on: 05/06/2021

Uzbek Blogger Bazarov Under House Arrest Facing Libel Charges

05/06/2021

A month after suffering a brutal beating for championing LGBT rights, Uzbek blogger Miraziz Bazarov was released from the hospital on April 29. He was, according to…

Global News

Added on: 05/04/2021

Eitan Ginzburg to become Israel’s third gay cabinet minister on Monday

05/03/2021

Israel has a record three cabinet ministers from the LGBT community after Blue and White faction chairman Eitan Ginzburg was sworn in as communications minister in the…

Global News

Added on: 04/30/2021

Judge orders himself to speak to a psychologist to ‘understand same-sex relationships better’ before ruling

04/29/2021

A high court judge in India has ordered himself to undergo an education session with a psychologist on same-sex relationships before ruling on a case relating to…

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2021

Tokyo 2020 chief visits LGBTQ centre to emphasise diversity

04/27/2021

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto visited Japan’s first permanent LGBTQ centre on Tuesday and emphasised Tokyo Olympic organisers’ commitment to facilitating the public’s understanding of issues surrounding…

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2021

Bangladesh: Verdict Due Soon in Killing of Gay Rights Activists

04/27/2021

A verdict is expected soon for eight suspects charged with murder over the killing of two Bangladeshi gay-rights activists who were hacked to death in a Dhaka…

Global News

Added on: 04/26/2021

Sagi Berman to come out as Israeli top-flight soccer’s first transgender referee

04/24/2021

Israeli Premier League soccer referee Sagi Berman will come out publicly as transgender at a Tuesday press conference. She is the league’s first-ever transgender referee. Berman, 27,…

Global News

Added on: 04/25/2021

Exorcisms and ‘corrective’ rape: inside Indonesia’s controversial LGBT ‘conversion’ therapies

4/25/21

Growing up as someone who does not conform to traditional gender norms is not easy in Indonesia. Just ask Christine*, a 35 year-old transgender woman in West…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021

Singapore man jailed for threatening ‘torture’ and ‘death curses’ against judges who upheld anti-gay law

4/23/21

A man has been jailed for threatening a High Court judge and the Singapore judiciary on social media after they upheld a discriminatory anti-gay law. Muhammad Hanif…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021

Together for 50 years, a lawsuit reminds China that love and marriage are very different things

04/22/2021

After more than 50 years of living with her partner, a Chinese lesbian woman in her late 70s faced a lawsuit from her partner’s family to return…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021

LGBT Couples Not Entitled to Full Property Rights, Court Rules

05/21/2021

A court’s recent ruling that same-sex couples aren’t entitled to the same property rights as married heterosexual couples has once again highlighted the legal predicaments many LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021

Hate sign put up against lesbian kindergarten teacher in Be’er Ya’acov

04/21/2021

A sign which says “[this kindergarten] is run by lesbians” was hung on a short railing near Moatza square in Be’er Ya’acov on Wednesday, as part of…