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Added on: 11/12/2020

June Chua – The T Project, Singapore

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

Can you tell me about how you decided to start The T Project? I’d been a sex worker for many years. Sex work is very mundane and…

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Added on: 11/09/2020

We’re part of China’s population’: LGBT couples seek recognition in census

11/09/2020

She told the young man, one of 7 million conducting China’s once-in-a-decade census, that she and her girlfriend lived together. Where the questionnaire asked for “relationship to…

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Added on: 11/08/2020

Bangkok Pride Parade demands reforms and rights for sex workers

11/7/2020

The Thai LGBT community was joined by anti-government protesters in yesterday’s Pride Parade in Bangkok, which travelled from Sam Yan intersection to Silom. The parade took on…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Transgender in Bangladesh: First school opens for trans students

11/6/2020

Bangladesh’s first religious school for transgender people has opened in Dhaka. More than 150 students will study Islamic and vocational subjects free of charge at the privately-funded…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Bangladesh opens first Islamic school for transgender Muslims

11/06/2020

The LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in the South Asian country, with a colonial-era law still in place that punishes gay sex by prison terms, though enforcement…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Watch: Thai drag queen rides on protest wave to push for LGBT rights

11/06/2020

Joining the wave of youth protesters marching down the streets of Bangkok, drag queen Aunchalee Pokinwuttipob is hoping to advance a drawn out struggle for same-sex marriage…

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Added on: 11/04/2020

Isko Moreno signs Manila anti-discrimination ordinance

11/03/2020

Gender discrimination is now banned in the national capital. On Thursday, October 29, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno signed Ordinance No. 8695 or the Manila LGBTQI Protection Ordinance…

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Added on: 11/03/2020

Pope’s Support for Same-Sex Civil Unions Jolts Efforts for Change in Philippines

11/02/2020

A bill aiming to give same-sex couples in the Philippines spousal and property rights has languished in the House of Representatives for three years due to strong…

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Added on: 11/02/2020

China’s stance on homosexuality has changed. Its textbooks haven’t.

11/01/2020

Early in college, Ou Jiayong had already learned two things. One, textbooks can be wrong. And two, it can be hard to change them — especially on…

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Added on: 11/02/2020

Trans News, an online magazine for transgenders, launched

11/01/2020

The first edition of Trans News, an online magazine for transgender people, was launched at the Transgender Resource Centre here on Sunday. C. Shanmuga Sundaram, senior manager…

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Added on: 11/02/2020

‘Corona-freed’ Taiwan celebrates gay pride

11/01/2020

Rainbow-masked revelers paraded through Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, Saturday, celebrating equality gains since it allowed same-sex marriages last year, despite objections from religious conservatives. President Tsai Ing-wen, re-elected…

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Added on: 10/31/2020

True colours: the dating app giving gay men in China a new sense of freedom

10/30/2020

Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would…

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Added on: 10/30/2020

National prayer breakfast canceled following spat over LGBT remark

10/29/2020

The annual National Prayer Breakfast in Taiwan will be canceled this year, the first time in 20 years, following controversy over a recent social media post by…

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Added on: 10/30/2020

Queer Japan Shows the Asian Nation’s ‘LGBT Boom’ in New Trailer

10/29/2020

A new documentary, directed by Graham Kolbeins, explores the LGBTQ+ culture in Tokyo and other regions through the eyes of its leading out figures. Kolbeins, along with…

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Added on: 10/28/2020

Taiwanese military mass wedding to feature its first same-sex couples

10/27/2020

Two same-sex couples are to be married in the Taiwanese army’s annual mass wedding ceremony this week, in a first after the island’s government legalised marriage equality…

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Prince Azim, Son of Sultan of Brunei, Dies

10/26/2020

Prince Haji ‘Abdul’ Azim, a Hollywood film producer and the son of the Sultan of Brunei, died on Saturday morning, CNN reports. As a Hollywood insider with…

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Foreigners Living with HIV in Jordan Face an Impossible Choice

10/26/2020

In Jordan, medical professionals and health facilities are mandated to report an individual’s HIV status to the government. Foreign nationals found to be HIV-positive are summarily deported…

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Added on: 10/26/2020

‘Marriage will protect our rights, affirm commitment’ — why same-sex couple moved Delhi HC

10/25/2020

After being together for over eight years, Kavita Arora and Ankita Khanna wanted legal recognition of their “committed relationship”, just like any other couple would. But for…

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Added on: 10/25/2020

‘The LGBT Issue Is Slicing Israel’s religious-Zionist Community in Two’

10/25/2020

Rabbi Mordechai Vardi thought he already knew quite a bit about Orthodox LGBT people when he decided to direct the film “Marry Me However,” a documentary on…

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Added on: 10/25/2020

Right to love

10/25/2020

With the petition in the Delhi High Court asking that the Special Marriage Act be interpreted in a gender-neutral fashion allowing for the marriage of persons regardless…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

Sri Lanka: Forced Anal Exams in Homosexuality Prosecutions

10/20/2020

(Colombo) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people to forced physical examinations since 2017 in an attempt to provide proof of homosexual conduct, Human…

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Added on: 10/17/2020

Japan: Calls grow to include LGBT couples in national census

10/16/2020

Advocacy groups and members of the LGBT community are calling on the central government to count the number of LGBT couples in the national census so they…

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Added on: 10/17/2020

Indonesia Vows Firm Actions Against Soldiers Linked to LGBT

10/16/2020

The Indonesian Military said today it will impose strict sanction on soldiers who are proven to involve in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual or Transgender (LGBT) groups….

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Added on: 10/16/2020

Pastor suspended for giving blessing at LGBT festival

10/15/2020

The Korean Methodist Church has suspended Rev. Lee Dong-hwan for two years for holding a “blessing ceremony” at a queer festival in August last year, during which…

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Added on: 10/15/2020

LGBT groups in Japan launch petition seeking equality law

10/14/2020

Sexual minority groups and human rights activists launched a petition on Thursday calling for an LGBT equality law in Japan in hopes that it can be enacted…

World Voices

Added on: 10/14/2020

Sarita KC – Mitini Nepal, Kathmandu

Sarah Leistico

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved with LGBTIQ activism? I have experience in several professions such as teaching and fashion design. I never thought I would call myself…

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Added on: 10/13/2020

Israel to Form Government Committee to Assist Transgender Community

10/12/2020

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn and Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli announced an inter-ministerial team to consider ways to ease hardships for transgender people on Monday. The team is…

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Added on: 10/12/2020

Israeli Orthodox leader: Judaism does not forbid same-sex couples from building a family

10/12/2020

(JTA) — A prominent Israeli Orthodox rabbi said that Jewish law does not forbid LGBTQ people from building a family. Rabbi Benny Lau made the statement as…

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Added on: 10/12/2020

At home and abroad, LGBT Syrians fight to have their voices heard

10/11/2020

AMMAN/BEIRUT — In Damascus, Amira al-Tabbaa lived her life in murmurs. Officially, homosexuality and offenses against “public decency” are illegal in Syria. That is why when Amira…

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Added on: 10/11/2020

Sexual minorities still struggling five years after LGBT ordinance

10/10/2020

Miho Okada experienced the frustrating limits of measures introduced to protect the rights of same-sex couples when her lesbian partner was hospitalized with advanced rectal cancer in…