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Added on: 06/06/2023
06/05/2023
Tens of thousands of people in Thailand celebrated Bangkok Pride with a parade on Sunday. Some Thais say they hope laws will one day allow same-sex marriage…

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Added on: 06/05/2023
06/05/2023
A sigh of relief was released by Israeli Police’s top brass after the Gay Pride and Tolerance Parade in Jerusalem on June 1 ended without disturbances. Police…

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Added on: 06/05/2023
06/03/2023
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been urged to explain the government’s stand on the LGBT movement, as multinational companies introduce products based on lifestyles considered taboo in…

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Added on: 06/05/2023
06/03/2023
When rainbow colours cover one of Bangkok’s main thoroughfares on Sunday, crowds joining the city’s pride celebrations may feel a little more optimistic about the future. In…

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Added on: 05/31/2023
05/30/2023
This past February, something special happened. For the first time in the 44-year history of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the majority of trade unions and notable…

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Added on: 05/31/2023
05/30/2023
On Tuesday (30 May), Nagoya District Court became the second to rule against Japan’s banning of same-sex marriage, despite the country’s prime minister Fumio Kishida claiming the…

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Added on: 05/26/2023
05/25/2023
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Swiss watchmaker Swatch said Tuesday that Malaysian authorities raided its stores and confiscated 164 watches from its Pride Collection. It said Ministry of Home Affairs…

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Added on: 05/24/2023
05/23/2023
On a recent weekend in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the city’s music, fashion and cultural vanguard descended upon Arcan, an underground club that’s become a local…

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Added on: 05/23/2023
05/22/2023
Transgender activists in Pakistan hold protest to appeal an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights….

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Added on: 05/23/2023
A special meeting of the Jerusalem City Council to mark the capital’s unification in 1967 devolved into a series of statements questioning the rights of LGBTQ people…

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Added on: 05/22/2023
05/22/2023
The Pakistani Federal Shariat Court struck down major portions of the landmark Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act Friday. The court, which determines whether laws comply with…

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Added on: 05/21/2023
05/20/2023
Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting…

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Added on: 05/19/2023
The EU Delegation in Kyrgyzstan hold a meeting with the Kyrgyz queer activists yesterday May 17. EU demonstrated that is a strong supporter of the rights of…

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Added on: 05/19/2023
Support for equal rights for the LGBT community through mainstream media and pop culture has become increasingly widespread in the last few decades. Starting from films, music…

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Added on: 05/18/2023
05/17/2023
Countries that have decriminalised homosexuality have 4.5 times higher rates of foreign direct investment (FDI) than countries that criminalise consensual same-sex relationships, M V Lee Badgett writes….

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Added on: 05/17/2023
Japan’s main ruling party approved a watered-down version of a bill on “promoting understanding” of the LGBTQ community, in apparent haste to show progress on the issue…

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Added on: 05/17/2023
05/16/2023
Taiwan’s legislature passed a bill Tuesday that granted same-sex couples the right to jointly adopt a child neither of them are related to, clearing one of the…

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Added on: 05/16/2023
05/15/2023
Beijing LGBT Center — one of the country’s most prominent queer advocacy groups — is permanently closing its doors effective immediately, the group announced on Monday. “Due…

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Added on: 05/15/2023
05/14/2023
The future of Indonesia’s only Islamic community centre for transgender women is in jeopardy after its leader, Shinta Ratri, died in February – and the government says…

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Added on: 05/15/2023
05/14/2023
Myanmar doctor Pyae Phyo Kyaw has had to treat Karenni villagers who have lost limbs to landmines that he saw soldiers plant, and he has seen others…

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Added on: 05/12/2023
05/12/2023
BANGKOK – The six parties with policies designed to attract votes from the gay community are Move Forward, Pheu Thai, Democrat, Chart Thai Pattana, Thai Sang Thai,…

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Added on: 05/11/2023
05/10/2023
The odds are long on the prospect that legislation will be passed that advances LGBTQ rights in Japan. That is a tragedy for Japanese members of that community…

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Added on: 05/11/2023
05/10/2023
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has given the green light to a bill seeking to decriminalise homosexuality, the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday (May 9),…

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Added on: 05/10/2023
05/09/2023
Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has given the green light to a bill seeking to decriminalize homosexuality, the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, in a move hailed…

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Added on: 05/09/2023
05/08/2023
Amburi Roy, 37, and Aparna Saha, 36, two lesbian women from the Indian state of West Bengal, fell in love in 2007 while they were enrolled in…

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Added on: 05/08/2023
05/06/2023
The Israel Police last week issued a new regulation regarding body searches of transgender people who have not fully transitioned, which several LGBTQ groups decry as harmful,…

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Added on: 05/07/2023
04/06/2023
The Supreme Court of Nepal Tuesday instructed the government to legally recognize same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court of Nepal has also ruled that the government must recognize…

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Added on: 05/05/2023
05/04/2023
Seeing how our politics has failed us time and again, it is easy to understand why people get carried away and look for saviours in anyone with…

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Added on: 05/04/2023
05/03/2023
The Supreme Court of Nepal has issued a landmark ruling ordering authorities to recognise a gay foreign spouse of a Nepali citizen and instructing the government to…

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Added on: 05/04/2023
05/03/2023
Since at least 1980, there have been hundreds of stories of same-sex couples in India getting married unofficially by religious rites, according to gender studies expert and…