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Added on: 11/22/2023

Kurdistan Region’s transgender sex workers: From hell at home to damnation on the streets

11/21/2023

As night falls, Bewar*, a transgender sex worker, puts on her makeup and hairpiece and starts roaming the streets of Sarchinar in Sulaimani, trying to escape the…

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Added on: 11/22/2023

UK museum reclassifies Roman emperor as transgender

11/21/2023

A UK museum says that it will be heeding research that reveals the ancient Roman emperor Elagabalus was transgender and will subsequently be referring to the ruler…

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Added on: 11/21/2023

French Senate to weigh compensation for victims of anti-gay laws

11/20/2023

Thousands of people were sentenced under two French laws in force between 1942 and 1982, one determining the age of consent for same-sex relations and the other…

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Added on: 11/20/2023

Trans Women Welcome Pope’s Message of Inclusivity

11/19/2023

TORVAIANICA, ITALY — Pope Francis’ recent gesture of welcome for transgender Catholics has resonated strongly in a working class, seaside town south of Rome, where a community of…

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Added on: 11/17/2023

Russia Moves to Ban ‘International LGBT Movement’

11/16/2023

Russia’s Justice Ministry said Friday it has filed a motion for the Supreme Court to ban what it called an “international LGBT public movement” as extremist, a move…

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Added on: 11/16/2023

Polish top court to ask for EU ruling on recognising same-sex marriages

11/15/2023

Poland’s highest administrative court has announced that it will ask the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to issue a ruling on whether same-sex marriages…

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Added on: 11/14/2023

The colonial legacy of anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Africa

11/13/2023

Namibia’s High Court will rule next May in a case that could see the southern African country overturn a colonial-era ban on same-sex relations. Friedel Dausab, who…

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Added on: 11/14/2023

Poland’s LGBT community hopeful era of hate speech is over

11/13/2023

Just inside the entrance of one Warsaw high school, there’s a red plaque that pronounces it safe for LGBT students. “I chose this school because I just…

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Added on: 11/13/2023

Ireland’s gender Jesuits

11/12/2023

Being screamed at was my introduction to the Belong To crowd.” At seventeen Annaig stepped into a community hall to join what she had been told was…

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Added on: 11/12/2023

‘Russia put back years’: intersex people fear fallout from sex change curbs

11/12/2023

Born intersex and raised as a boy, Polina has known for years that she wanted to live as a woman. But Russia’s sweeping curbs on gender-affirming healthcare…

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Added on: 11/12/2023

Iranian-Born Norwegian Man Charged Over Deadly Oslo Pride Attack In 2022

11/11/2023

A Norwegian citizen originally from Iran was on November 10 charged with aggravated terrorism for the 2022 deadly shooting ahead of an LGBT festival in the capital,…

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Added on: 11/12/2023

Latvia legalises same-sex civil partnerships in historic first

11/11/2023

The Latvian parliament has voted to allow same-sex couples to establish civil unions in a historic first for the Baltic nation. Officials voted on Thursday (9 November)…

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Added on: 11/11/2023

Future heritage: Introducing the new South Asian queer vanguard

11/10/2023

South Asian queerness is a defiant celebration of who we are. It’s a combination of unapologetic self-expression and joyous representation. Here, in the UK, the LGBTQIA+ scene…

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Added on: 11/10/2023

Intersex Russians fear fallout from curbs on gender-affirming care

11/10/2023

Nov 10 (Openly) – Born intersex and raised as a boy, Polina has known for years that she wanted to live as a woman. But Russia’s sweeping…

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Added on: 11/10/2023

Russian TV turns ‘LGBT’ rainbow into grey cloud in K-pop music video

11/09/2023

TNT Music, which runs a chart show dedicated to K-pop, aired the music video for boy band Seventeen’s hit song “God of Music” and replaced the rainbow featured…

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Added on: 11/09/2023

Controversial EU proposal on parenthood comes closer

11/08/2023

EU Member States should be forced to recognise LGBT parents, even if they forbid it in their own legislation, a committee in the European Parliament believes. Especially…

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Added on: 11/09/2023

Transgender people can be baptized Catholic, serve as godparents, Vatican says

11/08/2023

VATICAN CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Transgender people can be godparents at Roman Catholic baptisms, witnesses at religious weddings and receive baptism themselves, the Vatican’s doctrinal office…

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Added on: 11/07/2023

LGBTQ conversion therapy ban will not be included in King’s Speech

11/06/2023

It is looking less and less likely that the abhorrent practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy’ will be banned before the next general election, as proposals have not…

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Added on: 11/07/2023

Romania’s reformist party USR fires leading EP candidate for LGBTQ-related remarks

11/06/2023

Romanian reformist party USR asked its flagship candidate for the European Parliament, the mayor of Campulung Muscel, Elena Lasconi, to step down after her comments about the…

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Added on: 11/06/2023

Switzerland lifts extra restrictions against gay men giving blood

11/05/2023

Gabriel Delabays sat calmly, his feet elevated on a reclining chair, as a nurse drew blood from his left arm at a Swiss transfusion center last Wednesday,…

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Added on: 11/05/2023

Hungarian National Museum director defies LGBT ban on minors visiting World Press Photo exhibition

11/03/2023

The Hungarian National Museum is defying the government’s ban on minors visiting the World Press Photo exhibition, claiming they don’t have the authority to ask for visitors’…

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Added on: 11/04/2023

Number of pansexuals on 2021 Census more than halved after ‘error’ spotted

11/03/2023

In a statistical release on Wednesday (1 November), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shared corrected numbers for those who identified as pansexual. The ONS stated some…

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Added on: 11/03/2023

Latvian Parliament wants better protection of rainbow families

11/02/2023

Latvia has a duty to protect all families, including rainbow ones. That is what the Constitutional Court ruled. Now, the Latvian Parliament considers a new partnership law…

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Added on: 11/03/2023

Caribbean conference focuses on needs of LBTQ people assigned female at birth

11/02/2023

More than 70 activists from 18 countries gathered last month in Sint Maarten to focus on the needs of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBTQ) people assigned…

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Added on: 11/02/2023

Unusual suspects

11/02/2023

Russia’s judicial statistics for the first half of this year neatly reflect life under the country’s military dictatorship in the second year of the war in Ukraine….

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Added on: 10/31/2023

Queer U.K. Activists Hacked London Transit Ads to Support LGBTQ+ Gazans

10/30/2023

The Dyke Project, a U.K.-based “collection of trans, cis, [and] non-binary lesbians and queers,” says they “hacked” 100 advertisements across London transit by covering up physical ads…

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Added on: 10/30/2023

Trans conversion therapy survivor begs Rishi Sunak to push on with ban: ‘Some would call it torture’

10/29/2023

Members of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies are growing impatient with Sunak who has yet to deliver on the government’s promise of a ban on trans-inclusive conversion therapy….

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Added on: 10/29/2023

Austria to compensate gay men convicted under discriminatory laws

10/28/2023

The Austrian government is set to pay tens of millions of euros in compensation to gay people who were persecuted or convicted of consensual homosexual acts. The…

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Added on: 10/29/2023

Hungary bans teenagers from World Press Photo exhibit, citing LGBT content

10/28/2023

Hungary’s government has banned youngsters under 18 from visiting the World Press Photo exhibition on display in Budapest, citing LGBT content in some of the photos. Prime…

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Added on: 10/28/2023

‘It was beyond homophobia’: Sligo’s LGBTQ community still reeling after killer’s spree of violence

10/27/2023

Mary Branley remembers the shock on the faces of the young people from the LGBTQ community in Sligo at a vigil outside Sligo Town Hall in the…