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Added on: 10/22/2024

Andorra Should Combat Racism, LGBTI-Phobia, and Expand Voting Rights

10/21/2024

A new report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) calls on Andorra to adopt a national programme to combat racism and LGBTI-phobia. As a…

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Added on: 10/21/2024

Sweden becomes first country to meet global HIV targets

10/20/2024

Sweden reached the 95-95-95 UNAIDS and WHO targets for the HIV epidemic, making it the first country in the world to achieve these targets, and even if…

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Added on: 10/21/2024

Moscow police detained over 50 people in raid on LGBTQ+ venues

10/20/2024

Police in Moscow raided two gay clubs last weekend, detaining over 50 people, in what Novaya Gazeta Europe described as the continued escalation of the Russian government’s crackdown…

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Added on: 10/20/2024

Poland publishes civil partnership bill in boost for LGBT couples

10/19/2024

Poland moved a step closer to legalising civil partnerships with the publication of a draft law on Friday that the minister responsible for the legislation hailed as…

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Added on: 10/20/2024

Russian cash-for-votes flows into Moldova as nation heads to polls

10/19/2024

The sniffer dogs at Chisinau Airport have been working extra hard in recent months, searching for money that might be evidence of Russian meddling in Moldovan politics….

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Added on: 10/20/2024

Gay and unionist – a changing of the times?

10/19/2024

When Alison Bennington became the Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) first openly gay election candidate, former Health Minister Jim Wells claimed the party’s founder Ian Paisley would be…

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Added on: 10/19/2024

Poland publishes civil partnership bill in boost for LGBT couples

10/18/2024

Poland moved a step closer to legalising civil partnerships with the publication of a draft law on Friday that the minister responsible for the legislation hailed as…

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Added on: 10/19/2024

Italy’s LGBTQ community fears international surrogacy ban could trigger ‘witch hunt’

10/18/2024

LGBTQ activists and legal experts in Italy fear a new law criminalizing international surrogacy could have a chilling effect on the country’s same-sex families and their children….

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Added on: 10/18/2024

New Pro-Gay Cardinal Blames ‘Foreign Cash’ for African Bishops’ Biblical Stance on Homosexuality

10/17/2024

An influential delegate at Pope Francis’s global summit has directly linked African Catholic bishops’ stand for traditional biblical values with financial coercion from American evangelicals, Russian Orthodox,…

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Added on: 10/18/2024

Education has failed LGBT pupils, politicians told

10/17/2024

LGBT young people have been “failed” in the education system in Northern Ireland for many years, it has been claimed. Alexa Moore from the Rainbow Project organisation was…

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Added on: 10/17/2024

Italy bans couples from travelling abroad for surrogacy

10/16/2024

Italy has made it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby through surrogacy. The move extends a ban on the practice inside the country…

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Added on: 10/17/2024

Moldova’s LGBTQ+ people say EU referendum offers ‘hope’

10/16/2024

Andrei, a gay 20-year-old law student, hopes this month’s referendum to enshrine Moldova’s European ambitions in the constitution will enable the ex-Soviet republic to “finally move into…

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Added on: 10/16/2024

Finland’s first openly gay hockey player Janne Puhakka allegedly shot dead by partner after break up

10/15/2024

The boyfriend of Finland’s first openly gay pro hockey player allegedly confessed to gunning down his much younger beau with a hunting rifle over the weekend —…

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Added on: 10/15/2024

LGBT+ veterans redress scheme to launch in January

10/14/2024

Compensation for LGBT veterans who faced mistreatment in the military will begin in January, a defence minister has announced. The government will start a £50m financial redress…

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Added on: 10/14/2024

Attacks on Gay Rights Push Russia’s LGBTQ Community Into the Shadows

10/13/2024

A decade ago, Russian publisher Leo Veles says, he could hang out in gay bars and clubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The scene wasn’t as vibrant…

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Added on: 10/14/2024

German Soccer Player Punished For Not Signing Fan’s Gay Pride Shirt: ‘Not Signing That’

10/13/2024

VfL Wolfsburg, a soccer club in Germany’s Bundesliga, has disciplined player Kevin Behrens after he reportedly refused to autograph a gay pride shirt and making comments toward the…

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Added on: 10/13/2024

Palestinian woman wins £30,000 LGBTQ+ film award

10/12/2024

A Palestinian woman has won the world’s largest LGBTQ+ short film award. Dima Hamdan said she was “deeply honoured” to receive the £30,000 2024 Iris Prize, because…

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Added on: 10/13/2024

Pope urged at LGBTQ meeting to reverse Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care

10/12/2024

Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Oct 12 when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at…

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Added on: 10/12/2024

Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in Rome

10/12/2024

Father Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Society of Jesus in Rome, expressed his support for the “LGBTQ…

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Added on: 10/11/2024

German government plans to reform adoption law

10/10/2024

Patchwork and rainbow families have long become a part of everyday life for many people in Germany. But, according to Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann of the…

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Added on: 10/08/2024

Moscow Arrests Man for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ and ‘Satanism’

10/07/2024

Russia on Monday arrested a medic for “Satanism” and “promoting same-sex relationships,” as Moscow intensifies a legal crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in defense of what it calls…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Russian-style laws on rise in former Eastern Bloc countries eager to follow Georgia’s lead

10/06/2024

With Georgia passing yet another controversial law, this time against LGBTQ rights, a growing number of post-socialist EU states, such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, appear eager…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Pope’s Next Consistory Will Have a Number of LGBTQ-Positive New Cardinals

10/06/2024

Pope Francis has named 21 new cardinals, a number of whom have LGBTQ-positive records, to be elevated at a December consistory. The pope announced the cardinals-designate at Sunday’s Angelus, drawing…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Two Ukrainian women in love were torn apart by Putin’s war. They never stopped fighting to reunite.

10/06/2024

Polina Muzhychkova and Sofia Malina fell in love fast. At 17 and 19, respectively, they met in Mariupol, Ukraine, and began dating. But a month later, the…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

Russia Is Forcing Gay Chechen Men To Become Soldiers In Ukraine War, Says LGBT Group

10/05/2024

SK SOS, a human rights group in Chechnya, say that Russian authorities are “blackmailing” imprisoned gay Chechen men to become soldiers, and fight for Russia in the…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

EU Court Hands Down Landmark Victory For Transgender Rights

10/05/2024

The European Union’s top court has ruled that member states must accept changes of first name and gender obtained in other countries in the bloc, a landmark…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

Falsehoods about LGBT circulated to distort discussions about accession to EU

10/04/2024

Falsehoods about the LGBT people are often disseminated in the public space to distort discussions about Moldova’s accession to the European Union, according to representatives of the…

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Added on: 10/05/2024

E.U. nations must recognize legal gender changes across bloc, top court rules

10/04/2024

The European Union’s top court ruled Friday that member states must recognize legal changes to gender identity processed elsewhere within the E.U., in a case with far-reaching…

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Added on: 10/05/2024

Spain’s first transgender soccer team makes debut in regional men’s league

10/04/2024

A soccer team consisting entirely of transgender men has made its debut in a regional league in Spain, overcoming administrative challenges and prejudice to become the first…

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Added on: 10/05/2024

JK Rowling declares that her religion is now transphobia

10/04/2024

In census data released Thursday in Scotland, there were a number of interesting findings about LGBTQ+ and gender identity, the trans population in Scotland, and religion. One…