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Added on: 06/17/2022

European LGBT Cops Won’t Wear Uniforms in Athens Pride Parade

06/16/2022

ATHENS – They won’t be wearing their uniforms but members of the European LGBT Police Association, after meeting in the Greek capital, said they will take part…

Global News

Added on: 06/15/2022

How Kyiv’s L.G.B.T.Q. Community Found Shelter from the Russian Invasion.

06/14/2022

“The scariest thing was waking up,” Jul Sirous told me about the first couple of weeks after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in February. “What…

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Added on: 06/13/2022

Poll Finds LGBT People Still Not Welcome In Moldova

06/12/2022

Ten years after passing landmark legislation to protect minorities, including the much-persecuted LGBT community, a recent survey has revealed that most people in Moldova still hold negative…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Turkish police violently break up LGBT Pride parade at Ankara university

6/11/22

Turkish police attacked a group of students during a LGBT Pride parade at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University on Friday. Turkish police violently attacked students during a…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Over 100K march for LGBTQ+ rights in Vienna

6/11/22

Austria’s LGBTQ+ community came out in full force on the streets of Vienna on Saturday (June 11) with over 100,000 people taking part in the annual gay…

World Voices

Added on: 06/12/2022

Suspended Gay Priest Krzysztof Charamsa Wants LGBT Catholics to Get Angry

Jo Moses

Alturi Contributor

Those who leave the Catholic Church for ideological reasons will often fall back on the same sentiments, sentiments that the Church, maybe even organized religion as a…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Azerbaijan’s embattled queer community holds “Pride event”

6/10/22

Azerbaijan’s small LGBTQ activist community gathered for a press conference for the first time in eight years, counting it as a victory amid the country’s not-so-queer-friendly social…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Inside Istanbul’s underground queer scene

6/10/22

The month of June officially marks Pride in many countries around the world. Since 2003, Istanbul Pride has taken place in Taksim Square, where participants gather to…

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Added on: 06/09/2022

Czech president Miloš Zeman vows to block same-sex marriages if approved by parliament

06/08/2022

Czech president Miloš Zeman has said he plans to veto proposed legislation that would give same-sex couples the right to get married in the country. The measure,…

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Added on: 06/09/2022

How LGBTQI+ to LGBTQI+ support is helping Ukrainian refugees find safety in the EU

06/08/2022

In just over three months since Russia began its full-scale invasion, nearly seven million people have fled Ukraine as refugees. The vast majority are Ukrainian women and children…

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Added on: 06/08/2022

In Russia’s shadow, LGBTQ people across the Baltics fight for their rights.

06/07/2022

Surrounded by thousands of people wearing rainbow flags, glitter and sparkly outfits, Eddie Balčiūnaitė prepared to take part in one of the biggest marches the Baltic countries…

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Added on: 06/07/2022

Gay Rugby Player Beaten So Badly He May Never Play Again.

06/06/2022

A gay rugby player in Ireland says he may never again play the sport he loves after a brutal homophobic beating that left him with a shattered…

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Added on: 06/06/2022

Greece’s LGBTTQQIAAP Community, Youth Struggle for Acceptance

06/05/2022

ATHENS – It’s not easy being gay in Greece and it’s even tougher for gender queer children and youths during a time when many people are questioning…

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Added on: 06/03/2022

Russia Says Planning Domestic ‘Alternative’ to European Rights Court

06/02/2022

Russia is developing a domestic alternative to Europe’s top human rights court, the head of the Association of Russian Lawyers said Thursday. Russia has been outside the jurisdiction…

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Added on: 06/02/2022

BBC article claiming cis lesbians ‘pressured into sex by trans women’ found to be misleading

06/01/2022

A story by the BBC claiming cis lesbians are being “pressured into sex” by trans women fell below the broadcaster’s editorial standards, the company’s complaints team has found. The…

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Added on: 05/31/2022

We have the power’: Poles march for LGBTQ+ rights in Gdansk.

05/30/2022

Thousands of Poles marched to demand an end to homophobia on Saturday, as the northern port city of Gdansk hosted its seventh annual Equality March under the…

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Added on: 05/30/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians and Russians find solidarity in Berlin

05/29/2022

Berlin, Germany – Having visited the German capital twice before, Polina Punegova, from the Russian port city of St Petersburg, had often told her Ukrainian partner Yulia…

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Added on: 05/30/2022

Gay Conversion Therapies Continue To Take Their Toll In Switzerland

05/29/2022

(MENAFN– Swissinfo) – Unlike many countries, Switzerland has refused to ban conversion therapies, often practised by evangelical churches, which claim to“cure” homosexuality. Several victims explain how they…

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Added on: 05/29/2022

Three landmark legal verdicts strengthen LGBTI rights in Southeast Europe

5/28/22

Courts in three Southeast European countries — Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia — have issued landmark rulings in cases concerning the rights of LGBTI people in…

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Added on: 05/29/2022

Pakistani film on transgender dancer wins Cannes honour

5/28/22

“Joyland”, the Pakistani film featuring a daring portrait of a transgender dancer in the Muslim country on Friday won the Cannes Queer Palm prize for best LGBT,…

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Added on: 05/29/2022

We have to learn the lessons of the past’: Why calling monkeypox a ‘gay disease’ is wrong and harmful

5/28/22

In just a few weeks, there has been an ‘unprecedented’ number of cases of monkeypox around the world. Cases of the little-known disease are being investigated in…

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Added on: 05/27/2022

As monkeypox cases grow, so do fears of a return of gay blame and stigma

05/226/2022

BERLIN — As mysterious cases of a rare and ominously named virus began surfacing in Europe, Germany’s disease-control center quickly told people to be on the lookout. In a May…

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Added on: 05/27/2022

Not even Russian bombs can silence queer Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi

05/26/2022

A queer Ukrainian journalist. A writer. A public speaker. A self-proclaimed bridge builder and “Russian colonialism storyteller-in-chief.” Maksym Eristavi was born to amplify voices! For only being in…

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Added on: 05/26/2022

More than one in 10 young women in UK identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or other

05/25/2022

More than one in 10 young women in the UK identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or other, according to official figures that suggest more than 2 million…

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Added on: 05/24/2022

Church of Scotland general assembly votes to allow same-sex marriages.

05/23/2022

The Church of Scotland has voted to allow same-sex marriages, after fresh warnings that its historical opposition had increased the church’s decline towards irrelevance. The church’s general…

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Added on: 05/24/2022

UN denounces ‘racist’ and ‘homophobic’ coverage of monkeypox.

05/23/2022

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has warned that stigmatising language used in the coverage on the monkeypox virus could jeopardise public health, citing some…

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Added on: 05/23/2022

UK plummets further down ranking of LGBTQ-friendly countries in Europe

05/22/2022

ILGA Europe’s Rainbow Map and Index has ranked European countries on the basis of their “legal and policy situation” for LGBTQ+ people each year since 2009. It…

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Added on: 05/22/2022

Turkish police break up LGBTQ pride parade

5/20/22

Police in Turkey broke up an LGBTQ pride parade at one the country’s top public universities and detained all of the participants Friday. Riot police entered Bogazici…

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Added on: 05/22/2022

Turkey’s Alevis to open their houses of worship to LGBTQ funerals

5/20/22

The mood at an ordinary symposium organized by various civic groups in mid-May suddenly took a joyous and emotional turn for Turkey’s LGBTQ individuals after a groundbreaking…

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Added on: 05/22/2022

French comedy on Russian homophobia filmed in Ukraine

5/22/22

“The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps” follows an all-queer water polo team that lands in homophobic Russia. But the scenes had to be shot in Ukraine, before…