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Added on: 05/21/2022

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: 05/18/2022

Belgium Aims to Combat Anti-LGBTQ Assaults With New Action Plan

05/17/2022

Belgium is adopting a new plan to fight discrimination and ensure more rights for LGBTQ people as it strives to bring down the country’s high rate of…

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Added on: 05/17/2022

Jake Daniels becomes first current English footballer to come out as gay.

05/16/2022

Jake Daniels is determined to “drive change” after the teenage Blackpool forward came out as gay. The 17-year-old posted a message via the Tangerines’ website on Monday,…

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Added on: 05/16/2022

20th Queer Zagreb to Take Place Between 24 May and 5 June

05/15/2022

The festival will open with the Croatian premiere of “Yira, Yira”, a performance directed by Bruno Isaković and Nataša Rajković, at the Croatian National Theatre on 24…

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Added on: 05/14/2022

LGBTI rights in Ukraine conflict in focus at Cyprus conference

5/13/22

The IDAHOT + Forum 2022 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus, on 12-13 May, ahead of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Tuesday 17…

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Added on: 05/13/2022

Marking International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2022 in Albania

05/11/2022

To mark IDAHOT 2022 in Albania, the action on “Promotion of Diversity and Equality in Albania” under the joint European Union and Council of Europe “Horizontal Facility…

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Added on: 05/13/2022

Greece bans LGBTQ conversion therapy

05/12/2022

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece on Wednesday banned conversion therapy for minors, a practice aimed at suppressing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and which the lesbian,…

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Added on: 05/12/2022

Home Office admits LGBTQI+ refugees could be persecuted if sent to Rwanda

05/10/2022

The Home Office has admitted that lesbian, gay and bisexual refugees could be persecuted if sent to Rwanda – but still plans to fly them 4,000 miles to…

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Added on: 05/10/2022

Polish Court Rejects Case Against ‘LGBT-Free Zones’ Activist.

05/09/2022

A court in the Polish city of Rzeszów has thrown out a case against Bartosz Staszewski, an LGBT rights activist who was being sued by the Niebylec…

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Added on: 05/09/2022

Gay Village welcome for Commonwealth visitors from where homosexuality is a sin

05/08/2022

Birmingham’s Gay Village will be a ‘place of welcome for everyone’ during the Commonwealth Games , Pride chief Lawrence Barton said today. Mr Barton – who chairs Southside BID – said the LGBTQ+ community would…

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Added on: 05/09/2022

Writing poetry helped me realise I didn’t have to conform to gender norms

05/08/2022

When Peter Scalpello started writing their debut poetry collection, they could never have known just how much they would discover about themselves along the way. Peter’s debut was published in…

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Added on: 05/08/2022

Article: Russian Orthodox Church Under Threat Of EU Sanctions

5/7/22

The European Union is debating on imposing sanctions on Patriarch Kirill, the head of The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), also known as the Moscow Patriarchate, who leads…

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Added on: 05/07/2022

Minister publishes update on work to disregard historic convictions of gay and bisexual men

5/6/22

The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has published a progress report from the Working Group to examine the ‘Disregard of Convictions for Certain Qualifying Offences Related to…

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Added on: 05/06/2022

Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as cruel despot Putin’s bloodthirsty war rages on

05/06/2022

LGBT+ Ukrainians have been living in fear and uncertainty ever since Russia launched its full scale invasion in February. Now, some are retreating into the closet in the face…

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Added on: 05/04/2022

Greece: Letting police officers involved in brutal death of LGBTI activist off the hook sends chilling sign of impunity.

05/03/2022

Reacting to today’s decision by the Athens Mixed Jury Court acquitting four police officers of involvement in the death of LGBTI activist Zak Kostopoulos, Glykeria Arapi, Director…

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Added on: 05/03/2022

Bosnia’s LGBT Community Hails ‘Historic’ Ruling Against Discrimination, Hate.

05/02/2022

For all of Dina Bajraktarevic’s adult life, Bosnia-Herzegovina has had a law in place banning discrimination, including based on sexual orientation or gender identity. But the 25-year-old…

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Added on: 05/01/2022

Brave Ukrainian student flees to Edinburgh after LGBT+ safe spaces disappear due to war

4/30/22

A brave Ukrainian student has fled to Edinburgh after his country became extremely unsafe for the LGBT+ community. Nick, a 22-year-old journalism student from Kyiv says he…

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Added on: 04/30/2022

Romania must reject Hungary-style anti-LGBT bill, rights groups say

4/29/22

Romanian human rights groups on Friday condemned a bill approved by the Senate which bans so-called gay propaganda in schools, saying it would legitimise discrimination against the…

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Added on: 04/30/2022

LGBTQ+ Muslims on finding queer joy: “It’s important to show future generations”

4/29/22

“I didn’t know you could be LGBTQ+ and Muslim” is a statement I overheard not too long ago. For the speaker, a religious identity (one of practised…

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Added on: 04/29/2022

Albania’s Pioneering LGBT Activist: ‘We Should Not Be Second-Class Citizens’

04/28/2022

When Xheni Karaj started to engage in LGBT activism 13 years ago, she was barely aware what activism was – and the relevant organizations were still at…

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Added on: 04/29/2022

Protests greet homophobic TV interview in Martinique

04/28/2022

In Martinique, human rights defenders quickly protested against a local television station that broadcast a sidewalk interview containing LGBTphobic conspiracy theories related to France’s April 24 presidential…

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Added on: 04/29/2022

Ship stewards make history with same-sex marriage in Antarctica

04/28/2022

Two research ship crew members, Eric Bourne and Stephen Carpenter made history on Sunday 24 April as the first same-sex couple to get married in icy Antarctica….

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Added on: 04/28/2022

EU proposes law to curb lawsuits meant to silence journalists, rights advocates

04/27/2022

BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters) – The European Union executive proposed on Wednesday laws to curb excessive litigation aimed at silencing critical journalists and rights advocates by governments…

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Added on: 04/27/2022

Life in Scotland is getting worse, say young LGBT+ people.

04/26/2022

Life for LGBT+ young people in Scotland is “worse now than it has been for a long time”, according to a report that highlights growing concerns about…

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Added on: 04/27/2022

Russia Fines Meta for Spreading ‘LGBT Propaganda’ After Banning Facebook and Instagram.

04/26/2022

Russian courts might have banned Facebook and Instagram access across the country just a month ago, but that’s not going to stop those same courts from fining…

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Added on: 04/27/2022

Torture won’t fix me’ Protestors gather in Cardiff against transgender conversion therapy.

04/26/2022

Protestors gathered in the centre of Cardiff to oppose conversion therapy for transgender people all over the UK. Organised by south Wales based group, Trans Aid Cymru,…

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Added on: 04/26/2022

Anti-LGBTQ Attacks Increase Dramatically In Ireland.

04/25/2022

In Ireland, the slew of unsettling news for LGBTQ people continues to mount. Most recently, a gay man was assaulted in the capital city of Dublin. Twenty-three-year-old…

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Added on: 04/25/2022

What does Europe’s right want?

04/24/2022

The last time we had met, Ronald Reagan’s deregulation tsar Chris DeMuth reminded the audience, it was “the last week of normal life in Europe to date”….

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Added on: 04/23/2022

Out in the World: Europe’s San Marino elects first out gay head of state

4/22/22

San Marino, the world’s oldest republic, appointed the world’s first gay head of state when Paolo Rondelli was named one of two captains regent. Rondelli, 58, was…

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Added on: 04/21/2022

Fifty Years On, Norway Apologises for Law That Criminalised Gay Sex

04/21/2022

OSLO (Reuters) – The Norwegian government formally apologised to gay men on Wednesday for a law that once criminalised sexual intercourse between men. Some 119 individuals were…