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Added on: 04/21/2022

The film Putin doesn’t want the world to see: Firebird, a gay love story about fighter pilots

04/21/2022

Oleg Zagorodnii is sitting in the cafe he owns in Kyiv, beneath a brightly coloured painting of Aladdin smiling down from the wall behind. “It is just…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

Look Inside Lambda Warszawa, the Organization Helping LGBTQ Ukrainian Refugees.

04/19/2022

A deeply Catholic country, Poland has long been a fraught place for LGBTQ people. But in 2015, when President Andrzej Duda was elected, anti-LGBTQ sentiments increased amid…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

We did not run away’: Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community fights homophobia on the frontlines.

04/18/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, members of the LGBTQ+ community and activists have been visibly joining and helping Ukraine’s army – with some hoping their participation…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Murders of two gay men in Ireland serve as brutal reminder that LGBT+ people still aren’t safe

4/14/22

In September 1982, a gay man called Declan Flynn was brutally murdered in Dublin’s Fairview Park by a group of teenage boys for the simple crime of…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Russia Adds Prominent Journalists, LGBT Activists To Registry Of ‘Foreign Agents’

4/16/22

The Russian Justice Ministry has added several journalists, including some who have collaborated with RFE/RL, and two LGBT rights activists to its registry of foreign agents. Two…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

The library sheltering queer refugees fleeing Ukraine

4/15/22

This is not the story I planned to write. Initially, it was about Biblioteka Azyl, the queer library Filip Kijowski founded at Lublin’s Galeria Labirynt in 2020…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

Kosovo’s underground LGBTQ community leads ‘double life’

4/15/22

The Kosovo couple have hidden their relationship for eight years. Whenever they meet in public, common friends are invited in order not to raise suspicion. They also…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Man Attacks Chair of Ukrainian LGBT Rights Group

04/14/2022

(WB) A man on Thursday attacked the chair of an LGBT rights group in Ukraine with pepper spray. Insight Chair Olena Shevchenko in a Facebook post said the…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Thousands expected at LGBT vigils for Sligo murder victims

04/14/2022

Thousands of people are expected to attend vigils over the coming days to honour the memory of two men, Aidan Moffitt 41, and Michael Snee 58, found…

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Added on: 04/14/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians, fearing Russian attacks at home and discrimination in shelters, face an uncertain future

04/12/2022

When a friend called Andrii Zarytskyi at 5 a.m., his voice shaking, to say the first bombs had dropped on their city of Mykolaiv, Mr. Zarytskyi didn’t believe…

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Added on: 04/14/2022

Germany approves rainbow flags on ministry buildings for LGBT events

04/13/2022

Germany says it has authorised raising the rainbow flag at federal government buildings to mark Pride marches or global LGBT+ events. The Interior Ministry confirmed in a statement…

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Added on: 04/13/2022

Turkish prosecutor seeks closure of association for organizing LGBTI event.

04/12/2022

A Turkish prosecutor has launched legal proceedings against an association, seeking its closure in connection with a LGBTI event it organized, the Kronos news website reported on…

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Added on: 04/13/2022

Interfaith activists rebut Guadeloupe claim that homosexuality is an illness.

04/12/2022

A group of Caribbean and international advocates of LGBTQ rights joined forces last week to denounce misleading remarks about homosexuality from the host of an online show…

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Added on: 04/12/2022

ACTIVISTS DEFEAT HUNGARY’S ANTI-LGBTQ REFERENDUM.

04/11/2022

Although Hungary’s notorious right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán came away with yet another “crushing victory” in the country’s parliamentary election on 3 April, human and civil rights…

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Added on: 04/12/2022

Polish LGBT+ library helps queer Ukrainians safely navigate notorious ‘LGBT-free zones’.

04/11/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, more than 2.4 million refugees have fled across the border to Poland. In order to get to Lublin, the closest…

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Added on: 04/11/2022

Gay men in Andalucia call for acceptance and recognition in Holy Week

04/10/2022

A group of gay men in Spain say religious authorities accept their help in traditional religious rites, but refuse to acknowledge their sexuality. The men are members…

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Added on: 04/10/2022

WHO to supply HIV drugs to Ukraine

4/6/22

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it will supply thousands of doses of life-saving antiretroviral drugs to Ukraine to cover the needs of HIV patients in…

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Added on: 04/10/2022

Leo Varadkar warns Ireland can’t take LGBT+ progress ‘for granted’ as Britain backslides

4/9/22

Deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar has warned Ireland to not take LGBT+ progress “for granted” as Britain back peddles under Boris Johnson. Tánaiste Varadkar told the national…

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Added on: 04/08/2022

In southern Spain, gay stylists play key role in Holy Week

04/08/2022

Seville (Spain) (AFP) – Working with rich fabrics, fine lace and flowers, gay stylists have long played a key role in dressing the Virgin Mary figures carried through…

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Added on: 04/08/2022

Polish county launches legal action to be “free from LGBT ideology” again

04/07/2022

A local authority in Poland has launched a legal action to make itself “free from LGBT ideology” again, after a resolution to that effect was invalided earlier…

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Added on: 04/08/2022

By cancelling its LGBT conference, the government shows its lack of concern for our rights

04/07/2022

This week, the government cancelled its first global LGBTQ+ conference which was meant to further equality and help tackle pressing issues like violence and hate. It did…

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Added on: 04/06/2022

Polish county launches legal action to be “free from LGBT ideology” again.

04/05/2022

A local authority in Poland has launched a legal action to make itself “free from LGBT ideology” again, after a resolution to that effect was invalided earlier…

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Added on: 04/06/2022

Cyprus push to ban gay conversion therapy amid exorcism claim.

04/05/2022

Cypriot lawmakers and activists are pushing to criminalise “gay conversion therapy” which has left members of the island’s LGBTQ+ community traumatised through “medieval” practices such as exorcisms….

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Added on: 04/06/2022

LGBTQ+ conference cancelled over conversion practices furore.

04/05/2022

The government’s flagship LGBTQ+ conference has been cancelled after falling into disarray, with more organisations pulling out and a key government adviser quitting after accusing ministers of…

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Added on: 04/05/2022

Many Hungarians spoil ballots to invalidate referendum on LGBTQ content in society.

04/04/2022

After weeks of talk about a tight electoral race in Hungary’s general election, voters delivered a two-thirds parliamentary majority to incumbent Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party…

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Added on: 04/05/2022

Groups pull out of landmark LGBT conference over conversion therapy ban change.

04/04/2022

At least one hundred organisations have pulled out of a landmark LGBT Government conference planned for this year following the “unacceptable” exclusion of transgender people from plans…

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Added on: 04/03/2022

How Liverpool became the first UK city to recognise its ‘gay quarter’

4/2/22

Liverpool’s ‘Gay Quarter’ is a prime destination for not only the LGBTQ+ community but for tourists from all over the world and it’s easy to see why….

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Added on: 04/03/2022

Gays caught in the crossfire of Hungarian election

4/2/22

Among the political billboards and corflutes plastered on just about every lamppost and power pole along the bustling inner-city Budapest streets, one in particular catches the eye….

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Added on: 04/02/2022

‘We Want To Live a Happy Life’: LGBTQ People Are Leaving Hungary

4/1/22

Boldizsar Nagy is packing his bags and leaving Hungary. He and his boyfriend have had enough of Hungary’s attitude towards their relationship. But with an election this…

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Added on: 04/01/2022

Conversion therapy: Ban to go ahead but not cover trans people

04/01/2022

The government now says it will ban so-called conversion therapy for gay or bisexual people in England and Wales – but not for transgender people. It comes…