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Added on: 03/09/2021
03/09/2021
TIRANA (Reuters) – Sara, a 26-year-old woman from Tirana, is reluctant to talk about her love life with friends and family as they cannot understand her attraction…

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Added on: 03/09/2021
03/08/2021
Intersex and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) are two terms used to describe those born with sex characteristics (i.e., chromosomes, gonads, genitals) that do not fit the…

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Added on: 03/08/2021
03/07/2021
With Russia’s population expected to decline by 30 million over the next decade, the question of how to raise the birth rate dominated discussions on Thursday (4…

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Added on: 03/07/2021
3/7/21
Two years ago, Francesco, then 18, became homeless overnight. His mother, an evangelical Christian, called the police to evict him from the family’s home in the southern…

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Added on: 03/06/2021
03/05/2021
Hungary’s media watchdog, the National Media and Infocommunications Authority have announced they will be taking legal action against the RTL Hungary media group. The legal action comes…

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Added on: 03/06/2021
03/05/2021
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned the “unacceptable” language that the Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Revd Henry Ndukuba, used to describe gay people (News, 2 March)….

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Added on: 03/05/2021
03/03/2021
Calls have been made to ensure nurses across Europe are trained to be “compassionate and culturally aware” towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people, after new…

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Added on: 03/03/2021
03/02/2021
A Polish court on Tuesday acquitted three activists who were accused of desecration and offending religious sentiment for altering, producing and distributing images of a revered Roman…

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Added on: 03/03/2021
03/02/2021
Tonic Housing has been awarded a £5.7m loan from the mayor of London to purchase 19 properties in Vauxhall, Lambeth. This will become the UK‘s first provider…

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Added on: 02/28/2021
2/28/21
The new national census will be conducted this year, and for the first time, it will include questions about LGBTQ+ identity. This is a great stride towards…

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Added on: 02/28/2021
It’s impossible to evaluate what the year 2020 looked like from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people’s rights without recognizing how Covid-19 put a…

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Added on: 02/27/2021
2/26/21
A court ruled this week that it was legal for Russian police to kidnap two gay men who escaped Chechnya after facing persecution under its anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown….

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Added on: 02/27/2021
STUDENTS who unveiled a banner showing Islam’s holiest site adorned with the LGBT rainbow colours face up to three years prison in Turkey after prosecutors charged them…

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Added on: 02/27/2021
2/26/21
What is believed to be Wales’ first national LGBTQ+ bilingual magazine has been launched. LGBTQymru will “celebrate, connect and support the communities of Wales – not just…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 02/26/2021
Alexander Champeau
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The Early Story: Torture and Escape Per a joint statement by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a few other human rights NGOs, Ismail and Salekh had been detained…

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Added on: 02/25/2021
For 30 days, beginning January 17, European Union commissioners received daily Twitter notifications linking to personal stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Poles who have…

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Added on: 02/24/2021
02/23/2021
Rising homophobic discourse, a series censored for a gay character, boycotted pro-LGBT brands: this growing animosity has shaken a once vibrant community in Turkey and tarnished the…

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Added on: 02/24/2021
Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East have found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Istanbul. Today, in the…

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Added on: 02/23/2021
The RighT Side Human Rights Defender NGO in Armenia is implementing until July 2021 a national project aims at empowering the transgender community to facilitate their access…

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Added on: 02/22/2021
02/21/2021
In its annual review of the human rights situation of LGBTI people in Europe and Central Asia, ILGA-Europe, an advocacy group, listed Estonia with the countries that…

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Added on: 02/21/2021
2/21/21
There has been a “stark rise” in abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people in the Europe and Central Asia region, including from politicians, says a new…

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Added on: 02/21/2021
Whenever I mention conversion therapy, most people are surprised that such things still happen in the UK. There is a sense of bafflement about how and why…

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Added on: 02/20/2021
The head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service apologized Friday to gay spies and aspiring agents who were fired or denied jobs because of their sexuality. Richard Moore…

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Added on: 02/19/2021
02/19/2021
As a gay footballer, I am very aware of the status I have as a role model – even more so being a gay footballer with an…

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Added on: 02/19/2021
02/19/2021
After winning several auditions, including for a Madonna video, Aquila Correia was close to realising her dreams in Portugal, after relying on sex work to survive as…

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Added on: 02/18/2021
02/17/2021
Over 800 footballers have signed up to a campaign by a German football magazine aimed at offering support to LGBTQ players. But World Cup winner Philipp Lahm…

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Added on: 02/17/2021
02/16/2021
An LGBT+ History Month seminar for under-18s was interrupted by a cyber attacker who shouted homophobic, transphobic and racist slurs. Education non-profit Academus Education was hosting a…

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Added on: 02/17/2021
02/16/2021
LONDON — For decades, L.G.B.T. members of Britain’s military were systematically dismissed from the ranks and stripped of their medals. Now, after years of campaigning by those…

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Added on: 02/17/2021
02/16/2021
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Homophobic language and hate speech against transgender people are on the increase among European politicians, an advocacy group said on Tuesday as…

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Added on: 02/17/2021
02/15/2021
LONDON, Feb 15 (Openly) – Almost as soon as she could speak, Nina told her parents she was not a boy and she has lived as a…