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Added on: 08/27/2021

Moscow man abducted, taken to Chechnya and pressed for information on LGBTQ people, says Russian rights group

08/26/2021

A man was abducted in Moscow, taken to Chechnya and then pressed for information on LGBTQ people in the region earlier this year, according to the Russian…

Global News

Added on: 08/26/2021

People ‘anxious to go home’ to Poland amid anti-LGBT regime

08/25/2021

Polish people living in Merseyside have revealed they are anxious about returning to their home country. Maciej, who lives in Southport, and Wiktoria, who lives in Liverpool,…

Global News

Added on: 08/26/2021

School refusing to teach kids about LGBT+ lives should not be allowed to expand, says Ofsted

08/25/2021

Talmud Torah London, a fee-paying boys primary school in North London that primarily serves the Orthodox Jewish community, applied to the Department for Education (DfE) for permission…

Global News

Added on: 08/25/2021

Majority of Swiss support gay marriage ahead of vote

08/24/2021

According to a survey by Tamedia, 64% of the population said they plan to vote in favour of accepting the government’s amendment to Switzerland’s civil code allowing…

Global News

Added on: 08/24/2021

UK: Police to now use ‘rainbow coloured’ patrol cars to help the LGBT community

08/23/2021

In a bid to encourage the LGBTQ+ community to lodge complaints of online hate crimes, the police in the United Kingdom have decided to paint their patrol…

Global News

Added on: 08/24/2021

Gay, transgender conversion therapy ban initiative heads to Parliament

08/23/2021

A citizens’ initiative to ban sexual orientation and gender identification conversion therapy in Finland reached the required 50,000 signatures on Monday, which means it will now be…

Global News

Added on: 08/23/2021

Edinburgh student to launch city’s first lesbian bar with ‘no cis men’

08/22/2021

An Edinburgh local has decided to open the first-ever bar for lesbians and queer women. While the capital already has bars for the LGBTQI+ community, Emily Frood,…

Global News

Added on: 08/22/2021

Two LGBT marches held in Poland under heavy police security

08/21/2021

Parades for LGBT rights took place under heavy police presence Saturday at the foot of Catholic Poland’s most revered monastery in Czestochowa, in the south, and in…

Global News

Added on: 08/22/2021

The ‘laughing, loving diva’ who fights tirelessly for gay and lesbian rights

08/21/2021

“A group of remarkable people who met weekly, daily, to work out what might be possible to work out what was possible to change the lives of…

Global News

Added on: 08/22/2021

Romania’s LGBT community sees gains, ongoing rights struggle

08/22/2021

The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998. The country decriminalized homosexuality three years after that, in 2001, while reforming its laws…

Global News

Added on: 08/20/2021

Polish region wants to remain an ‘LGBT-free’ zone despite risking millions in EU funds

08/19/2021

This week a Polish regional council has voted to remain an “LGBT-free zone” despite a warning from the European Union that it could lose funding. Numerous local…

Global News

Added on: 08/20/2021

Charity watchdog in talks with anti-trans LGB Alliance after ‘hateful’ bestiality tweet

08/19/2021

The anti-trans group gained charitable status earlier this year in spite of fierce objections from multiple LGBT+ charities and a petition signed by more than 44,000 people….

Global News

Added on: 08/19/2021

Will Romania step up anti-LGBTQ legislation like Hungary?

08/17/2021

Many Romanians probably do not know what the letters LGBTQ stand for, and this is hardly surprising given that sexual orientation and gender identity have not played…

Global News

Added on: 08/18/2021

Scotland’s LGBT community is frightened by the current anti-trans obsession

08/17/2021

I NEVER picked a “side” – I was born this way. Common decency would argue that a group of people put into the continuous, never-ending, daily cycle…

Global News

Added on: 08/18/2021

‘Born gay in the Soviet Union, living gay in Russia’

08/17/20201

In recent years, there has been a growing number of artistic ventures about the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Russia. One of them is the art project…

Global News

Added on: 08/17/2021

Men hurt in homophobic attack at Birmingham’s Gay Village

08/16/2021

Two men have been attacked with bottles and had homophobic abuse shouted at them in Birmingham, police have said. Rob and Patrick, in their 30s, were outside…

Global News

Added on: 08/16/2021

Turkish LGBTQ Activists Counter Oppression With Art, Solidarity and Radical Hope

08/15/2021

Activism came to Hazar Kolancalı like a thunderstorm, at first a rumbling in the distance and then upon her all at once. The constant — and often…

Global News

Added on: 08/15/2021

Sarajevo’s Pride Parade Calls For More Rights for LGBT Community

8/14/21

Sarajevo’s second-ever Pride parade as well as a counter-protest organised by a hardliner Muslim political campaign group ended peacefully on Saturday. “Aware of discrimination, violence and hate…

Global News

Added on: 08/15/2021

Bucharest gay pride march resumes after coronavirus pause

8/14/21

Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of Bucharest Saturday for a gay pride parade that resumed after a year’s pause due…

Global News

Added on: 08/14/2021

Kids in this country can ‘explore gender’ in school without parental consent

8/13/21

Children as young as four can “explore their gender” without parental consent in some parts of the UK. New guidance in Scotland has said schoolkids should be…

Global News

Added on: 08/13/2021

Rights defenders tell details of queer girl’s abduction by Chechen law enforcers

08/13/2021

The “Russian LGBT Network”* is concerned about the fate of the girl who was abducted a year ago by Chechen law enforcers, and is going to appeal…

Global News

Added on: 08/11/2021

Russian MP who wants gays to be ‘sterilised’ and kept in shelters like cats slapped down by human rights council

08/10/2021

Anti-LGBT+ Russian MP Vitaly Milonov has been reprimanded by the country’s Human Rights Council after he called for gays to be “sterilised” and kept in shelters like…

Global News

Added on: 08/11/2021

Bosnian Religious Group to Protest Against Sarajevo LGBT Pride

08/10/2021

Vjera Narod Drzava (Faith People State), a recently-founded Muslim political campaign group, has announced that it will stage an “anti-LGBTIQ” protest during the Sarajevo Pride parade on…

Global News

Added on: 08/09/2021

Amsterdam substitutes ‘Pride Walk’ for canal parade in 25th anniversary of Gay Pride

08/08/2021

Amsterdam capped a month of events commemorating the 25th anniversary of its first Gay Pride festival with a “Pride Walk” through the city’s historic centre on Saturday…

Global News

Added on: 08/08/2021

British diver Tom Daley says sports has ‘a lot further to go’ on LGBTQ acceptance

8/7/21

British diver Tom Daley says he is proud to be able to inspire other people as an openly gay athlete, but he is quick to add that…

Global News

Added on: 08/08/2021

Along With COVID-19, EU Faces a More Fundamental Battle

8/8/21

Hungary’s growing list of European Union worries includes controversial LGBT legislation and potentially hacking the phones of journalists, rights activists and political opponents. Poland has rebuffed a…

World Voices

Added on: 08/08/2021

Mohamed Ali (Dali) Aguerbi – Documentarian, Malta

Savita Sukul

Alturi Contributor

Dali came to Malta by accident. He is originally from Tunisia where homosexuality is criminalized by three years of imprisonment since French colonialism in 1913. He came…

Global News

Added on: 08/07/2021

Amsterdam ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate gay victims of Nazis

8/6/21

More than 75 years after they were murdered in the gas chambers or shot, gay victims of Nazi persecution were remembered with “stumbling stones” laid in Amsterdam…

Global News

Added on: 08/07/2021

LGBTQ Family Featured in Grocery Store Advertisement Forced to Leave Russia Due to Hate

8/6/21

In July, Alina and her girlfriend, Ksyusha ,wanted to show that, like any other family, they have favorite dishes and cooking habits. Joined by Alina’s mom and…

Global News

Added on: 08/06/2021

IOC Investigates Anti-LGBT Slurs Against Olympic Athletes on Russian TV

08/06/2021

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is investigating two Russian state-run TV channels over talk shows that disparaged the lifestyles of a transgender and a gay athlete as…