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Added on: 02/10/2020

Switzerland votes in favour of LGBT protection bill

02/09/2020

Voters in Switzerland have backed a proposal to make discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sexual identity illegal. The result – 63.1% in favour to…

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Added on: 02/10/2020

The 200-year-old diary that’s rewriting gay history

02/10/2020

A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing remarkable evidence of tolerance towards homosexuality in Britain much earlier…

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Added on: 02/09/2020

‘It Just Shows What All the Work Was For.’ Meet the First Same-Sex Couple to Get Married in Northern Ireland Next Week

02/08/2020

When Belfast native Robyn Peoples found out that her girlfriend had planned a romantic trip to Paris to see Ariana Grande perform, she knew she wanted to…

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Added on: 02/08/2020

Russian Jury Acquits Gay Man’s Murder Suspect

02/08/2020

A Moscow jury has acquitted a man accused of killing a gay man last year, the LGBT rights group Stimul reported Thursday. Security cameras captured 40-year-old Roman…

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Added on: 02/08/2020

Spain’s far-right Vox party takes Twitter to court over tweet ban

02/07/2020

Spain’s ultra-conservative Vox party has filed a criminal complaint in a Spanish court against Twitter, alleging the social media company violated its basic rights by blocking it…

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Added on: 02/08/2020

Activist aims to shame Polish towns opposed to LGBT community

02/07/2020

An activist has begun photographing members of Poland’s LGBT community next to a fake “LGBT-free zone” sign outside towns that passed motions rejecting what they call “LGBT…

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Added on: 02/07/2020

‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’: Less than 1 in 5 LGBT teachers come out over career fears

02/07/2020

A ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ culture still exists in schools with a religious ethos when it comes to LGBT teachers. That is the finding of a new…

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Added on: 02/07/2020

Swiss vote on anti-homophobia law as critics decry censorship

02/06/2020

When 41-year-old Jehanne, a lesbian, was repeatedly insulted for supporting LGBT rights during a tram ride in the Swiss city of Geneva last month, she threatened to…

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Added on: 02/06/2020

Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes Up in Russia, Watchdog Says

02/05/2020

The number of hate crimes against members of Russia’s LGBT community increased in 2019, according to an annual report by the prominent SOVA Center nonprofit, which tracks…

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Added on: 02/06/2020

Russian police threaten activist; she flees, wins asylum

02/05/2020

An LGBT activist fled southern Russia for the Netherlands after facing threats of prosecution from law enforcement and retribution from conservative vigilantes, she said in an interview…

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Added on: 02/06/2020

Evangelical Pastor Pushed Pompeo to Fire Yovanovitch for LGBT Support

02/05/2020

In the summer of 2018, an American evangelical pastor and dozens of Ukrainian Christian groups prayed for Marie Yovanovitch to be fired from her job as the…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

Rising populism stokes homophobic hate speech across Europe

02/02/2020

Homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and other anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are rising across Europe, fuelled by divisive politics and socially conservative groups that also campaign against abortion access,…

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Added on: 02/03/2020

‘It’ll be OK. Spain is kinder to us migrants than the British are’

02/01/2020

If a fair few of the 300,000 Britons who live in Spain woke with pounding heads on Saturday morning, many could at least console themselves with the…

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Added on: 02/03/2020

Iceland Expands Its Evangelical Ban To Include Anti-LGBT Methodists

02/02/2020

The parliament of this island country in the North Atlantic declared today it is increasing its travel ban to include American evangelicals who are members of the…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refuses to meet with LGBT activists in Ukraine

02/01/2020

Donald Trump’s anti-LGBT+ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Ukraine this week, but refused to meet with LGBT+ community leaders. Pompeo made the trip to show America’s…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Franklin Graham banned by 2nd UK city over ‘repulsive’ LGBT+ views, official says

01/29/2020

Evangelist Franklin Graham was banned Wednesday from coming to a second arena in England on his upcoming summer tour of the United Kingdom. Julie Dore, the council…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Croatia Gay Couple Foster Care Application Rejected: Court Decision Ignored

01/28/2020

The Social Welfare Center in Zagreb again rejected the foster care application submitted by Ivo Šegota and Mladen Kožić, who are life partners in Croatia. By doing…

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Added on: 02/01/2020

LGBT community in Hungary faces ‘increasingly concentrated attacks’ by government

01/31/2020

The LGBT+ community in Hungary is facing “increasingly concentrated attacks” by the far-right government, activists have said, and hard-won LGBT+ rights in the country could be at…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

Church of England ‘sorry’ for LGBT sex guidance

01/31/2020

The Church of England will not be withdrawing guidance that said sex is only for “heterosexual married couples”. But the archbishops of Canterbury and York are “very…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

‘I tested my new name at the coffee shop’

01/31/2020

“Choosing my name was a pretty long journey,” says Sonja Howells. “When I first said my name to the barista, it felt so liberating. It was so…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

Israel Folau joins Europe rugby league team after being axed for homophobic comments

01/28/2020

Australian rugby player Israel Folau has been signed by the Catalan Dragons, a Super League rugby team, for a 12-month contract. The 30-year-old dual-code international was dropped…

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Added on: 01/27/2020

72 LGBT organisations write to MSPs supporting trans rights

01/26/2020

Seventy two LBGT organisations have penned an open letter to MSPs, underlining their support for the government’s proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. Sports teams, pride…

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Added on: 01/27/2020

Gay, Irish and radical – the invisible women who revolutionised Manchester

01/26/2020

Walk down Canal Street today and you’ll find a bustling strip of waterside bars, rainbow bunting fluttering overhead and people living their lives out and proud. Wind…

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Added on: 01/27/2020

This Is How UK LGBTQ Rights Change After Brexit This Week

01/26/2020

Ever since the UK public was asked if they wanted to stay or leave the European Union – many LGBTQ people have been worried about what leaving…

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Added on: 01/26/2020

New Documentary Cloaks Anonymous Sources in ‘Face Doubles’

01/25/2020

In documentaries, anonymous sources have often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure — or worse, a pixelated blur. But a new documentary premiering Sunday at the…

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Added on: 01/26/2020

Support for LGBT+ rights soaring in the Czech Republic with two-thirds backing marriage equality

01/25/2020

Support for marriage equality in the Czech Republic is soaring, with around two-thirds of the public backing same-sex marriage, a new poll published Thursday showed. In results…

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Added on: 01/25/2020

Church of England: Sex is for married heterosexual couples only

01/24/2020

The Church of England has stated that sex belongs only within heterosexual marriage, and that sex in gay or straight civil partnerships “falls short of God’s purpose…

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Added on: 01/24/2020

These photos highlight the human hurt over Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones’

01/23/2020

An activist has released pictures of gay people in front of Polish municipalities that declared themselves LGBT-free. Bart Staszewski said he wanted to show the real people…

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Added on: 01/24/2020

LGB Alliance founder says there shouldn’t be LGBT clubs in schools because of ‘predatory gay teachers’

01/23/2020

Malcolm Clark, co-founder of controversial anti-trans group the LGB Alliance, has denounced LGBT+ clubs in schools. Clark said LGBT+ clubs – a safe space for many LGBT+…

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Added on: 01/23/2020

Israel agrees to Russia’s no-LGBT adoptions rule

01/22/2020

Israel and Russia signed an adoption agreement on Wednesday, after a decade of negotiations, stipulating that same-sex couples may not adopt children from Russia. The countries finalized…