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Added on: 02/22/2020
02/21/2020
A Polish court has ruled in favour of a campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia, claiming it was “informative” and that it raised awareness. Polish lawyer, Bartłomiej…

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Added on: 02/21/2020
02/20/2020
Donald Trump became the first president to name an openly gay person to a Cabinet-level position Wednesday when he announced that Richard Grenell would serve as his…

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Added on: 02/19/2020
02/18/2020
Ireland’s groundbreaking marriage equality vote will be five years old this May – but have you seen one major ad campaign to attract the sought after LGBT…

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Added on: 02/18/2020
02/17/2020
A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an…

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Added on: 02/17/2020
02/16/2020
LGBTI activists in Uzbekistan say that, despite high hopes for reform ever since Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in 2016, they continue to face routine violence and…

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Added on: 02/17/2020
02/16/2020
Rabbis representing Britain’s main Orthodox communities have told the government that their schools cannot discuss LGBT-related issues with pupils. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the rabbinate of…

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Added on: 02/17/2020
02/17/2020
Ukraine army veteran Viktor Pylypenko kept his sexuality a secret for years, worried that the men he had fought alongside would turn against him if they knew…

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Added on: 02/16/2020
02/16/2020
As Israel Folau made a try-scoring debut for his new club Catalan Dragons on Saturday, a man watching from the stands was told to remove a rainbow…

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Added on: 02/16/2020
Two burglars who smashed their way into a historic gay bookshop in London were caught by police – after they stuck around to drink prosecco found at…

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Added on: 02/15/2020
02/14/2020
Hundreds of Slovaks gathered outside the presidential palace on Tuesday to oppose LBGT ideology through public prayer. The Slovenský dohovor za rodinu (SDZR, or “Slovakian Convention for…

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Added on: 02/14/2020
02/14/2020
Racism within the LGBT community leave black people suffering poor mental health, a leading charity says. Research by Stonewall shows that 61% of ethnic minority LGBT people…

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Added on: 02/14/2020
02/13/2020
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not legalise gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin. He made clear he would not allow…

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Added on: 02/13/2020
02/12/2020
Northern Ireland police have charged a 52-year-old man in connection with the murder of gay journalist Lyra McKee. McKee, 29, was shot dead while reporting on riots…

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Added on: 02/12/2020
Rebecca Long-Bailey has triggered a furious row after signing up to a campaign to “fight” women’s groups branded “transphobic” and to expel offending party members. The Labour…

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Added on: 02/11/2020
02/10/2020
This month my school, Woodside High School, will be the first in London to get a permanent rainbow crossing. We are delighted about it – but we…

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Added on: 02/10/2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…