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Added on: 04/02/2019

Letter to Prime Minister Plenković on Balkans Trans and Intersex Pride March

03/27/2019

We write to urge you to provide appropriate security and protection to ensure the rights to freedom of assembly and expression are protected during the March 30,…

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Added on: 04/01/2019

No matter their allegiance, Ukraine’s politicians are ignoring LGBT rights

03/29/2019

Ahead of Ukraine’s presidential elections, the problems of the country’s LGBT community are being ignored by our leading politicians. None of the leading candidates’ programmes even mention…

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Added on: 03/31/2019

Cayman Islands legalises same-sex marriage in historic ruling

03/30/2019

The Cayman Islands has legalised same-sex marriage after a judge ruled prohibitions on such relationships was unconstitutional. The decision marked a personal victory – and the end…

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Added on: 03/30/2019

France sees rise in conversion therapies to ‘cure’ homosexuality

03/27/2019

The film “Boy Erased” highlights controversial conversion therapies in the United States, which attempt to change homosexual children to heterosexual. This practice is surprisingly common in France. …

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Added on: 03/29/2019

First same-sex couple to marry in UK says five-year anniversary ‘marred’ by inequality for Northern Ireland couples

03/28/2019

Five years since the first same-sex UK marriage, Peter McGraith calls for marriage equality to be extended to Northern Ireland Equal marriage advocates Conor McGinn MP and…

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Added on: 03/29/2019

Japanese footballer comes out as gay and encourages others to do the same before Tokyo 2020

03/25/2019

Female Japanese footballer Shiho Shimoyamada has come out as gay and has encouraged other athletes to do the same before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The 24-year…

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Added on: 03/27/2019

New culture war’: Northern Ireland’s LGBT+ community fights for gay marriage

03/27/2019

Hidden away up several flights of stairs in the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, teenagers, many of them with shocks of red, blue and rainbow hair, relaxed…

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Added on: 03/25/2019

No Significant Progress in Gender Equality in Croatia

03/24/2019

ZAGREB, March 23, 2019 – Some of the gender equality indicators in Croatia, such as the number of boys and girls enrolled in primary and secondary schools,…

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Added on: 03/25/2019

UK lawmakers calls against detention of LGBT asylum seekers

03/21/2019

Britain should not put LGBT+ asylum seekers in immigration detention centres where they risk being abused and harassed by staff and other detainees, lawmakers said on Thursday….

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Added on: 03/24/2019

Gay politician Robert Biedron challenges Polish leaders on gay marriage

03/22/2019

Openly gay politician Robert Biedron is demanding the Polish government and president to recognise LGBT+ equality, including same-sex marriage. Biedron, a long-time LGBT+ campaigner who became Poland’s…

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Added on: 03/23/2019

Can the Czech Republic Tear Down Europe’s Rainbow Curtain?

03/21/2019

Eastern Europe has long resisted same-sex marriage. Prague might be about to change that. When Veronika Sediva, a 32-year-old consultant, visited the passport office in Prague two…

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Added on: 03/23/2019

M5S leader Di Maio distances party from ‘medieval’ anti-LGBT conference

03/20/2019

Italy’s co-deputy prime minister and governing Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio has slammed his coalition partner the League party as “medieval” for its support…

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Added on: 03/22/2019

Loud and proud at Arab summit

03/21/2019

Luxembourg’s openly gay prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has boldly condemned Arab countries’ conduct towards LGBT individuals – much to their dismay. Leaders from Arab countries were taken…

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Added on: 03/21/2019

Multiple Birmingham Schools Refuse to Teach LGBTI and Diversity Lessons After Parents Protest

03/20/2019

Another four schools in Birmingham have reportedly halted lessons on diversity and LGBT issues following complaints by parents. In a letter quoted by the BBC, Leigh Trust said it was…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

Turkish Police Officer Suspended for Being Gay – DW

03/18/2019

A Turkish police officer in the eastern city of Van has been suspended from duty because he is gay, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Sunday. It all…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

Northern Ireland Equal Marriage Activists: UK Government ‘doesn’t care’

03/18/2019

Activists have accused the UK government of “not caring” about equal marriage in Northern Ireland, after a car crash meeting with Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley. Karen…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Russian court jails top Chechen rights activist for 4 years

03/18/2019

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a top Chechen rights activist to four years in a penal colony after a drugs trial that has drawn condemnation from…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Rainbow Rage: Kyrgyz Rail Against LGBT Community After Central Asia’s ‘First’ Gay-Pride March

03/16/2019

What many consider the first gay-pride march ever held in Central Asia has unleashed a storm of controversy in Kyrgyzstan, with threats of violence against participants, counterprotests,…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Germany pays compensation to people investigated under anti-gay laws

03/13/2019

Germany has begun offering compensation to men who faced criminal investigations under historical anti-gay laws. The country extended compensation for LGBT+ people who faced oppression under authorities…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Poland’s Ruling Chief Speaks Strongly Against LGBT Rights

03/16/2019

The leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party used hostile language Saturday while speaking against rights for LGBT persons, a subject that has risen to prominence in his…

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Added on: 03/17/2019

Authorities cancel activist youth festival in Russia’s Far East

03/15/2019

An activist youth arts festival in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East has been cancelled after authorities raised concerns that it was promoting an LGBT agenda, apparently…

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Added on: 03/17/2019

LGBT attitudes in Wales: ‘Huge distance’ travelled in 30 years

03/15/2019

Lisa Power, who lives in Cardiff, was the first openly LGBT person to speak on gay rights at the UN and has been a campaigner for decades….

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Added on: 03/16/2019

Poland’s ruling party picks LGBT rights as election battlefront

03/15/2019

Poland’s ruling nationalist party aims to stem a decline in its popularity ahead of two key elections this year with warnings that opposition support for LGBT education…

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Added on: 03/15/2019

Dutch priest who petitioned for pro-LGBT ‘rainbow crossing’ in front of basilica withdraws petition

03/12/2019

Fr. Maickel Prasing, the Dutch priest who launched an online petition for a rainbow crossing to be placed in front of the Catholic Basilica of Oudenbosch, Brabant,…

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Added on: 03/13/2019

Poland’s ruling party launches attack on LGBT community at party convention

03/11/2019

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has launched an attack on gay rights as part of its election strategy ahead of European elections in May and…

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Added on: 03/11/2019

Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus ‘face sexual violence, forced marriage, and murder’

03/07/2019

Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus face attempts to ‘cure’ them, beatings, rape, forced marriages, and murder, according to a recent report interviewing a number of queer…

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Added on: 03/11/2019

Italian lesbian reveals years of corrective rape by father

03/08/2019

A 23-year-old Italian woman has spoken out about the years of sexual assault she suffered at the hands of her father, who attempted to “correct” her sexuality….

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Added on: 03/09/2019

71% of LGBT voters would choose Remain in a second Brexit referendum

03/06/2019

LGBT voters could decide the outcome of a second Brexit referendum, a YouGov poll found. A January 2019 survey showed that, if there is a new public…

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Added on: 03/07/2019

Chechnya’s Gay Purge: A Timeline of the Atrocities

03/04/2019

The world has been aware for the last couple of years that LGBT people in Chechnya face arrest and persecution. But what exactly is happening in the…

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Added on: 03/06/2019

London HIV Patient Becomes World’s Second AIDS Cure Hope

03/05/2019

An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from…