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Added on: 03/24/2020

Five Ways COVID-19 Impacts Global LGBTQ Advocacy

03/23/2020

COVID-19 continues to disrupt everyday work life for a growing majority of Americans. As an advocate for global LGBTQ equality, that disruption feels even more acute, with…

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Added on: 03/23/2020

‘Unresolved grief’: coronavirus presents eerie parallels for many Aids advocates

03/22/020

Because of the coronavirus, the 7 million people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area have been one step shy of a full lockdown since Tuesday….

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Added on: 03/21/2020

Do you need to take PrEP every day if you’re self-isolating because of coronavirus?

03/20/2020

If coronavirus-related self-isolation means you won’t be getting any for a while, the advice is that it’s safe to alter your PrEP routine. Here’s how. Amid the…

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Added on: 03/21/2020

Global Methodist conference in Minneapolis to address LGBT inclusion is postponed

03/20/2020

A historic meeting of the global United Methodist Church — one in which its future position on LGBT clergy and marriage was expected to be determined —…

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Added on: 03/19/2020

‘It’s not safe for them’: Coronavirus lockdowns putting LGBT+ people at risk across Middle East

03/18/2020

Coronavirus-induced isolation and lockdowns are putting LGBT+ people in the Middle East at risk, campaigners have warned. Many individuals are – or, due to money worries, fear…

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Added on: 03/13/2020

Ghana bans LGBT+ conference after Christian groups protest

03/12/2020

Ghana’s government has said it will not allow a major gathering of LGBT+ activists to go ahead after an outcry from conservative Christian groups in the country….

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Added on: 03/13/2020

Advocates: Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted at ICE Site

03/12/2020

A transgender woman seeking asylum should be released after she was sexually assaulted and harassed while being detained in an Arizona immigration facility with men for nine…

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Added on: 03/12/2020

LGBT+ community at heightened risk of coronavirus, groups warn

03/11/2020

More than 100 LGBT+ rights groups on Wednesday called on U.S. public health officials to address the heightened vulnerability of gay and trans people to the coronavirus,…

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Added on: 03/11/2020

Miami Mayor to Honor Brazil’s Anti-LGBT, Climate-Change-Denying President

03/10/2020

Miami politicians, quite reasonably, do not like communists. But Miami Mayor Francis Suarez apparently has no problem with raging right-wingers who hate LGBTQ people, heap praise on…

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Added on: 03/10/2020

Africa’s policies hold key to LGBT rights on the continent: here’s how

03/09/2020

Questions of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression have continued to divide opinion across the globe. This is primarily driven by legal, cultural and religious beliefs…

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Added on: 03/01/2020

25 wedding photos show the very first LGBT couples to marry in their countries and the stories behind them

03/01/2020

Every wedding is an important day. But some marriages make history — such as the unions that signal a country’s acceptance of LGBT rights for the first…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

As survivors speak out, 9 countries seek to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’

02/26/2020

From electric shocks to ‘praying away the gay’, global momentum is growing to ban so-called “conversion therapy”, with bills drawn up in nine countries, a rights group…

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Added on: 02/26/2020

From fines to imprisonment: What are penalties for homophobia in different countries?

02/25/2020

Recently, Switzerland residents came to a referendum for introducing a law that would punish people for discrimination based on sexual orientation in the country. Many European countries,…

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Added on: 02/26/2020

Acting intelligence head Richard Grenell’s push to decriminalize homosexuality has yielded little

02/25/2020

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

Osaka and Japan’s outreach to LGBT tourism is a model for Ireland to replicate

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: 02/13/2020

Senegal’s leader defends LGBT record during Canada PM visit

02/12/2020

Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Wednesday defended his country’s ban on same-sex activity, saying during a visit from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that it “has nothing…

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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: 02/02/2020

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: 01/29/2020

Lesbians more accepted than gay men around the world, study finds

01/28/2020

A new study exploring the attitudes toward nonheterosexual men and women in 23 Western and non-Western countries found lesbians are more accepted than gay men around the…

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Added on: 01/20/2020

The gayest Davos in history still isn’t gay enough

01/20/2020

The World Economic Forum, which kicks off this week in Davos, prides itself on tackling some of the knottiest issues facing humanity. But on at least one…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

Activists across Africa pay tribute to Aunty Ivy, a pioneer of the African LGBT movement

01/13/2020

The curtain has come down on one of the pioneers of the African LGBTQI+ movement. Emmanuel Kamau or Aunty Ivy as they were popularly known to the…

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Added on: 01/13/2020

AIDS, the Catholic Church and LGBT issues today

01/12/2020

In the series finale of ‘Plague,’ we look at what’s happening in the church in HIV and AIDS care today and then reflects on comments and questions…

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Added on: 01/08/2020

Masculinity is back! The lesbian comics rediscovering their butch side

01/07/2020

Sarah Keyworth has, she says, a “weird kind of relationship with masculinity”. She appears confident in her dapper, boyish looks, with her short quiffed hair, but behind…

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Added on: 01/04/2020

Conservative, liberal Methodists to split over gay marriage

01/03/2020

The United Methodist Church plans to split into two later this year, church officials said on Friday, a schism that follows years of contention over whether the…

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Added on: 01/01/2020

How the U.S. immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart

12/31/2019

After living as an openly gay couple in Honduras, Oscar Juarez Hernandez and Darwin Garcia Portillo thought the United States was the last place where their inability…

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Added on: 01/01/2020

The Top LGBTQ Stories of the Decade

12/31/2019

The decade of the 2010s saw unprecedented steps forward for the LGBTQ community in the U.S., with the winning of the right to marry same-sex partners and…

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Added on: 12/30/2019

Over the rainbow: A life of LGBTQ dignity is within reach

12/29/2019

If someone told Sindhuja in the dying moments of 2009 that a decade later, she would be standing as a full citizen and garnering the adulation of…

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Added on: 12/29/2019

UN official: Past decade has seen human rights `backlash’

12/28/2019

The past decade has seen a backlash against human rights on every front, especially the rights of women and the LGBT communities, according to a top U.N….

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Added on: 12/29/2019

The US Hasn’t Only Stopped Defending LGBTQ Rights Around The World, Now It’s Part Of The Problem

12/29/2019

My first job at BuzzFeed News in 2013 was something of an experiment: We wanted to cover LGBTQ rights worldwide as seriously as we cover wars or…

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Added on: 12/27/2019

From nuns to astronauts: 10 women cracking the glass ceiling in 2019

12/27/2019

Countries around the world have promised gender equality by 2030, but in 2019 a new index showed that even the most advanced nations weren’t doing enough to…