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Added on: 06/01/2020

Families are major source of abuse for gay women, trans people, report says

Reuters
05/31/2020
Family members are often the main perpetrators of abuse against lesbians, bisexual women and transgender people, according to a major global report published on Monday. The study…
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Added on: 05/30/2020

Fact check: The LGBTQ community is not adding “P” to their acronym

Reuters
05/29/2020
Social media users have been sharing posts online that falsely imply the LGBTQ community is accepting of “pedosexuals”. There are different versions of the posts, but most…
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Added on: 05/24/2020

K-Quarantine: The Condemnation or Resurgence of LGBTQ Rights in South Korea

The Diplomat
05/23/2020
The United States and South Korea sit on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the successful containment of COVID-19. As South Korea enters its…
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Added on: 05/22/2020

No medicine, no food: Coronavirus restrictions amplify health risks to LGBT+ people with HIV

Reuteres
05/22/2020
It started with headaches then came nausea and diarrhea. Within two weeks, gay Ugandan barber Eric had became so weak without his HIV medication he could not…
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Added on: 05/22/2020

Over half of LGBTQ Europeans are not out about their identities, report finds

NBC News
05/21/2020
Six in 10 gay and lesbian Europeans avoid holding hands with same-sex partners in public, and over half of LGBTQ people in Europe are almost never open…
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Added on: 05/19/2020

Iraqi leader who blames coronavirus on same-sex marriage demands Islamic flag is raised across UK and EU to counter-protest Pride flag

Pink News
05/18/2020
Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who is head of the Sadrist Movement and the Saraya al-Salam militia, said in March: “One of the most appalling things that…
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Added on: 05/19/2020

Coronavirus causing a humanitarian crisis for LGBT+ people around the world

Gay Star News
05/18/2020
LGBT+ people around the world are facing a humanitarian crisis. And COVID-19 risks decimating the organizations they rely on for support. UK-based international LGBT+ charity, the Kaleidoscope…
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Added on: 05/18/2020

‘Safe But Not Safe’: Life As a Gay Man Between China and New Zealand

Sixth Tone
05/17/2020
Arriving in New Zealand to start my doctorate in 2017, I immediately sensed it was a more welcoming environment for LGBT people than my home country. On…
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Added on: 05/18/2020

Map Shows Where It’s Illegal To Be Gay – 30 Years Since WHO Declassified Homosexuality As Disease

Forbes
05/17/2020
It’s still illegal to be LGBT+ in 70 countries, and you could be given the death penalty in 12, as the world marks 30 years since “homosexuality”…
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Added on: 05/17/2020

May 17 Is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia

Voice of America
05/16/2020
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. First observed in 2004, the day was designed to focus “attention on the violence and discrimination experienced…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

Why banning anti-LGBT ‘conversion therapy’ isn’t enough

Open Democracy
05/14/2020
Lawmakers around the world have proposed new legislation to ban ‘conversion therapy’ – attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In Canada, for example,…
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Added on: 05/10/2020

Radical Russian Imperial Movement Expanding Global Outreach

Voice of America
05/09/2020
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a white supremacist group based in St. Petersburg, is increasingly expanding its outreach beyond Russia through the establishment of transnational networks with…
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Added on: 05/10/2020

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

Business Insider
05/09/2020
In February, 27-year-old Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples, 26, became the first gay couple to legally marry in Northern Ireland. The country is the world’s latest to…
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Added on: 05/09/2020

LGBT groups launch petition to allow cross-national same-sex marriage

Focus Taiwan
05/08/2020
Scores of volunteers from LGBT groups in Taiwan embarked on a signature campaign Saturday to petition the government on laws that restrict same-sex marriage between couples from…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

Muslim LGBT ‘Allies’ Silent as Muslim Attacks on Gays Increase

Algemeiner
05/04/2020
There’s a new slur trending in Turkey these days aimed at the LGBTQ population: “#YallahHollandaya” or “Go to Holland.” The expression reflects the Netherlands’ longstanding acceptance of…
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Added on: 05/02/2020

Brazil’s president accuses World Health Organization of turning kids gay

LGBTQ Nation
05/01/2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of trying to turn children gay in a series of bizarre claims on Facebook. He later deleted…
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Added on: 05/02/2020

Groups Express Grave Concern about the Commission on Unalienable Rights

Human Rights Watch
05/01/2020
As human rights organizations, scholars, defenders and activists, we the 167 undersigned, write to express our grave concern about the work of the U.S. State Department’s Commission…
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Added on: 04/28/2020

EU urged to act as Hungary’s far-right government moves to end legal recognition of trans people

The Independent
04/27/2020
The European Union has been urged to take action against the Hungarian government as it moves to push through “discriminatory” legalisation that would end the legal recognition…
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Added on: 04/26/2020

We’re Still Picking up the Pieces of the Last Crisis

Jacobin Magazine
04/25/2020
At this point there can be only one priority: to overcome the public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As economist James Meadway has described, in…
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Added on: 04/15/2020

Pandemic Hits Sexual and Reproductive Health Efforts Worldwide

Filter Mag
04/14/2020
Children may be less vulnerable to COVID-19, but the pandemic is disrupting their access to sexual and reproductive health worldwide. Schools are closed, community clinics are shut…
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Added on: 04/11/2020

Could Lessons From The Early Fight Against AIDS Inform The Coronavirus Response?

NPR
04/10/2020
AIDS began as a frightening medical mystery, with clustered outbreaks in California and New York City. Dr. Paul Volberding, who later helped San Francisco General Hospital open…
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Added on: 04/10/2020

UNAIDS condemns misuse and abuse of emergency powers to target marginalized and vulnerable populations

UNAIDS
04/09/2020
UNAIDS is deeply concerned by reports that the COVID-19 epidemic is being used as an excuse to target marginalized and vulnerable populations, restrict civil society space and…
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Added on: 04/09/2020

Asians mobilize in face of coronavirus-related racism

Bay Area Reporter
04/08/2020
LGBT Asians around the world are fighting back in the face of coronavirus-inspired racist attacks against Asians. “Obviously, there has always been racism toward the Asian community,…
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Added on: 04/07/2020

‘Social distancing’ is how LGBT people have always had to live

Erasing 76 Crimes
04/06/2020
As news reports with dire predictions about Covid-19 began to multiply exponentially, I quickly realized that the inevitable physical distancing required and resulting social isolation was not…
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Added on: 04/07/2020

Top Americas court finds Peru responsible for torture of trans woman

Reuters
04/06/2020
The top human rights court in the Americas has found Peru responsible for the arbitrary detention and rape of a transgender woman in a landmark case marking…
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Added on: 04/03/2020

Asylum seeker beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by his own dad finally told he deserves refuge

Pink News
04/02/2020
A gay asylum seeker from Ghana who was beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by a homophobic mob led by his own dad has been…
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Added on: 04/02/2020

Are people living with HIV more at risk from coronavirus?

Thomson Reuters Foundation
04/01/2020
As coronavirus sweeps the world, many people living with HIV are asking whether their status counts as an underlying condition and makes them more at risk. Many…
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Added on: 04/01/2020

ANNOUNCING AIDS 2020: VIRTUAL

International AIDS Society
03/31/2020
The health and safeguarding of our community is our highest priority. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020), to be held…
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Added on: 04/01/2020

LGBT+ marches unite in first online Global Pride due to coronavirus

Reuters
04/01/2020
Organisations running LGBT+ Pride marches around the world have joined forces to hold the first online Global Pride event in June after hundreds of real-life gatherings were…
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Added on: 03/26/2020

Global LGBT organizations mobilize in face of pandemic

Bay Area Reporter
03/25/2020
Global LGBT organizations are responding to the impact of the coronavirus as they work to protect some of the most vulnerable queer people. There have been 19,753…
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