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Added on: 03/16/2019

LGBT Brazilians’ Mental Health Plummets With Anti-Gay President

03/13/2019

When the proudly homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January, LGBT community members were worried their rights would be taken away. Two months later, watchdog groups…

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Added on: 03/13/2019

Two Brazilian police arrested over killing of activist Marielle Franco

03/11/2019

Two police officers were arrested Tuesday in the killing of Rio city councilor and black gay rights activist Marielle Franco, prosecutors said, almost a year to the…

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Added on: 03/12/2019

Trump to host Brazil’s anti-gay president Jair Bolsonaro at White House

03/09/2019

Donald Trump has invited Brazil’s anti-LGBT president Jair Bolsonaro to the White House. The far-right Brazilian leader, who holds extreme anti-LGBT beliefs, will meet with Trump at…

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Added on: 03/07/2019

Brazilians Demand Answers for Marielle Franco’s Murder at Rio Carnival

03/05/2019

Nearly a year after the still-unsolved murder of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and LGBT activist Marielle Franco, Brazilian revellers have used their country’s annual carnival to demand answers….

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Added on: 03/02/2019

Don’t mess with my kids: Why Argentina still doesn’t have comprehensive sex education

03/01/2019

Sex education is a tricky topic all over the world. When is too early to teach it? When is too late? But, in Latin America, throw in…

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Added on: 02/26/2019

Story of a trans man who suffers Brazil’s hostile environment to LGBTQ

02/25/2019

Growing up in an evangelical Christian family in Brazil, life was pretty tough for Ariel Nobre. Designated female at birth, the 31-year-old transgender man was sent to…

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Added on: 02/25/2019

Colombia’s ‘Madonna’ helps LGBTQ people fleeing Venezuela

02/21/2019

Gusts of hot desert wind drift through the broken window, shattered by a stone, in the house that Madonna Badillo shares with seven Venezuelan sex workers. Badillo…

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Added on: 02/22/2019

Ex-child soldier fights for trans rights in Colombia

02/21/2019

When Colombia’s FARC guerrillas turned up at the home of Cristian Camilo Gonzalez nearly two decades ago and shoved him into a truck when he was just…

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Added on: 02/14/2019

Top Brazilian Court to Decide Key Homophobia Cases

02/12/2019

Brazil’s supreme court is expected to rule Wednesday on a pair of cases that could determine whether homophobia and transphobia should be considered criminal offenses. The cases,…

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Added on: 02/13/2019

Bolsonaro Regime to Remove Brazilian Textbook References to Feminism and Homosexuality

02/12/2019

Brazil‘s president and his senior officials have vowed to revise school textbooks to remove references to feminism, homosexuality and violence against women. Jair Bolsonaro has also said he wants the…

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Added on: 02/12/2019

What Does The Crisis In Venezuela Mean For LGBTQ People?

02/09/2019

Venezuela’s long-running political crisis appears to be reaching a critical point. President Nicolás Maduro is still holding onto power, but there is growing international support to recognize Juan…

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Added on: 02/10/2019

Brazil education overhaul aims at ousting ‘Marxist ideology’, LGBT and gender movements

02/06/2019

President Jair Bolsonaro is taking his anti-leftist ideological war to Brazil’s classrooms and universities, causing angst among teachers and education officials who say the government wants to…

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Added on: 02/08/2019

Bringing Pride to Banbury

02/07/2019

A small group of first-time event organisers are planning to literally put the Pride into Banbury this summer. Banbury Pride, a LGBT community group is in the…

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Added on: 02/06/2019

‘Boy Erased’ Erased from Brazilian Cinemas

02/04/2019

A decision by distributors not to release a film about gay conversion therapy has stirred controversy in Brazil and provoked dismay among the country’s LGBT activists. Boy…

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Added on: 01/30/2019

Gay congressman who fled Brazil will be replaced by another gay politician

01/29/2019

Gay congressman Jean Wyllys, who fled Brazil in fear of his life, will be replaced by another gay politician. Wyllys, a pioneering gay politician in the country,…

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Added on: 01/25/2019

Gay congressman flees Brazil, citing death threats

01/24/2019

A prominent gay congressman in Brazil announced on Thursday that he was leaving his job and fleeing the country because of increased death threats made against him. Jean Wyllys, the country’s first openly…

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Added on: 01/24/2019

Apple and Microsoft CEOs Tim Cook and Satya Nadella Were Pictured at Dinner with Brazil’s Far-Right President in Davos

01/23/2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella were seen at the same dinner table as Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in a picture that surfaced on Twitter….

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Court Decisions on LGBT Rights Echo ‘A Wild Wish’

01/17/2019

More than two centuries ago Mary Wollstonecraft laid the foundations for feminist thought with a simple premise: lack of equal opportunity diminished individual self-worth and hobbled social…

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Added on: 01/15/2019

Here’s why some gay Brazilians support their country’s rabidly anti-LGBTQ president

01/13/2019

In his first week in office, newly elected Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started actions to roll back LGBTQ rights. So it was only a matter of time before…

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Added on: 01/15/2019

Countries that allow gay people to serve in army

01/12/2019

Months after Supreme Court decriminalised consensual gay sex between adults, Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat has reignited the debate around gay rights by insisting that homosexuality is…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Gay men tortured and beaten in seperate homophobic attacks in Chile

01/04/2019

Two men in Chile have been violently attacked and tortured in two seperate homophobic attacks already this year. One man had his head held under hot water…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Life of a gay migrant: Racism exists in the LGBT community too

01/05/2019

Ireland may be known as the land of céad míle fáilte, but a report in the last months of 2018 suggests more needs to be done to…

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Added on: 01/03/2019

Brazil’s New President Removes LGBTI Concerns from Human Rights Ministry

01/02/2019

Brazil’s new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro removed concerns regarding the LGBTI community from being considered by a new human rights ministry hours after his inauguration, part of…

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Added on: 01/01/2019

Trans woman shot 11 times on way to the gym in Brazil

12/30/2018

A transgender woman was shot 11 times and killed on her way to the gym in Brazil. Nicolly Banks, 26, walked down Liopino Lourenço de Araújo street in Uberlândia, Triângulo Mineiro,…

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Added on: 12/31/2018

Fun and interesting things LGBT+ science taught us in 2018

12/30/2018

Among various topics worth intellectual consideration, LGBT+ science and research in 2018 gave us a better understanding of gender identity, sexual desire and same-sex reproduction. In the…

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Added on: 12/30/2018

Watch – Marielle and Monica: the LGBT activists resisting Bolsonaro’s Brazil

12/28/2018

Marielle Franco, Brazilian LGBT and human rights activist, was killed in March 2018. Her widow, Monica Benicio, continued her fight for better treatment of the poor, the…

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Added on: 12/29/2018

Guyana bisexual seeks to become Anglican priest

12/26/2018

Family and God are priorities of Marvin Junior Livan, an openly bisexual citizen of Guyana who aspires to become an Anglican priest. “I knew I was bisexual…

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Added on: 12/29/2018

Meet the lesbian prisoner who won apology from Colombian government

12/29/2018

Marta Álvarez was subjected to almost a decade of abuse and humiliation because of her sexuality. The lesbian activist spent nine years in a Colombian prison and experienced a…

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Added on: 12/18/2018

Colombia hands down first conviction for murder of trans woman

12/18/2018

A court has handed down Colombia’s first conviction for the murder of a transsexual woman. In the sentence dated Dec 3 and published Monday (Dec 17), a…

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Added on: 12/18/2018

Beautiful photos from Brazil’s mass same-sex wedding ceremony

12/17/2018

Dozens of same-sex couples tied the knot Saturday at a mass gay wedding ceremony in São Paulo, Brazil. Many LGBTI people in the South American country are fearful…