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Added on: 06/14/2019
06/13/2019
As Japanese lawmakers grapple with a landmark same-sex marriage bill, campaigners fear it may die at the first legislative hurdle as lawmakers pander to aging voters and…
Added on: 06/14/2019
06/13/2019
Swaziland should follow the example of its near-neighbour Botswana and decriminalise gay sex. The kingdom, also known as eSwatini, has much in common with Botswana. Both were…
Added on: 06/14/2019
06/14/2019
Mexico City’s Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced on June 3 that children in Mexico City would be allowed to choose the uniform they wear to school. The policy…
Added on: 06/14/2019
06/13/2019
Ecuador’s decision to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBT+ rights after Botswana decriminalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do…
Added on: 06/13/2019
06/12/2019
On a late May afternoon, the Bigtboys soccer team played its first match, a friendly game on a flood-lit neighborhood pitch bordered by chain-link fencing. With only…
Added on: 06/13/2019
06/12/2019
LGBTI rights advocates in Samoa are protesting against the censoring of the Elton John biopic Rocketman. Samoa’s only cinema revealed the ban on Friday on its Facebook…
Added on: 06/13/2019
06/12/2019
Bermuda’s first march to celebrate gay pride is to be held this summer. LGBTQ people and same-sex marriage campaigners said the Bermuda Pride event would help to…
Added on: 06/13/2019
06/12/2019
Malaysia’s Economic Affairs Minister Azmin Ali rejected claims he was in a gay sex video that went viral earlier this week, and vowed to expose those behind…
Added on: 06/13/2019
11/12/2019
When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif faced questions from foreign journalists on Monday in Tehran after a meeting with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, he may…
Added on: 06/12/2019
06/11/2019
A gang of thugs reportedly kidnapped and tortured a transgender woman in Mardan, Pakistan, shaving off her hair after she refused to give them money. Shakeela claims…
Added on: 06/12/2019
06/11/2019
In March, a member of the Russian senate asked the prosecutor general to look into the issue of yoga in pretrial detention. Yoga classes, organized on the…
Added on: 06/12/2019
06/11/2019
Scores of LGBT+ refugees are in desperate need of emergency shelter after facing homophobic threats, violence and eviction warnings from community members in a Nairobi slum, the…