LGBTQ+ year in review: 47 troubling events of 2020

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12/30/2020

The year 2020 had more than its share of grim news for LGBTQ+ people. If you read this summary, you might want to dilute its impact by also reading “LGBTQ+ year in review: 42 examples of good news in 2020”. To read more about any topic, follow the link to the original article in Erasing 76 Crimes or, in several cases, a link to ILGA’s December 2020 update of its State-Sponsored Homophobia report. All these developments occurred in the 72 nations with anti-homosexuality laws.

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