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ADDED ON: 03/11/2023

Kenyan launches LGBTQ crackdown in schools

The Ministry of Education in Kenya has initiated a campaign to address the perceived infiltration of LGBTQ advocacy in schools. The new strategy will see the government establish chaplaincies in schools, minister…

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ADDED ON: 03/11/2023

An LGBTQ revolution in India sets the pace for global change

Aditi Anand and Susan Dias want to get married in India, and they’re willing to fight for it. For more than a decade, the couple put in the hard work of building…

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ADDED ON: 03/11/2023

Uganda bill could criminalise identifying as LGBTQ

Uganda's parliament on Thursday took up a bill that would criminalise identifying as LGBTQ, with lawmakers saying the current ban on same-sex relations does not go far enough. Anti-LGBTQ sentiment is deeply…

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ADDED ON: 03/10/2023

Bosnia Women Rights Marchers Attacked in Banja Luka Over LGBT Flag

Participants in the 12th annual women’s right protest on March 8 in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, were verbally and then physically…

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ADDED ON: 03/10/2023

Right-wing media rally behind Michael Knowles’ eliminationist anti-trans rhetoric

Daily Wire pundit Michael Knowles has spent the past week pushing eliminationist rhetoric about transgender people. It began on his show, where on February 27 he said “transgenderism” had to be “ban[ned] entirely” and…

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ADDED ON: 03/10/2023

Hungary vows to fight in EU court to defend anti-LGBT law

BUDAPEST, March 9 (Reuters) - Hungary's Justice Minister said late on Wednesday that Budapest would fight in the Court of Justice of the EU to defend an education law that Brussels says…

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ADDED ON: 03/10/2023

Zambia: Four arrested for “championing homosexuality”

The arrest of four women in Zambia for holding a march against gender-based violence (GBV) that police say was used to “champion homosexuality” has sparked a wave of dangerous homophobic vitriol. The…

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ADDED ON: 03/09/2023

Hungary vows to defend its cruel anti-LGBTQ+ law after EU legal challenge: ‘We will not surrender’

Hungary plans to fight the Court of Justice of the European Union to defend its controversial anti-LGBTQ+ law. The country’s Child Protection Act, which was passed with just one dissenting vote in June…

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ADDED ON: 03/09/2023

Burundi court charges 24 for ‘homosexual practices’

Burundian police arrested 17 men and seven women on February 23 ,2023, at a seminar in the country’s political capital Gitega hosted by MUCO Burundi, a non-profit organisation that focuses on HIV/Aids.…

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ADDED ON: 03/09/2023

Zambia Police Arrest Feminist NGO Leaders, Accuse Them of Promoting Homosexuality

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — Zambia's government said it will not tolerate the promotion of LGBTQ rights, saying such rights are against the country's Christian values. The warning came a day after police arrested four…

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ADDED ON: 03/09/2023

Anti-LGBTQ bills filed in states this year rapidly approaching 400 – already more than in all of 2022: ACLU

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is tracking 385 anti-LGBTQ bills filed by lawmakers across 38 states targeting the vulnerable community on at least seven broad issues including schools and education, healthcare, free speech,…

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ADDED ON: 03/08/2023

Queerarchy, a store celebrating queer community, opens in north downtown Omaha

A group of kids, some with lime green and red balloons bobbing up and down, sat on a rug in front of Rowena Bennett for story time. As the kids squirmed and…

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