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Added on: 12/05/2021

Watch Botswana’s queer community rejoice as cruel bid to re-criminalise gay sex fails

12/5/21

The LGBT+ community in Botswana, and indeed around the world, breathed a huge sigh of relief on Monday (29 November) after the country’s Court of Appeal upheld…

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Added on: 12/05/2021

Lewis Hamilton condemns ‘terrifying’ LGBTQ+ laws before Saudi Arabian GP

12/2/21

Lewis Hamilton has said he is not comfortable competing in Saudi Arabia given its repressive laws regarding the LGBTQ+ community. Speaking before this weekend’s grand prix in…

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Added on: 12/05/2021

Why Viktor Orbán is fighting a war against ‘LGBT ideology’

12/4/21

‘Do you support the unrestricted presentation of sexual media content that influences the development of underage children?’ In a national referendum likely to be held in the…

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Added on: 12/04/2021

Court seeks interpretation over transgender ID suit

12/3/21

The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday sought a constitutional interpretation regarding a lawsuit filed by a transgender woman seeking to change the gender identification on her…

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Added on: 12/04/2021

Could Denmark be on the verge of having its first LGBT PM? The bookies certainly think so

12/3/21

It won’t be a big deal should Konservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen become this country’s first gay prime minister – or at least not by Nordic standards….

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Added on: 12/04/2021

Former Owner of Moscow Gay Club Brings BK’s Russian-Speaking Queer Community Together

12/3/21

Three years ago this week, Leo Allenby arrived in New York, leaving Russia after an attack left him with injuries so severe he required surgery. As the…

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Added on: 12/04/2021

As anti-LGBTI abuses worsen in Cameroon, even the government admits it

12/3/21

Cameroon says lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are increasingly becoming victims of violence and brutality. The central African state’s government made the comment this week…

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Added on: 12/03/2021

Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQ Bill Risks Hurting Its Democratic Credentials

12/2/2021

(Bloomberg) — When it comes to cracking down on the LGBTQ community, not much separates Ghana’s two main political parties. A lawmaker from the ruling party has…

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Added on: 12/03/2021

China’s queer internet is being erased

12/2/2021

For Mei, logging into the WeChat account for his queer student society was habitual, like eating or sleeping. For six years, he helped run one of China’s…

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Added on: 12/03/2021

Bisexual goddess and anti-Nazi fighter Josephine Baker given one of France’s highest honours

12/2/2021

French-American cabaret star and civil rights activist Josephine Baker has become the first Black woman to enter the Panthéon, nearly 50 years after her death. The bisexual…

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Added on: 12/02/2021

Chile lawmakers set to approve same-sex marriage bill

12/1/2021

Santiago (AFP) – Chile’s parliament is set to approve a long-awaited bill to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday, joining just a handful of countries in majority Catholic Latin America…

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Added on: 12/02/2021

Canada’s House of Commons approves bill to ban LGBT conversion therapy

12/1/2021

OTTAWA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Canada’s House of Commons on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban LGBT conversion therapy, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or…

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Added on: 12/02/2021

Same-sex couple fights for right to marry in India

12/1/2021

NEW DELHI – Swept up in a whirlwind romance after meeting at a Bollywood party in Mumbai, Saattvic and Gaurav Bhatti dreamed of celebrating their love with a…

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Added on: 12/02/2021

Hungary approves national referendum on Russia-style ‘gay propaganda’ law

12/1/2021

Hungary will head to the polls to vote on LGBTQ+ rights in 2022 after its parliament approved a nationwide referendum on its controversial “gay propaganda” law. On Tuesday,…

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Added on: 12/01/2021

Qatar 2022 chief says fans from LGBT community are ‘welcome’

11/30/2021

The chief executive of Qatar 2022 has attempted to assure football fans from the LGBT community they will be welcomed at next year’s World Cup in the…

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Added on: 12/01/2021

Five LGBTQ & two-spirit Native American people who are making the world a better place

11/30/2021

As Native American Heritage Month comes to a close, we wanted to honor some of the many LGBTQ and two-spirit Native American people working every day to…

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Added on: 12/01/2021

Anti-LGBTQ bill doesn’t criminalise intersex — Sam George

11/30/2021

Samuel Nartey George, the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, and lead Sponsor of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, has refuted claims…

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Added on: 12/01/2021

Hungary’s parliament approves referendum on LGBT issues

11/30/2021

Hungary’s parliament authorized the government Tuesday to call a national referendum on LGBT issues, the latest in a series of steps by the country’s nationalist leaders that…

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Added on: 12/01/2021

Chile makes history with election of first-ever trans person to its legislature

11/30/2021

Chile has made history by electing the first-ever transgender official to its legislature during the 2021 parliamentary elections. Emilia Schneider, a transgender woman and activist, received 26,000…

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Added on: 11/30/2021

Rural town elects Bangladesh’s first transgender mayor

11/30/2021

A small town in Bangladesh has elected the country’s first transgender mayor after the 45-year-old independent candidate beat her ruling party rival in a landslide, officials said…

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Added on: 11/30/2021

Botswana appeals court upholds ruling that decriminalised gay sex

11/30/2021

Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, a decision hailed by gay community as establishing the southern African country as…

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Added on: 11/30/2021

Tomas Diafas — Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Greece

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Can you start by telling me a bit more about the Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival? What led to its foundation back in 2018? The festival’s creation was…

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Added on: 11/30/2021

Aritha Wickramasinghe — Equality Director at iProbono, Sri Lanka

Phillip Baumgart

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How did you initially become involved in activism? I was passionate about human rights from a young age. Yet, I was primarily focused on child abuse and…

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Added on: 11/29/2021

China’s LGBTIQ+ movement is under attack. But international support can be a double-edged sword

11/28/2021

People often ask me what it’s like to be queer or trans in China. It was the number one question I encountered when I returned to Melbourne…

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Added on: 11/29/2021

One step forward, two steps back

11/28/2021

Once again, those waiting on news of marriage equality in Thailand were met with disappointment. Let’s talk about Section 1448 of the Civil and Commercial Code first….

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Added on: 11/29/2021

How a Seattle man became a lifeline for persecuted LGBTQ people in other countries

11/28/2021

Michael Failla doesn’t get much sleep. In the dead of the night, the Seattle resident gets panicked calls and messages from members of the LGBTQ community in…

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Added on: 11/29/2021

Cameroon Says Citizens Abuse LGBTI People

11/28/2021

YAOUNDÉ — Cameroon says lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are increasingly becoming victims of violence and brutality. The central African state’s government made the comment this…

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Added on: 11/28/2021

Elderly gay couple forced from Toowoomba home by abuse

11/28/2021

An elderly gay couple will sell up and leave their Toowoomba home following homophobic abuse. Bruce Gardiner told the Toowoomba Chronicle that he and husband Derek suffered…

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Added on: 11/28/2021

Dutch government apologizes for discredited transgender law

11/27/21

The Dutch government made a public apology Saturday for a now discredited and scrapped law that required transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilization if they wanted…

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Added on: 11/28/2021

Brazilian film traces suffering of LGBTQIA community in 1980

11/27/21

The 52nd International Film Festival of India (Iffi) saw the Asian premiere of a film on the LGBTQIA community, ‘The First Fallen’, by Brazilian filmmaker Rodrigo de…