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Added on: 09/16/2021
09/15/2021
New Zealand is on its way to become the land of conquering the impossible, and adding another feather to this cap of victories is its new record…

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09/15/2021
Around a quarter of LGBT school pupils who face bullying at school are actually harassed by teachers and other school staff rather than their classmates, according to…

Global News

Added on: 09/16/2021
09/15/2021
A transgender professor who was denied a promotion more than a decade ago must be reinstated with tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University because the school discriminated…

Global News

Added on: 09/16/2021
The Hong Kong Gay Games have been postponed until November 2023 in view of the current coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions, its organisers have told HKFP. The…

World Voices

Added on: 09/16/2021
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How did you each become involved in LGBTI activism? Matej: I’ve engaged in it more actively for the past couple of years. I didn’t fully unpack my…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
09/14/2021
A scheduled performance at the Balkan Fair in Bursa in Turkey by pop-folk singer Vasil Trojanov Boyanov, better known by his stage name Azis, was cancelled on…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
09/14/2021
People who have a gender identity that differs from the sex assigned at birth are known as transgender. While the term was something many avoided addressing, transgender…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
09/14/2021
The European Union has a dismal track record when it comes to disciplining countries within its ranks. But this month it opened several new fronts in its…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
09/14/2021
For months, a conservative-backed wave of anti-transgender legislation has taken the country by storm, leading this year to have the most anti-LGBTQ laws enacted in American history….

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
A person does not have to undergo complete sex reassignment surgery to be considered as having changed into a man or woman, lawyers for two transgender men…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
A labor ministry office in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, concluded that a transgender hospital worker’s mental health issues were the result of months of being misgendered by other…

Global News

Added on: 09/15/2021
09/13/2021
This article can be read in Korean here. Receiving even the most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in…

Global News

Added on: 09/13/2021
09/12/2021
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a new report, 2021 Change-Makers, highlighting the HRC Foundation All Children-All Families (ACAF) program’s partnership with 119 organizations—a 19 percent…

Global News

Added on: 09/13/2021
09/12/2021
The LGBTQIA+ community is vast—it includes a plus sign for a reason. Identities that have never been represented or celebrated before are now making their way into…

Global News

Added on: 09/13/2021
TORONTO — Two-spirit filmmaker Bretten Hannam says they hope their new film “Wildhood” will inspire and open doors for more movie makers to show the lives Indigenous…

Global News

Added on: 09/12/2021
9/11/21
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer…

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Added on: 09/12/2021
9/12/21
Hundreds of people gathered in central Madrid on Saturday to call for better protection for LGBT rights after a series of homophobic attacks that have shocked Spain…

Global News

Added on: 09/12/2021
9/12/21
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng apologised to the LGBTQIA+ community for a seminar she co-hosted on Sunday, September 4. The seminar,…

Global News

Added on: 09/12/2021
9/12/21
Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by life imprisonment in Uganda, which has some of the strictest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world. Most queer Ugandans survive by staying…

Global News

Added on: 09/11/2021
By the time I have my last day at the end of this week, I will have served as executive director of OutRight Action International for nine…

Global News

Added on: 09/11/2021
More than four decades after Spain lifted laws that made homosexuality illegal and 16 years after becoming a pioneer in the introduction of same-sex marriage, a surge…

Global News

Added on: 09/11/2021
9/11/21
The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button…

Global News

Added on: 09/10/2021
09/10/2021
Camp True Colors, at a woodsy, lakeside retreat just north of Hinckley, Minn., is summer camp with all the trappings. There’s canoeing and archery and tie-dyeing and…

Global News

Added on: 09/10/2021
Hungary won’t repeal a law that critics, including the European Union’s executive, say discriminates against the LGBTQ community, even if that’s the price of accessing billions of…

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Added on: 09/10/2021
09/10/2021
A Buddhist monk has become an unlikely champion of Thailand’s gay and transgender community by lacing his popular live-streamed talk shows with LGBT+ slang, irreverent humour and…

Global News

Added on: 09/09/2021
Sex education is emerging as the next battleground in a U.S. culture war over LGBT+ rights, as some conservative state legislators seek to keep discussion of sexual…

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Added on: 09/09/2021
09/07/2021
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will chair on Friday an urgent meeting of Spain’s commission against hate crimes amid an uproar over a suspected homophobic assault on a…

Global News

Added on: 09/09/2021
Spain’s government has warned about a rise in hate crimes by radical groups after a brutal assault on a gay man by hooded men who carved the…

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Added on: 09/09/2021
09/08/2021
The Guardian has been accused of “censoring” feminist icon Judith Butler after the newspaper deleted part of an interview in which they compared trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs)…

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Added on: 09/09/2021
09/07/2021
Gender diversity organisations have slammed UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng for hosting a social media seminar described as “harmful and hurtful” to the LGBTIQA+ community. Titled, What does…