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Added on: 08/13/2021

Amid continued criminalisation, Uganda endorses LGBT access for HIV treatment

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/11/2021
Despite ongoing criminalization of men who have sex with men and transgender people, the government of Uganda is attempting to include them in national plans for the…
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Added on: 08/13/2021

LGBT+ students ‘scared’ after campus pride flag replaced with Confederate symbols

The Independent
08/11/2021
A rainbow pride flag was removed from a religious centre at the campus of Virginia Tech university and replaced with confederate flags, an incident that has left…
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Added on: 08/13/2021

Meet trans beauty queen Nguyen Huong Giang, Vietnamese Miss International Queen winner and advocate for LGBT rights

South China Morning Post
08/09/2021
Nguyen made waves again in 2018 when she was crowned the first Vietnamese winner of the prestigious Miss International Queen, the world’s biggest annual beauty pageant for…
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Added on: 08/11/2021

Video Captures Vicious Homophobic Attack in Cameroon

Human Rights Watch
08/10/2021
A brutal attack on two transgender women in Cameroon occurred just weeks after a court ordered the women, Shakiro and Patricia, released from prison pending their appeal…
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Added on: 08/11/2021

Russian MP who wants gays to be ‘sterilised’ and kept in shelters like cats slapped down by human rights council

Pink News
08/10/2021
Anti-LGBT+ Russian MP Vitaly Milonov has been reprimanded by the country’s Human Rights Council after he called for gays to be “sterilised” and kept in shelters like…
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Added on: 08/11/2021

Bosnian Religious Group to Protest Against Sarajevo LGBT Pride

Balkan Insight
08/10/2021
Vjera Narod Drzava (Faith People State), a recently-founded Muslim political campaign group, has announced that it will stage an “anti-LGBTIQ” protest during the Sarajevo Pride parade on…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

Pride Uganda Will Happen Despite COVID-19 and Homophobia

Kuchu Times
08/09/2021
Outright International has shared a document that they believe will highlight Countries that either celebrate or have a semblance of Pride celebration around the world. According to…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

South Korea: Lawmakers must seize chance to pass landmark anti-discrimination act

Amnesty International
08/09/2021
Responding to the introduction of yet another bill that seeks to forbid discrimination across South Korean society, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, Suki…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

Dozens Protest Against Planned LGBT Event In Kazakhstan’s Aqtobe

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
08/09/2021
AQTOBE, Kazakhstan — More than 100 people have protested in Kazakhstan’s northwestern city of Aqtobe against an event planned by LGBT activists. The protesters said at the…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

US Census starts asking sexual orientation, gender identity questions

Q Voice News
08/08/2021
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday that its Household Pulse Survey is now asking respondents their sexual orientation and gender identity in addition to their sex. The…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

Amsterdam substitutes ‘Pride Walk’ for canal parade in 25th anniversary of Gay Pride

Jakarta Post
08/08/2021
Amsterdam capped a month of events commemorating the 25th anniversary of its first Gay Pride festival with a “Pride Walk” through the city’s historic centre on Saturday…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

Argentina Goes Further To Protect LGBTQ Rights With New Law On Trans Employment

National Public Radio
08/08/2021
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to reporter Daniel Politi in Buenos Aires about new Argentine laws designed to help trans people find employment. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: For years,…
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Added on: 08/09/2021

Indonesia’s trans women pushed to the brink during COVID pandemic

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
08/08/2021
After catching the coronavirus, Jenny Mikha was faced with a choice: go out on the streets to find food, and infect more people, or starve. Like many…
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Added on: 08/08/2021

‘Team LGBTQ’ earns 32 medals at Tokyo Olympics

NBC News
8/8/21
As the torch goes out at Japan National Stadium in Meiji-Jingu Park, the end has arrived for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games— dubbed “the rainbow Olympics” by…
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Added on: 08/08/2021

US expands citizenship for children born abroad in win for same-sex couples

News Track Live
8/8/21
The US says children born abroad using assisted reproductive technology can now qualify for citizenship, in a move seen as a win for same-sex couples. To be…
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Added on: 08/08/2021

British diver Tom Daley says sports has ‘a lot further to go’ on LGBTQ acceptance

Washington Post
8/7/21
British diver Tom Daley says he is proud to be able to inspire other people as an openly gay athlete, but he is quick to add that…
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Added on: 08/08/2021

Along With COVID-19, EU Faces a More Fundamental Battle

Voice of America
8/8/21
Hungary’s growing list of European Union worries includes controversial LGBT legislation and potentially hacking the phones of journalists, rights activists and political opponents. Poland has rebuffed a…
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Added on: 08/08/2021

Mohamed Ali (Dali) Aguerbi – Documentarian, Malta

Savita Sukul
Alturi Contributor
Dali came to Malta by accident. He is originally from Tunisia where homosexuality is criminalized by three years of imprisonment since French colonialism in 1913. He came…
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Added on: 08/07/2021

How A Gay Community Helped The CDC Spot A COVID Outbreak — And Learn More About Delta

National Public Radio
8/6/21
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a lot of ways to pick up on COVID-19 outbreaks, but those methods often take awhile to bear fruit….
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Added on: 08/07/2021

Amsterdam ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate gay victims of Nazis

The Guardian
8/6/21
More than 75 years after they were murdered in the gas chambers or shot, gay victims of Nazi persecution were remembered with “stumbling stones” laid in Amsterdam…
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Added on: 08/07/2021

American Medical Association says sex should be removed from birth certificates

LGBTQ Nation
8/6/21
The American Medical Association (AMA) says that sex should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates. The group says including the…
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Added on: 08/07/2021

LGBTQ Family Featured in Grocery Store Advertisement Forced to Leave Russia Due to Hate

Slate
8/6/21
In July, Alina and her girlfriend, Ksyusha ,wanted to show that, like any other family, they have favorite dishes and cooking habits. Joined by Alina’s mom and…
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Added on: 08/06/2021

IOC Investigates Anti-LGBT Slurs Against Olympic Athletes on Russian TV

Moscow Times
08/06/2021
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is investigating two Russian state-run TV channels over talk shows that disparaged the lifestyles of a transgender and a gay athlete as…
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Added on: 08/06/2021

Why it matters that Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary this week

Vox
08/05/2021
This week, America’s most watched cable news host is broadcasting from an authoritarian state — not to criticize its leadership but to praise it. Fox’s Tucker Carlson…
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Added on: 08/06/2021

Ghana court drops case against 21 LGBT+ activists

Thompson Reuters Foundation
08/05/2021
HO, Ghana, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A court in Ghana dismissed a case against 21 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) activists on Thursday, ruling there was…
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Added on: 08/06/2021

Pride in London cancelled because of Covid restrictions

The Telegraph
08/06/2021
This year’s Pride in London parade has been cancelled because of social-distancing measures, organisers have announced. More than 35,000 people had been expected to attend the flagship…
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Added on: 08/05/2021

Russian LGBT family from Vkusvill ad leaves country after death threats

Reuters
08/04/2021
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A Russian family with gay members that featured in an advert for a high-end food retailer has left the country after receiving…
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Added on: 08/05/2021

Chinese Social Media Nationalists Attack LGBTQ Film Festival Run By Foreign Consulates

Variety
07/29/2021
Nationalist users on Chinese social media platform Weibo have attacked foreign consulates in the southern capital of Guangzhou for seeking to “bring down China” with an LGBTQ…
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Added on: 08/04/2021

LGBTQ rights: Sri Lanka still undecided, says govt in response to homophobic police video

Economy Next
08/03/2021
The government of Sri Lanka is still undecided on LGBTQ rights, but the matter is under discussion and representations have been made by various quarters, a top…
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Added on: 08/04/2021

‘Constantly pursued’: Ukraine’s LGBT+ activists attacked online and in the street

Reuters
08/03/2021
For days, death threats and homophobic insults have been pouring into Sofiia Lapina’s messaging inbox – a constant reminder of the hatred she often encounters as an…
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