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In a unique initiative by the Gurugram administration, a special vaccination camp was organised for the transgender community and sex workers, who live in the Millennium City….

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05/30/2021
Gilead Sciences Australia New Zealand on May 25, 2021, announced the Australian recipients of the Gilead Getting to Zero Grant Program 2021, a global initiative supporting projects…

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Added on: 05/31/2021
05/30/2021
The Walt Disney Company has been put on notice by communications regulators in Russia over a short film that is available on the conglomerate’s Disney Plus streaming…

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Added on: 05/30/2021
05/27/2021
Are you a he or a she? A they or a ze? If you’re on Instagram, you can now choose from a list of more than 10…

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Added on: 05/30/2021
05/29/2021
The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar in New York City, was no different than many others before it. For decades, before…

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Added on: 05/30/2021
05/29/2021
A Christian management company is suing for the right to discriminate against workers for being members of the LGBT+ community, having sex and using Grindr. In June…

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Added on: 05/29/2021
Transgender people find little acceptance in conservative societies like Albania. After years of isolation, members of the transgender community decided to confront taboos by launching a photo…

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Added on: 05/29/2021
05/28/2021
Samuel Asilikwa grew up in rural Kenya. There was a strict template for masculinity, informed by centuries of tradition – and intolerance. In a new documentary about…

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Added on: 05/29/2021
05/28/2021
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday gave up on legislation to promote public awareness of sexual minorities, proving unable to overcome opposition within its own ranks….

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Added on: 05/29/2021
05/28/2021
Namibia could soon scrap a colonial-era law that criminalises gay sex between men, the justice minister said on Friday, calling the legislation “outdated and discriminatory”. The law…

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Added on: 05/28/2021
05/27/2021
Nearly five months after joining a violent mob in storming the U.S. Capitol building in a failed bid to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election,…

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Added on: 05/28/2021
05/27/2021
A lawsuit has been filed against a candidate running for Tijuana’s city council for pretending to be a member of the LGBT community. The legal action was…

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Added on: 05/28/2021
Dior, the French house owned by LVMH, the largest luxury group in the world, is collaborating with China’s transgender celebrity Jin Xing for a campaign centred on…

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Added on: 05/28/2021
The number of older people identifying as gay, lesbian or bisexual (LGB) has increased for the first time, figures show. Proportions of people aged 65 and over…

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Added on: 05/27/2021
05/25/2021
Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in…

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Added on: 05/27/2021
05/24/2021
Police raided a gay sauna in Wang Thonglang district of the capital yesterday before dawn after a tip-off that a party of drugs and debauchery would be…

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Added on: 05/27/2021
05/26/2021
The world’s largest game streaming service Twitch has said that players will be able to add a transgender label to their videos – a move the company…

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Added on: 05/27/2021
05/26/2021
Americans strongly support trans service members being in the military — even as they say trans athletes should compete in sports according to the sex listed on…

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Added on: 05/26/2021
05/25/2021
Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday voted narrowly against debating a bill legalising same-sex civil partnerships, but supporters said they would adjust the proposal and eventually resubmit it to…

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Added on: 05/26/2021
05/25/2021
Two key local LGBT rights groups, the Tbilisi Pride and the Equality Movement reiterated their support for the protest against Namakhvani Hydropower Plant, now held in the…

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Added on: 05/26/2021
Transgender people in Japan face continuing barriers to changing their legally recognized gender, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Japanese government should heed…

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Added on: 05/26/2021
05/25/2021
Ghana’s LGBTQ community has called for the release of 21 people, who were arrested by security forces last week while attending a conference in the southeastern city…

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Added on: 05/25/2021
05/24/2021
When Bijoux Ferrazza realised she was transgender, she took a good look around her. Transgender women are nowhere to be seen in Cameroon. Every once in a…

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Added on: 05/25/2021
05/24/2021
“I went to this bar and they were doing this competition. And then I was like ‘Oh shit! It exists here, that’s so cool. I have been…

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Added on: 05/25/2021
05/24/2021
In Hong Kong, transgender people are far from accepted. Members of the community spoke out against discrimination after a survey published ahead of the International Day Against…

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Added on: 05/25/2021
05/24/2021
Advocates around the world are calling foul on Japan, worrying that the country won’t meet their pledge to pass a LGBTQ rights law before hosting the Olympics…

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Added on: 05/24/2021
Several hundred protesters rallied Sunday in Dakar to demand that homosexuality be made a crime in Senegal, according to AFP journalists. It is not illegal to identify…

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Added on: 05/24/2021
05/23/2021
A wave of brutal murders of gay men and trans women has hit South Africa. The death toll over the last three months has now reached at…

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Added on: 05/24/2021
05/23/2021
The church bells fade away, the organ starts playing and Father Jan Korditschke walks up to the altar to say Mass. It all looks like a very…

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Added on: 05/24/2021
05/23/2021
A government survey released on Sunday shows that Taiwanese people’s acceptance of same-sex marriage has significantly increased to 60.4 percent in 2021 from 37.4 percent in 2018…