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Added on: 05/16/2021
5/15/21
Police will be banned from participating in NYC Pride events, including its signature LGBTQ march, until 2025, the organization announced Saturday. NYC Pride is also working to…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021
5/14/21
Cardinal Red Bird has more than one story about the verbal abuse he listened to in his on-and-off stays on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021
The coronavirus pandemic has made being LGBT+ in Pakistan significantly more difficult, in a country where those communities already face numerous challenges, including systemic oppression, social stigma…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021
A conservative politician – Deputy Speaker Bienvenido Abante Jr. – succeeded in pushing for the exclusion of the term “intersex” from the definition of sex in the…

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Added on: 05/15/2021
5/13/21
Three months ago, Chippa Mohanoe’s fiancée was stabbed in the neck and killed in front of their neighbours in South Africa’s Sebokeng township. Every day since, Mohanoe…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/14/2021
Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Guatemala: LGBTI Interaction with Society and State As Equaldex notes, LGBTI rights in Guatemala are, at least on paper, quite elevated. The site notes that “homosexual activity”…

World Voices

Added on: 05/14/2021
Kate Efron and Manae Yamaguchi
Alturi Contributors
Thanks so much for joining us, Ms. Ono. I would like to begin by asking you, ‘‘How did you get involved in LGBTQ+ activism?’’ Could you please…

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021
05/13/2021
Two transgender women were sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon this week after they were found guilty of “attempted homosexuality” and public indecency, the latest…

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021
After a lengthy parliamentary battle, the Swiss government will hold a referendum concerning legislation introduced in December 2020 recognizing same-sex marriage. Under this law, same-sex couples can…

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Added on: 05/14/2021
The US Army has released a new animated recruitment campaign featuring five diverse soldiers and an LGBT+ family in the hopes of appealing to new young audiences….

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021
05/13/2021
Authorities in Benin must immediately take all necessary measures to protect transgender people and the associations that defend them, after three transgender women were forced to undress,…

Global News

Added on: 05/13/2021
05/13/2021
Mating season is underway for the Gentoo penguins at the London’s Sea Life aquarium, and two lesbian penguin couples have already got together. The two couples –…

Global News

Added on: 05/13/2021
05/21/2021
The local LGBT community slammed a local resort over alleged discrimination in its Facebook post announcing a ban on transgender people. The management of Isla Reta Beach…

Global News

Added on: 05/13/2021
05/13/2021
A former foster child adopted by two fathers after being abandoned for his sexuality has urged Congress not to stand in the way of loving LGBT+ families…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
05/11/2021
Warsaw will open an intervention hostel for LGBT+ people who have become homeless. The establishment of the hostel comes at a time when the Polish state has…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
05/11/2021
EXORCISMS have largely been confined to the history books – but they’re a grim modern-day reality in Indonesia. Many made to have the “treatment” don’t even have…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
05/11/2021
A local social media celebrity known as Shakiro, who also is identified as Loic Njeukam, and Patricia, also identified as Roland Mouthe, were arrested on Feb. 8….

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
05/11/2021
Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBTQ community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
05/11/2021
In less than five months, 2021 has become the “worst year” in recent history for LGBT+ rights in the United States, with dozens of gay and transgender…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
A church in Germany has held the first of several historic Masses across the country to bless homosexual couples in the coming week, in defiance of a…

Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021
Over the past six years, activists in Japan have pressed the Diet, the national parliament, to introduce a nondiscrimination law that protects the rights of lesbian, gay,…

Global News

Added on: 05/11/2021
05/10/2021
A pastor in California became the first openly transgender person to be elevated to the role of bishop in a major American Christian denomination when they were…

Global News

Added on: 05/11/2021
05/10/2021
The federal government will begin enforcing protections for LGBT Americans in health care again, reversing a ban put in place by the Trump administration, the Health and…

Global News

Added on: 05/11/2021
05/10/2021
=The Left (Lewica), Poland’s left-wing opposition grouping alliance in parliament, has asked the police chief to explain why a new textbook for police officers titled “Social pathologies,…

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Added on: 05/11/2021
BURLINGTON, Ontario — While a Catholic school district in Ontario failed to pass a proposal to fly the rainbow-colored LGBT Pride Flag outside schools in June, the…

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Added on: 05/11/2021
A Christian school in Long Eaton reported its chaplain to the Government’s anti-terror watchdog after he suggested his students should ‘make up their own minds’ on LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling on Uganda to amend a bill to ban same-sex relations that it says would…

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Added on: 05/10/2021
05/09/2021
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from service because of…

Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021
05/09/2021
Controlling Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, Democrats were hopeful this would be the year they finally secured civil rights protections…

Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021
The United States supports and advocates for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) people everywhere. In India — where transgender people…