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Added on: 05/14/2021

Guatemala LGBTI: Discrimination and Migration

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

Haru Ono – Family Rainbow, Japan

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

Cameroon Sentences Transgender Women to 5 Years in Prison

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

Switzerland To Hold Referendum On 2020 Same-Sex Marriage Legislation

05/13/2021

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…

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021

US Army launches new animated recruitment video featuring LGBT+ family to diversify intake

05/13/2021

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

Benin: Threat On Transgender People and Their Defenders Following Assault On Three of Them

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

Lesbian penguins are this mating season’s hot new couple

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

‘It’s discrimination’: Beach resort issues ban on transgender people

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

Former foster child abandoned for being gay ‘wouldn’t be alive’ if not for his two dads

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

Warsaw to run shelter for LGBT+ people

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

HELL ON EARTH Inside Indonesia’s horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to ‘cure’ LGBT people and ‘pray away the gay’

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

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Cameroonian transgender women convicted of ‘attempted homosexuality’

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

U.K. to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy and provide more support

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

2021 is worst year for gay and trans rights in ‘war’ on LGBT+ Americans

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

German churches bless same-sex couples in defiance of Vatican

05/08/2021

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

Japan’s Ruling Party LGBT Bill Falls Short

05/07/2021

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

U.S. Lutheran Church Elects its First Openly Transgender Bishop

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

White House Reverses Trump Ban on LGBT Health-Care Protection

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

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Poland’s left questions police textbook that lists LGBT as social pathology

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,…

Global News

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Catholic School District in Canada Mandates ‘LGBT’ Pride Month Awareness and Staff Training

05/10/2021

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…

Global News

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Long Eaton school reports chaplain to terrorist watchdog for LGBT sermon

05/10/2021

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

UN Condemns Ugandan Bill to Criminalize Same-Sex Relations

05/09/2021

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…

Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021

Gay man brutally murdered and beheaded by family in Iran in ‘honour killing’

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

Prospects dim for passage of LGBTQ rights bill in Senate

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

U.S. Supports Transgender Health Clinics in India

05/09/2021

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…

Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Lesbian mothers flood German courts with demands for parenting rights

5/6/21

When Inga celebrated the birth of her first child with her wife Jenny, the last thing she expected in her bid to be recognised as the baby’s…

Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Trans men mocked and denied entry to Egypt by border guards because they ‘do not look female’

5/8/21

Or Mizan and Titi Katan, both from Haifa, Israel, were travelling to Egypt for a five-day holiday in the Ras a-Satan resort in the Sinai peninsula when…

Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Silicon Valley Not Immune To Anti-LGBTQ Violence

5/8/21

Three years ago, San Jose lawmakers voted to fly a rainbow flag over Chick-Fil-A—an effort to proclaim LGBTQ residents were welcome in one of the world’s most…

Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Iran’s anti-LGBT military law blamed for murder of gay man

5/8/21

Three men murdered 20-year-old Alireza “Ali” Fazeli-Monfared on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ahvaz allegedly because they learned the Iranian military exempted him due to “moral…

Global News

Added on: 05/08/2021

In hiding, Ghana’s queer activists keep up the fight

5/6/21

More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding. “It is very challenging….