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Added on: 04/11/2021

Sick vandals deface LGBT+ centre with transphobic graffiti amid Spanish fight for trans rights

4/10/21

An LGBT+ centre in Madrid has been vandalised with homophobic and transphobic graffiti as tensions rise over a new “trans law” in Spain. Prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s…

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Added on: 04/11/2021

Majlis Podcast: Uzbekistan In The Spotlight For The Wrong Reasons

4/10/21

Since 2016, when Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, died, the authorities have been working to change the image the country inherited from Karimov as a chronic rights…

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Added on: 04/11/2021

Angry LGBTQI+ community demands justice following brutal murder

4/10/21

As Human Rights Month ended, Sphamandla Khoza’s family learnt that he was killed in an alleged hate crime which sparked outrage, calls for justice and marches. Last…

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Added on: 04/10/2021

LGBTQ Members Face Threats in Iraqi Kurdistan

4/9/21

The plight of Iraq’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning or queer (LGBTQ) community returned to the spotlight last week when Kurdish security forces in Sulaymaniyah reportedly…

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Added on: 04/10/2021

LBQ Womxn in Uganda: a plea for equal access to health

4/9/21

Freedom and Roam Uganda, a lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) organisation, is about to publish a book urging Ugandan human rights and health-care rights advocates to incorporate…

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Added on: 04/10/2021

Germany bans surgery on intersex infants

4/9/21

Last month, German lawmakers voted to ban unnecessary surgeries on babies born with intersex characteristics. The legislation was officially adopted on March 25. While it makes Germany…

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Added on: 04/10/2021

Intersex Kids Are Getting Caught in the GOP’s War on Trans Health Care

4/9/21

Republicans across the country have spent the better part of 2021 trying to cut off transgender children’s access to gender-affirming health care. Some have falsely compared it…

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Added on: 04/10/2021

Attack on Blogger Drives Uzbek Gay Community Underground

4/9/21

Members of Uzbekistan’s LGBT community say they have been driven underground in fear of a violent backlash after a blogger and some of his supporters were attacked…

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Added on: 04/09/2021

Panel of Japan’s ruling LDP to seek early passage of law on LGBT understanding

04/08/2021

A ruling party committee said Thursday that it will aim to enact a law to promote understanding of sexual minorities during the ongoing session of the Diet,…

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Added on: 04/09/2021

Malaysia pushes for Sharia law to be tougher on LGBT+ Muslims

04/08/2021

On Tuesday (6 April) the Malaysian government announced plans to move forward with an amendment to the Sharia Courts Act that would allow heavier punishments to be…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 04/08/2021

Thai Protests: Pro-Democracy Groups and LGBTI Involvement

Alexander Champeau

Alturi Contributor

Background on the Protests Thailand has a long history of coups, and as a result of these coups a long history of unstable government. Over the course…

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Added on: 04/08/2021

Teachers ‘fear for job prospects if they reveal LGBT identity’

04/08/2021

There are about 4,000 primary teachers across Ireland who are uncomfortable revealing their LGBT identity to their employers, a conference heard. Many are afraid to come out…

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Added on: 04/08/2021

Focus on inclusion, not alienation, in dealing with LGBT, Putrajaya told

04/08/2021

Suhakam has urged the government to reconsider its decision to impose heavier punishments for offences associated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Commissioner Hishamudin…

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Added on: 04/08/2021

Top Polish judge under fire for tweet about transgender kid

04/08/2021

Poland’s leading opposition party is asking prosecutors to investigate a constitutional court judge who it alleges has endangered a 10-year-old transgender child by identifying the child publicly….

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Added on: 04/08/2021

Legalising same-sex marriage in Japan

04/08/2021

Last month, a Japanese district court for the first time ruled that not allowing same-sex couples to marry is unconstitutional. The verdict by the Sapporo District Court…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Tbilisi audio tour puts Georgian trans people on the map

11/22/20

Georgian event aimed at raising awareness about LGBT+ issues by putting people into the shoes of transgender men and women living in Tbilisi By Umberto Bacchi TBILISI,…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Venezuela’s Secret: Crimes Against LGBTQ+ Migrants And Sex Workers

04/06/2021

“Hello, Papi, I am in Brazil.” A text message I received sitting in my home office after nearly a month of silence signified Victor Arellano’s nine-month battle…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Civil groups chide minister Zulkifli’s insistence on harsher laws against LGBT

04/07/2021

KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 — A coalition of local civil societies has today slammed religious affairs minister Datuk Zulkifli Mohamad’s insistence to table a law amendment that…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

How a Black, Gay Refugee Created a Community For Queer Asylum Seekers

04/06/2021

In 2014, Nigeria passed a law providing penalties of up to 14 years in prison for couples that enter into a same-sex union, and up to 10…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Discrimination part of everyday life for Peru’s trans people

04/06/2021

The attack on Gahela Cari came following a televised political debate in the form of a searing tweet from her opponent. Attached to it was an image…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Uzbek Interior Ministry statement threatens journalist Agnieszka Pikulicka with prosecution over LGBTQ reporting

04/06/2021

On March 28, Pikulicka, a freelance correspondent for Al-Jazeera and The Guardian based in Tashkent, the capital, visited LGBTQ activist Miraziz Bazarov, who was hospitalized after being…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Israel activists protest rising influence of anti-gay lawmakers

04/06/2021

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Tuesday against a group of newly elected Israeli lawmakers who oppose gay rights, in a Middle Eastern country seen as…

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Added on: 04/06/2021

Russia’s Top Documentary Fest Pulls Gay Chechen Film After Threats

04/05/2021

Russia’s premier documentary film festival has pulled a movie about a gay MMA fighter from Chechnya from its lineup after receiving threats over it. “Silent Voice” tells…

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Added on: 04/06/2021

Sexual minorities are often invisible’: meet Seoul’s only LGBT mayoral candidate

04/05/2021

Oh Tae-yang was spurred to run for mayor by the deaths of high-profile LGBT figures, and has upset some in conservative South Korea Steven Borowiec in Seoul…

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Added on: 04/06/2021

Jail time for transgender women in Cameroon extended after trial delay

04/05/2021

April 5 (Reuters) – Two transgender women facing charges of “attempted homosexuality” in a high profile case in Cameroon will spend more than two months behind bars…

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Added on: 04/06/2021

California Stalls Bill Banning Intersex Surgery For Children

04/05/2021

First-of-its-kind California legislation to ban some medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children stalled Monday for the third straight year in the same committee, with the author saying…

World Voices

Added on: 04/06/2021

Yi Yang: Judicial Activist, Program Officer – LGBT Rights Advocacy, China

Xong Xhang

Alturi Contributor

What is it like to be LGBTIQ+ in China? Reflecting on the LGBTIQ+ situation in China, Yi outlined his personal experiences as a gay man, and the…

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Added on: 04/05/2021

Nearly 60% of Japan municipalities say current LGBT system inadequate

04/05/2021

Fifty-nine percent of 87 local governments that have introduced, or plan to introduce, a same-sex partnership system feel that Japan’s current system for sexual minorities is inadequate,…

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Added on: 04/05/2021

Austrian Catholics fly rainbow flag after same-sex blessing ban

04/04/2021

The Catholic church of the parish of Hard is one of many in Austria which decided to fly the rainbow flag in solidarity with the LGBT community…

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Added on: 04/05/2021

Far right puts brakes on a new law that aims to stamp out homophobia in Italy

04/04/2021

Daniela Lourdes Falanga has had her fair share of battles. The first was to survive a brutal upbringing as the firstborn son of a mafia boss in…