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Added on: 02/13/2021

Ghana Parliament must decide whether they want to decriminalise LGBT laws

02/12/2021

The Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, says Ghana’s Parliament must make up its mind on whether it wants to decriminalise LGBT laws in the country….

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Added on: 02/13/2021

QAnon supporters claim COVID-19 vaccines turn people gay, transgender

02/12/2021

QAnon supporters are peddling the false conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccines turn people gay or transgender. BBC investigative reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh posted screenshots from Telegram – the…

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Added on: 02/12/2021

8 Bills Across 7 States: Coordinated Anti-Transgender, Anti-LGBTQ Legislative Push Ramps Up In State Houses Across The Country

02/11/2021

The legislative fight to pass discriminatory anti-transgender legislation is ramping up in state houses across the country, with a significant number of bills expected to have hearings…

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Added on: 02/12/2021

LGBT Rights Ghana Responds To Foh-Amoaning’s Calls For Shutdown Of Its New Office In Ghana

02/11/2021

The LGBT+ Rights Ghana has responded to calls by the Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, Moses Foh-Amoaning, on…

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Added on: 02/12/2021

Angola Officially Enacts Law Decriminalising Homosexuality

02/11/2021

After passing a new law decriminalising same-sex relationships in 2019, Angola has finally enacted its new penal code which is against the discrimination of LGBT Angolans. Angola…

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Added on: 02/12/2021

There will come a point when being a member of the LGBTQ+ community is not a big deal – we are not there yet

02/11/2021

I feel very lucky because my own experience since coming out has been overwhelmingly positive, with the benefit of a loving family, great friends and a supportive…

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Added on: 02/11/2021

‘We all know what we’re facing’: divided Myanmar unites against coup

02/10/2021

The Myanmar military took power last week on the promise of “restoring eternal peace” to a country riven by seven decades of ethnic conflict. Since the takeover…

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Added on: 02/11/2021

Welcome back to Chechnya: How Ramzan Kadyrov’s men tracked down and imprisoned LGBT evacuees

02/10/2021

For 48 hours, a panicked phone call and ransacked apartment were the only clues; a sign that something was desperately wrong. David Isteyev, the Russian LGBT Network…

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Added on: 02/11/2021

LGTBQ seniors in Philly get COVID-19 vaccine

02/10/2021

Residents of the John C. Anderson LGBT-friendly Senior Apartments received their first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week, with second doses scheduled for next month….

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Added on: 02/10/2021

In a nation wracked by violence, Kay Trans Ayiti welcomes trans Haitians

02/09/2021

Yaisah Val, a pioneer trans activist in Haiti, describes trans advocacy and the challenges of life in the impoverished Caribbean nation. “I am Yaisah Val. My organization…

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Added on: 02/10/2021

Lesbian mother of stateless baby takes citizenship fight to top EU court

02/09/2021

LONDON, Feb 9 (Openly) – A baby left without a nationality after she was born in Spain to a same-sex couple from Bulgaria and Gibraltar is at…

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Added on: 02/10/2021

Queer online series meets eager Russian LGBTQ audience

02/09/2021

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian film director Andrei Fenochka says his online series about queer young people is important for LGBTQ people in a country that bans gay…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Thailand Is Not the LGBTQ Paradise We Think It Is

02/08/2021

Thailand is consistently hailed as one of the most LGBTQ-friendly countries in the world. It holds international transgender beauty pageants, offers quality gender reassignment surgery, and was…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Putrajaya says opposing US president Biden’s global pro-LGBT initiative

02/08/2021

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 — Putrajaya yesterday said it is opposing a call by newly-minted US President Joe Biden’s for the superpower’s agencies to protect the rights…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Gay asylum seeker flees persecution in Morocco, only to endure more homophobia when arriving in the UK

02/08/2021

He previously told ITV: “It was always, ‘hide yourself, hide yourself’, and don’t show your colours. “If you show your colours it means that you are going…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Chechnya opens terror inquiry into gay men forcibly returned from Moscow

02/08/2021

Chechnya has opened a terrorism investigation into two gay men who fled the region last year but were arrested near Moscow last week and forcibly returned. The…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Lawmakers In 19 States Cloning Idaho’s Transgender Athlete Bill

02/08/2021

Feb. 3, Utah House Representative Kera Birkeland, R-Morgan, introduced HB302, which would require public school athletes to play on teams which aligned only with their sex at…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Spain proposes making it easier for trans citizens to change gender

02/08/2021

Spain’s Equality Ministry has drafted a law which would allow transgender people to change their gender identity. On Wednesday (3 February) the Spanish Equality Ministry introduced a…

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Added on: 02/08/2021

Iran cleric: People who are vaccinated for COVID have ‘become homosexuals’

02/07/2021

An Iranian regime cleric in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday issued a homophobic rant against people vaccinated for COVID-19, claiming that they become gay after…

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Added on: 02/08/2021

Turkey jails four pending trial over university protests: prosecutor

02/07/2021

Four people were formally arrested as part of an investigation into protests against President Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a rector at one of the country’s top universities,…

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Added on: 02/08/2021

Mangaluru: In a first, Congress elects transgender as office-bearer

02/07/2021

Life has been a roller-coaster ride for 32-year old Sanjana Chalavadi, but consistency and dedication made her the first one from the community to become a general…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

Biden signs foreign policy memo putting U.S. at ‘forefront’ of global LGBTQ rights

2/5/21

President Joe Biden has issued a historic memorandum committing the United States to promoting LGBTQ rights on the international stage. Released to the public Thursday evening, the…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

G25 opposes proposal to introduce heavier punishments for LGBT community

2/7/21

G25 Malaysia joins the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) and other civil society groups in opposing the proposal by the deputy minister (religious affairs) in the…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

Russian Rights Group Warns That Detained Gay Men Face ‘Mortal Danger’ In Chechnya

2/6/21

The Russian LGBT Network has warned that two young gay men from Chechnya who were seized in Nizhny Novgorod and driven by car back to the North…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

LA HOPE DEALER HELPING BREAK DOWN BARRIERS THROUGH ART

2/6/21

Corrie Mattie came to Los Angeles after growing up on the East Coast and knowing it is a competitive industry for creatives. The uncertainty of this, in…

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Added on: 02/06/2021

Brighter days: LGBTQ seniors find support through Rainbow Collective

2/5/21

To be older and alone is a challenge. For LGBTQ seniors, who are far more likely to be childless and estranged from family, the experience can be…

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Added on: 02/06/2021

LGBT asylum seekers: Call for dedicated housing in Wales

2/5/21

Abderrahim El Habachi, 28, said he felt “unsafe” living alongside some men from North Africa and the Middle East after he arrived in Cardiff in 2017. He…

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Added on: 02/06/2021

Transgender Navy SEAL: Biden order ‘going to give a lot of other individuals that chance to finally be themselves’

2/5/21

When Navy SEAL Ashley Nefzger heard rumblings that President Joe Biden could sign an executive order to repeal a Trump-era ban on most transgender Americans joining the…

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Added on: 02/06/2021

Cameroon: 4 shelters welcome LGBTQ+ victims of violence

2/5/21

The shelters, supported by Care Cameroon’s Human Rights Grant program, are run by LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations — Camfaids in Yaoundé, 2HRC in Bertoua, Alcondoms in Douala and…

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Added on: 02/05/2021

German LGBT actors come out en masse in plea for diversity

02/05/2021

A group of 185 LGBT German actors staged a mass coming-out in a national newspaper on Friday in an appeal for more diversity in the worlds of…