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Added on: 11/19/2020

Trans People at Risk in Honduras

11/18/2020

William Alejandro Martínez, a trans man from Honduras, stood up for his rights when military police officers stopped him in Comayagüela in May 2019 and asked to…

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Added on: 11/19/2020

What Brazil’s local elections could mean for Bolsonaro’s political future

11/18/2020

On Sunday, in the midst of a pandemic, Brazil voted to choose city councilors and mayors. The results show a confusing electoral scenario in which the so-called…

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Added on: 11/19/2020

Anti-Trans LGB Alliance launches insidious email campaign

11/18/2020

The anti-trans pressure group LGB Alliance Ireland has urged schools to ignore a vital anti-LGBT+ bullying campaign, claiming it raises “safeguarding” concerns. The Irish branch of the…

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Added on: 11/19/2020

Lesbian political powerhouse Karine Jean-Pierre is the “top candidate” to be Biden’s press secretary

1/18/2020

Several journalists are reporting that Joe Biden is considering lesbian Democratic advisor Karine Jean-Pierre to be the public face of the White House next year. If she…

World Voices

Added on: 11/19/2020

Pedro Julio Serrano – Puerto Rico Para Tod@s

Iván López-Justiniano

Alturi Contributor

Hear the Interview in Spanish How did you get involved in activism? Well, I actually did not start being an activist, I started as a…

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Added on: 11/18/2020

“LGBT people still tend to hide”

11/17/2020

Homophobia haunts many African countries, including Uganda. The civil-society organisations Queer Youth Uganda is making efforts to improve things for LGBT people. The four letters stand for…

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Added on: 11/18/2020

Homophobic Tanzania seeks close ties to gay-friendly Joe Biden

11/17/2020

The homophobic Tanzanian President, Dr John Magufuli, has sent a belated congratulatory message to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, seeking a continued close…

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Added on: 11/18/2020

LGBTQ advocates call 1st Islamic school for transgender students in Bangladesh a “positive step,” but not enough

11/17/2020

The first madrassa, or Islamic school, specifically for transgender students in Bangladesh opened last week in the capital city of Dhaka. It was a first not only…

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Added on: 11/18/2020

First NYC housing complex bought by and for the LGBTQ+ community opens

11/17/2020

New York City’s first LGBTQ+ owned and run housing complex opened in Queens on Friday, 30 years after the owner said she first conceived the idea. Ceyenne…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Draft laws impacting children’s and transgender rights in Russia withdrawn from State Duma

11/16/2020

The authors behind two separate packages of amendments to Russia’s Family Code have withdrawn their initiatives from the State Duma following backlash over proposed changes that would…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Historic first as trans flag raised across Dublin city to mark Transgender Awareness Month

11/16/2020

The month of November is observed globally as Transgender Awareness Month with Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) being held November 20, which memorialises victims of transphobic violence….

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Historic wins for transgender candidates in Brazil vote

11/16/2020

Transgender candidates on Monday celebrated a series of historic wins in municipal elections in Brazil, where they were allowed to run for the first time under their…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

How teens made Yukon one of the only places in Canada to ban conversion therapy

11/15/2020

Aiden Falkenberg was in Grade 11 when they found out conversion therapy was still legal in Canada. They were with a friend, Mercedes Bacon-Traplin, when the two…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Wait times for trans healthcare are out of control. These activists take matters into their own hands

11/15/2020

Being transgender in Britain in 2020 has at times felt incredibly difficult: not because being trans is in itself hard, necessarily, but because society makes it so….

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Transgender people to gain inheritance rights in Bangladesh says country’s Law Minister

11/15/2020

Transgender people will soon be able to inherit property from their families, Bangladesh’s law minister said Sunday, the latest effort to give the minority group more rights…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Poles apart: the Polish activists in Scotland fighting for equality back home

11/15/2020

Remigiusz Jabłecki had never organised a protest before. During the four years he had lived in Scotland he had never felt much need to become involved in…

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Added on: 11/15/2020

How LGBTQ people have been affected by COVID

11/14/2020

The experiences of LGBTQ+ people of the Covid-19 pandemic vary immensely. Some have been forced to return to families who don’t accept them, where as others have…

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Added on: 11/15/2020

‘Mob Fest’ wraps up the Democracy Monument and turns backs on Thai King and Queen

11/14/2020

In a peaceful but controversial gesture, protesters yesterday turned their backs on the royal motorcade as it carried the Thai King and Queen to the opening of…

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Added on: 11/14/2020

St. Petersburg authorities disrupt LGBT film fest opening

11/13/2020

St. Petersburg police and officials from Russia’s consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor disrupted the opening night of Russia’s only annual LGBT film festival, its organizers said. The Side…

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Added on: 11/14/2020

Tell the world we exist: The intersex child on a mission to inform

11/13/2020

When Wen Long van Knippenberg wanted to tell fellow pupils about life as an intersex child in the Netherlands, the presentation was banned by her teacher as…

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Added on: 11/14/2020

Justice Alito takes aim at gay marriage in ‘politically charged speech’

11/13/2020

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito criticized same-sex marriage as a harbinger of the erosion of free speech in America, drawing renewed concern from LGBTQ advocates about the…

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Added on: 11/13/2020

Angola: New penal code adds protections for sexual orientation

11/12/2020

Angola’s National Assembly approved a final reading of the new Penal Code which will go into effect in February 2021. The code removes the phrase “vices against…

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Added on: 11/13/2020

Instead of controlling the pandemic, Hungarian government launches crusade against LGBTQI people

11/10/2020

Tuesday was an eventful day at Parliament. The Judicial Committee of the Parliament initiated the abolishment of the Equal Treatment Authority (ETA), Hungary’s most important equality body…

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Added on: 11/13/2020

Biden rekindles American Dream for Africa’s LGBT+ refugees

11/12/2020

Joe Biden’s electoral victory has revived the American Dream for scores of African LGBT+ refugees who fled persecution at home only to languish in Kenya when President…

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Added on: 11/13/2020

Bolsonaro tells Brazil not to deal with pandemic ‘like fags’

11/11/2020

President Jair Bolsonaro drew criticism Tuesday for telling Brazilians not to deal with Covid-19 like “a country of fags,” the far-right leader’s latest controversial outburst on the…

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Added on: 11/13/2020

EU launches LGBT protection strategy as homophobia rises in east

11/12/2020

The European Union’s executive Commission launched its first strategy to protect the rights of LGBT people on Thursday, a challenge to right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary…

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Added on: 11/12/2020

Poland to consider outright ban on LGBT+ Pride after bill backed by more than 200,000 homophobes

11/11/2020

Poland’s ugly war against LGBT+ people continues with a horrifying new bill that would ban Pride parades throughout the country. The proposed law, entitled “Stop LGBT”, was…

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Added on: 11/12/2020

Clashes at Poland’s Independence Day far-right march

11/11/2020

Polish police used tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with far-right supporters Wednesday during an annual Independence Day march attended by thousands in Warsaw that went…

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Added on: 11/12/2020

Hungarian government mounts new assault on LGBT rights

11/11/2020

Moments before Hungary entered a second coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday, the far-right government signalled its intention to pass a range of new legislation, including to make it…

World Voices

Added on: 11/12/2020

June Chua – The T Project, Singapore

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

Can you tell me about how you decided to start The T Project? I’d been a sex worker for many years. Sex work is very mundane and…