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Added on: 07/29/2024

Transgender business program honored for helping people build economic power

07/28/2024

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recognized a local trans nonprofit this week for its program supporting trans and nonbinary entrepreneurs. During its regular meeting at San Francisco…

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Added on: 07/28/2024

Paris 2024 Olympics: Organisers respond to offended reactions to opening ceremony

07/27/2024

The Olympics opening ceremony was intended to “trigger a reflection” while using a global audience to promote diversity and freedoms in France, Paris 2024 organisers say. They…

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Added on: 07/28/2024

Uganda’s president asks for changes to LGBT bill so identity is not criminalised

07/27/2024

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has asked lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, as part…

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Added on: 07/28/2024

Man ‘held in psychiatric hospital’ after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

07/27/2024

A man is reportedly being held in a psychiatric institution by local authorities after attempting to create Pakistan’s first gay club. The individual, who has not been…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

Edafe Okporo, a Gay Nigerian Refugee, Could Be the First Former Asylum Seeker Elected to the NYC Council

07/26/2024

Edafe Okporo is running for the New York City Council because he still believes in the promise that America represents, even despite the ordeal he faced in…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

‘My day in a Liverpool alley with 35 drag queens’

07/26/2024

In an unexpectedly hot day in May, Magnus Hastings is in a back alley behind a gay bar in Liverpool with 35 local drag queens. It’s a…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 07/27/2024

PROJECT 2025 AND ITS ASSUMPTIONS ON SEX

Lauren Davis

Alturi Contributor

Created by The Heritage Foundation, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (famously known as Project 2025) is a book that includes all the policies it wishes to implement…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

How the ultra-right used homophobic disinfo in Czech and Hungarian elections

07/26/2024

When Zuzana Huszár, 29, returned home one evening in June 2024, after a long day of work at a queer safe space in Prague, Czech Republic, she…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City

07/26/2024

When the trans sex worker Paola Buenrostro was killed by a client in Mexico City, her friend Kenya Cuevas grabbed the man to stop him fleeing and…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Ghana’s top court upholds law criminalizing gay sex

07/25/2024

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a six-decade-old law criminalizing gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Namibia: Government Appeals Historic Same-Sex Ruling

07/25/2024

The Government of Namibia has chosen the wrong side of history by challenging the recent High Court ruling that declared the country’s apartheid-era ban on same-sex intimacy…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

All 45 Gay Women’s Soccer Players Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics

07/25/2024

It’s hard to believe it was little over a year ago. Just 12 months ago, the best women’s soccer teams from across the globe and their fans…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

07/25/2024

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events

07/23/2024

In June, the LGBT+ association Kap Caraïbe in the French Caribbean island of Martinique had to cancel many of the events it planned as part of Pride…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Here’s what Project 2025 says about gay marriage, LGBTQ+ rights

07/23/2024

Nothing in Project 2025 proposes banning gay marriage, but it does have several policy proposals that are anti-LGBTQ+….

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Added on: 07/23/2024

‘A big F’: LGBTQ+ groups disappointed with Marcos SONA

07/23/2024

LGBTQ+ groups are disappointed with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) as he did not mention equal rights as a priority issue…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

US Asks Supreme Court to Unblock Transgender Student Protections

07/22/2024

The Biden administration wants the US Supreme Court to step in and limit lower court orders that fully blocked it from extending protections against sex discrimination in…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

Out of the closet, out of care: LGBTQ communities in Malawi struggle to access health care

07/22/2024

In Lilongwe, Malawi, 24-year-old Cleo Jones recalls feeling more comfortable around girls than boys during childhood. Jones came out as queer and nonbinary at the age of…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

Israel LGBTQ+ Medical Society launches course on transgender-friendly protocols

07/22/2024

When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Police advice to LGBTQ+ individual to avoid public restrooms ruled as rights violation

07/21/2024

A court has ruled that police advising an LGBTQ+ individual, who was undergoing the process of gender correction and changing their resident registration number, to avoid using…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Trans Housing Coalition Receives Grant to Fight Trans Homelessness in Atlanta

07/21/2024

Trans Housing Coalition will be expanding its Housing First Program after receiving a grant from Health Care Advocates International’s HCAI Fund. The non-profit, an Atlanta-based trans-led organization aimed…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

From fear to freedom: LGBTQ+ migrants seek safe haven in Germany

07/21/2024

Faced with rape threats, forced conversion therapy, and the necessity to flee their homeland, four queer individuals share their experiences with DW. “The Russian police threatened to…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Bangladesh Supreme Court sets aside government jobs for third-gender people

07/21/2024

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled today that 1 percent of government jobs must be set aside for third-gender people and those with physical challenges. The human rights…

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Added on: 07/21/2024

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act challenged at Supreme Court

07/19/2024

Following months of preparations, the long-awaited joint appeal to the Supreme Court of Uganda against the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) was formally lodged on July 11 by 22…

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Added on: 07/21/2024

At least 144 LGBTQ athletes to compete in Paris Olympics

07/20/2024

At least 144 out LGBTQ athletes will be heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, with a record number of out male Olympians participating, according to…

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Added on: 07/21/2024

Glasgow celebrates Pride after Palestine protest row

07/20/2024

Thousands of people have taken part in colourful Pride celebrations in Glasgow after concerns were raised about plans for pro-Palestine protests. A Glasgow Pride spokesman said it…

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Added on: 07/21/2024

‘Better days’ ahead for South Korea LGBTQ couples after landmark ruling

07/20/2024

When South Korea was run by a military-backed authoritarian government in the 1970s, a “coffee house” where lesbians secretly gathered was an easy target. The country has…

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Added on: 07/20/2024

Two lifelong Republicans leave the GOP in support of trans grandchild

07/19/2024

Two Ohio grandparents, Mike and Melissa H., were both lifelong Republican voters, but they recently left the GOP because its anti-transgender politics threaten the well-being of their…

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Added on: 07/20/2024

British government report says trans suicide claims overblown

07/19/2024

A United Kingdom government advisor on Friday said statistics do not indicate that there had been a large spike in suicides among young people who identified as…

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Added on: 07/20/2024

Marriage equality comes to Aruba and Curacao; South Korea sees progress on LGBTQ unions

07/19/2024

The global push to recognize the rights of LGBTQ couples continued in separate parts of the world this month when the Dutch Supreme Court ordered the legalization…