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Added on: 05/01/2020

A Court Guessed How Gay Men From Conservative Families Would React After First Having Sex. It Cost Two Men Their Refugee Status.

04/3/2020

Two young men from Pakistan who feared persecution because they were in a homosexual relationship had their refugee claims rejected because a tribunal made “illogical” assumptions about…

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Added on: 04/30/2020

Erdogan throws support behind cleric accused of homophobia

04/29/2020

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended the homophobic remarks of the country’s top Muslim cleric, Ali Erbas. Erbas, who is the head of Turkey’s directorate of…

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Added on: 04/30/2020

Transgender man loses appeal court battle to be registered as father

04/29/2020

A transgender man who gave birth has lost his appeal court battle to be registered as a father in a case that wrestled with the legal definition…

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Added on: 04/30/2020

Gay in Nigeria: The Stark Reality For LGBT People In The West Africa Country

04/29/2020

Michael Ighodaro was attacked by homophobes in his home city of Abuja when he was waiting for a taxi outside his friend’s home. His attackers stormed up…

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Added on: 04/29/2020

Grindr witch-hunt sparks fresh call to make gay sex legal in Morocco

04/28/2020

Morocco is facing fresh demands to decriminalize gay sex after women started outing gay and bi men using dating apps. As GSN reported last week, a Moroccan…

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Added on: 04/29/2020

How Iran’s anti-LGBT policies put transgender people at risk

04/28/2020

Despite repressive laws against homosexuality, gender reassignment surgery remains legal in Iran. But Iranians who seek sex-change operations are faced with a harsh approval process and a…

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Added on: 04/29/2020

LGBT community living in fear of attacks in Kenyan refugee camp

04/28/2020

Eva Nabagala hoped she and her young son would be safe from her family when they fled Uganda for a Kenyan refugee camp – but instead, the…

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Added on: 04/28/2020

EU urged to act as Hungary’s far-right government moves to end legal recognition of trans people

04/27/2020

The European Union has been urged to take action against the Hungarian government as it moves to push through “discriminatory” legalisation that would end the legal recognition…

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Added on: 04/28/2020

POLAND IS AUSTRALIA’S ‘LOGICAL CONCLUSION’ OF EXCLUDING LGBTQI PEOPLE WITH RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL

04/27/2020

The ‘LGBTQI exclusion zones’ throughout Poland are the logical extension of excluding LGBTIQ people from public life through ‘religious freedom’. According to national lobby group Just-Equal’s spokesperson…

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Added on: 04/28/2020

Thailand Constitutional Court rejects marriage law petition

04/27/2020

On 31 December 2019, the Constitutional Court of Thailand decided not to accept a petition made by two LGBT couples and the Foundation for SOGI Rights and…

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Added on: 04/27/2020

COVID-19: LGBTQ community kept in closet by public health officials

04/26/2020

Everyone knows I’m queer. Except one group of colleagues. Ironically, they’re the ones from my own field — public health professionals. I work for the National LGBT…

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Added on: 04/27/2020

Japan NGO offers same-sex ‘partnership certificates’ to address gaps in current provision

04/26/2020

About 20 companies in Japan will start accepting “partnership certificates,” issued to same-sex couples by a nongovernmental organization, from July as a way of providing employees with…

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Added on: 04/27/2020

Transgender players kick down doors in local football

04/26/2020

Mara Gómez and Marcos Rojo are blazing a trail for transgender players in Argentine football. Out on the pitch, they finally can feel like themselves. In addition…

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Added on: 04/27/2020

Dozens of Gay Men Are Outed in Morocco as Photos Are Spread Online

04/26/3030

At least 50 to 100 gay men were outed in Morocco over the last two weeks, rights activists say, after the men were identified on location-based meeting…

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Added on: 04/26/2020

We’re Still Picking up the Pieces of the Last Crisis

04/25/2020

At this point there can be only one priority: to overcome the public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As economist James Meadway has described, in…

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Added on: 04/26/2020

Lesbian Indonesian singer bats away messages of hate to pen songs about acceptance of LGBT minority and respect for all

04/25/2020

Indonesian singer and songwriter Kai Mata realised, as a teenager in Jakarta, she liked women more than men – but her realisation was quickly followed by disillusionment….

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Added on: 04/26/2020

Lockdown, religion, migrant, survival, and more

04/25/2020

The good thing about this Chinese virus is that it has knocked the stuffing out of religion. Where are monotheism, polytheism, in fact theism itself? What about…

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Added on: 04/26/2020

Two transgender women found burned to death in Puerto Rico

04/25/2020

The bodies of two transgender women were found burned to death inside a vehicle this week in Puerto Rico, according to activists, raising alarm about the killings…

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Added on: 04/25/2020

Brunei’s stoning for ‘gay-sex’ law flies under the radar

04/24/2020

In April 2019, the words ‘Sultan’, ‘Brunei’, ‘stoning’ and ‘gay-sex’ were trending globally. Condemnation of Brunei’s death by stoning law for proven acts of liwat — consensual…

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Added on: 04/25/2020

No end in sight for Tanzania’s anti-LGBT crackdown

04/24/2020

When James Wandera Ouma is asked what gives him hope as a gay man living in the east African nation of Tanzania, he can’t think of anything….

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Added on: 04/25/2020

Amid Pandemic, Trump is About to Roll Back Protections for LGBT Patients

04/24/2020

President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be just days away from rolling back an Obama-era policy prohibiting discrimination against LGBT patients. Politico reports: The health department is…

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Added on: 04/24/2020

During COVID-19 this Catholic group wants to warn you about the ‘mass production’ of LGBT+ people

04/23/2020

Bill Donohue is an anti-LGBT+ extremist who heads the Catholic League, an American Catholic anti-defamation and civil rights organisation. His previous claims to fame include telling gay…

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Added on: 04/24/2020

Lesbian Couple’s Custody Case Takes China Into Uncharted Legal Waters

04/23/2020

A Chinese lesbian couple’s landmark court battle over the custody of their two children has stirred debate over LGBT rights and put a spotlight on a legal…

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Added on: 04/24/2020

Finland’s first same-sex adoptions confirmed

04/23/2020

The Rainbow Families Association Sateenkaariperheet confirms that Finland’s first two same-sex adoptions have taken place. It comes three years after the Marriage Act was reformed to allow…

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Added on: 04/24/2020

Books with LGBT+ themes are ‘most challenged’ in U.S.

04/23/2020

Books with gay and transgender topics got a record number of objections at U.S. libraries and schools in 2019, said research on Monday showing growing protests over…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

Israel Shows Us the Future of Protest

04/22/2020

Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has always been a popular site for demonstration. Israelis gathered on this expansive plaza to protest the Gaza War in 2014 and…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

The danger of being transgender in Latin America in times of quarantine

04/22/2020

The trend started on April 1 in Panama, when President Laurentino Cortizo announced that men and women can only leave their homes on different days in an…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

Towards an “LGBT-Free” Poland?

04/22/2020

In the years following the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Third Polish Republic quickly rose as one of the most promising democracies…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

Netflix’s ‘A Secret Love’ Traces Lesbian Couple’s Unlikely Romance Across 6 Decades

04/22/2020

After years of keeping their relationship under wraps, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel are getting candid. A new Netflix documentary, “A Secret Love,” explores the couple’s powerful…

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Added on: 04/22/2020

Meet the artists driving Russia’s new wave of queer music

04/21/2020

The city of Norilsk is located above the Arctic Circle in Russia’s north. With just under 200,000 inhabitants, it’s known as a harsh, industrial place, its history…