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Added on: 05/11/2024

No happy ending for exiled Ugandans a year after gay crackdown

Times Live
05/10/2024
A year after Uganda enacted one of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, many LGBTQ+ exiles are struggling to start over, facing a host of new hurdles alongside…
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Added on: 05/11/2024

Swinney remains committed to gender reform bill

BBC
05/10/2024
The Scottish government has recommitted to legislation that will allow someone to self-identify their legally recognised sex. The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was passed by the…
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Added on: 05/11/2024

David Duke’s godchild comes out as transgender in new memoir about leaving white nationalism

Advocate
05/10/2024
In a revealing new memoir titled The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism, R. Derek Black, once known as a figurehead of American white…
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Added on: 05/11/2024

Good news for LGBTQ prisoners: You did it! Project Not Alone hits goal in a week

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/10/2024
Generous donors have contributed $9,447 in the seven days since Project Not Alone announced its 2024 fund drive on May 3. That surpassed the goal of $8,122….
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Added on: 05/10/2024

Kraków’s new mayor to become first to attend city’s LGBT parade

Notes From Poland
05/09/2024
In one of his first decisions after taking office, the newly elected mayor of Kraków, Poland’s second-largest city, has announced that he will attend the city’s annual…
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Added on: 05/10/2024

Notorious homophobe faces misdemeanour charge for discrediting Russian military

Novaya Gazeta
05/09/2024
The authorities in Moscow are considering a misdemeanour charge against a self-described “gay basher” and “defender of traditional values” for discrediting the Russian army, news outlet Ostorozhno…
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Added on: 05/10/2024

New intolerance figures: Every hour, an LGBT person is raped in Brazi

Acapa
05/09/2024
Homophobia and transphobia numbers show that violence against the LGBT group has not decreased. On the contrary, it increased. This year, every hour a homosexual, bisexual, transvestite…
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Added on: 05/10/2024

Georgia: ‘Foreign Influence’ Bill Threatens Rights

Human Rights Watch
05/09/2024
(Berlin, May 9, 2024) – The Georgian parliament’s introduction of a bill obliging certain nongovernmental groups and media outlets to register as “organizations serving the interests of a foreign power” threatens…
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Added on: 05/09/2024

Boy Scouts of America announces new gender-neutral name – and conservatives aren’t taking it well

Pink News
05/08/2024
The largest scouting organisation in the US announced on Tuesday (7 May) that it will change its name to Scouting America as part of an initiative to…
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Added on: 05/09/2024

Anti-LGBT law in Iraq doesn’t affect Kurdistan without parliamentary endorsement: advisor

Ekurd
05/08/2024
Iraqi Kurdistan region,— The recent changes made by the Iraqi parliament to the country’s laws against prostitution, which now include penalties for homosexuality and transsexuality, will not…
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Added on: 05/09/2024

Russian who made career of informing on others is charged himself

DeviDiscourse
05/08/2024
Timur Bulatov, a Russian activist who has boasted about denouncing LGBT people and Kremlin critics to the authorities, is now in the line of fire himself, charged…
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Added on: 05/08/2024

Ghana’s fight over anti-gay law threatens $20 billion debt deal – Bloomberg report

Ghana Web
05/07/2024
Ghana’s Supreme Court will on Wednesday May 8, 2024 start hearing a case that has the potential to both threaten the West African country’s 20 billion debt…
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Added on: 05/08/2024

China’s first publicly recognised transgender woman divorces German husband – remarries him 18 years later

South China Morning Post
05/07/2024
China’s first publicly recognised transgender dancer has remarried the love of her life whom she was forced to divorce 18 years ago. Jin Xing, 56, from Liaoning…
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Added on: 05/08/2024

South Korea LGBTQ event finds home in streets after permit struggle

Reuters
05/07/2024
The Seoul Queer Culture Festival will take place in the capital’s streets this year, organisers of South Korea’s annual LGBTQ gathering said on Tuesday, after the city…
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Added on: 05/08/2024

More GOP states challenge federal rules protecting transgender students

ABC News
05/07/2024
Seven more Republican-led states sued Tuesday to challenge a new federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools. Republican plaintiffs…
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Added on: 05/07/2024

Bangladesh police arrest 2 lesbians who want to get married

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/06/2024
The arrest in Bangladesh of two lesbians who wanted to get married has drawn criticism from Paris-based human rights advocates. Asha Sinha, age 16,, and Liza Akhter,…
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Added on: 05/07/2024

Research shows LGBTQI+ health-related content in medical school has increased

Medical Xpress
05/06/2024
Reducing barriers to comprehensive and affirming health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) populations requires physicians to receive LGBTQI+ health content during undergraduate…
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Added on: 05/07/2024

Thousands gather in France streets to protest anti-transgender Senate report

Jurist
05/06/2024
Thousands of protestors gathered in 50 cities throughout France this Sunday, rallying against the ‘offensive’ on transgender rights. The protests were sparked by a report from French…
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Added on: 05/07/2024

Tories propose ban on gender-neutral toilets in new buildings – including offices and restaurants

Pink News
05/06/2024
A policy proposed by the Department for Levelling Up on Monday (6 May) will prevent all non-domestic new builds, including restaurants, shopping centres, offices, and more, from…
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Added on: 05/06/2024

The Many Enemies Of Iraqi Transgender: The State, Islamists — And Some Feminists

WorldCrunch
05/05/2024
I don’t know if such words somehow justify, with their naivety, the ignorance of what is happening to trans women in Iraq among queer circles in the…
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Added on: 05/06/2024

Transgender activists storm police station in Gujrat over abuse claims

Samaa
05/05/2024
Members of the transgender community in Gujarat staged a vehement protest outside the Sadar Kharian police station, alleging molestation and mistreatment by law enforcement officials. The protest,…
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Added on: 05/06/2024

Galloway cuts off interview after question about gay relationships comments

Standard
05/05/2024
George Galloway has cut off a broadcast interview after being asked about remarks in which he suggested he did not think gay relationships were equal to heterosexual…
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Added on: 05/06/2024

Shortages of doctors and drugs bedevil LGBT+ Haitians — and everyone else

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/05/2024
As Haiti endures chaos, shortages, inflation and gang warfare, the LGBTQ community shares the nation’s agony, even as it has challenges and plans of its own. Under…
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Added on: 05/05/2024

LGBT organisations ask UN to revoke status of British rights watchdog

Evening Standard
05/04/2024
A group of 20 LGBT organisations have asked the UN to revoke the status of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). A 19-page submission to the…
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Added on: 05/05/2024

We speak to Ohotuowo Ogbeche about the impact of Ghana’s new anti-LGBTQ law

Joy
05/04/2024
The west African country of Ghana has passed some of the harshest anti-LGBT laws. The country imposes gaol terms for anyone identifying as LGBTQ, anyone who founds…
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Added on: 05/05/2024

Austin City Council passes transgender protections

News Nation
05/04/2024
Members of the Austin City Council voted Thursday afternoon to approve offering some protections to local transgender people seeking gender-affirming care, though it may lead to more…
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Added on: 05/05/2024

Dangerous Instagram? Iraqi LGBTQ+ community loses safe space

Deutsche Welle
05/04/2024
Social media has always been one of the only places where members of the LGBTQ+ community in Iraq could meet and be more open about their sexual…
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Added on: 05/04/2024

ADVOCATING FOR OLDER LGBTI PERSONS: VISIT OF THE IE OLDER PERSONS TO PERU

ILGA
05/04/2024
From 11 to 22 March 2024, the United Nations (UN) Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Dr Claudia Mahler, conducted an…
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Added on: 05/04/2024

Russian publisher redacts book on gay Italian director amid LGBT crackdown

Reuters
05/03/2024
Roberto Carnero, an Italian literature professor at the University of Bologna, was shocked when he received a call from his Italian publisher in March about the Russian…
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Added on: 05/03/2024

Moscow university student sentenced to 15 days in jail for ‘displaying LGBT symbols’

Novaya Gazeta
05/02/2024
A Russian university student has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for “displaying LGBT symbols”, the Moscow court press service reported Friday. Danila Morozov, 22, was also…
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