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Added on: 09/03/2020

Nasta Mantsevich – Makeout, Belarus

Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
What was it like to grow up as a queer person in Belarus? My story was, to a large extent, about invisibility. When I was growing up,…
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Added on: 09/02/2020

Looking at implementation of an LGBTQ+ curriculum in state public schools

Windy City Times
09/01/2020
On Aug. 9, 2019, Gov. JB Pritzker signed Illinois House Bill 246 into law, amending the school code to include contributions of LGBTQ+ figures in public schools…
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Added on: 09/02/2020

Cooks Islands rainbow community lobbies for constitutional rights

Radio New Zealand
09/01/2020
The Cook Islands LGBT+ association is citing the country’s Constitution as it seeks to stop laws discriminating against gay men. Section 64 of the Constitution protected people…
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Added on: 09/02/2020

For Right-wing LGBT Israelis, There Are Two Closets to Come Out Of

Haaretz
09/01/2020
A week before Israel’s March election, 40-year-old chef Simon Barel decided it was finally time to come out. Again. Barel, who told his family and friends he…
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Added on: 09/02/2020

Love keeps on winning in Northern Ireland with same-sex couples finally able to marry in churches

Pink News
09/01/2020
Same-sex couples can apply to have religious weddings in Northern Ireland from today (1 September), with ceremonies set to begin later this month. Gay weddings began in…
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Added on: 09/02/2020

Queer swimmer Theresa Goh advocates for Singapore’s LGBTQ community

Outsports
09/01/2020
Theresa Goh became a legend in Singapore by winning gold at the 2006 Paralympic Championships. Now she’s pushing for LGBTQ visibility in her home country. A new…
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Polish Bishops Propose Sending LGBTQ+ People to Conversion ‘Clinics’

The Advocate
08/31/2020
Polish Catholic bishops have called for “clinics” to be set up for LGBTQ+ people in efforts for them to “regain their natural sexual orientation. The bishops laid…
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Ukrainian neo-Nazis attack LGBT ‘pride’ event in Odessa, organizers say police were slow to intervene but 16 people later arrested

RT
08/31/2020
Sixteen Ukrainian ultra-nationalists were arrested on Sunday after the far-right Christian organization ‘Tradition and Order’ attacked marchers at Odessa Pride 2020, the city’s biggest celebration of LGBT…
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Homophobic group’s offices declared COVID-19 outbreak site

Pink News
08/30/2020
The Colorado headquarters of the viciously anti-LGBT+ organisation Focus on the Family, which insists being gay causes “death and disease”, has been declared a COVID-19 outbreak site….
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Berlin Film Festival to make awards gender neutral: Is it time to finally talk about just talent?

Hindustan Times
08/30/2020
It’s been a while since we have been hearing who is the Best Actor and Best Actress — a clear demarcation in term of gender right there…
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Added on: 08/31/2020

Nationalists fought with participants of the LGBT festival in Odessa

Pledge Times
08/30/2020
As noted by law enforcement officers, opponents of the LGBT movement sprayed gas in the crowd and pelted the activists with eggs. The perpetrators also shouted obscene…
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Added on: 08/30/2020

Japan monk and makeup artist empowering sexual minorities, celebrating diversity’s beauty

The Mainichi
08/29/2020
A monk who also works as a makeup artist is celebrating their own sexual diversity and spreading the message in Japan that different is beautiful. Kodo Nishimura,…
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Global News

Added on: 08/30/2020

Student goes viral after drowning out homophobic, racist demonstrator with his trombone

Pink News
08/29/2020
A US college student has gone viral after he used his trombone to drown out a homophobic and racist demonstrator on campus. According to WLTX, Trey Hogan…
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Added on: 08/30/2020

Grumpy Virgin bows out as drag becomes a political act in Turkey

The Guardian
08/29/2020
For decades in Turkey, there was no higher honour than being made fun of by Huysuz Virjin (Grumpy Virgin), the country’s first drag queen, beloved for her…
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Added on: 08/30/2020

‘We Are Making Up For Lost Time’: Tracking Little-Known Stories Of African American, LGBTQ And Women’s Colorado History

Colorado Public Radio
08/30/2020
There’s a growing movement to locate places in Colorado where historic events happened but were never recorded. The Colorado Historical Foundation is on a mission to change…
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Added on: 08/29/2020

Transgender woman’s role at Mass stirs controversy in Argentina

Crux
08/28/2020
Marking an historical first in Pope Francis’s home country, the Diocese of San Luis in northern Argentina invited a transgender woman Tuesday to read one of the…
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Added on: 08/29/2020

Yurok Tribe joins federal lawsuit over data on tribal, LGBTQ foster youth

Times Standard
08/28/2020
The Yurok Tribe is one of more than half-a-dozen parties that sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families on…
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Added on: 08/29/2020

As China’s Schools Reopen, LGBT Families Feel Pride — and Prejudice

Sixth Tone
08/28/2020
Before his son started school last year, Su Ge spent weeks researching kindergarten options in the eastern city of Nanjing. After much deliberation, he selected the most…
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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

Rights Africa
08/28/2020
The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Abruptly canceled, ShanghaiPRIDE could be harbinger for China’s civil society

PRI
08/27/2020
Annual Pride celebrations are not common in cities across China, but the city of Shanghai is an exception, where Pride events have occurred for a dozen years….
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection to Be Auctioned for Charity

New York Times
08/27/2020
Owning a private collection of nearly 140 artworks by luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein would be a godsend for most arts organizations, but…
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Is ‘gay TikTok’ safe from Trump? LGBTQ users on edge over ban threat

NBC News
08/27/2020
Steven King, a popular content creator on the social media platform TikTok, said he stumbled across the video-sharing app by accident early last year. “I saw an…
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Added on: 08/28/2020

Uganda officials ignore criminal summonses for LGBTQ torture

Erasing 76 Crimes
08/27/2020
A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer each ignored a summons requiring him to show up in court yesterday to face criminal charges of torture…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

Gay activist braves social curbs to help marginalized

Jakarta Post
08/27/2020
Gay activist Hartoyo has had to overcome both physical and virtual curbs on his movement so that he may continue to feed the urban poor, persecuted members…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

New Zealand: Young queer and trans people face growing housing barriers

RNZ
08/25/2020
RainbowYOUTH homelessness support worker Therese Go says they have seen an increase in referrals from social workers, nurses and school counsellors who are concerned the young Aucklanders…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

Uproar as same-sex couples to be counted as ‘other relatives’ in Japan census

The Mainichi
08/26/2020
A national census, conducted once every five years, will be held this fall to collect information from all residents and households in Japan, but same-sex couples are…
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Added on: 08/27/2020

Teacher ‘put on leave’ after Republican complains about her supporting LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter

Pink News
08/26/2020
A teacher in Texas has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after she allowed students to submit their pronouns and posted LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter…
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Added on: 08/26/2020

Slava Melnyk – KPH: Campaign Against Homophobia

Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…
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World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Tarek Zeidan – Helem, Lebanon

Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become interested in this type of activism? When I was younger, I worked a lot with the trans sex worker community because I used…
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Global News

Added on: 08/25/2020

Virtual Pride Afrique Festival Brings Socially Distant Visibility to Africa’s Sexual Minorities

Voice of America
08/25/2020
JOHANNESBURG – Pride Afrique is the first of its kind, a three-day virtual extravaganza celebrating Africa’s diverse, colorful community of sexual minorities. But behind the glitz and…
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