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Added on: 10/23/2019

Christian Council plans showdown with Bahamas Pride

Eyewitness News
10/22/2019
The Bahamas Christian Council (BCC) will mount a series of events opposing the Bahamas Pride celebrations slated for October 2020. BCC President Bishop Delton Fernander said yesterday…
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Added on: 10/23/2019

How PrEP is changing safe sex practices for India’s LGBTQ community

News Minute
10/22/2019
The dating, hook-up and relationship-seeking culture in the LGBTQ community has always had its own secret set of codes that allowed its members to navigate this dicey…
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Added on: 10/23/2019

LGBT In Turkmenistan: Go To Jail Or Live A Lie

Radio Free Europe
10/22/2019
To his friends and colleagues in Turkmenistan, Kamil is a successful cardiologist working at a prestigious clinic and an eligible bachelor from a well-connected family. Only a…
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Added on: 10/22/2019

Conversion therapy: PM concerned about ‘vulnerable’ LGBT youth

Stuff NZ
10/21/2019
The Prime Minister has expressed concern about “vulnerable” youth at risk of undergoing gay or trans conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is where people try to change lesbian,…
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Added on: 10/22/2019

The Terror Gap: U.S. Laws Let White Supremacists Operate Like ISIS

Daily Beast
10/22/2019
The recent arrests of Jarrett William Smith, a former U.S. Army soldier who discussed plans to “bomb a major U.S. news network,” and Conor Climo, a Las…
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Added on: 10/22/2019

Christian group claims Ethiopia is soft on homosexuality

Erasing 76 Crimes
10/21/2019
A group affiliated with Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church is condemning what it calls the government’s silence on homosexuality in the country. Speaking at a conference [Sept. 8] in…
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Added on: 10/22/2019

Northern Ireland prepares for momentous gay marriage, abortion changes

NBC News
10/21/2019
Campaigners who fought for decades to end Northern Ireland’s same-sex-marriage ban and restrictions on abortion prepared on Monday for a momentous change to the laws on both…
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Added on: 10/21/2019

Ghana: Former Pres Kufuor Urges Fight Against Same Sex Marriages

All Africa
10/21/2019
Former president John Agyekum Kufuor has urged the world to fight against same sex marriages. He stated that no amount of argument could change the fact that…
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Added on: 10/21/2019

Praying to wake up in a girl’s body: LGBT group hosts transgender women explaining why, how they transitioned

Chicago Tribune
10/20/2019
Three individuals who transitioned from male to female shared their journeys recently when the Oak Park Area Lesbian & Gay Association hosted a Transgender Education Panel at…
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Added on: 10/21/2019

‘They paid a guy to kill me’: health workers fight homophobia in Uganda

The Guardian
10/21/2019
Maria Nantale is enjoying a beer at a rickety wooden bar after a long day’s work. “Forty people tested today,” she reflects. “Found three positives. One of…
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Added on: 10/21/2019

Details of gay man’s electroshock treatment endured at Belfast university

Irish Central
10/20/2019
In a story for The Belfast Telegraph, the man, given the pseudonym “John,” says that while a student at QUB he was referred to the school’s Department…
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Added on: 10/20/2019

History has overlooked the Gay Liberation Front’s role in Stonewall … until now

LGBTQ Nation
10/19/2019
Something very strange happened during last June’s celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The LGBT community, especially those of us from Gay Liberation Front…
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Added on: 10/20/2019

Zambia must shun the anti-gay politics of disgust

Erasing 76 Crimes
10/20/2019
Zambia’s president has made homosexuality a campaign issue to distract attention from the fact that his people are starving, millions are living in poverty, and the nation…
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Added on: 10/20/2019

‘Please leave’: why the Sydney archbishop’s same-sex marriage message has Anglicans rattled

The Guardian
10/20/2019
For a man renowned for his civility, the language was blunt. During his annual speech to the Anglican Church’s Sydney synod, Archbishop Glenn Davies told supporters of…
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Added on: 10/20/2019

The challenge of adolescent SRH services in Bangladesh

Daily Star
10/20/2019
The adolescent population (between the ages of 10 and 19) covers more than one-fifth of the total population of Bangladesh, which consists of approximately 36 million in…
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Added on: 10/19/2019

Coming Out in Uganda Was a Death Sentence. The U.S. Border Was a Trap.

Rolling Stone
10/18/2019
Margaret didn’t know what was going to happen when she approached the bridge between Juárez and El Paso, but she knew she couldn’t wait anymore. Six months…
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Added on: 10/19/2019

Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near school

The Guardian
10/18/2019
A high court judge has been asked to extend an exclusion zone permanently banning activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school. Protesters…
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Added on: 10/19/2019

Reading Chick-fil-A outlet to close in LGBT rights row

BBC
10/18/2019
A US fast-food chain will cease trading at its first UK outlet amid a row over donations to anti-LGBT groups. Gay rights campaigners called for a boycott…
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Added on: 10/19/2019

HIV POSITIVE BABY ADOPTED BY GAY COUPLE AFTER BEING REJECTED 10 OTHER TIMES

Newsweek
10/17/2019
An Argentinian gay couple have adopted an HIV positive baby girl who had previously been rejected by 10 other families. The child, named Olivia, was born with…
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Added on: 10/18/2019

Scotland: The LGBT+ elderly dance club tackling isolation

BBC
10/17/2019
A project aimed at bringing older members of the LGBTI+ community together through dance clubs has launched in Scotland. Arts company All the Queen’s Men came up…
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Added on: 10/18/2019

Hong Kong court turns down first judicial challenge for same-sex marriage but urges government to review policies

South China Morning Post
10/18/2019
A Hong Kong court on Friday turned down the city’s first judicial challenge for same-sex marriage and civil union partnerships, but urged the government to “undertake a…
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Added on: 10/18/2019

Paraguay: Amnesty International brings unconstitutionality proceedings against resolutions that discriminate against LGBTI people

Amnesty International
10/14/2019
Today, Amnesty International, together with Diversxs Alto Paraná, and with the support of the Red Paraguaya de la Diversidad Sexual (REPADIS) and It Gets Better Paraguay, presented…
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Added on: 10/18/2019

Buttigieg emerges as new threat to Biden after debate

The Hill
10/17/2019
Joe Biden faces a new threat from South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is fresh off an eye-opening debate performance and positioning himself to be a…
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Added on: 10/17/2019

UN Body Urges South Korea to Improve Sexuality Education

Human Rights Watch
10/16/2019
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is urging South Korea to revamp its sexuality education curriculum to cover age-appropriate topics like pregnancy, HIV/AIDS,…
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Added on: 10/17/2019

Bans, censors, jail: perfect storm for gay arts in Singapore?

Reuters
10/16/2019
Homosexuality is banned in Singapore and arts are strictly censored – yet performers say the tough line helps foment a thriving, LGBT+ cultural scene in this conservative…
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Added on: 10/17/2019

Amid ‘Kill the Gays’ bill uproar, Ugandan LGBTQ activist is killed

NBC News
10/16/2019
Ugandan LGBTQ activist Brian Wasswa died on Oct. 5, one day after the 28-year-old was attacked at home amid rising tensions in the east African nation over…
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Added on: 10/17/2019

School transgender support guidelines published

BBC
10/16/2019
The first detailed guidelines for schools in Northern Ireland on how to support transgender pupils have been published. The guidance is from the Education Authority (EA). It…
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Added on: 10/16/2019

Federal judge overturns ObamaCare transgender protections

The Hill
10/15/2019
A federal judge on Tuesday overturned ObamaCare protections for transgender patients, ruling that a 2016 policy violates the religious freedom of Christian providers. Judge Reed O’Connor in…
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Added on: 10/16/2019

India’s HIV-positive trans people find ‘new strength’ in technology

Reuters
10/15/2019
Shoved, cursed and ridiculed, Nisha’s hospital visits were always stressful as a transgender woman and got worse after she was diagnosed as HIV-positive. But a new app…
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Added on: 10/16/2019

Ugandan MPs press for death penalty for homosexual acts

The Guardian
10/15/2019
MPs in Uganda are to push for new laws to make homosexual acts punishable by death. James Nsaba Buturo, an MP, said parliamentarians wanted to retable a…
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