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Added on: 03/30/2019

Taiwan to amend LGBT education law

Gay Star News
03/27/2019
Taiwan’s education ministry has revised a 2004 law that promotes sexual orientation and gender identity education in the country’s schools. Luckily, the ministry’s proposed changes this week…
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Added on: 03/29/2019

LGBT refugee leader steps down

The Bay Area Reporter
03/27/2019
The Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration’s founder and leader announced he would be stepping down from the LGBT-focused organization after a decade of advocating for queers…
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Added on: 03/29/2019

New UCP candidate under fire for link to Christian group’s conversion therapy-style programs

CBC News
03/24/2019
A newly appointed United Conservative Party candidate strongly denies claims that when he promoted religious sexuality and relationship programming, he was supporting conversion therapy, a widely-discredited practice…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

Trump’s transgender ban on the military gets full legal blessing

New York Daily News
03/27/2019
The Trump administration’s long-wished-for transgender military ban now is officially – and legally – cleared to proceed. Different variations of the ban have been floating in legal…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

First LGBT-inclusive textbooks for elementary schools in Japan

Gay Star News
03/28/2019
Publishers of elementary school textbooks in Japan have included LGBT information in the latest editions of their books. Two out of five government-accredited publishers have included content…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

Zambian fleeing from arrest for Homosexuality denied Refugee Asylum in South Africa

Lusaka Times
03/28/2019
A young gay man who left a well-paid government job and fled from Zambia because of his sexual orientation has been denied refugee status by the South…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

Indonesian University Censors Lesbian Love Story

Human Rights Watch
03/26/2019
A student news website in Indonesia that published a story about a woman expressing her love for another young woman was ordered by university officials to shut…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

Brunei urged to halt introduction of strict new anti-LGBT+ laws

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/25/2019
Brunei must rowback on plans to implement changes to its penal code next month that could see LGBT+ people whipped or stoned to death for same-sex activity,…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

LGBT refugees protest Kenya arrests and jail time

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/26/2019
LGBT refugee activists gathered outside a Nairobi courtroom today to protest the mistreatment of 20 LGBT refugees who were arrested at an earlier protest and have been…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

New culture war’: Northern Ireland’s LGBT+ community fights for gay marriage

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/27/2019
Hidden away up several flights of stairs in the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, teenagers, many of them with shocks of red, blue and rainbow hair, relaxed…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

Majority of Americans back LGBTQ protections — but support is sliding

NBC News
03/26/2019
Nearly 70 percent support nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, though support has fallen since 2015. A majority of Americans across every state and…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

LGBT Groups Want Pete Buttigieg to Be More Than the ‘Gay Candidate for President’

The Daily Beast
03/21/2019
LGBT political movers and shakers were thrilled when Pete Buttigieg won a spot on the debate stage—but say he has to keep impressing them if he wants…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

Little Mix fly the LGBT flag at Dubai concert despite strict homosexuality laws in UAE

Metro
03/25/2019
Little Mix made quite the statement during their performance in Dubai over the weekend, proudly flying the rainbow flag to support LGBT+ rights. The Shout Out To…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

For transgender people, visiting family in Mexico often means hiding their gender identity

Santa Fe New Mexican
03/23/2019
In the pictures, Jess Enriquez Taylor wears artful makeup and her hair is carefully styled. But her face was bare as she rode the bus toward the…
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Added on: 03/26/2019

Political Rocks Stars Turn Up Heat Ahead of Thai Elections

Malaysia Sun
03/23/2019
From an upstart entrepreneur to a transgender person hoping to find a political voice for the LGBT community, this Sundays Thai election is proving inclusive even if…
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Added on: 03/25/2019

No Significant Progress in Gender Equality in Croatia

Total Croatia News
03/24/2019
ZAGREB, March 23, 2019 – Some of the gender equality indicators in Croatia, such as the number of boys and girls enrolled in primary and secondary schools,…
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Added on: 03/25/2019

Michigan will no longer fund adoption agencies that deny LGBT parents

Chicago Tribune
03/22/2019
Michigan will no longer fund adoption agencies that turn away parents who are LGBT because of religious objections, a move that was part of the terms of…
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Added on: 03/25/2019

Seeing yourself on the big screen

The Myanmar Times
03/22/2019
Shin Thant tried to create a metaphor for the experience of feeling culturally excluded and vilified on the big screen. It went like this; A transgender person…
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Added on: 03/25/2019

Thailand’s transgender politician Pauline Ngarmpring: ‘I do it for future generations’

Taiwan News
03/21/2019
On March 24, Thai voters will elect a new parliament, which is set to end five years of direct military rule. 52-year-old Pauline Ngarmpring, a transgender candidate,…
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Added on: 03/25/2019

UK lawmakers calls against detention of LGBT asylum seekers

Devdiscourse
03/21/2019
Britain should not put LGBT+ asylum seekers in immigration detention centres where they risk being abused and harassed by staff and other detainees, lawmakers said on Thursday….
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Added on: 03/24/2019

Gay politician Robert Biedron challenges Polish leaders on gay marriage

Pink News
03/22/2019
Openly gay politician Robert Biedron is demanding the Polish government and president to recognise LGBT+ equality, including same-sex marriage. Biedron, a long-time LGBT+ campaigner who became Poland’s…
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Added on: 03/24/2019

Canada’s military issues new policies to welcome transgender troops as Trump insists on ban

CBC News
03/19/2019
As U.S. President Donald Trump moves to banish transgender troops from the ranks, Canada’s military is welcoming such recruits with revamped policies that promote equality, respect and…
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Added on: 03/24/2019

Malaysia seeks gay tourists, but targets its gay citizens

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/21/2019
Malaysia’s tourism industry wants the country to keep attracting the money of gay and lesbian tourists, even though Malaysia keeps cracking down on its LGBT citizens. The…
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Added on: 03/24/2019

Tomomi Inada’s uphill battle to ‘promote understanding’ of LGBT issues in Japan

The Japan Times
03/21/2019
Tomomi Inada isn’t trying to get Japan to legalize same-sex marriage or ban discrimination against gay citizens. The conservative lawmaker just wants to “promote understanding” of LGBT…
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Added on: 03/23/2019

Can the Czech Republic Tear Down Europe’s Rainbow Curtain?

Foreign Policy
03/21/2019
Eastern Europe has long resisted same-sex marriage. Prague might be about to change that. When Veronika Sediva, a 32-year-old consultant, visited the passport office in Prague two…
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Added on: 03/23/2019

M5S leader Di Maio distances party from ‘medieval’ anti-LGBT conference

The Local Italy News
03/20/2019
Italy’s co-deputy prime minister and governing Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio has slammed his coalition partner the League party as “medieval” for its support…
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Added on: 03/23/2019

Puerto Rico to ban gay conversion therapy for minors

Pink News
03/21/2019
Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló said he will sign an executive order banning so-called gay conversion therapy on minors. Rosselló announced the decision on Wednesday (March 20),…
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Added on: 03/22/2019

Justice Ministry overturns deportation order for gay Taiwanese man without visa

Japan Times
03/22/201
In a rare move, the Justice Ministry has revoked a deportation order for a gay Taiwanese man who remained in Japan illegally after overstaying his visa, apparently…
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Added on: 03/22/2019

Prominent LGBT+ organisation in Kenya wins right to be recognised as a charity

DeviDiscourse
03/22/2019
A prominent LGBT+ organisation in Kenya won the right to be recognised as a charity on Friday in a Court of Appeal ruling that could give greater…
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Added on: 03/22/2019

Loud and proud at Arab summit

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/21/2019
Luxembourg’s openly gay prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has boldly condemned Arab countries’ conduct towards LGBT individuals – much to their dismay. Leaders from Arab countries were taken…
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