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Added on: 03/11/2019

Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus ‘face sexual violence, forced marriage, and murder’

03/07/2019

Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus face attempts to ‘cure’ them, beatings, rape, forced marriages, and murder, according to a recent report interviewing a number of queer…

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Added on: 03/11/2019

Italian lesbian reveals years of corrective rape by father

03/08/2019

A 23-year-old Italian woman has spoken out about the years of sexual assault she suffered at the hands of her father, who attempted to “correct” her sexuality….

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Added on: 03/10/2019

Equality Florida Sounds Alarm Over Preemption Bill

03/07/2019

Equality Florida, the only statewide LGBT rights group, is sounding an alarm over HB 3, which could threaten local LGBT rights protections if passed. “So House Bill…

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Added on: 03/10/2019

‘I’m ready,’ says first transgender candidate for Thai PM

03/07/2019

Pauline Ngarmpring thought she would take it slow as she began her new life as a transgender woman after transitioning at the age of 49. Instead, three…

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Added on: 03/09/2019

71% of LGBT voters would choose Remain in a second Brexit referendum

03/06/2019

LGBT voters could decide the outcome of a second Brexit referendum, a YouGov poll found. A January 2019 survey showed that, if there is a new public…

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Added on: 03/09/2019

Homophobic, transphobic flyers appear before Sydney election

03/06/2019

Homophobic and transphobic flyers have appeared around Sydney, Australia, in the run up to this month’s state election. The flyers, which appeared on Reddit, are written in…

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Added on: 03/09/2019

LGBT in India: What it’s like six months after gay sex was decriminalised

03/06/2019

Up until six months ago, 20-year-old Tish felt like a criminal. He faced long-term prison time in India because he was an out and proud gay man,…

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Added on: 03/08/2019

Fears for transgender Egyptian woman held in men’s prison

03/07/2019

An Egyptian transgender woman arrested for inciting anti-government protests is at risk of torture and sexual violence, activists and rights groups have warned. Malak al-Kashef, 19, has…

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Added on: 03/08/2019

Tourism Minister reportedly tells German press there’s no gays in Malaysia

03/06/2019

German news agency Deutsche Welle is reporting that our Tourism minister, Mohammaddin bin Ketapi told a room full of journalists (so, essentially, planet Earth) that Malaysia does…

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Added on: 03/08/2019

Trump’s newly confirmed federal judge has ties to anti-gay ‘hate group’

03/06/2019

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Allison Jones Rushing to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, handing the 36-year-old judge a lifetime seat on one…

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Added on: 03/07/2019

Author Samantha Allen’s Road Trip Through Red States Reveals LGBTI Communities Everywhere

03/05/2019

Author and journalist Samantha Allen wanted to go beyond the headlines in her new book, “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.” “Often the stories we hear…

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Added on: 03/07/2019

A Literature Festival in Lucknow by the LGBTQIA Community

03/05/2019

Despite the low turnout at the Awadh Queer Literature festival, the organisers’ enthusiasm was on an all-time high. In a first, such a festival was organised in…

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Added on: 03/06/2019

Turkish TV Station Pulls the Plug On Show After Interview Defending LGBTI Rights

03/05/2019

A Turkish Islamist television station said it would take a show off air following an interview with an opposition party mayoral candidate who spoke of the need…

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Added on: 03/06/2019

British Female Olympians Argue Against ‘unfair’ Trans Women Athletes

03/05/2019

British female Olympians lined up to criticize the inclusion of transgender women in women’s sport on Tuesday, as debate rages over whether male-to-female athletes retain unfair physical…

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Added on: 03/05/2019

Runners support LGBT rights at Tokyo Rainbow Marathon

03/03/2019

Hundreds of people joined a charity run to promote awareness about diverse sexuality and to support sexual minorities under a bright blue sky in Tokyo on March…

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Added on: 03/05/2019

The Gay-Rights Activists Hoping for a Legal Victory in Kenya

03/03/2019

On a recent Friday, gay and lesbian couples, dressed in matching outfits, posed for photos outside of a Nairobi courthouse, in anticipation of a decision that they…

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Added on: 03/05/2019

Parents urged to stop Birmingham LGBT-row school protests

03/03/2019

A school at the centre of an LGBT rights teaching row has written to parents to urge them to stop holding “disruptive” and “upsetting” protests. Parkfield Community…

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Added on: 03/05/2019

In a Virginia school, a celebration of transgender students in a kindergarten class

03/03/2019

When Jaim Foster began teaching nearly two decades ago in Nebraska, he said he was discouraged from being an openly gay educator. He had championed LGBT causes…

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Added on: 03/04/2019

Merkel successor Kramp-Karrenbauer under fire for anti-LGBT joke

03/03/2019

The CDU leader mocked the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms during a Carnival-themed program on public broadcaster SWR. Politicians and activists called the incident a “travesty.” Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer,…

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Added on: 03/04/2019

Transgender soldier on fighting the Australian army’s attempt to dismiss her

03/02/2019

Transgender soldier Bridget Clinch has opened up about how she fought against the Australian army after it tried to dismiss her following her gender reassignment surgery. When…

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Added on: 03/04/2019

Chiang Mai, Thailand celebrates its first LGBT Pride in a decade

03/01/2019

On 21 February 2019, Chiang Mai celebrated its first LGBT Pride festival since 2009, after the city’s last Pride Parade was cancelled due to harassment from counter-protestors….

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Added on: 03/04/2019

The Kimberley Queen who escaped persecution in Indonesia to find sanctuary in Broome

03/01/2019

Escaping persecution as a gay man in Indonesia several years ago, the reigning Kimberley Queen has instead found a supportive community in the northern Western Australia town…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

3 big US churches in turmoil over sex abuse, LGBT policy

03/02/2019

It has been a wrenching season for three of America’s largest religious denominations, as sex-abuse scandals and a schism over LGBT inclusion fuel anguish and anger within…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

WHO OWNS THE FIGHT FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS IN THE ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD?

03/02/2019

Tarek Zeidan, executive director of Lebanese LGBT+ rights group Helem, said it is positive that LGBT+ issues in the Arab world were being talked about at big…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

South Korea rights body claims it does not ‘deny’ same-sex marriage

03/01/2019

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea on Wednesday (27 February) claimed it did not ‘deny’ the rights of a same-sex couple to marry. But, it also…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

Activist woman’s worry: More gay Nigerians marry women

03/01/2019

A local activis who is currently working with a women’s rights organization in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, says she is seeing an increasing problem of gay men marrying…

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Added on: 03/02/2019

Don’t mess with my kids: Why Argentina still doesn’t have comprehensive sex education

03/01/2019

Sex education is a tricky topic all over the world. When is too early to teach it? When is too late? But, in Latin America, throw in…

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Added on: 03/01/2019

Luxembourg PM stuns EU-Arab summit into ‘icy silence’ after LGBT comments

02/28/2019

As state leaders addressed the EU-Arab League summit in Egypt earlier this week, it was comments made by the Luxembourg prime minister about his sexuality that drew…

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Added on: 03/01/2019

Nigeria re-elects president who called gay sex ‘abhorrent’

02/28/2019

Nigeria has re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari, who once called gay sex “abhorrent.” While on a trip to meet US President Barack Obama in July 2015, Buhari was…

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Added on: 02/28/2019

Homophobia and Rising Islamic Intolerance Push Indonesia’s Intersex Bissu Priests to the Brink

02/26/2019

Once kingmakers in one of the most gender fluid societies on earth, the intersex bissu priests of Sulawesi — Indonesia’s third-largest island — are on the verge…