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Added on: 09/21/2019

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER ALLOWED TO LABEL POPULAR MINISTRY “HATE GROUP” UNDER FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION

Newsweek
09/20/2019
A district court judge in Alabama has dismissed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that sought to keep the organization from labeling a Christian…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

The Plight of the LGBT Community in the Palestinian Authority and Muslim Countries

Global Diaspora News
09/20/2019
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s violent treatment of the gay community under its rule offers a gloomy reminder of this community’s difficult situation in most Muslim countries. On…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

Indonesian president postpones plans to outlaw extramarital sex

The Guardian
09/20/2019
Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has ordered his government to postpone the ratification of a deeply controversial criminal code that would outlaw living together outside marriage, extramarital sex…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

‘How can you be lesbian and Christian?’ Home Office using religion against LGBT asylum seekers

Pink News
09/20/2019
A new report has alleged that the Home Office is using religion against LGBT+ asylum seekers. The 85-page publication also found that the government department was using…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

FEWER FEMALE, LGBT MEMBERS IN NEW KNESSET

Jerusalem Post
09/20/2019
The 22nd Knesset will have eight new members and nine MKs returning after a hiatus when it is inaugurated on October 3, a final count of 4,440,141…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

‘We Tracked Your Social Media, You’re Gay’: Russian Student Threatened With Expulsion

Moscow Times
09/19/2019
A Russian university is said to have threatened a student with expulsion after his pink phone case and membership in pro-LGBT social media groups fueled suspicions about…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

SUSPICIONS ARISE AFTER CONFESSION IN MURDER OF RUSSIAN LGBT ACTIVIST YELENA GRIGORYEVA

Newsweek
09/19/2019
LGBT activist Yelena Grigoryeva’s body was found in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 20, with evidence she had been choked, stabbed and thrown into the bushes near…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

Rwandan gospel singer comes out as gay, to country’s shock

Associated Press
09/16/2019
Friends of Albert Nabonibo, a well-known gospel singer in Rwanda who recently came out as a gay man, do not want their names revealed. It is too…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

Nigerian press agog with protests against LGBT, cashless policy

Journal du Cameroun
09/19/2019
The renewed pursuit of cashless policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the protest by youths against lesbians, gays, and transgender are some of the…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

Report: LGBT People Of Color Lives In Rural America

Rainbow Times
09/19/2019
Media coverage often portrays rural America as singularly white, conservative and working-class. Yet at least 10 million people of color, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Gay couple held down and prayed over against their will at a church to ‘turn them straight’

GCN Magazine
09/19/2019
A gay man said that he and his boyfriend were attacked by a congregation at his Mother’s church in an attempt to convert them to heterosexuality. Sean Cormie,…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Myanmar’s ‘tomboys’ stride out of the shadows

Nikkei Asian Review
09/18/2019
In seventh grade, at school in a small town five hours’ drive north of Yangon, Jel Li developed a crush on another girl. Confused, she wrote her…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Trans woman defies danger to champion LGBTI rights in El Salvador

UNHCR
09/18/2019
Bianka Rodríguez was leaving a San Salvador shopping centre when a man with a gun came up and forced her into his car. He proceeded to drive…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Qantas and Virgin bosses reject Morrison government calls to be silent on social issues

The Guardian
09/18/2019
The chief executives of Australia’s major airlines have warned they will not be silent on social issues, with Qantas’s Alan Joyce arguing it was not just “morally…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Photojournalist Rescues Victim Of Anti-LGBT Mob

Petapixel
09/18/2019
On September 15, around 2,000 LGBT rights activists marched through Kharkiv in the first event of its kind in the eastern Ukrainian city. When the march ended,…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Homophobia and ‘Soviet hangover’ driving HIV infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, says David Furnish

The Independent
09/18/2019
Homophobia and a “Soviet hangover” are driving HIV infections in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to David Furnish, AIDS campaigner and Sir Elton John’s…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

‘I’m not giving up’: Belgrade Pride calls for Serbia to address LGBT rights

Euro News
09/17/2019
Marching under the slogan ‘’I’m not giving up’’ #NeOdricemSe, Sunday evening saw thousands take part in Belgrade’s eighth Pride Parade. The latest Balkans capital to hold Pride…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

Nepal’s sexual minorities say progress in rights has stalled

Times Argus
09/18/2019
Nepal seized the lead in equal rights for sexual minorities in South Asia four years ago with a new constitution that forbids all discrimination based on sexual…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

Transgender sex workers feel under attack. These women are working to protect their own.

The Washington Post
09/16/2019
With a bag of condoms and a stack of business cards, Tamika Spellman began a route she knew by heart, peering out the window of her Lincoln…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

Anti-gay candidate leads in Tunisia’s presidential election

Erasing 76 Crimes
09/17/2019
Anti-gay law professor Kais Saied won the most votes in the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election, the Tunisian electoral commission announced. This is the country’s second…
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Added on: 09/17/2019

Arizona Supreme Court rules business can discriminate against gays & lesbians

LGBTQ Nation
09/16/2019
The Brush & Nib Studio’s owners have won a major LGBTQ discrimination case despite never being accused of discriminating against anyone. Instead, the business preemptively sued for…
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Added on: 09/17/2019

Inside Australia’s Christian churches where gay people are told they are ‘broken’ and ‘need to be fixed’ before they undergo ‘conversion therapy’

Daily Mail
09/15/2019
Gay Christians are being sent to ‘conversion therapy’, an outdated form of ‘counselling’ which teaches homosexuality is a form of ‘brokenness’, it has been revealed. An explosive…
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Added on: 09/17/2019

Jamaica tops Caribbean countries for human rights violation, Guyana comes second

Stabroek Times
09/16/2019
Jamaica has recorded the most incidents of human rights violation when compared to its Caribbean neighbours. According to the regional civil society-led human rights reporting mechanism, the…
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Added on: 09/17/2019

Ex-rugby star could become role model for HIV+ people – HIV/AIDS groups

Reuters
09/16/2019
Former rugby international Gareth Thomas’s decision to come out as HIV-positive could transform the sports star into a role model for millions of people living with the…
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Added on: 09/16/2019

‘We are seeing a push back on human rights’

Euro News
09/16/2019
LGBTQ and women’s rights are particularly targeted in the current proliferation of hate speech and backsliding on human rights in the world, including in some EU countries….
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Added on: 09/16/2019

London’s first ever Trans+ Pride march – in pictures

Pink News
09/15/2019
On September 14, thousands of transgender people and their allies took to the streets of London in a historic first – the UK capital’s first-ever Trans+ Pride…
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Added on: 09/16/2019

China: Discrimination against same-sex couples must come to an end

South China Morning Post
09/15/2019
Despite government commitment to equal opportunities for all, many discriminatory practices are still entrenched by policies and legislation. More often than not, the court needs to step…
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Added on: 09/16/2019

Rwandan gospel singer comes out as gay, to country’s shock

ABC
09/16/2019
Friends of Albert Nabonibo, a well-known gospel singer in Rwanda who recently came out as a gay man, do not want their names revealed. It is too…
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Added on: 09/15/2019

Transgender Woman Found Burned Beyond Recognition in Florida, Officials Say

New York Times
09/14/2019
The body of a black transgender woman, said by the authorities to have been burned beyond recognition, was found inside an abandoned car in Florida. The victim,…
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Added on: 09/15/2019

73% of news stories on LGBTQ topics are flagged as inappropriate for advertisers, survey finds

New York Daily News
09/14/2019
A new report found that nearly three-quarters of articles on LGBTQ news are flagged as brand-unsafe to advertisers. The survey, designed by the cybersecurity company CHEQ, showed…
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