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Added on: 01/09/2019

Marriage equality campaigners urge UK govt. to extend rights to Northern Ireland

01/06/2019

Campaigners said they will increase the pressure on Westminster to spread marriage equality to all parts of the UK. Stephen Donnan, a campaigner with LGBTI rights group…

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Added on: 01/09/2019

New asylum policy has big ramifications for Nogales, Sonora

01/07/2019

Four months after fleeing their home in El Salvador, the six members of the Meneses family arrived in Nogales, Sonora on Dec. 25 with documents ready to…

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Added on: 01/08/2019

Same-sex marriages top number of church marriages

01/04/2019

The number of same-sex marriages topped the number of marriages done in church, based on the Saipan Mayor’s Office records for January through September 2018. Saipan Tribune…

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Added on: 01/08/2019

Our lives, Our rights

01/04/2019

Have you ever felt excluded from the society and from your own family? Have you ever been discriminated by your classmates based on your gender? If you…

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Added on: 01/08/2019

Trans Indians ramp up protests against ‘discriminatory’ bill

01/07/2019

Transgender Indians and their allies have been urgently rallying against a transgender bill. They want the bill to be overhauled before it is considered by the upper…

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Added on: 01/08/2019

Judge rules that UK magistrates’ “intolerant views” must be respected

01/05/2019

The ruling came after a magistrate lost his job following him expressing anti-LGBTQ views on adoption. A UK judge, Her Honour Judge Katherine Tucker, has ruled that…

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Added on: 01/08/2019

LGBTQ Protections Now in Place for Congressional Staffers

01/05/2019

On the Democrats’ first day in power, they passed a rules package that says that bars representatives and House employees from discriminating against LGBTQ people, according to LGBTQ…

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Added on: 01/07/2019

HUNDREDS OF DUTCH PROTESTANT PASTORS SIGN ANTI-LGBTQ MANIFESTO

01/07/2019

Hundreds of Dutch Protestant pastors, prominent people in the church, as well as the party leader and a senator of Christian party SGP, signed a manifesto against…

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Added on: 01/07/2019

Rebuild Taiwan’s LGBT Movement – Fight Back Against Patriarchal Capitalism

01/07/2019

The victory of the anti-LGBT referendum in November, by a large margin, was a blow to the struggle for marriage equality in Taiwan. Taiwan’s LGBT movement, seen…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

Trans community confront police for taking their sound systems

01/04/2019

Trans women in a small Pakistani city have accused police of illegally confiscating their sound system. Dancing at weddings and other special occasions is often the only…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

New US ambassador Kyle McCarter speaks Kiswahili, opposes gay unions

01/04/2019

On Wednesday, the United States Senate approved the appointment of former Senator Kyle McCarter as the new Ambassador to Kenya. McCarter comes to a familiar territory with…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

Chinese gay dating app halts registration after underage HIV report

01/06/2019

Chinese gay dating app Blued is halting new user registration for a week, it said on Sunday, following media reports that underage users caught HIV after going…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

In this UK city, new sex education lessons are a victory for trans rights

01/05/2019

The city of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom will be teaching a more inclusive sex education curriculum. School children in the city’s schools will now…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

Raising awareness of LGBT issues in Asian community

01/04/2019

Syeda Sarwat came to Britain as a student in 2010 in a bid to escape the violence, abuse and social isolation that she says she suffered as…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Japanese legislator condemned for making anti-LGBTI comments

01/05/2019

A Japanese lawmaker has come under fire for making anti-LGBTI comments. The comments come from Katsuei Hirasawa, a veteran legislator from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)….

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Gay men tortured and beaten in seperate homophobic attacks in Chile

01/04/2019

Two men in Chile have been violently attacked and tortured in two seperate homophobic attacks already this year. One man had his head held under hot water…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Life of a gay migrant: Racism exists in the LGBT community too

01/05/2019

Ireland may be known as the land of céad míle fáilte, but a report in the last months of 2018 suggests more needs to be done to…

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Added on: 01/04/2019

Second death of a trans woman in a month shakes Malaysian community

01/02/2019

The death of a trans woman in the Malaysian town of Klang, the second in less than a month, has prompted calls for the government to better…

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Added on: 01/04/2019

Indian lesbian ‘held captive’ by husband wins right to live with partner

01/03/2019

A lesbian from India who was allegedly held against her will by her husband and parents has won the right to live with her girlfriend. The High Court…

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Added on: 01/04/2019

Two gay men mount first legal challenges to Hong Kong laws banning same-sex marriage

01/03/2019

The two separate legal challenges were mounted by a 21-year-old University Hong Kong student, known as TF, and a 31-year-old activist, known as STK, who argued in…

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Added on: 01/03/2019

Lesbian Couple to Wed 26 Times Abroad to Seek Change in Japan

01/03/2019

Two female university students plan to wed 26 times overseas to raise awareness of the fact that they cannot do the same thing in their home country….

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Added on: 01/03/2019

Camden Names Law School’s First Woman, African-American, LGBTI Co-Dean

01/02/2019

The new co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden is the first woman, the first African American and the first LGBT law dean at Rutgers, The State…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

LGBTI group lodges criminal complaint against newspaper for inciting hate

12/31/2018

Dozens of LGBTI activists in Turkey held a protest in central Istanbul calling for justice after the brutal and gruesome murder of trans woman Hande Kader. The…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

Women marry at midnight to become first same-sex couple to marry in Austria

01/01/2018

Two women tied the note just minutes after midnight in Austria making them the first same-sex couple to get married on the day it became legal. Nicole…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

Trump official plans to welcome anti-LGBT Russian politician Dmitry Rogozin

01/01/2018

A senior Trump administration official has sparked concerns over a plan to waive sanctions against extremist Russian politician Dmitry Rogozin to allow him to visit the US. Politico…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

Good news: conversion therapies CAN cure gay people … of religion!

12/31/2018

Teddy Prout, above, Director of Community Services for Humanists UK, claims that faith-based therapies aimed ‘curing’ homosexuality can result in people turning their back on religion. Speaking here about research…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

Why legalising gay sex in India is not a Western idea

12/31/2018

The decriminalisation of gay sex was arguably the biggest news story of 2018 in India. So, it wasn’t surprising when it became a hotly debated topic at…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

J-FLAG’s Headquarters Destroyed By Fire

12/31/2018

The fire department is now probing the cause of a blaze that destroyed the headquarters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lobby group, J-FLAG. The department…

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Added on: 01/01/2019

Trans woman shot 11 times on way to the gym in Brazil

12/30/2018

A transgender woman was shot 11 times and killed on her way to the gym in Brazil. Nicolly Banks, 26, walked down Liopino Lourenço de Araújo street in Uberlândia, Triângulo Mineiro,…

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Added on: 01/01/2019

Trans people held the first ever trans pride march in Pakistan

12/30/2018

Transgender people gathered in Lahore for the first ever trans pride march in Pakistan this weekend. Taking place on Saturday (29th December), transgender people and their allies took…