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Added on: 07/08/2018

By Day, He Runs for President of South Sudan. By Night, He Unloads Trucks at Lowe’s.

07/07/2018

Just minutes into the night shift at Lowe’s, beads of sweat sparkle on Bol Gai Deng’s forehead. He’s at the back of the suburban Richmond store, unloading…

Global News

Added on: 07/08/2018

These Five Court Cases Could Change the Future of LGBT Rights

07/07/2018

The Supreme Court nominee President Trump is expected to announce on Monday could play as large a role in unraveling LGBT rights as retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy…

Global News

Added on: 07/08/2018

No, LGBT People Aren’t Harming Malaysia, But Child Marriage Is

07/06/2018

When the news broke last week that a 41-year-old man from Kelantan had married an 11-year-old girl, alarm bells went off in Malaysia’s newly elected government as…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018

Royal Marines March At London Pride For First Time

07/07/2018

For the first time, the Royal Marines have marched through London as part of the city’s Pride celebrations this year. Members of the British armed forces have attended…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018

Reconstituted Supreme Court Bench to Hear Section 377 Case

07/07/2018

Days ahead of the crucial hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of section 377 of the IPC that criminalises consensual gay sex, the Chief…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018

Colombia Failing to Stem Murders of LGBT People

07/06/2018

Colombia has made no progress in stopping killings of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, campaigners said, as new research showed more than 100 were killed last…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018

Black Pride: Why We Need an Event to Celebrate Being Black and Gay

07/06/2018

Hundreds of thousands of people will line the streets on Saturday to celebrate the LGBT community at Pride in London. But many LGBT black people say they…

Global News

Added on: 07/06/2018

Only Two Thirds of Generation Z Identify as ‘Exclusively Heterosexual’

07/05/2018

Homosexuality is no longer the taboo it once was. But figures suggest that young people are even more open to experimentation than previously thought. Only two thirds…

Global News

Added on: 07/06/2018

Neo-Nazis In Sweden Allegedly Attacked People Supporting Israel And LGBT Rights

07/05/2018

Members of a neo-Nazi group were allegedly involved in two separate incidents in Sweden this week, reportedly attacking LGBT rights supporters and a member of the Sweden–Israel…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

REDLACTRANS – Latin America and the Caribbean Network of Trans Persons

REDLACTRANS leads the effort to truly know the extent of anti-transgender discrimination and violence across Central America. Their new report, exposes these human rights violations, and demands that Central…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Heartland Alliance

Heartland Alliance’s Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights (GISHR) stands behind activists who are improving the lives of LGBT persons — promoting their rights and protecting them…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Astraea Foundation

The Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice is a multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-identity organization that prioritizes and supports the leadership of women, transgender people, youth, and people of color….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Human Rights First

LGBT rights are human rights, period. Human Rights First works to ensure that these rights are incorporated into the United States’ foreign policy agenda and advanced on…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Advocates for Youth

Advocates for Youth works across the U.S. and developing world to advance youth sexual health and rights to further a vision of a society in which all…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/23/2018

UHAI EASHRI (East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative)

UHAI (the Swahili word for well-being) EASHRI is Africa’s first indigenous, activist-led and activist-managed fund supporting LGBTI and sex worker activism in Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/20/2018

Amnesty International

With more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries, and complete independence from government, corporate or ideological interests, we work to protect…

World Voices

Added on: 01/19/2018

Indonesia’s Waria Heroine

Alturi Contributor

“We study Islam, and pray together, and share our lives,” Shinta says. “We do not choose to be transgender people, this is given by God.” The Yogyakarta…

World Voices

Added on: 09/20/2017

The Long Struggle in the Heart of Carnival

Alturi Contributor

Since 1989, it has been a member of the Ministry of Heath’s National Commission to Control AIDS, and since 1995 it has been one of the coordinators of the…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2017

The Circuitous Route to Marriage Equality

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

“I came out as bisexual to my younger brother when I started college and he was very supportive. I was living at home at the time and…

World Voices

Added on: 08/20/2017

Helping Namibia Out of the Closet

Alturi Contributor

Following a series of hate crime attacks, members of Namibia’s LGBT community took to the streets of the capital Windhoek for a Pride march on Saturday, July…

World Voices

Added on: 05/13/2017

Intersectional Revolutionary

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

“During the past 18 years, the Venezuelan government made fun of the LGBTI community of Venezuela. They never recognized our rights and hate crimes increased 200%,” Mantilla…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017

Working for Change

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Joseph Aoun manages Helem’s newly reopened community center – one of the few safe spaces for LGBTIQ residents of Beirut. He came to the organization seven months…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017

No One Should Feel Alone

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Instead of accepting that this isolation and sadness are part of many queer persons’ lives, Eric chose to take action by helping found Hanoi Queer. “When I…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017

LGBT Voices From Sudan

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Azza identifies as a Sudanese lesbian, Muslim, Nubian feminist who finds inspiration in the many intersections of her identity. She began her activism in 2007 using social…

World Voices

Added on: 01/13/2017

Q&A with Creator of “All About Sec 377”

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Alturi: How did the idea for “All About Sec 377” come about? How has it evolved over time? Gypsy: I have a small and relatively new production…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Bringing LGBTI News from Turkey to the World

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Her work as an urban sociologist in Istanbul has brought an understanding of social norms as a constraint on the ways people define themselves and, for her,…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Hearing LGBTI Lives

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Mike highlights his interview with John Adewoye, “a former priest who battled with his sexual orientation for many years, denying the truth of who he is, and…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Therapy for LGBTI Torture Victims

Alturi Contributor

As a father of four children – three having been born in different East-African cities while he was working on a variety of humanitarian efforts – Pablo…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Conversion Therapy in the UK

Alturi Contributor

As the battle over the future of Obamacare returns in the United States, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service is often held up as a more enlightened…