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Added on: 03/25/2019

UK lawmakers calls against detention of LGBT asylum seekers

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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Added on: 03/22/2019

Students press city for LGBT protections

03/22/2019

Two students from Blue Springs South High School made a presentation to the city’s Human Relations Commission this week, asking for assistance in lobbying for increased protection…

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Added on: 03/21/2019

Multiple Birmingham Schools Refuse to Teach LGBTI and Diversity Lessons After Parents Protest

03/20/2019

Another four schools in Birmingham have reportedly halted lessons on diversity and LGBT issues following complaints by parents. In a letter quoted by the BBC, Leigh Trust said it was…

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Added on: 03/21/2019

A Chinese Dating App for Gay Men Is Helping Them Have Kids, Too

03/20/2019

The urge to have a child hit Geng Le hard after age 35. A former cop from China’s Hebei province, he’d launched a gay dating app called Blued…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

#GoodNews: India’s First LGBT Theatre Group Launched in Kerala

03/18/2019

At the back of the temporary stage built on Queer Pride day, Prijith stands looking tense. He looks preoccupied even as he describes to journalists the new…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

Northern Ireland Equal Marriage Activists: UK Government ‘doesn’t care’

03/18/2019

Activists have accused the UK government of “not caring” about equal marriage in Northern Ireland, after a car crash meeting with Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley. Karen…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

U.S. Top Court Hands Defeat to Hawaii B&B That Spurned Lesbian Couple

03/18/2019

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a defeat on Monday to a bed and breakfast owner in Hawaii who turned away a lesbian couple due to her Christian…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Dramatic increase in violence against LGBT people in Cameroon

03/18/2019

Humanity First Cameroon and Alternatives-Cameroon are two leading organizations advocating for human rights in Cameroon, with a particular focus on the rights of LGBT people. Working together…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Will the African nation of Botswana decriminalise homosexuality in June?

03/19/2019

Botswana’s High Court is considering a challenge to the provisions of the penal code criminalising consensual same-sex relations in the country. It will hand down its judgment…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Russian court jails top Chechen rights activist for 4 years

03/18/2019

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a top Chechen rights activist to four years in a penal colony after a drugs trial that has drawn condemnation from…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Google’s queer female pi world record breaker hopes to inspire LGBT community

03/18/2019

Emma Haruka Iwao, a queer software engineer at Google, who calculated pi to a new world record, has said that she hopes her achievement will inspire others…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Sydney to make Jewish LGBT+ history

03/18/2019

Event convenor, Dayenu’s Kim Gotlieb, said the program for this landmark conference – the first of its kind to be held in the Asia-Pacific region – is…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Rainbow Rage: Kyrgyz Rail Against LGBT Community After Central Asia’s ‘First’ Gay-Pride March

03/16/2019

What many consider the first gay-pride march ever held in Central Asia has unleashed a storm of controversy in Kyrgyzstan, with threats of violence against participants, counterprotests,…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Germany pays compensation to people investigated under anti-gay laws

03/13/2019

Germany has begun offering compensation to men who faced criminal investigations under historical anti-gay laws. The country extended compensation for LGBT+ people who faced oppression under authorities…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Poland’s Ruling Chief Speaks Strongly Against LGBT Rights

03/16/2019

The leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party used hostile language Saturday while speaking against rights for LGBT persons, a subject that has risen to prominence in his…

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Added on: 03/17/2019

LGBT Purge survivors urge education, awareness

03/15/2019

From the 1950s to mid-1990s, thousands of LGBT members of RCMP, the Canadian Armed Forces, and Federal Public Services were weeded out through an unspoken policy known…

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Added on: 03/17/2019

Authorities cancel activist youth festival in Russia’s Far East

03/15/2019

An activist youth arts festival in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East has been cancelled after authorities raised concerns that it was promoting an LGBT agenda, apparently…

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Added on: 03/17/2019

No truth for Gambia’s queer people

03/15/2019

Gambia is accounting for its past. Two years after the end of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal 23-year rule, the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission is under way….

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Added on: 03/17/2019

Pakatan vows no lgbt freedom after rowdy women’s day in Kuala Lumpur

03/14/2019

Malaysia probably saw its first pro-LGBT march in the country but it has more than that to worry about with a surge in ‘religious’ attacks online Last…

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Added on: 03/16/2019

Poland’s ruling party picks LGBT rights as election battlefront

03/15/2019

Poland’s ruling nationalist party aims to stem a decline in its popularity ahead of two key elections this year with warnings that opposition support for LGBT education…