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Added on: 11/05/2023

‘Looking Forward To Jail’: The Prison Diary Of Kyrgyz Opposition Writer Oljobai Shakir

11/04/2023

“The erosion of a nation’s freedom of speech can happen rapidly.” Oljobai Shakir, a 52-year-old activist and writer, spoke these words shortly after being detained by security…

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Added on: 11/05/2023

Give Gay Games chance to ‘change hearts and minds’ in Asia, says co-president

11/04/2023

International arrivals, political news conferences and attention-grabbing headlines — six years after the historic decision to award the Gay Games to Asia for the first time, it’s…

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Added on: 11/05/2023

Hungarian National Museum director defies LGBT ban on minors visiting World Press Photo exhibition

11/03/2023

The Hungarian National Museum is defying the government’s ban on minors visiting the World Press Photo exhibition, claiming they don’t have the authority to ask for visitors’…

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Added on: 11/04/2023

Justin Rogers’ journey to being out as gay and working in the NHL

11/03/2023

“Dear younger JR. Becoming the best you will take time and understanding. That knot in your stomach — the one that makes you feel confused, isolated, lost…

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Added on: 11/04/2023

Number of pansexuals on 2021 Census more than halved after ‘error’ spotted

11/03/2023

In a statistical release on Wednesday (1 November), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shared corrected numbers for those who identified as pansexual. The ONS stated some…

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Added on: 11/04/2023

Disasters don’t discriminate against queer people—but disaster responses do

11/03/2023

With climbing global temperatures increasing the risk of weather-related disasters fivefold in the last fifty years, it’s safe to say that climate change is affecting everyone. However,…

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Added on: 11/03/2023

LGBT HISTORY PROJECT: Exploring 70 years of lesbian publications

11/02/2023

Edythe Eyde was a secretary at RKO Studios in 1947 when she found she had time on her hands and made a groundbreaking decision. While at work,…

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Added on: 11/03/2023

Latvian Parliament wants better protection of rainbow families

11/02/2023

Latvia has a duty to protect all families, including rainbow ones. That is what the Constitutional Court ruled. Now, the Latvian Parliament considers a new partnership law…

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Added on: 11/03/2023

Historic Gay Games Open in Hong Kong and Guadalajara Amid Criticisms

11/02/2023

The Gay Games XI 2023 open this weekend in Hong Kong and Guadalajara, Mexico. Hong Kong was scheduled for 2017 before the global pandemic, and Guadalajara was selected in…

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Added on: 11/03/2023

Caribbean conference focuses on needs of LBTQ people assigned female at birth

11/02/2023

More than 70 activists from 18 countries gathered last month in Sint Maarten to focus on the needs of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBTQ) people assigned…

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Added on: 11/02/2023

Will U.S. Abortion Wars End a Successful Foreign Policy in Africa?

11/02/2023

Fierce opposition from conservative lawmakers is casting doubt on the future of PEPFAR, the U.S. government’s most successful global-health program, which was set up two decades ago…

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Added on: 11/02/2023

Catholic church loses landmark case over tactics that shield it from Australian abuse claims

11/02/2023

The Catholic church has lost a landmark case over its controversial use of the deaths of paedophile priests to thwart survivors’ attempts at justice. The high court on Wednesday…

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Added on: 11/02/2023

Where Do Trans Rights Stand in Taiwan After Same-Sex Marriage Legalization?

11/02/2023

An estimated 5,000 people gathered in Ximending on the evening of October 27 for the fifth annual Taiwan Trans March, making it the largest Trans March to…

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Added on: 11/02/2023

Unusual suspects

11/02/2023

Russia’s judicial statistics for the first half of this year neatly reflect life under the country’s military dictatorship in the second year of the war in Ukraine….

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Added on: 11/01/2023

Cameroon: Gay man flees after enduring an exorcism for his homosexuality

11/01/2023

“I am a homosexual, I am attracted to men and I feel good about that. I am like that and I have always been like that.” With…

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Added on: 11/01/2023

Senegal probe after gay man’s body reportedly dug up and burned

10/31/2023

Footage said to show a gay man’s body being dug up from a grave and burned has shocked Senegal, triggering an investigation in the conservative country where…

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Added on: 11/01/2023

‘Pink Zone’ with LGBTQ+ bars proposed for downtown Tijuana

10/31/2023

Tijuana officials said they will consider a proposal to create a “Pink Zone” in the downtown area that will include at least 10 bars and clubs catering…

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Added on: 10/31/2023

Donald Trump pledges to defund schools teaching critical race theory and ‘transgender insanity’

10/30/2023

Former US president Donald Trump has pledged to defund schools teaching critical race theory and “transgender insanity” if he is re-elected in 2024. At a rally in…

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Added on: 10/31/2023

Malaysia to require kill switch at concerts after The 1975’s LGBTQ rant, same-sex kiss

10/30/2023

Malaysia has begun demanding that concert organisers install a kill switch to “cut off electricity supply if there is any unwanted incident” after members of British band…

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Added on: 10/31/2023

Mass arrests target LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria while abuses against them are ignored, activists say

10/30/2023

Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say,…

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Added on: 10/31/2023

Queer U.K. Activists Hacked London Transit Ads to Support LGBTQ+ Gazans

10/30/2023

The Dyke Project, a U.K.-based “collection of trans, cis, [and] non-binary lesbians and queers,” says they “hacked” 100 advertisements across London transit by covering up physical ads…

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Added on: 10/30/2023

Johannesburg Pride marches for LGBTQ+ Ugandans in wake of Anti-Homosexuality Bill

10/29/2023

The 34th Johannesburg Pride, which was estimated to have a 24,000 strong crowd marching for equality, took place at the Wanderers Stadium in the South African city…

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Added on: 10/30/2023

Trans conversion therapy survivor begs Rishi Sunak to push on with ban: ‘Some would call it torture’

10/29/2023

Members of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies are growing impatient with Sunak who has yet to deliver on the government’s promise of a ban on trans-inclusive conversion therapy….

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Added on: 10/30/2023

Gay groups in India wrestle with court’s ‘landmark failure’ on marriage equality

10/29/2023

“We have been fighting for long and will keep doing so,” said Anjali Gopalan, one of the petitioners after a five-judge bench threw out the appeals. “This…

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Added on: 10/30/2023

Living an intersex life

10/29/2023

When Pidgeon Pagonis was born in a Chicago hospital 37 years ago, her doctors saw something that alarmed them. “I was born looking female on the outside,”…

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Added on: 10/29/2023

Mauritius Begins to Correct a Historic Wrong Towards LGBTQI+ People

10/28/2023

In response to lawsuits brought by LGBTQI+ activists, the Mauritius Supreme Court has issued two landmark judgments striking down the criminalisation of consensual sex between adult men…

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Added on: 10/29/2023

Johannesburg Pride marches for LGBTQ+ Ugandans after anti-gay law passed

10/28/2023

More than 20,000 people marched through Johannesburg on Saturday to celebrate Pride, singing, dancing and making their support clear for LGBTQ+ communities across Africa who cannot be…

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Added on: 10/29/2023

Austria to compensate gay men convicted under discriminatory laws

10/28/2023

The Austrian government is set to pay tens of millions of euros in compensation to gay people who were persecuted or convicted of consensual homosexual acts. The…

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Added on: 10/29/2023

Hungary bans teenagers from World Press Photo exhibit, citing LGBT content

10/28/2023

Hungary’s government has banned youngsters under 18 from visiting the World Press Photo exhibition on display in Budapest, citing LGBT content in some of the photos. Prime…

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Added on: 10/28/2023

‘It was beyond homophobia’: Sligo’s LGBTQ community still reeling after killer’s spree of violence

10/27/2023

Mary Branley remembers the shock on the faces of the young people from the LGBTQ community in Sligo at a vigil outside Sligo Town Hall in the…