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Added on: 10/13/2023

Hundreds protest outside Downing Street after Rishi Sunak’s anti-trans comments

10/12/2023

Hundreds of trans activists gathered outside Downing Street this week to protest against comments Rishi Sunak made at the Tory party conference. Activists from across the UK…

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Added on: 10/13/2023

Hundreds oppose LGBTQ people during slanderous Kenyan protest

10/12/2023

Human rights organizations have condemned an anti-LGBTQ protest attended by hundreds who chanted hateful and misleading slogans in Nairobi, Kenya, last week. Erasing 76 Crimes presents this…

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Added on: 10/12/2023

Poland election: what you need to know

10/11/2023

Oct 11 (Reuters) – Poland holds a parliamentary election on Sunday, with the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party seeking an unprecedented third term in power after…

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Added on: 10/12/2023

Nepal Courts Refuse to Register Same-Sex Marriages

10/11/2023

Two lower courts in Nepal have denied a couple recognition of their marriage, in defiance of the Supreme Court’s recent interim order to register same-sex marriages while legislative change is…

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Added on: 10/12/2023

A transgender student, her crusading mom — and an English teacher caught in the middle

10/11/2023

GRAPEVINE, Texas — High school teacher Em Ramser felt her stomach drop when she noticed an empty seat in her second-period English class one morning in January…

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Added on: 10/12/2023

A SIMILAR TWIST: ABORTION TREKS WITH TRANSGENDER HEALTH

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There is an underreported and counterintuitive effect of denying abortion access: When abortion is safe, legal, and accessible, the abortion rate is typically lower. When abortion is…

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Added on: 10/11/2023

Kenya to lose huge funding if LGBTQ practices banned, report says

10/10/2023

A new study has raised concerns over the economic repercussions in Kenya in the event the government enacts legislation against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)….

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Added on: 10/11/2023

NHS report reveals no change in blood safety since allowing gay and bi men to donate

10/10/2023

There has been no impact on safety since UK rules changed to permit gay and bisexual men to donate blood, a NHS report has revealed. Findings from…

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Added on: 10/11/2023

Syriza’s gay leader plans surrogacy baby

10/10/2023

Stefanos Kasselakis, 35, caused a stir recently when he was elected as leader of Syriza, becoming Greece’s first openly gay political leader. He has since caused further…

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Added on: 10/11/2023

Two-Spirit Inuit share their stories of growing up queer in the North

10/10/2023

Kuujjuaq, an Inuit town in northern Quebec, has been hosting 2SLGBTQ+ pride parades for the past few years – but Two-Spirit youth from the community say a…

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Added on: 10/10/2023

An American LGBTQ+ activist who fled Israel during Hamas attacks says she never imagined feeling safer in Dubai, where being gay is a crime

10/09/2023

As an American LGBTQ+ activist, Rachael Fried never thought she would feel a sense of relief upon landing in Dubai, where homosexuality is a crime. But when…

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Added on: 10/10/2023

‘Everything is prohibited’: Uganda’s anti-gay law forces community into hiding

10/09/2023

When Richard Lusimbo came for the interview at an office in the suburbs of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, he looked exhausted. The bags under his eyes told…

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Added on: 10/10/2023

Nazi group gathers outside Cathedral of Hope on Sunday

10/09/2023

Staff and congregants at Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ are no strangers to protests. The Oak Lawn church, known as the largest church in the…

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Added on: 10/10/2023

They’re afraid of joy’: Pakistan’s trans community fights hate

10/09/2023

Clad in a Barbie-pink shalwar kameez, influencer and doctor Mehrub Moiz Awan reels off endless examples of harassment she’s received since becoming the sharp-tongued figurehead of Pakistan’s…

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Added on: 10/09/2023

Uganda’s anti-gay law jeopardises progress in the fight against AIDS

10/09/2023

The aisles of a clinic for HIV-positive patients on the outskirts of Kampala are almost deserted. However, staff keep an eye on CCTV footage for suspicious individuals, reflecting…

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Added on: 10/09/2023

Sydney’s Inner West Council To Commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance

10/08/2023

The upcoming Inner West Council meeting anticipates a notice of motion, requesting council to further commemorate international Transgender Day of Remembrance this November. The motion created by councillor,…

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Added on: 10/09/2023

Why this Buddhist monk has become an LGBTQ+ role model in Tokyo

10/08/2023

How did you become both a monk and makeup artist? – My father is a monk and I was born in a temple in Tokyo. My parents…

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Added on: 10/09/2023

Nowhere to party: The decimation of queer spaces for Black lesbians

10/08/2023

Women and femmes have long been the LGBTQ+ community’s invisible force, often holding hands on the front lines but never quite making the cut of importance and…

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Added on: 10/08/2023

Normalising Extremism: How Far-Right Narratives Spread in the Balkans

10/07/2023

Hate-filled comments about migrants, Roma people and the LGBT community. Praise for authoritarian regimes like Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Misogynistic and sexist abuse. Conspiracy theories about George Soros,…

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Added on: 10/08/2023

Greece’s gay Syriza leader says he told of plans to become parent to ‘stir’ debate

10/07/2023

Greece’s first openly gay political party leader says he was deliberately trying to “stir stagnant waters” and tackle the taboo subject of same-sex couples having children when…

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Added on: 10/08/2023

Kenya: Large crowd of Muslims protest against LGBTQ rights

10/07/2023

Hundreds of Kenyan Muslims marched on the country’s Supreme Court Friday in protest against a recent decision upholding the right of LGBTQ groups to associate and form…

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Added on: 10/08/2023

Queer defiance at a festival in Hungary

10/06/2023

One of the largest festivals in Europe, Sziget takes place on a beach-lined island in the middle of the Danube River, a short journey from the city…

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Added on: 10/08/2023

Turkey’s Erdogan tells supporters he does not ‘recognise’ LGBT

10/07/2023

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not “recognise LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of…

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Added on: 10/07/2023

Belgian transgender deputy PM urges Sunak not to join ‘the real bullies’

10/06/2023

Belgium’s deputy prime minister, who ranks as one of Europe’s most senior transgender politicians, has urged Rishi Sunak not to join “the real bullies” after remarks made…

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Added on: 10/07/2023

Kenya: Hundreds of believers protest LGBTQ association right

10/06/2023

Hundreds of Muslims and conservative Christians in Kenya’s capital rallied Friday outside the Supreme Court to protest its decision last month to reaffirm the LGBTQ community’s right…

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Added on: 10/06/2023

Number of nations with laws against gay sex falls to 66

10/05/2023

The number of nations with laws against gay sex has fallen to 66, continuing the slow, decades-long progress toward recognition of the human rights of LGBTQ+ people. The…

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Added on: 10/06/2023

Gays Against Groomers leader issued restraining order after online attacks on school

10/05/2023

A Wisconsin school district has been granted a temporary restraining order against the leader of a local Gays Against Groomers chapter, following accusations of harassment. A Brown…

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Added on: 10/06/2023

Gay conversion therapy ban bill to be brought forward in NSW after claims reform was put ‘on ice’

10/05/2023

The New South Wales government says it will bring forward its promised laws banning gay conversion practices, days after a religious lobby group claimed to have helped…

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Added on: 10/06/2023

Rights groups cheer as Mauritius top court decriminalises same-sex relations

10/05/2023

PORT-LOUIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Mauritius has struck out a colonial-era law criminalising same-sex relations, bucking a trend elsewhere in Africa where a…

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Added on: 10/05/2023

Swiss LGBTQ groups praise jail sentence for commentator who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’

10/04/2023

GENEVA — LGBTQ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian,” among…