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Added on: 06/07/2022

Fight looms over transgender treatments in Medicaid.

WJCT
06/06/2022
National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups are preparing to fight a move by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to deny Medicaid coverage for treatments such as hormone…
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Added on: 06/07/2022

A year after landmark HC ruling, lesbian couples still face discrimination.

Hindustan Times
06/06/2022
Suffering from gender dysphoria since adolescence, R Ramya, 24, is in the process of a sex change to transition to identify as a male. Growing up in…
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Added on: 06/07/2022

In the Philippines, You Can Be Both Openly LGBT and Proudly Catholic. But It’s Not Easy.

Time
06/06/2022
Gabb’z Gabriel is the very definition of a devout Roman Catholic. He even aspired to be a priest. At 12, he became part of his church’s youth…
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Added on: 06/06/2022

Lesbian icon receives Order of Merit for staunch advocacy to NZ rainbow community

Stuff
06/05/2022
For a long time, Miriam Saphira thought she was a freak. “I always knew I was homosexual – I didn’t know the word ‘lesbian’ – but I read…
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Added on: 06/06/2022

Greece’s LGBTTQQIAAP Community, Youth Struggle for Acceptance

The National Herald
06/05/2022
ATHENS – It’s not easy being gay in Greece and it’s even tougher for gender queer children and youths during a time when many people are questioning…
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Added on: 06/06/2022

Thailand: Bangkok sees first LGBTQ Pride march in years

Deutsche Welle
06/05/2022
A celebratory march made its way through the Thai capital of Bangkok on Sunday, the first of its kind in almost 16 years. The “Naruemit Pride 2022” event…
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Added on: 06/06/2022

Sit-in over anti-LGBTQ policy surpasses 300 hours at SPU

Fox 13 Seattle
06/05/2022
SEATTLE – Students at Seattle Pacific University have crossed the 300 hour mark of a sit-in over an anti-LGBTQ policy. The sit-in began as a direct response to the…
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Added on: 06/05/2022

China’s gay youth wanting to expand rights at home seek a different path to LGBT campaigners in the West

The Star
6/3/22
The first time Eugene Wu observed a pride parade in Manchester after arriving in Britain to study architecture in 2017, it was a bit of a culture…
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Added on: 06/05/2022

GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection

Ohio Capital Journal
6/3/22
House Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college…
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Added on: 06/05/2022

85 YEARS ON, A PIONEERING LGBTQ RESEARCHER’S IDEAS ABOUT SEXUALITY TAKE ON NEW MEANING

Inverse
6/3/22
Historians are rediscovering one of the most important LGBTQ activists of the early 20th Century — an Asian Canadian named Li Shiu Tong. You probably don’t know…
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Added on: 06/05/2022

Mexican LGBTQ group rallies support for beach ‘paradise’ battered by storm

NBC News
6/3/22
When Hurricane Agatha battered a Mexican beach hamlet popular with LGBTQ residents and visitors earlier this week, members of the community sprang into action to help the…
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Added on: 06/03/2022

Kuwait’s foreign ministry summons U.S. Embassy official over tweets

Reuters
06/02/2022
June 2 (Reuters) – Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned the United States Embassy’s acting charge d’affaires over tweets the embassy published that “support homosexuality”, the ministry…
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Added on: 06/03/2022

Russia Says Planning Domestic ‘Alternative’ to European Rights Court

Moscow Times
06/02/2022
Russia is developing a domestic alternative to Europe’s top human rights court, the head of the ​​Association of Russian Lawyers said Thursday. Russia has been outside the jurisdiction…
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Added on: 06/03/2022

Indonesia’s LGBTQ community fears crackdown under legal reforms

Deutsche Welle
06/02/2022
Indonesia’s lawmakers are working on reforming the country’s criminal code under a draft bill, known in the country by the acronoym RKUHP. The reforms are an attempt to…
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Added on: 06/03/2022

After years fighting for the ‘little guy’, Hong Kong crackdown forces UK lawyer to flee

The Guardian
06/02/2022
Michael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the “little guy” in Hong Kong, from high-profile street protesters such as Joshua Wong to little-known LGBT activists. But…
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Added on: 06/02/2022

BBC article claiming cis lesbians ‘pressured into sex by trans women’ found to be misleading

Pink News
06/01/2022
A story by the BBC claiming cis lesbians are being “pressured into sex” by trans women fell below the broadcaster’s editorial standards, the company’s complaints team has found. The…
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Added on: 06/02/2022

Meet Charlie Amáyá Scott, a transgender Indigenous scholar and social influencer

NBC News
06/01/2022
Navajo Nation citizen Charlie Amáyá Scott, 27, is a transgender social media influencer, scholar and advocate. Scott, of Aurora, Colorado, who uses she and they pronouns, leverages her…
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Added on: 06/01/2022

“Fully embraced”? Bostwana’s queer struggles since decriminalisation.

African Arguments
05/31/2022
In November 2021, Botswana’s Court of Appeal upheld a landmark 2019 ruling that had decriminalised gay sex. Before the original verdict, same-sex sexual activity had been punishable…
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Added on: 06/01/2022

Gay/Trans ‘Panic’ Defense Leads to Accused Killer’s Acquittal.

Advocate
05/31/2022
A Virginia man has been acquitted of murder after using what amounted to a gay/trans “panic” defense, outlawed in the state just a month after the victim’s…
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Added on: 06/01/2022

Kerala Lesbian Couple Reunited by High Court in Big Win After Being Separated by Parents.

News 18
05/31/2022
The Kerala High Court set a strong precedent on Tuesday by allowing a lesbian couple, Adhila Nasarin and Fathima Noora, to live together after they were forcefully…
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Added on: 06/01/2022

Activist reporter tells why he promotes LGBTI rights in the French Caribbean.

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/31/2022
More than 12 million people live in the Francophone Caribbean, from the independent nation of Haiti to the French territories of Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy,…
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Added on: 05/31/2022

Youth group’s new zine showcases 2SLGBTQ+ talent in rural Ontario.

CBC News
05/30/2022
When Mabe Kyle was in their teens, they didn’t think that 2SLGBTQ+ people existed in rural Ontario, but years later, the youth group that Kyle co-founded has…
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Added on: 05/31/2022

Anti-gay mob of 100 people beat American man bloody & parade him through the streets.

LGBTQ Nation
05/30/2022
Three men have been arrested in the West African country of Senegal after video emerged of a suspected homophobic attack that left its American victim bloodied, robbed…
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Added on: 05/31/2022

Israeli right-wing magazine decries ‘LGBT-stan’ and ‘LGBT religion’.

The Jerusalem Post
05/30/2022
The right-wing Channel 14 announced a new magazine on Monday, with the cover featuring a cartoon of worshippers surrounding a rainbow “golden calf” with the title “LGBT-stan:…
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Added on: 05/31/2022

We have the power’: Poles march for LGBTQ+ rights in Gdansk.

Thomson Reuters Foundation
05/30/2022
Thousands of Poles marched to demand an end to homophobia on Saturday, as the northern port city of Gdansk hosted its seventh annual Equality March under the…
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Added on: 05/30/2022

The Kisumu Feminists Society Wants Justice For Sheila Lumumba

Jo Moses
Alturi Contributor
When a Kenyan lesbian is murdered, who avenges their death? Feminists? LGBT activists? Anti-violence campaigners? All of these, argues the Kisumu Feminists Society of Kisumu, Kenya, should…
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Added on: 05/30/2022

Meet the LGBTQI Pacific Islanders overcoming a ‘colonial mindset’ and ‘narrative of shame’ to embrace their true selves

ABC News
05/30/2022
From an early age, Kalisito Biaukula stood out as the “loudest, wildest, craziest, most androgynous” child in what was a very traditional Fijian family. “I know growing up…
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Added on: 05/30/2022

At Berkeley’s queer tango class, it takes 2 but it doesn’t matter who

Berkeleyside
05/29/2022
On a recent Sunday afternoon at Finnish Hall, Mira Barakat, a tango instructor, demonstrated a connection exercise designed to help students be more responsive to their partner’s…
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Added on: 05/30/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians and Russians find solidarity in Berlin

Al Jazeera
05/29/2022
Berlin, Germany – Having visited the German capital twice before, Polina Punegova, from the Russian port city of St Petersburg, had often told her Ukrainian partner Yulia…
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Added on: 05/30/2022

Gay Conversion Therapies Continue To Take Their Toll In Switzerland

MENAFN
05/29/2022
(MENAFN– Swissinfo) – Unlike many countries, Switzerland has refused to ban conversion therapies, often practised by evangelical churches, which claim to“cure” homosexuality. Several victims explain how they…
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