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Added on: 09/19/2022

Gay Likud MK defends Netanyahu’s push for inclusion of anti-LGBT Noam party in bloc

Times of Israel
09/18/2022
Likud MK Amir Ohana on Sunday defended party leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s push to get anti-LGBT party Noam into the Knesset in the next election, saying he was…
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Added on: 09/19/2022

Thousands march in Turkey to demand ban on LGBTQ groups

ABC News
09/18/2022
An anti-LGBTQ group marched Sunday in Istanbul, demanding that LGBTQ associations be shuttered and their activities banned, in the largest demonstration of its kind in Turkey. Several…
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Added on: 09/18/2022

Turkish Regulator Criticized Over Public Service Video

Voice of America
09/16/2022
Turkish media and LGBTQ groups are questioning a decision by the country’s regulator to classify a video from a coalition of conservative groups as a public service…
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Added on: 09/18/2022

Texas judge halts investigations of transgender families who belong to national advocacy group

KERA
09/16/2022
A state district judge on Friday granted a temporary halt into the investigations of families with transgender children who belong to one of the largest LGBTQ advocacy…
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Added on: 09/18/2022

Police and anti-LGBT protesters clash in Belgrade as EuroPride march goes ahead

BNE IntelliNews
09/17/2022
Serbian riot police clashed with anti-LGBT protesters in the capital Belgrade on September 17, as a last minute government decision allowed the EuroPride march to go ahead….
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Added on: 09/18/2022

Egypt integrates sex education ‘to stop homosexuality’

The New Arab
09/17/2022
The Egyptian education ministry has ordered educational directorates to integrate concepts of sexual education, sexual harassment and sexual violence into the basic education curriculum, local media reported…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Anti-gay sentiment shows limit of Gulf states’ liberal drive

Financial Times
09/16/2022
Teachers returning for the new academic year in the United Arab Emirates were struck by a new bureaucratic demand. In a new code of conduct, one clause…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Dance music festival gets Uganda’s OK despite worries that it ‘promotes gays’

Erasing 76 Crimes
09/15/2022
One of East Africa’s most popular music festivals has been cleared to go ahead after members of parliament tried to ban it for “promoting gays” in the…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Divorcing the TQ from LGB

Spectator Australia
09/16/2022
The LGB is divorcing the TQ and there is a court case. While the world’s eyes are on Britain changing monarchs, those of us who are interested…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Defying ministry, rabbis tell school to put transgender boy in female-only class

Times of Israel
09/16/2022
Over a dozen rabbis called Thursday for a religious school in central Israel to force an 8-year-old transgender student into a female-only classroom, defying the wishes of…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Japan’s first gay elected member of parliament visits SF

East Bay Reporter
09/16/2022
San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society Museum welcomed Taiga Ishikawa, Japan’s first gay member of parliament, during his recent visit to San Francisco. Ishikawa, 48, is Japan’s highest-ranking…
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Added on: 09/17/2022

Despite ban and protests, LGBTQ organizers move forward with EuroPride march in Serbia

PBS
09/16/2022
Organizers of European LGBTQ events in Belgrade this week said Friday they will hold a planned Pride march on the streets of the Serbian capital despite a…
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Serbian pride officially banned after threats

CNE
09/15/2022
The EuroPride was launched on September 12. Its opening passed without incidents, RFERL reports. However, on Tuesday, the Serbian authorities officially banned the event. The Pride Parade,…
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Singapore mulls ‘cancel culture’ legislation amid gay marriage debate

Bloomberg
09/15/2022
Singapore’s law minister says “cancel culture” rules may be included in legislation in the near future as the government looks to protect residents against online pressure over…
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Violence against LGBTQI+ people continues

Kathmandu Post
09/15/2022
Last Saturday, Munni Kinnar was on her way back home to Dumari from Laxmipur with her friend, Chanda Raut, after visiting her ailing sister. What followed their…
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Added on: 09/14/2022

Soon-to-close NHS Tavistock clinic is accused of ‘wrongly convincing gay and bisexual people they were TRANS’ in bitter legal dispute

Daily Mail
09/13/2022
The UK’s soon-to-close child gender clinic has been accused of wrongly convincing gay and bisexual people that they are trans. London-based Tavistock Clinic was ordered to close…
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Added on: 09/14/2022

Lebanon’s anti-LGBT “Soldiers of God”

France 24
09/13/2022
At the end of June, a widely circulated video showed a floral display, installed for Pride Month in Beirut, being vandalised. The video was shot by the…
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Added on: 09/14/2022

Gay rights group was set up ‘to promote transphobic activity’, court told

The Guardian
09/13/2022
The gay rights organisation LGB Alliance was set up to “promote transphobic activity rather than pro-LGB activities”, the head of Consortium, an umbrella group of LGBT organisations…
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Added on: 09/13/2022

Explainer: The facts about Russia’s expanded ‘gay propaganda’ law

Open Democracy
09/12/2022
Russia’s so-called ‘gay propaganda’ law has banned the promotion of “non-traditional sexual values” to under-18s since 2013. Now, the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament,…
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Added on: 09/13/2022

Politicians in Italy are freaking out over lesbian polar bears in a British cartoon

LGBTQ Nation
09/12/2022
A far-right political group in Italy is up in arms over a popular British children’s cartoon that recently featured a lesbian polar bear couple. Federico Mollicone, culture…
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Added on: 09/13/2022

Tanzania warns against sharing pro-LGBTQI content

Africa News
09/12/2022
The Tanzanian government has warned against the dissemination of online messages and short videos promoting same-sex relationships. It has also warned that it will take action against…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Sri Lankan Prez says Govt won’t oppose Bill to decriminalise homosexuality

Business Standard
09/11/2022
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said that the government will not oppose the Private Member’s Bill presented to Parliament to decriminalize homosexuality, however, the bill…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Tokyo Court Denies Transgender Parent Legal Rights To Own Child

Unseen Japan
09/11/2022
The journey toward equality for the LGBTQ+ community in Japan has been something of a ping-pong match over the past few years. The country has indeed taken…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Drag queens and TikTokers: queer Fijian influencers challenging traditional notions of masculinity

The Guardian
09/11/2022
Sevuloni Lule, a professional dancer from Lautoka City in western Fiji, is causing a stir on Shenzen’s club scene in China. Or rather, his drag alter ego – Savanaah…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Transphobia in Germany: The danger of anti-queer attacks

Deutsche Welle
09/11/2022
Munster, Augsburg, Bremen: three German cities, three brutal attacks on queer people within the past three months. One of them ended in tragedy for Malte C.*, a transgender man who…
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Added on: 09/11/2022

Yeshiva University Can Bar L.G.B.T. Club for Now, Justice Rules

New York Times
09/09/2022
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Friday that Yeshiva University in Manhattan can for now disregard a state court ruling that ordered it to recognize an L.G.B.T. student…
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Added on: 09/11/2022

Queer Hungarians in Berlin: ‘We can finally hold hands in public’

Deutsche Welle
09/10/2022
Over the past years, the situation for LGBTQ individuals in many EU countries has improved, even if often only haltingly. But Hungary is another story. There, homophobia…
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Added on: 09/11/2022

‘I want to see the rainbow flag raised in Iran’

BBC
09/10/2022
For the first time, two women known to have been lesbian have been sentenced to death in Iran. It marks a new stage in the Islamic republic’s…
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Added on: 09/10/2022

Montana permanently blocks transgender birth certificate changes

Washington Times
09/09/2022
Montana health officials on Friday made permanent a rule that blocks transgender people from changing their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery. The move by…
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Added on: 09/10/2022

LGBT solidarity march in Norway for canceled Pride parade

CT Insider
09/10/2022
Hundreds of people marched through the Norwegian capital on Saturday in an LBGT solidarity event to honor the Pride parade that was canceled in June after a…
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