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Added on: 12/16/2022

Polish president says he will not sign proposed education bill

12/15/2022

WARSAW, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday he would for a second time refuse to sign into law proposed reforms to education…

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Added on: 12/16/2022

Drag Queens Were Targeted by the Proud Boys. Whom Did the Police Support?

12/15/2022

In November, the First Unitarian Universalist Church and Red Oak Community School in Columbus, Ohio, announced a “Holi-Drag Storytime” event where drag queens would read books to…

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Added on: 12/16/2022

All the countries where homosexuality is illegal

12/15/2022

We’re well into a new decade, but equality for LGBTQ people around the world continues to not be a given. In fact, being part of the LGBTQ…

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Added on: 12/16/2022

Women ‘acting like men’ face cane, jail under Malaysia state law

12/15/2022

(Bloomberg) — A recent move by a Malaysian state to punish Muslim women for out-of-wedlock pregnancies and donning men’s clothing has drawn the ire of human rights…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Club Q Shooting Survivors Press Congress To Act On Guns

12/14/2022

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub testified Wednesday to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Biden signs landmark law protecting same-sex and interracial marriages

12/13/2022

Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law landmark legislation protecting same-sex marriages, hailing it as a step toward building a nation where “decency, dignity and love are…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Iraq Parliament drafts law to ban publications on LGBTQ concerns

12/13/2022

The Iraqi Parliament recently drafted a law to ban publications regarding queer issues. This has alarmed the members of the LGBTQ+ community in the country. The law…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Cambridge Dictionary changes definitions of ‘male,’ ‘female’ to include transgender people

12/13/2022

The definitions of “man” and “woman” have been altered in the Cambridge Dictionary in order to be inclusive of transgender people. While both words still contain their…

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Added on: 12/13/2022

Barbados’ top court repeals laws that criminalize gay sex

12/13/2022

A top court in Barbados has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex, becoming the third nation in the conservative Caribbean region to do so this…

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Added on: 12/13/2022

Calgary police offer reconciliation for 2002 gay bathhouse raid

12/12/2022

On a warmer-than-average Dec. 12, 2002, Keith Purdy started his shift like any other. He was the bartender at Texas Lounge in Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood — a…

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Added on: 12/13/2022

‘Passage of anti-LGBTQ Bill go fit be bad for Ghana economy’ – US Ambassador to Ghana caution

12/12/2022

US Ambassador caution Ghanaians den lawmakers say de attempt to pass de anti-LGBT bill go fit affect de economy. According to Ambassador Virginia Palmer, Ghanaians and lawmakers…

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Added on: 12/13/2022

Fears Switzerland could become hotspot for “gay conversion tourism” amid parliamentary debate

12/12/2022

LGBT rights groups in Switzerland are speaking out in favour of a ban on conversion therapy, fearing that the country may become a hotspot for “conversion therapy…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Orthodox Judaism can be difficult for LGBT Jews, but the tide is slowly turning

12/11/2022

Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York, is in the midst of a legal battle over its refusal to recognize the YU Pride…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Transgender Qatari princess flees country fearing persecution

12/11/2022

A Qatari princess was granted asylum in the UK over fears that they would be persecuted for being transgender. Leaked documents obtained by the Sunday Times of…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Anti-Gay Bill: Ghanaian MPs must respect peoples’ rights – US Ambassador

12/11/2022

United States Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer has advised Ghanaians and their representatives in Parliament to respect international obligations and Domestic laws which centre on the need…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

A divided church: Friction over LGBTQ issues worsens in global Anglican church

12/10/2022

Friction has been simmering within the global Anglican Communion for many years over its 42 provinces’ sharp differences on whether to recognise same-sex marriage and ordain LGBTQ…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

Will Indonesia’s new ‘no sex before marriage’ laws target LGBT couples?

12/10/2022

Indonesia has just approved a long debated new penal code and a provision which has sex and co-habitation outside of marriage illegal has caused alarm. As soon…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

‘Our mere existence is illegal.’ As Moscow toughens anti-gay law, LGBTQ Russians fear for the future

12/10/2022

Young mothers Yana and Yaroslava don’t want to leave Russia with their 6-year-old son. But they fear a harsh new anti-gay law passed by Russian lawmakers will…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises

12/10/2022

Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred. As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family…

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Added on: 12/10/2022

Cape Town jeweller faces flak after refusing to sell engagement ring to same-sex couple

12/09/2022

For the second time in three years a Cape Town jeweller is in trouble with LGBTQIA+ activists for his religious beliefs which he says prevent him from…

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Added on: 12/10/2022

Popular Russian Social Network VK Starts Marking Materials Containing LGBT Text

12/09/2022

The social network “VKontakte” began to mark with a special plate the communities in which the so-called LGBT content can be posted. When you try to enter…

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Added on: 12/10/2022

Poland to veto EU recognition of same-sex parents, says justice ministry

12/09/2022

Poland will block European Union proposals to ensure that the rights of same-sex parents and their children are legally recognised in all of the bloc’s member states,…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

Indonesia’s new sex laws ‘nail in coffin’ for LGBTQ rights

12/09/2022

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s legislation banning sex outside marriage represents a major new threat to the LGBTQ community’s rights in the conservative country, where same-sex unions are not…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

Colorado shooter’s 2021 case dropped for lack of cooperation

12/09/2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter had charges dropped in a 2021 bomb threat case after family members who were terrorized in the…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

RUSSIA FREES OUT GAY BASKETBALL STAR BRITTNEY GRINER IN PRISONER SWAP FOR ARMS DEALER

12/09/2022

Out gay American basketball star Brittney Griner was freed by Russia, in exchange for the US releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the ‘Merchant of…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

12/6/2022

On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

LGBTQ Politics in Kazakhstan: A Cross-Cutting Electoral Cleavage?

12/6/2022

For many decades domestic politics in Kazakhstan has pivoted around monolithic state structures, dependent on such a concentrated leadership elite, that outside observers might surmise the country…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Ukraine’s only transgender correspondent has become a local legend

12/6/2022

I was shocked when I learned of LGBTQ Nation reporter Sarah Ashton-Cirillo – the only openly transgender war correspondent working in Ukraine. It was May, and I…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Tel Aviv’s Gay Dads

12/6/2022

In the middle of a recent two-week trip to Tel Aviv—a city where I lived for many years, many years ago—I suddenly realized why I felt oddly…

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Added on: 12/06/2022

Sport New Zealand reveals new guidelines for transgender inclusion in community sport

12/5/2022

Sport New Zealand has released new guidelines for the inclusion of transgender people in community sport, allowing athletes to compete in the gender they identify with. The…