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Added on: 02/12/2022

Isle of Man to pardon men convicted for homosexual acts

2/11/22

Men who have been convicted for homosexual acts on the Isle of Man will be automatically pardoned later this year in what campaigners said was a long…

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Added on: 02/12/2022

LGBT organisations ask UN to revoke status of British rights watchdog

2/10/22

A group of 20 LGBT organisations have asked the UN to revoke the status of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). A 19-page submission to the…

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Added on: 02/12/2022

Only 19% of Australians agree religious schools should be able to ban LGBT+ teachers

2/9/22

This week, the religious discrimination bill is finally being debated on the floor of federal parliament. The bill has prompted disagreements within political parties, within religions and…

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Added on: 02/12/2022

LGBT rights in eastern Europe: explaining financial benefits makes a big difference to people’s views – new findings

2/9/22

Across eastern Europe, it’s still very difficult to pass laws and policies designed to advance LGBT inclusion. With LGBT+ History Month underway, some Ukrainians are worried that…

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Added on: 02/12/2022

Arab film directors tackle gender taboos on big screen

02/11/2022

A Lebanese director who has just scooped up an award at Sundance Film Festival says she wants her short to “break the norms” on sexuality and gender…

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Added on: 02/12/2022

Lawmaker delivers heartfelt appeal on LGBTQ rights as Australia shelves religious discrimination bill

02/11/2022

“He has more courage than any boy I have met,” Stephen Jones said of his son in a speech to the Australian parliament earlier this week. “He…

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Added on: 02/12/2022

Out in the World: Passage of Global Respect Act signals US stands with LGBTQ people globally

02/11/2022

Signaling the importance of global LGBTQ issues, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Global Respect Act. The bill, introduced by gay Congressmember David Cicilline (D-Rhode…

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Added on: 02/11/2022

‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill would limit discussion of sexuality and gender in Florida schools

02/09/2022

Proposed legislation in Florida would restrict how teachers can discuss sexuality and gender in the classroom, the latest effort by Republican lawmakers to remove the teaching of…

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Added on: 02/11/2022

Russian Government Seeks Closure of LGBT Rights Group

02/09/2022

This week, Russia’s Justice Ministry filed a lawsuit seeking to “liquidate” Sphere Foundation, the legal entity under which the Russian LGBT Network operates, arguing the group’s activities…

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Added on: 02/11/2022

Kerala LGBT Couple Move Court To Get Their Marriage Registered Under Transgender Identities

02/09/2022

On February 14 when the world marks Valentine’s Day, Manu Karthika and Syama S Prabha will start their new journey in life as a couple. The duo…

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Added on: 02/11/2022

Young trans people around Australia are seeing the news and hearing that they are not worthy of protection

02/08/2022

I grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs during the 80s, a knockabout kid who was always a bit worried and generally a bit of a worry. My…

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Added on: 02/09/2022

Gay kiss on live TV evades Singapore’s ban on LGBT content.

02/08/2022

It was a Singaporean news report on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, live from a Beijing bar filled with eager fans. Yet it was two men –…

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Added on: 02/09/2022

Ugandan court to rule on shutdown of LGBT ally organisation Chapter Four.

02/08/2022

Uganda’s High Court in Kampala has set March 18 as the date to rule on an application seeking to quash the government’s decision to indefinitely suspend the…

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Added on: 02/09/2022

Three found guilty of gang raping gay man in landmark verdict for South Africa.

02/08/2022

Three men have been found guilty of the gang rape of a gay man in South Africa – the first time the country has issued a guilty…

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Added on: 02/09/2022

Lawmakers introduce Arizona LGBT anti-discrimination bill.

02/08/2022

A bipartisan group of Arizona lawmakers that includes the Republican House speaker announced Monday they were introducing legislation that would for the first time protect gay and…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

Religious discrimination bill will not protect trans students from expulsion, Simon Birmingham confirms

02/07/2022

The Morrison government will seek to protect gay students from expulsion without protecting trans students at the same time, a senior minister has revealed. On Monday Scott…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

Met Police chief says ‘nasty’ homophobia, racism and misogyny ‘risks force losing public consent’

02/07/2022

A damning report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) revealed that there was “pervasive evidence” of bullying and harassment within the Met Police involving officers…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

Gay Man Becomes Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, Faces Big Challenges

02/07/2022

Sworn-in to lead one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States, Chris Magnus also joined a small group of gay national security officials. At…

World Voices

Added on: 02/08/2022

Rightify Ghana

Phillip Baumgart

Alturi Contributor

How did Rightify Ghana get started? The national government has long denied LGBTQ Ghanaians respect, protection, and recognition. Rightify Ghana came together to raise awareness about the…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

More Gay and Lesbian People are Vaccinated than Straight People, CDC Finds

02/07/2022

Gay and lesbian adults in the U.S. have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine at a higher rate than their straight counterparts, according to data released by the Center…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

Queer Square Mile – two centuries of diverse Welsh storytelling

02/06/2022

Queer Square Mile is a ground-breaking anthology of queer Welsh writing edited by Mihangel Morgan, Kirsti Bohata and Huw Osborne and published by Parthian. The volume makes…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

Israel to open first LGBT shelter for Arab youth

02/05/2022

Israel is set to open its first shelter designated for LGBT Arab Israeli youth, in a move hailed as “historic” by one of the lawmakers who led…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

30% of Japan areas with LGBT partnership system have mutual accords

02/05/2022

Over 30 percent of the 146 local governments in Japan that have introduced a same-sex partnership system as of Jan. 1 have also signed reciprocal agreements with…

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Added on: 02/08/2022

Jamaica: Tiny victory in 7-year quest to make a kiss legal

02/05/2022

An 1864 British colonially imposed law makes acts of intimacy between men illegal, and my partner and I could be imprisoned for up to ten years at…

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Added on: 02/06/2022

Three queer people violently killed in Honduras on the same day

2/5/22

Three LGBT+ people have been murdered on the same day in Honduras in a spate of violence indicative of the horrific circumstances for queer folk in the…

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Added on: 02/06/2022

Meet the 23 Gay Women Competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics

2/4/22

The 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off its razzlin’, dazzlin’, flipplin’, slidin’ 16-day event with a fireworks-heavy opening ceremony this morning in Beijing, and if you’re anything like…

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Added on: 02/06/2022

Abhorrent and Inhumane. So why has a ban on gay conversion therapy in Scotland still not happened?

2/5/22

Is this a good time to bring up the subject of whether Conservative governments can be relied on, whether they stick to their word, whether they keep…

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Added on: 02/06/2022

Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia: NGO reports that LGBT+ Roma face discrimination from their own families as well as majority societies in these EU Member States

2/6/22

In the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, counsellors are helping LGBT+ Roma deal with multiple discrimination, according to research recently published by ARA ART, an NGO that…

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Added on: 02/05/2022

South Dakota signs 1st anti-transgender sports law of 2022

2/4/22

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an anti-transgender sports bill into law Thursday, restricting transgender women and girls from playing on school sports teams that match their…

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Added on: 02/05/2022

New highly virulent and damaging HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands

2/4/22

As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, new mutations in viral genetic sequences can have significant impacts on the virus’s transmissibility and the damage it causes. For…