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Added on: 06/13/2021

The hopes and dreams of Africa’s queer activists

6/9/21

It took Dzoe Ahmad weeks of introspection and agonising over whether or not she was ready to share her story with the world. Ahmad, a young Zimbabwean…

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Added on: 06/13/2021

Pride Month: LGBT Scots on homophobia, trans rights and what still needs to change in Scotland

6/12/21

There may not be a parade this year, but Pride Month is an opportunity to spotlight LGBT+ experiences in Scotland. So we spoke to a range of…

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Added on: 06/13/2021

Transgender athletes fight Florida’s new ban

6/12/21

They’ve spent months in limbo, anxiously waiting to figure out how they would be able to celebrate Pride Month 2021. They could emerge from more than a…

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Added on: 06/12/2021

LGBTQ activists react to Justice Department defense of Title IX religious exemption

6/11/21

LGBTQ advocates are criticizing the Justice Department for a court filing in which the DOJ wrote it would “vigorously” defend a religious exemption that allows federally funded…

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Added on: 06/12/2021

Hungary: Reject Bill Banning Discussion of LGBT Issues

6/11/21

Hungary’s parliament should reject a bill that would prohibit discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation, and violates Hungary’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said today….

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Added on: 06/12/2021

Ghana court grants bail to 21 LGBT+ activists

6/11/21

A high court in Ghana has granted bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, the prosecutor…

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Added on: 06/11/2021

Eli Rigatuso – Two Spirit of the Menominee Nation

Savita Sukul

Alturi Contributor

“I think I started advocating the moment I was born, I just didn’t have the language,” Eli says his focus for advocacy is currently very specific to…

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Added on: 06/11/2021

Mass for LGBT community criticized by Traditionalists in Brazil

06/11/2021

A Mass in memory of murdered members of the LGBT community has spurred controversy in Brazil. While LGBT Catholic movements hailed the event as a sign of…

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Added on: 06/10/2021

Equality watchdog, LGBT activists hit back at pro-Beijing lawmakers’ attacks on Gay Games

06/10/2021

LGBT activists and the Equal Opportunities Commission have lambasted pro-Beijing lawmakers for opposing the 2022 Gay Games. The event promotes values of equality, inclusion and diversity, and…

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Added on: 06/10/2021

The church’s complicity in dehumanizing the LGBTQ community in Ghana

06/09/2021

The West African country of Ghana is one of the most homophobic countries in the world today. It not only refuses to recognize same-sex unions, but it…

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Added on: 06/10/2021

Somewhere under the Bengaluru FC rainbow

06/07/2021

On the first day of this month, Bengaluru FC uploaded a social media post that had the sketch of a floodlight throwing rainbow colours over their home…

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Added on: 06/10/2021

Manitoba gay couple lose fight to have 1974 marriage validated

06/08/2021

A gay Winnipeg couple have lost their fight to have their marriage of nearly five decades registered by the province of Manitoba. Chris Vogel and Richard North…

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Added on: 06/09/2021

Almost all Australian LGBTQ+ high school students hear homophobic language at school, study finds

06/08/2021

More than 90% of LGBTQ+ students hear homophobic language at school, with more than one in three confronted with slurs on a daily basis, a study of…

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Added on: 06/09/2021

LGBT activists denied bail in Ghana

06/08/2021

A Ghanaian court on Tuesday denied bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested nearly three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, their lawyer…

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Added on: 06/09/2021

Pride flags lowered and burned in Waterford

06/08/2021

PRIDE FLAGS celebrating the LGBT community and Pride Month have been lowered and burned in Waterford city in what has been described as a ‘disgusting act’. As…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Uzbekistan: Top lawmaker calls for deporting the LGBT community en masse

06/07/2021

The head of one of Uzbekistan’s leading political parties has suggested depriving gays, lesbians and transgender people of citizenship and deporting them as a way of ending…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Lesbian couple in China sues over hetero-only ‘couples discount’

06/07/2021

It’s certainly not Pride month in China. A lesbian couple is suing a zoo in Guangzhou as well as the tourism booking service Ctrip after they were…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Intersex people on the importance of being understood, their inclusion in upcoming census

06/07/2021

Usually the Queen’s Birthday Honours have been divided into men and women, but this year for the first time, there’s a third column after Mani Mitchell, who…

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Added on: 06/08/2021

Daniyar Sabitov & Anatoly Chernoussov, Kazakhstan

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Can you start by telling me a bit about yourselves? How did you meet and what led you to create Kok.team? Daniyar Sabitov [D]: We have been…

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Added on: 06/07/2021

Japanese LGBTQ groups and supporters stage rally in Tokyo, demand equal rights

06/06/2021

Japanese sexual minority groups and their supporters staged a rally outside Tokyo’s iconic Shibuya Station on Sunday calling for equal rights and public support for enacting a…

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Added on: 06/07/2021

KILL THE BILLS: PROTESTERS RALLY IN SYDNEY AGAINST MARK LATHAM’S ANTI-TRANS LAWS

06/06/2021

As a pair of “transphobic” law reforms proposed by One Nation’s Mark Latham make their way through the NSW parliament, community groups are amping up their rally…

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Added on: 06/06/2021

Ugandan court frees dozens of gay men on bail after days in jail

6/5/21

A court in Uganda granted bail on Friday to 39 people, most of them gay men, held for days after what police said was a raid on…

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Added on: 06/06/2021

Hundreds of Catholics share sacred blessings with LGBT+ worshippers in defiance of Vatican

6/5/21

Hundreds of Catholics stepped forward to bless LGBT+ people during a virtual service in response to the Vatican’s ban on blessings for same-sex couples. The live-streamed event…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

Ghana court delays bail decision for 21 detained LGBT+ activists

6/4/21

A Ghanaian court on Friday delayed its ruling on a bail application for 21 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) activists detained two weeks ago for an…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

Groups Come Together to Create Safe Spaces for Asian American LGBTQ Community

6/4/21

Several groups in the D.C. area are raising awareness about what it means to be LGBTQ and Asian American. “We exist in so many different ways, and…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

Tax rebate for Bangladesh companies hiring transgender people

6/4/21

Bangladesh has declared a tax rebate for companies hiring transgender people to boost the government’s social inclusion efforts for the marginalised group in the Muslim-majority South Asian…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

Thousands join Jerusalem Pride march in call for LGBT rights

06/03/2021

Thousands of people marched through Jerusalem on Thursday in the annual Pride parade, celebrating LGBTQ rights in the conservative city amid heavy police security. Pride events in…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

Namibia: Landmark test for stance against gay marriage

05/21/2021

Two couples challenging the government’s refusal to recognise same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia are now waiting for three judges to announce their decision following a combined hearing…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

New bill won’t “discriminate”, Cook Islands government says

06/03/2021

Same sex rights groups are expressing guarded optimism after Government disclosed that work is underway to ensure new criminal legislation will not contain clauses that discriminate against…

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Added on: 06/03/2021

Pride month: The LGBT history you probably didn’t learn in school

06/02/2021

If you think we live in an open-minded, sex-positive society now, just wait until you hear what may have been going on down the Yorkshire mines in…