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Added on: 05/12/2021

Japan’s Ruling Party LGBT Bill Falls Short

Human Rights Watch
05/07/2021
Over the past six years, activists in Japan have pressed the Diet, the national parliament, to introduce a nondiscrimination law that protects the rights of lesbian, gay,…
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Added on: 05/11/2021

White House Reverses Trump Ban on LGBT Health-Care Protection

Bloomberg
05/10/2021
The federal government will begin enforcing protections for LGBT Americans in health care again, reversing a ban put in place by the Trump administration, the Health and…
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Added on: 05/11/2021

Long Eaton school reports chaplain to terrorist watchdog for LGBT sermon

Nottinghamshire Live
05/10/2021
A Christian school in Long Eaton reported its chaplain to the Government’s anti-terror watchdog after he suggested his students should ‘make up their own minds’ on LGBT…
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Added on: 05/10/2021

UN Condemns Ugandan Bill to Criminalize Same-Sex Relations

Voice of America
05/09/2021
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling on Uganda to amend a bill to ban same-sex relations that it says would…
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Added on: 05/10/2021

Gay man brutally murdered and beheaded by family in Iran in ‘honour killing’

Pink News
05/09/2021
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from service because of…
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Added on: 05/10/2021

Prospects dim for passage of LGBTQ rights bill in Senate

News Tribune
05/09/2021
Controlling Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, Democrats were hopeful this would be the year they finally secured civil rights protections…
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Added on: 05/09/2021

Lesbian mothers flood German courts with demands for parenting rights

Openly News
5/6/21
When Inga celebrated the birth of her first child with her wife Jenny, the last thing she expected in her bid to be recognised as the baby’s…
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Added on: 05/09/2021

Trans men mocked and denied entry to Egypt by border guards because they ‘do not look female’

Pink News
5/8/21
Or Mizan and Titi Katan, both from Haifa, Israel, were travelling to Egypt for a five-day holiday in the Ras a-Satan resort in the Sinai peninsula when…
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Added on: 05/08/2021

In hiding, Ghana’s queer activists keep up the fight

Erasing 76 Crimes
5/6/21
More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding. “It is very challenging….
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Added on: 05/08/2021

Trans Teens Are Being Denied the Essential Treatment They’re Legally Entitled To

Vice
5/7/21
Young people in England and Wales with gender dysphoria are being left “in limbo” and unable to access time-sensitive puberty blocker medication, VICE World News has been…
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Added on: 05/08/2021

Lesbian parents in Germany move court for equal rights

Mint Lounge
5/7/21
When Inga celebrated the birth of her first child with her wife Jenny, the last thing she expected in her bid to be recognised as the baby’s…
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Added on: 05/07/2021

Outpouring of grief after alleged murder of leading Tongan LGBTQI activist

The Guardian
05/04/21
Police in Tonga are investigating the death of one of the country’s leading LGBTQI+ activists after his body was found on a beach near his home in…
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Added on: 05/07/2021

Conservative millionaire Vasadze, who suggested anti-LGBT vigilante groups, to launch political movement

Democracy & Freedom Watch
05/07/2021
After years of denying his intention to go into politics, the conservative millionaire Levan Vasadze finally announced on Thursday that he is launching a public movement. “I’ve…
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Added on: 05/06/2021

Uncertain future for LGBT+ rights in Uganda as controversial bill is passed

Deutsche Welle
05/05/2021
The Ugandan Parliament on Monday passed the Sexual Offenses Bill, which contains a clause to criminalize same-sex relationships. The bill prescribes a five-year-jail term for anyone guilty…
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Added on: 05/06/2021

Uzbek Blogger Bazarov Under House Arrest Facing Libel Charges

The Diplomat
05/06/2021
A month after suffering a brutal beating for championing LGBT rights, Uzbek blogger Miraziz Bazarov was released from the hospital on April 29. He was, according to…
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Added on: 05/06/2021

Egypt’s Al-Sisi Regime Is Still “Disappearing” Researchers Who Oppose Its Crimes

Jacobin Mgazine
05/05/2021
It is three months since reproductive rights researcher Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali presented himself at the fifth district police station in central Cairo. He is still yet…
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Added on: 05/06/2021

Roma and Gadji: The Love Story of Two Women United in Matrimony

Il Grande Colibri
05/04/2021
Sveta is 29 years old and lives in Chieri, Italy. Occasionally, she works as an online Russian teacher, volunteers at some Roma camps in Turin, and has…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Policing Intersex Americans’ Sex and Gender

JSTOR Daily
05/04/2021
But in one 1629 case, the Virginia General Court took up the question of how to understand an adult intersex person. Thomas/Thomasine Hall was arrested for wearing…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Uganda strengthens anti-gay laws, brands gay sex an unnatural offense

Metro Weekly
05/04/2021
Uganda has further strengthened its anti-gay laws with new legislation that brands gay sex an “unnatural offense.” The African nation already criminalizes same-sex sexual relations, with Uganda’s…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Hate crimes against LGBT+ people in Germany rise 36% in 2020

Reuters
05/04/2021
BERLIN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hate crimes against LGBT+ people increased by 36% in Germany in 2020, highlighting an increase in homophobic attacks and politically motivated violence…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Hate crimes against LGBT+ people in Germany rise 36% in 2020

Reuters
05/04/2021
Hate crimes against LGBT+ people increased by 36% in Germany in 2020, highlighting an increase in homophobic attacks and politically motivated violence in the country in recent…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Policing Intersex Americans’ Sex and Gender

Jstor
05/04/2021
Unlike many other cultures, the Anglo-American mainstream has always relied on a binary view of sex and gender. In the case of intersex people, who have inherent…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Uganda strengthens anti-gay laws, brands gay sex an “unnatural offense”

Metro Weekly
05/04/20201
Uganda has further strengthened its anti-gay laws with new legislation that brands gay sex an “unnatural offense.” The African nation already criminalizes same-sex sexual relations, with Uganda’s…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Kosovo Police investigate threat to LGBTI activist

Pristina Insight
05/04/2021
Kosovo Police said on Tuesday that they are looking into allegations that the life of a well-known LGBT activist, Lend Mustafa, was threatened at the weekend. “We…
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Added on: 05/04/2021

Hundreds rally against anti-trans bills erasing years of LGBT+ progress ‘with the swipe of a pen’

Pink News
05/03/2021
Hundreds of people took to the streets of North Carolina to protest two devastating anti-trans bills that threaten “the basic human right to be human”, activists say….
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Added on: 05/04/2021

Meet the Ugandan trans activist fighting for rights on social media

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/03/2021
“If you want to know that [Keem] is a man, just snatch away his phone and run,” taunted an Internet troll under Keem Love Black’s new profile…
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Added on: 05/04/2021

Catholic parishes in Germany to include gay and lesbian couples in planned ‘blessing services for lovers’

America Magazine
05/03/2021
Bonn (KNA) “Love wins” – that is the name of the initiative in which Catholic chaplains in parishes across Germany plan to invite people to “blessing services…
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Added on: 05/03/2021

EUROVISION’S VASIL IS READY TO BE A VOICE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE IN NORTH MACEDONIA AND THE BALKANS

Attitude Magazine
05/02/2021
When Vasil Garvanliev declares early on in our interview that being gay is probably the least interesting thing about him, it’s hard to argue: Born in 1984…
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Added on: 05/03/2021

Court could force Honduras to stop ‘social cleansing’ of trans people

Pink News
05/02/2021
International LGBT+ advocates are waiting anxiously for the verdict of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which monitors human rights in the western hemisphe. The top tribunal…
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Added on: 05/03/2021

Gay refugee ‘ambushed’ by homophobe and left with broken leg: ‘I feel like the world has rejected me’

Yahoo News
05/02/2021
As Canary Murungi walked on foot to the shops in the Kakuma Refugee Camp at 11am, a fellow refugee from Sudan spotted him, he told PinkNews. “He…
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