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Added on: 03/07/2021

Italian politicians targeting LGBTQ people to divert attention away from the COVID economy, experts say

3/7/21

Two years ago, Francesco, then 18, became homeless overnight. His mother, an evangelical Christian, called the police to evict him from the family’s home in the southern…

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Added on: 03/06/2021

Hungary’s media authority takes legal action against TV channel due to an LGBTQ+ advert

03/05/2021

Hungary’s media watchdog, the National Media and Infocommunications Authority have announced they will be taking legal action against the RTL Hungary media group. The legal action comes…

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Added on: 03/06/2021

Myanmar’s Pro-Democracy Protests Are Giving a Voice to LGBTQ+ People

03/05/2021

Sue Sha Shin Thant, a transgender woman, has experienced a lifetime of discrimination and social exclusion in Myanmar, where LGBTQ+ people have no recognized rights or protections…

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Added on: 03/06/2021

Archbishop Welby condemns Nigerian Primate’s anti-gay language

03/05/2021

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned the “unacceptable” language that the Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Revd Henry Ndukuba, used to describe gay people (News, 2 March)….

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Added on: 03/06/2021

American Psychological Association opposes transgender conversion “therapy” in historic statement

03/05/2021

The biggest professional psychologist organization in the U.S. has come out against transgender conversion therapy in a new statement, saying that the practice puts “individuals at significant…

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Added on: 03/05/2021

Europe’s nurses need more training to ‘reduce biases’ around LGBT+ issues

03/03/2021

Calls have been made to ensure nurses across Europe are trained to be “compassionate and culturally aware” towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people, after new…

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Added on: 03/05/2021

Mississippi governor to sign bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

03/04/2021

Mississippi legislators have passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams in schools and universities — one of over two dozen…

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Added on: 03/05/2021

LGBT practice: Civil society, NGOs back FG’s stand

03/04/2021

The nation’s Civil Society and some Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) on Thursday added their voice against move by the USA and European to force the Federal Government to…

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Added on: 03/05/2021

Peter Murimi – Documentary Filmmaker, Kenya

Savita Sukul

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Peter is a storyteller in several capacities. He works on the TV investigation strand called “Africa Eye” for the BBC as a director and a producer. However,…

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Added on: 03/04/2021

South Korea’s first known transgender soldier found dead

03/03/2021

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s first known transgender soldier, who protested the military’s decision last year to discharge her for undergoing gender reassignment surgery, was found…

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Added on: 03/04/2021

The growing calls for a boycott of the Qatar World Cup

03/04/2021

In December, Danish caretaker Casper Fischer did something he had never done before. The 32 year old decided to petition Denmark’s parliament – the Folketing – to…

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Added on: 03/04/2021

The Trailer: Why Republicans keep running against trans rights

03/04/2021

In this edition: The GOP’s transgender politics, lessons from CPAC and a sit-down with a Republican running for Congress against Trump. We don’t have the Kraken anymore,…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

Kevin Mwachiro: Author-Podcaster-Journalist, Kenya

Savita Sukul

Alturi Contributor

Kevin is passionate about social justice and human rights issues, and he volunteers as a board member for the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya and the…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

Actor Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell call for Ghana to protect LGBT+ community

03/01/2021

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Actor Idris Elba and model Naomi Campbell have joined 65 other British celebrities, designers and politicians in calling for Ghana’s president to…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

Homosexuality can still be called a mental disorder in China, court rules

03/02/2021

A court in China‘s eastern Jiangsu province has ruled in favour of a publisher that described homosexuality as a “psychological disorder” in a university textbook. The Suyu…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

Polish court acquits LGBT activists in rainbow Virgin Mary case

03/02/2021

A Polish court on Tuesday acquitted three activists who were accused of desecration and offending religious sentiment for altering, producing and distributing images of a revered Roman…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

IN A FIRST, SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT ACKNOWLEDGES LGBT RIGHTS

03/02/2021

In probably a first for a South Asian head of state, Sri Lankan President in a post on Twitter acknowledged the rights of LGBTQI Sri Lankans. Human…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

United Methodist conservatives detail breakaway plans over gay inclusion

03/02/2021

Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex…

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Added on: 03/02/2021

Nigerian church to anti-gay Americans: You’re not anti-gay enough

03/01/2021

Henry C. Ndukuba, archbishop of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, has declared there’s “no such thing as a ‘gay Christian’ “. In a statement, Ndukuba criticized the…

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Added on: 03/02/2021

Crowd in Mexico stops gay couple from being arrested as they chant ‘I’m gay too’ at cops

03/01/2021

A gay couple were handcuffed by armed police “for kissing” on a beach in Mexico. A series of videos of the incident, posted to Facebook, appear to…

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Added on: 03/02/2021

In Colombian port town, LGBTQ community faces increasing threats

03/01/2021

A main Afro-Colombian port city on Colombia’s western coast, Buenaventura has long been considered one of the most violent places in the country. It was here the…

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Added on: 03/01/2021

LGBTQI office in Ghana: President Nana Akufo-Addo say he no go legalize same-sex marriage

02/28/2021

“For same-sex marriage to dey legal for Ghana, e no go happun for my time as president” Akufo-Addo tok dis during di installation of di Second Archbishop…

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Added on: 03/01/2021

Different fight, ‘same goal’: How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists

02/28/2021

On April 25, 1965, three teenagers refused to leave Dewey’s Restaurant in Philadelphia after employees repeatedly denied service to “homosexuals and persons wearing nonconformist clothing,” according to…

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Added on: 03/01/2021

Malaysian man wins landmark challenge against Muslim gay sex ban

02/26/2021

The Federal Court of Malaysia has ruled that the state of Selangor has no power to uphold a shariah law that declares it an offense to engage…

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Added on: 02/28/2021

Different fight, ‘same goal’: How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists

2/28/21

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Added on: 02/28/2021

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families

2/28/21

When Don Ward was a child, in Seattle, in the nineteen-sixties, his mother, each December, would hand him the Sears catalogue and ask him to pick Christmas…

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Added on: 02/28/2021

Beach erupts in protest as armed police arrest gay couple ‘for kissing’

02/28/21

Two gay men were arrested after kissing on a public Mexico beach but were freed after fellow sunbathers charged after the police vehicle and demanded their release….

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Added on: 02/28/2021

Global Trends in LGBT Rights During the Covid-19 Pandemic

02/24/21

It’s impossible to evaluate what the year 2020 looked like from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people’s rights without recognizing how Covid-19 put a…

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Added on: 02/27/2021

Chechen Court Rules Police Abduction of Two Gay Refugees Is Legal

2/26/21

A court ruled this week that it was legal for Russian police to kidnap two gay men who escaped Chechnya after facing persecution under its anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown….

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Added on: 02/27/2021

Students in Turkey face three years in jail for LGBT rainbow picture of Islam’s holiest site during protests

2/26/21

STUDENTS who unveiled a banner showing Islam’s holiest site adorned with the LGBT rainbow colours face up to three years prison in Turkey after prosecutors charged them…