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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

08/28/2020

The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Abruptly canceled, ShanghaiPRIDE could be harbinger for China’s civil society

08/27/2020

Annual Pride celebrations are not common in cities across China, but the city of Shanghai is an exception, where Pride events have occurred for a dozen years….

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection to Be Auctioned for Charity

08/27/2020

Owning a private collection of nearly 140 artworks by luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein would be a godsend for most arts organizations, but…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Is ‘gay TikTok’ safe from Trump? LGBTQ users on edge over ban threat

08/27/2020

Steven King, a popular content creator on the social media platform TikTok, said he stumbled across the video-sharing app by accident early last year. “I saw an…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Uganda officials ignore criminal summonses for LGBTQ torture

08/27/2020

A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer each ignored a summons requiring him to show up in court yesterday to face criminal charges of torture…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

Gay activist braves social curbs to help marginalized

08/27/2020

Gay activist Hartoyo has had to overcome both physical and virtual curbs on his movement so that he may continue to feed the urban poor, persecuted members…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

New Zealand: Young queer and trans people face growing housing barriers

08/25/2020

RainbowYOUTH homelessness support worker Therese Go says they have seen an increase in referrals from social workers, nurses and school counsellors who are concerned the young Aucklanders…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

Uproar as same-sex couples to be counted as ‘other relatives’ in Japan census

08/26/2020

A national census, conducted once every five years, will be held this fall to collect information from all residents and households in Japan, but same-sex couples are…

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Added on: 08/27/2020

Teacher ‘put on leave’ after Republican complains about her supporting LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter

08/26/2020

A teacher in Texas has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after she allowed students to submit their pronouns and posted LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter…

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Added on: 08/26/2020

Slava Melnyk – KPH: Campaign Against Homophobia

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…

World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020

Tarek Zeidan – Helem, Lebanon

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become interested in this type of activism? When I was younger, I worked a lot with the trans sex worker community because I used…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Nigerian lesbian love film to go online to avoid censorship board

08/24/2020

LAGOS – Two young women fill the screen, reclining on a bed, talking about their hope of having children. They are protagonists in a new Nigerian film…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Intersex Children in Uganda Face Rejection, Violence

8/23/20

KAMPALA, UGANDA — No one wanted to name Nakitto Flavio’s baby. At a traditional ceremony, the infant’s aunt refused because the newborn’s sex was unclear. Flavio’s husband…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

08/22/2020

The lead U.S. foreign aid agency has proposed a new policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Holland, Michigan adopts anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ, others

08/20/2020

After a seven-hour meeting that went into the night and included several hours of impassioned public comment, Holland City Council voted 8-1 early Thursday morning to approve…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

A London court has set a date to finally decide on same-sex marriage in Bermuda

08/21/2020

The final fate of same-sex marriage in Bermuda will be decided by a court in London – which has now set a date for the hearing. The…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

Germany plans equal rights for lesbian co-mothers

08/21/2020

A German parentage law package close to being submitted to cabinet would give a child born into a lesbian setting two mums, the biological mother and her…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

WEAR IT PURPLE DAY APPROACHES

08/22/2020

In the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, separation from community support structures has been one of the greatest struggles that Rainbow people have faced. It’s hard to…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

OVER 60 INCIDENTS OF ANTI-LGBTQ VIOLENCE IN ASYLUM CENTERS; GOV’T CALLED TO DO SOMETHING

08/20/2020

More needs to be done to combat anti-LGBTQ violence in asylum centers in the Netherlands, according to foundation LGBT Asylum Support. The foundation received over 60 reports…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

Turkey’s media authority fines TLC TV over program featuring LGBTI+ parents

08/19/2020

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined five broadcasters for various reasons. The TLC TV was imposed a monetary penalty fined over its “Extraordinary Pregnancies”…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

Chinese LGBT group ShanghaiPRIDE halts work to ‘protect safety’

08/14/2020

ShanghaiPRIDE, one of China’s longest running gay pride groups, said it was cancelling all activities and events for the foreseeable future, citing the need to protect the…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

Capitalism Made Gay Identity Possible. Now We Must Destroy Capitalism.

08/15/2020

Gay identity became possible thanks to capitalism’s emancipatory side: its liberation of the individual from material dependence on the family. But that sexual freedom wasn’t automatic —…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere

08/19/2020

Beverley Ditsie first understood what the word “gay” meant while listening to Boy George. She was a teenager in the South African township of Soweto in the…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

Hungary’s Orban calls for central Europe to unite around Christian roots

08/19/2020

Central European nations should unite to preserve their Christian roots as western Europe experiments with same-sex families, immigration and atheism, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

Ugandans face summons over LGBT torture charges

08/19/2020

A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer have been summoned to face criminal charges of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment connected to the arrest…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

LGBTQ+ People In Beirut Are Suffering As Lebanon Continues to Bleed

08/18/2020

Lebanon, a country ravaged by war for 15 years, had its most devastating blast on August 4, 2020. The blast killed 180 people, injured more than 6,000,…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Nollywood demonises queer people

08/16/2020

In 2014, the former president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan passed into law a Bill that became the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. The passage of the law gave…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Will SAPS finally release LGBTIQ hate crimes stats?

08/17/2020

South African Police Commissioner Khehla Sithole has indicated that the SAPS is committed to releasing crime statistics that specify LGBTIQ hate crimes. But are these even being…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Czech Republic in danger of following in the homophobic, transphobic footsteps of Poland and Hungary, campaigner warns

08/17/2020

After years of progress towards equality across Europe, LGBT+ campaigners across the continent have faced a bruising few years – with politicians in Poland openly stoking anti-LGBT+…

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Added on: 08/17/2020

Poland: LGBT+ activists and nationalists face off

08/17/2020

Hundreds of Polish nationalists and defenders of gay rights faced off in central Warsaw on Sunday, amid a deteriorating situation for the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and…