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Added on: 08/19/2024

Outrage as librarians reveal UK schools are banning LGBT+ books after complaints from parents

08/18/2024

LGBT+ books are being banned from UK schools after complaints from parents, librarians have revealed. A six-month investigation by Index on Censorship, the results of which have been shared exclusively with The…

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Added on: 08/19/2024

Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Sex Parents.

08/18/2024

While their curly-haired rescue dog napped on the floor, an Italian couple logged on to a late-night video call with their American surrogate, sunbathing in her garden…

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Added on: 08/18/2024

Bulgaria’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law is official. Opponents beg EU to take action.

08/17/2024

Bulgaria on Friday officially published the text of a controversial law banning LGBTQ+ “propaganda” in schools after the country’s President Ruman Rudev failed to veto the bill…

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Added on: 08/17/2024

Bulgaria’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law is official. Opponents beg EU to take action.

08/16/2024

Bulgaria on Friday officially published the text of a controversial law banning LGBTQ+ “propaganda” in schools after the country’s President Ruman Rudev failed to veto the bill…

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Added on: 08/17/2024

Supreme Court rejects Biden administration’s request to enforce new civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ students

08/16/2024

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Biden administration to enforce parts of a new federal rule meant to protect LGBTQ+ and pregnant…

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Added on: 08/17/2024

Anti-LGBT bias vs. medical advances against HIV: One nation’s story

08/16/2024

While progress in medical technology has improved the prospect of HIV-positive people leading fulfilling lives, the challenge of expanding access to those treatments remains. The 25th International…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

LGBT envoy heads to Leipzig after neo-Nazis spoil Pride march nearby

08/15/2024

Berlin’s commissioner for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual rights, Alfonso Pantisano, said on Friday that he plans to support Leipzig’s Pride event after neo-Nazis marched at a…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

Activists sound alarm as gay exorcism cult seeks foothold in Scotland

08/15/2024

As the Scottish government seeks to ban conversion therapy, it is granting charity status to a notorious cult that believes in witchcraft, advocates gay exorcism, and extolls…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

OAS Creates New Position on Prostitute Rights

08/15/2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 16 (C-Fam) The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) announced the appointment of a lesbian activist to the newly-created position of OAS Commissioner…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

Texas sues Biden again to block federal protections for transgender workers

08/15/2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to court on Thursday to press his case against the Biden administration’s workforce protections for transgender employees. Texas’s lawsuit, filed in federal court on…

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Added on: 08/15/2024

Faith and LGBTQ+ groups dismayed by abandoned push for religious discrimination protections

08/14/2024

An equality campaigner has called Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “gutless” for abandoning plans to scrap the exemption that allows faith-based schools to discriminate against staff and students…

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Added on: 08/15/2024

Pope Meets Ugandan LGBTIQ Activist in Rome

08/14/2024

In a historic moment, a Ugandan LGBTIQ activist has met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, reportedly receiving his support in the fight for equal rights. In a…

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Added on: 08/15/2024

Ukraine’s Other Revolution: Embracing the Rights Russia Would Deny

08/14/2024

Putin’s Russia has become the poster child in the fight against the global LGBTQ movement, labeling any activists “extremists” and criminalizing any associated activities within its borders….

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Added on: 08/15/2024

Custody ruling in same-sex case hailed as LGBTQ+ milestone in China

08/14/2024

A woman fighting a landmark LGBTQ+ custody battle in China said she “still has faith for the future” after winning the right to make monthly visits to her…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

Canada | Rights that are “becoming fragile”, the LGBT+ community on alert

08/14/2024

The country and many of its major cities have for years been considered safe havens for freely living one’s sexual and gender identity. And Canada is one…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

LGBTQ asylum-seekers chase a life of safety and peace after rape and death threats

08/13/2024

Michelle Carranza, 22, did not want to be another trans woman murdered in her native Honduras. “They don’t accept us there. They kill us, they discriminate us,…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

Notorious cult that carry out “gay exorcisms” expanding in Scotland

08/14/2024

A church body that enables “gay exorcism” as conversion therapy and believes in witchcraft is conducting a major expansion in Scotland. The attitudes of the Forward In…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

Ballroom Is Still About Black Queer Joy

08/12/2024

Every Saturday between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., the Washington Neighborhood Center in Sacramento, California, vibrates with house beats. Unknowing neighbors peer in curiously, but for those…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

Council Of Europe Urges Bulgaria To Scrap LGBTQ ‘Promotion’ Ban

08/12/2024

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner on Monday said he was “deeply concerned” by an LGBTQ “promotion” ban passed by Bulgaria’s parliament, urging President Rumen Radev…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

First trans athlete at Paralympic Games says her participation ‘is an important symbol of inclusion’

08/12/2024

Valentina Petrillo is gearing up to become the first out transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, and has noted that her participation “is an important…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

Queer Nigerian victims of online blackmail fight back

08/12/2024

Entrapment of LGBTQ+ Nigerians through dating apps and social media has been documented for years, yet most perpetrators continue to walk free. Now, queer people are turning…

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Added on: 08/12/2024

Argentina shuts down anti-discrimination agency months after rightwing president elected

08/11/2024

Argentine President Javier Milei’s government has shut down the country’s anti-discrimination agency, called the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI). The move was announced at a…

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Added on: 08/12/2024

The trans community experiences a surge of hope within deep election anxiety, report finds

08/11/2024

With so much talk about the trans community, much of it in the form of vitriol from the right, there are few platforms for the actual voices of…

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Added on: 08/12/2024

German gov’t split over adding LGBTQ+ rights to constitution

08/10/2024

In July, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Christopher Street Day in support of recognizing the rights of LGBTQ+ people. The abbreviation LGBTQ+ stands for lesbian,…

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Added on: 08/11/2024

GEORGIA: ‘The ‘anti-LGBT’ bill would make life nearly impossible for LGBTQI+ people’

08/10/2024

CIVICUS discusses proposed legislative changes that target LGBTQI+ people in Georgia with Tbilisi Pride director Tamar Jakeli. Tbilisi Pride is a prominent LGBTQI+ rights organisation fighting homophobia…

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Added on: 08/11/2024

Bulgarian Protesters Decry Move To Ban ‘Gay Propaganda’ In Schools

08/10/2024

“I am here because I believe that being an LGBT person is not propaganda,” said Simona, a 25-year-old woman who was protesting close to Bulgaria’s parliament. She…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Nigerian transgender TikToker found dead

08/09/2024

Nigerian police are investigating the death of a Nigerian transgender TikToker known as “Abuja Area Mama”. The beaten and bruised body of 33-year-old transgender woman was found…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Protesters rally outside Bulgarian parliament to denounce ban on LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ in schools

08/09/2024

Protesters rallied outside Bulgaria’s parliament on Thursday to denounce a controversial legal amendment adopted the day before that bans talk of LGBTQ and so-called nontraditional sexual choices…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Federal judge rules that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees

08/09/2024

A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees and violates their civil rights. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 08/09/2024

UPLIFTING BISEXUAL INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE LGBTIQ+ COMMUNITY TO FOSTER MUCH-NEEDED INCLUSION

Vashti Surujdeen

Alturi Contributor

The LGBTIQ+ community is extremely well-known as a close-knitted group for all individuals that identify as anywhere in the queer spectrum of sexuality and or gender. Indeed,…