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Added on: 05/18/2020

‘Safe But Not Safe’: Life As a Gay Man Between China and New Zealand

Sixth Tone
05/17/2020
Arriving in New Zealand to start my doctorate in 2017, I immediately sensed it was a more welcoming environment for LGBT people than my home country. On…
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Added on: 05/18/2020

Map Shows Where It’s Illegal To Be Gay – 30 Years Since WHO Declassified Homosexuality As Disease

Forbes
05/17/2020
It’s still illegal to be LGBT+ in 70 countries, and you could be given the death penalty in 12, as the world marks 30 years since “homosexuality”…
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Added on: 05/17/2020

Taiwan marks anniversary of Asia’s first gay marriage law

Hong Kong Free Press
05/16/2020
Taiwan on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of legalising same-sex marriage, as gay couples and rights groups called for full recognition of unions involving foreigners. The island…
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Added on: 05/17/2020

May 17 Is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia

Voice of America
05/16/2020
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. First observed in 2004, the day was designed to focus “attention on the violence and discrimination experienced…
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Added on: 05/17/2020

Albania becomes third European country to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’

France 24
05/16/2020
Albania’s psychologists have banned so-called “conversion therapy”, which tries to change the sexual orientation of young LGBT people, a move hailed on Saturday by the country’s rights…
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Added on: 05/17/2020

LGBT families in Ireland still caught in legal loophole

The Irish Times
05/16/2020
In the run-up to the marriage referendum, one of the key pieces of legislation that was on the table was the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015….
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Added on: 05/16/2020

Mexico sees deadliest year for LGBT+ people in five years

Reuters
05/15/2020
Mexico is seeing a surge of extreme violence toward LGBT+ people in its deadliest year in half a decade, a leading rights group said on Friday, citing…
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Added on: 05/16/2020

Singaporean pop star dropped by his record label for coming out as gay makes triumphant comeback

Pink News
05/15/2020
Willie Tay, a Singaporean pop star whose sexuality cost him his record deal and social media following, has bounced back with a brand new album. Tay was…
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Added on: 05/16/2020

Gay Korea: homophobia sparked by Seoul coronavirus cluster driven by Protestant right

The Conversation
05/15/2020
The Korean LGBTQ+ community knew to prepare for an anti-gay onslaught after it emerged that a person with an asymptomatic COVID-19 infection had been partying in Itaewon,…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

Taiwan: 93 percent say marriage equality law has had no impact on them

Focus Taiwan
05/14/2020
Taipei, May 15 (CNA) As Taiwan approaches the one-year anniversary of its legalization of same-sex marriage on May 24, nearly 93 percent of Taiwanese say the policy…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

Why banning anti-LGBT ‘conversion therapy’ isn’t enough

Open Democracy
05/14/2020
Lawmakers around the world have proposed new legislation to ban ‘conversion therapy’ – attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In Canada, for example,…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

Anti-LGBT violence and discrimination ‘remain high,’ EU report says

Japan Times
05/14/2020
Levels of “fear, violence and discrimination remain high” for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in Europe, according to a survey published Thursday by the EU’s…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

US Navy grants first waiver for transgender service member to serve under their preferred gender

CNN
05/14/2020
The US Navy has granted a waiver allowing a transgender service member to serve “in their preferred gender” for the first time since the military enacted a…
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Added on: 05/14/2020

LGBT+ asylum seekers are sharing bedrooms with strangers during coronavirus

Gay Star News
05/13/2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is revealing how our dysfunctional asylum and immigration system is failing to support people in need. The system prevents people from accessing health services…
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Added on: 05/14/2020

Morocco Instagram influencer apologises for role in outing of gay men

Reuters
05/13/2020
A transgender Instagram influencer blamed for a wave of homophobic attacks in Morocco apologised on Wednesday for encouraging her followers to download dating apps that were then…
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Added on: 05/14/2020

Costa Rica lawmakers criticize efforts to delay gay marriage

Reuters
05/13/2020
Lawmakers and government officials in Costa Rica on Wednesday chided fellow politicians trying to delay a landmark gay marriage ruling from taking effect, an effort which ended…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

Contact tracing South Korea’s latest coronavirus outbreak exposes LGBT+ people to hate

Gay Star News
05/13/2020
A new coronavirus outbreak in the South Korean capital, Seoul, has also seen a rise in homophobic hate speech. The southeast Asian nation has achieved enviable results…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

‘No one wants to be tested:’ Social stigmas are crippling coronavirus containment

Fortune
05/12/2020
Public health officials around the world have agreed that testing and contact tracing are vital to containing the coronavirus pandemic. But for many people, coming forward to…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

Uganda court sets bail hearing for 19 LGBT detainees

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/12/2020
May 18 is the new date when 19 members of Children of the Sun Foundation (CosfUganda) who were arrested at the Cosf shelter are expected to be…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

LGBT community hit hard by COVID-19 lockdown in Lakhimpur

Northeast Now
05/12/2020
The LGBT community in Assam’s Lakhimpur district is hit hard by the impact of nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown. The victims are four transgender persons in the district who…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

Michigan woman at center of transgender civil rights case dies at 59

Detroit News
05/12/2020
The Michigan woman at the center of a high-profile transgender rights case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court has died, her family said. Aimee Stephens, 59, who…
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Added on: 05/12/2020

LGBT+ adults in US are more than twice as likely to be homeless

Gay Star News
05/11/2020
Almost one in five LGB adults in the US has experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. Moreover, trans people are even more likely to be…
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Added on: 05/12/2020

Germany becomes the fifth country in the world to ban conversion therapy

Gay Star News
05/11/2020
Germany has become the fifth country in the world to ban ‘conversion therapy’ of LGBT+ minors. The new vote in the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, confirms a ban…
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Added on: 05/12/2020

Gender-based lockdown rules that fuelled rise in violence against transgender people to be lifted

Pink News
05/11/2020
Gender-based lockdown rules in Bogotá, Colombia, will be lifted after they fuelled a wave of violence against transgender people living in the city. Bogotá’s mayor, Claudia Lopez,…
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Added on: 05/12/2020

South Korea struggles to contain new outbreak amid anti-gay backlash

The Guardian
05/11/2020
Authorities in South Korea are struggling to contain a new coronavirus outbreak linked to the capital’s nightclub district as a backlash against the country’s gay community increases,…
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Added on: 05/11/2020

Opinion: Little Richard’s Queer Triumph

New York Times
05/10/2020
It was during a 1966 concert in Paris when Little Richard, drenched in sweat, told a mostly white audience, “I’m ready, ready, ready teddy, I’m ready, ready,…
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Added on: 05/11/2020

Canada to memorialize LGBT victims of Cold War-era ‘gay purge’

Washington Post
05/10/2020
Todd Ross was a naval combat information operator on the HMCS Saskatchewan in 1989 when he was called out over the public address system, escorted off the…
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Added on: 05/11/2020

Franklin Graham Is Taking Down His N.Y. Hospital, but Not Going Quietly

New York Times
05/10/2020
The last patients have been discharged from the Central Park field hospital run by Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical organization led by the Rev. Franklin Graham. Its white…
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Added on: 05/10/2020

Flexible Salafis: The Growing Political Power of ‘Woke,’ Modernist Islamism

Middle East Forum
05/09/2020
Imam Omar Suleiman rarely talks about da’wah – the Islamic duty of proselytization. He never talks about Islamist designs for an Islamic state. Instead, America’s leading Islamic…
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Added on: 05/10/2020

Radical Russian Imperial Movement Expanding Global Outreach

Voice of America
05/09/2020
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a white supremacist group based in St. Petersburg, is increasingly expanding its outreach beyond Russia through the establishment of transnational networks with…
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