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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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Added on: 05/10/2020

Brazil’s Supreme Court throws out rules that limit gay men donating blood

Reuters
05/09/2020
Brazil’s Supreme Court has overturned rules that limit gay and bisexual men from donating blood in a decision considered a human rights victory for LGBT+ people in…
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Added on: 05/10/2020

25 wedding photos show the very first LGBT couples to marry in their countries and the stories behind them

Business Insider
05/09/2020
In February, 27-year-old Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples, 26, became the first gay couple to legally marry in Northern Ireland. The country is the world’s latest to…
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Added on: 05/09/2020

LGBT groups launch petition to allow cross-national same-sex marriage

Focus Taiwan
05/08/2020
Scores of volunteers from LGBT groups in Taiwan embarked on a signature campaign Saturday to petition the government on laws that restrict same-sex marriage between couples from…
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Added on: 05/09/2020

The millennials changing the face of sex education in Vietnam

Al Jazeera
05/08/2020
Tu Nguyen never had a formal sex education (sex-ed) class at his school in Hanoi, nor was he trained as an educator on the subject, but he…
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Added on: 05/09/2020

LGBT sector tapped to lead rice distribution to barangays

Davao Today
05/08/2020
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has assigned the city’s LGBT sector to manage the city’s next round of rice distribution after receiving complaints from residents that barangay…
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Added on: 05/09/2020

Aimee Stephens, transgender woman at center of pending landmark Supreme Court case, is in hospice care

Metro Times
05/08/2020
Aimee Stephens made national headlines when she said she was fired from her job at metro Detroit-based GR & RG Funeral Homes in 2013 after coming out…
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Added on: 05/08/2020

Activists call on Tinley Park to show support for gay rights in Polish Sister City

Chicago Tribune
05/07/2020
Activists in Europe are calling on Tinley Park residents and village officials to show support for gay rights in a Sister City community in Poland. European rights…
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Added on: 05/08/2020

Lebanon’s LGBT People Are Reclaiming Their Power

Instinct Magazine
05/07/2020
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their rights in Lebanon are part and parcel of the nationwide protests that began on October 17, 2019, Human…
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Added on: 05/08/2020

Korean media’s focus on ‘gay’ club in COVID-19 case further stigmatizes LGBT people

Korea Herald
05/07/2020
A 29-year-old man living in Yongin tested positive for COVID-19. He went clubbing in Itaewon, a party district in Seoul, when he had no symptoms, exposing at…
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Added on: 05/08/2020

Minister defends Germany’s limited gay therapy ban

Reuters
05/07/2020
Germany’s ban on so-called gay conversion therapies needs to be robust enough to withstand court challenges, Health Minister Jens Spahn said in response to criticism that his…
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Added on: 05/07/2020

Forced exorcisms touted as ‘cure’ for LGBT Indonesians

Bangkok Post
05/06/2020
Andin is haunted by memories of being forced into an exorcism to “save” her from being transgender — a ritual that could become mandatory for Indonesia’s LGBT…
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Added on: 05/07/2020

One in three trans people targeted for ‘conversion therapy’ in Colombia

Reuters
05/06/2020
One in five LGBT+ people have undergone “conversion therapy” to make them straight in Colombia, rising to one in three trans people, researchers said on Wednesday, amid…
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Added on: 05/07/2020

Kenya LGBT refugee protest ends with tear gas and batons

Bay Area Reporter
05/06/2020
Police attempted to disband a protest of about 60 LGBT refugees outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee’s office in Kakuma, Kenya at the end of…
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Added on: 05/07/2020

Same-sex marriage is still illegal in Tunisia!

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/06/2020
Thirty-five LGBTQ+ and human rights groups united today to dispel the false belief, spread by flawed news articles, that Tunisia has accepted same-sex marriage. The 35 organizations…
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Added on: 05/06/2020

U.S. lawmakers push for ‘invisible’ LGBT+ coronavirus patients to be counted

Reuters
05/05/2020
Authorities must count how many novel coronavirus patients are LGBT+ as they face greater health risks than the population at large, a California lawmaker said on Tuesday,…
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Added on: 05/06/2020

Turkey’s president Erdogan orders children to stop drawing rainbows in case they turn people gay

Pink News
05/05/2020
Children in Turkey have reportedly been ordered to stop drawing rainbows as authorities believe it is part of a “plot” to turn them gay. Turkey has seen…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

Muslim LGBT ‘Allies’ Silent as Muslim Attacks on Gays Increase

Algemeiner
05/04/2020
There’s a new slur trending in Turkey these days aimed at the LGBTQ population: “#YallahHollandaya” or “Go to Holland.” The expression reflects the Netherlands’ longstanding acceptance of…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

Top Egyptian actor goes public about trans son

Reuters
05/04/2020
A well-known Egyptian actor has spoken on television about having a 26-year-old transgender son, in a rare public show of support for LBGT+ rights in the conservative…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

In Ganjam’s quarantine centres, no separate provision for the transgender community

The Hindu
05/04/2020
Due to the lack of separate arrangements for transgender persons at a quarantine centre, Prasant*, an 18-year-old transgender person, had to spend a 14-day quarantine period, till…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

False marriage claims in Tunisia have led to anti-LGBT+ attacks 04 MAY 2020

Gay Star News
05/04/2020
Reports of Tunisia becoming the first Arab country to recognise a same-sex marriage have put LGBT+ people in danger. Tunisian LGBT+ organization Mawjoudin – We Exist –…
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Added on: 05/04/2020

Hate crime or stray bullet? Kansas City man’s death stirs fears in LGBTQ communities

Kansas City Star
05/03/2020
Ta’Ron Carson knew how to apply makeup, so his expertly contoured jawline and highlighted cheekbones stood out as he twirled along the sidewalk on Main Street in…
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Added on: 05/04/2020

‘Fearless’ Scots lawyer who worked to decriminalise sex between men found dead in his home

Pink News
05/03/2020
65-year-old Derek Ogg QC was found dead at his home in Langside, Glasgow on the evening of May 1. There are not thought to be any suspicious…
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Added on: 05/03/2020

Turkey: Criminal Case for Opposing Homophobic Speech

Human Rights Watch
05/01/2020
The Ankara Prosecutor’s office in Turkey has opened a criminal investigation into the Ankara Bar Association after it filed a complaint against the head of Turkey’s Religious…
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Added on: 05/03/2020

Trans woman sets herself on fire in Georgia as virus lockdown cuts income

Reuters
05/02/2020
A transgender woman set herself on fire in Georgia to highlight the plight of trans sex workers with no income during the coronavirus lockdown, LGBT+ groups said…
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