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Added on: 11/02/2020

Venezuela inches closer to marriage equality after Pope’s remarks about civil unions

11/01/2020

The pontiff expressed his support in an interview shown in an Italian documentary, saying, “What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they…

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Added on: 11/02/2020

China’s stance on homosexuality has changed. Its textbooks haven’t.

11/01/2020

Early in college, Ou Jiayong had already learned two things. One, textbooks can be wrong. And two, it can be hard to change them — especially on…

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Added on: 11/02/2020

‘Corona-freed’ Taiwan celebrates gay pride

11/01/2020

Rainbow-masked revelers paraded through Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, Saturday, celebrating equality gains since it allowed same-sex marriages last year, despite objections from religious conservatives. President Tsai Ing-wen, re-elected…

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Added on: 10/31/2020

Estonia’s Parliament Likely to Debate Same Sex Marriage by Public Demand

10/29/2020

The Estonian Green Party is celebrating after its petition calling for same-sex marriage broke all records.The party posted the petition on the official parliamentary site. Petitions on…

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Added on: 10/30/2020

Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones’ energize some activists, prompt others to leave

10/29/2020

When he took up a yearlong writing residency in Berlin earlier this year, novelist Jacek Dehnel judged the chances he’d return to Poland afterward as 50-50. His…

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Added on: 10/30/2020

National prayer breakfast canceled following spat over LGBT remark

10/29/2020

The annual National Prayer Breakfast in Taiwan will be canceled this year, the first time in 20 years, following controversy over a recent social media post by…

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Added on: 10/30/2020

A mother told Biden about her transgender child. Then came the attacks.

10/29/2020

In Joe Biden’s town hall earlier this month, one of the questions came from a woman named Mieke Haeck, a 42-year-old physical therapist from State College, Pa….

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Added on: 10/29/2020

Advocates fear Barrett will strip away gay rights. It could begin next week.

10/29/2020

Amy Coney Barrett has been fueling the fears of LGBTQ advocacy groups since President Donald Trump first nominated her to the federal bench in 2017. Now, with…

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Added on: 10/29/2020

Greens’ same-sex marriage petition most signed in portal’s history

10/28/2020

The Estonian Greens’ petition in support of same-sex marriage hosted on the Citizen Initiative Portal rahvaalgatus.ee is the most-signed in the website’s history. As of noon on…

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Added on: 10/28/2020

In conservative Mexico, ‘Muxes’ soccer team tackles outdated LGBT stereotypes

10/27/2020

A soccer team in Mexico’s capital is shooting for greater inclusion for the LGBT community by relying on the widespread love of Latin America’s most popular sport….

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Added on: 10/28/2020

Trump-linked groups spending millions campaigning against LGBT and women’s rights in Europe

10/27/2020

Right-wing US groups, some with links to Donald Trump, are spending millions of pounds campaigning against LGBT and women’s rights in Europe, it has been revealed An…

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Added on: 10/28/2020

Taiwanese military mass wedding to feature its first same-sex couples

10/27/2020

Two same-sex couples are to be married in the Taiwanese army’s annual mass wedding ceremony this week, in a first after the island’s government legalised marriage equality…

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Egyptian officials systemically abuse and torture gays, rights group says

10/26/2020

Malak el-Kashif, a political activist and transgender woman living in Egypt, was arrested at her Cairo home last March after participating in a protest and was then…

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Kenya’s anti-LGBT+ ‘moral policeman’ is bending over backwards arguing against the Pope’s support of same-sex couples

10/26/2020

The CEO of the Kenya Film Classifications Board (KFCB), known as the country’s “moral policeman”, has insisted that Pope Francis must have been misquoted when spoke out…

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Foreigners Living with HIV in Jordan Face an Impossible Choice

10/26/2020

In Jordan, medical professionals and health facilities are mandated to report an individual’s HIV status to the government. Foreign nationals found to be HIV-positive are summarily deported…

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Added on: 10/26/2020

How intersex Latter-day Saints struggle to stay in a ‘two gender’ faith

10/25/2020

Courtney Skaggs always felt, well, different from other girls growing up, but she didn’t really know how different until she had the birds-and-the-bees talk with her parents…

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Added on: 10/26/2020

‘Marriage will protect our rights, affirm commitment’ — why same-sex couple moved Delhi HC

10/25/2020

After being together for over eight years, Kavita Arora and Ankita Khanna wanted legal recognition of their “committed relationship”, just like any other couple would. But for…

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Added on: 10/25/2020

Civil partnerships can now be converted to marriages in Northern Ireland

10/23/2020

The Northern Ireland Office has recently announced the ability to convert civil partnerships to marriage and vice versa. “Regulations were laid in Parliament today allowing conversion from…

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Added on: 10/25/2020

Right to love

10/25/2020

With the petition in the Delhi High Court asking that the Special Marriage Act be interpreted in a gender-neutral fashion allowing for the marriage of persons regardless…

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Added on: 10/24/2020

Log Cabin Republicans Endorse Dozen Anti-LGBT Candidates

10/23/2020

The Log Cabin Republicans, which describes itself as “the nation’s original and largest organisation representing LGBT conservatives and straight allies”, has endorsed 34 candidates from across the…

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Added on: 10/23/2020

Photos Capture Striking Moments of Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests

10/22/2020

Over the past few weeks, Nigeria has been rocked by mass protests against continued police brutality in the country. Nigerian youth have called upon President Muhammadu Buhari…

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Added on: 10/23/2020

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I want to hear a bit about you. How did you become involved in LGBTI activism? The things that pushed me to be an activist centered around…

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Added on: 10/22/2020

QAnon’s ‘SaveOurChildren’ Slogan Has Long Anti-LGBT History

10/21/2020

Model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen recently shared the devastating news with her social media followers: she and her husband, singer John Legend, had lost their child…

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Added on: 10/22/2020

Trump administration forces university to start discriminating against trans athletes

10/21/2020

New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce University has agreed to abolish its trans-inclusive policy for athletics, after pressure from the Trump administration and anti-LGBT+ activists. The university agreed to…

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Added on: 10/22/2020

Barrett Was Trustee at Private School With Anti-Gay Policies

10/21/2020

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents…

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Added on: 10/22/2020

Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions

10/21/2020

Pope Francis has given his most explicit support to same-sex civil unions in a move that is likely to further enrage his conservative opponents in the Catholic…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

Intersex, HIV/AIDs Status, Citizenship Now Protected Characteristics Under Albanian Discrimination Law

10/20/2020

The Albanian parliament has made amendments to the law “on protection from discrimination” to afford more protection to people living in the country. As per the amendments,…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

LGBT Italians Protest in 63 Cities to DemandProtection from Violence

10/19/2020

Protestors in 63 Italian cities have come together with 24 organizations to demand LGBT+ people receive protection from violence. Meanwhile 69,000 people from Italy and all over…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

The military is having a hard time providing evidence that supports the transgender ban, advocate says

10/19/2020

The military is having a hard time providing documented evidence in support of its transgender ban. In Karnoski v. Trump, one of four challenges to the transgender…

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Added on: 10/19/2020

Pro-LGBT+ central Tallinn protest passes off largely peaceably

10/18/2020

Around 300 people gathered in Tallinn’s Vadaduse väljak (Freedom Square) Sunday in protest against a planned referendum on defining marriage within the constitution as being between one…