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Added on: 03/29/2020

Supporting PrEP in eastern Europe and central Asia

Sky News
03/28/2020
ECOM – Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity – recently published a report on access to PrEP (regular medication to prevent HIV infection) in…
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Added on: 03/29/2020

Quarantine Chronicles: Returning Home as a Gay Person

U.C. San Diego Guardian
03/28/2020
For as long as I felt possible, I put off making the decision to leave behind my life in San Diego and return to my hometown to…
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Added on: 03/29/2020

UK Black Pride warns coronavirus will adversely affect queer people of colour as annual festival is postponed

Pink News
03/28/2020
UK Black Pride has been indefinitely postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has seen the UK go into lockdown. The event, which is Europe’s largest…
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Added on: 03/29/2020

Egypt denies existence of LGBT people

Mamba Online
03/28/2020
The government of Egypt has told UN member states that it cannot protect LGBT people’s rights because it does not recognise that they exist. Human Rights Watch…
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Added on: 03/28/2020

In Egypt, transgender activist fights battle on many fronts

NBC News
03/27/2020
Malak el-Kashif left home on her birthday seven years ago. Walking into an uncertain future, she was underdressed for the weather and armed with little— except for…
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Added on: 03/28/2020

Gay dancer trapped at home with homophobic Christian parents who think he has an ‘evil disease’

Pink News
03/27/2020
A young, gay dancer has described how, because of the coronavirus lockdown, he is trapped at home with his homophobic Christian parents who believe he has an…
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Added on: 03/28/2020

Explained: The 33 Gender Identities Recognised By The Australian Sex Survey

Life Hacker
03/27/2020
The acronym “LGBT” was once considered sufficiently representational of non-heterosexual sexuality and gender types. Well, it looks like we’re going to need a few more letters. A…
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Added on: 03/27/2020

Second blanket ban on LGBTI+ events in Ankara has been lifted!

KAOS GL
03/26/2020
The second indefinite ban on LGBTI+ activity was lifted in Ankara, which was declared by the document submitted to the Police by the Governor’s Office in 2018….
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Added on: 03/27/2020

The fight against Poland’s ‘LGBT free zones’

BBC Sounds
03/21/2020
New laws are being passed across Poland taking aim at the LGBT community. They’ve been called “LGBT free zones” as a shorthand. While they don’t necessarily mean…
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Added on: 03/27/2020

Teen with lesbian moms forced to listen to anti-LGBTQ “sermons” before school basketball practice

LGBTQ Nation
03/26/2020
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, two mothers in Tennessee allege that their son’s middle school basketball coach forced kids to attend his sermons in order…
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Added on: 03/26/2020

Malaysian LGBT podcast hosts on being queer in a conservative society

South China Morning Post
03/25/2020
“One episode that stands out to this day involved an interview with a person who participated in chemsex,” the Malaysian podcast host known as J says when…
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Added on: 03/26/2020

Global LGBT organizations mobilize in face of pandemic

Bay Area Reporter
03/25/2020
Global LGBT organizations are responding to the impact of the coronavirus as they work to protect some of the most vulnerable queer people. There have been 19,753…
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Added on: 03/26/2020

Trump Cabinet’s Bible teacher says gays cause ‘God’s wrath’ in COVID-19 blog post

NBC News
03/25/2020
In a blog post titled “Is God Judging America Today?” a pastor who leads a weekly bible study group for members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appeared…
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Added on: 03/26/2020

India’s ‘invisible’ trans community struggles as coronavirus shuts life down

Reuters
03/25/2020
India’s coronavirus lockdown leaves transgender people at heightened risk of poverty and ill health because they exist on the margins of society, eking out a living through…
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Added on: 03/25/2020

This mum is raging because kids in coronavirus isolation are displaying rainbows in their windows

Pink News
03/24/2020
Children’s drawings and paintings of rainbows have been springing up in windows across the UK after a heartwarming trend started online. Hundreds of schools encouraged their pupils…
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Added on: 03/25/2020

Mogadishu’s refugees ‘waiting for death’ as Covid-19 reaches Somalia

The Guardian
03/24/2020
In the Nabadoon camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Asho Abdullahi Hassan, a 40-year-old mother of seven, has heard about the coronavirus on the radio. “I am…
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Added on: 03/25/2020

Petition urges repeal of restrictions on gay donors amid blood shortage

NBC News
03/24/2020
LGBTQ advocates are calling on the U.S. government to allow gay and bisexual men to give lifesaving blood without restriction to address donation shortages amid the global…
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Added on: 03/25/2020

This lesbian artist faces six years jail for creating innocent pictures

Gay Star News
03/24/2020
A lesbian artist has spent months under house arrest and is facing fines and six years jail, just for publishing innocent images in Russia. Yulja Tsvetkova faces…
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Added on: 03/24/2020

Andorra set to become latest nation to legalize gay marriage

Reuters
03/23/2020
Andorra, one of Europe’s smallest countries, is set to legalize gay marriage, highlighting that eastern European countries with anti-LGBT laws are “on the wrong side of history”,…
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Added on: 03/24/2020

LGBT+ homeless fear violence, illness as coronavirus shuts U.S. shelters

Reuters
03/23/2020
The coronavirus is causing the closure of homeless centers across the United States, putting LGBT+ people without housing at increased risk of suicide, health complications or hate…
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Added on: 03/23/2020

These South Korean women went abroad to get married. Then one spoke out at home, and the backlash began.

Washington Post
03/22/2020
Kim Kyu-jin doesn’t describe herself as an activist. That’s a label that tends to scare people in South Korea’s conformist society. She sees herself as just a…
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Added on: 03/23/2020

AS PEOPLE SOCIALLY DISTANCE, AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT APP SEES A BOOST IN LISTENERS

Inverse
03/22/2020
Adam Lippin is the founder of a peer emotional support app called HearMe. Lippin was inspired to create this app because of his own experience dealing with…
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Added on: 03/22/2020

Gay YouTuber takes aim at Indonesia’s ‘sexual deviant’ bill

Reuters
03/21/2020
An Indonesian YouTube star, whose videos about being gay and living with HIV have generated millions of views, is hoping his popular channel will help fight moves…
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Added on: 03/21/2020

Scotland’s plans to reform gender-recognition laws could be ‘kicked into the long grass’ because of coronavirus

Pink News
03/20/2020
Scotland could put plans to reform gender recognition laws on hold because of the coronavirus crisis, according to The National. The reforms, which have been in the…
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Added on: 03/21/2020

Global Methodist conference in Minneapolis to address LGBT inclusion is postponed

Start Tribune
03/20/2020
A historic meeting of the global United Methodist Church — one in which its future position on LGBT clergy and marriage was expected to be determined —…
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Added on: 03/21/2020

Egypt’s Denial of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Human Rights Watch
03/21/2020
The Egyptian government is refusing to recognize the existence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, flouting its responsibility to protect the rights of everyone. On…
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Added on: 03/20/2020

Over 140 LGBTQ couples marry in mass wedding in Mexico City

NBC News
03/17/2020
Ana Scarlett Vargas was assigned male at birth, but she said she knew she was a girl at just 7 years old. At 13, she started performing…
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Added on: 03/20/2020

‘A weight off my shoulders’: Argentina’s first openly gay basketball star on coming out

Reuters
03/19/2020
Traveling Argentina and the world as a professional basketball player, Sebastian Vega was living his childhood dream. But carrying a secret deep within was a nightmare. “When…
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Added on: 03/19/2020

‘It’s not safe for them’: Coronavirus lockdowns putting LGBT+ people at risk across Middle East

The Independent
03/18/2020
Coronavirus-induced isolation and lockdowns are putting LGBT+ people in the Middle East at risk, campaigners have warned. Many individuals are – or, due to money worries, fear…
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Added on: 03/19/2020

VIRAL VIGILANTES ARE TURNING YOUTUBE AND TIKTOK INTO A WEAPON

The Verge
03/18/2020
The video begins with an accidental, amateurish lens flare against the window of a car, before the teen’s phone camera settles on a supposedly 35-year-old man who…
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