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Added on: 03/02/2020

Slovak election hands democrats vital test

03/01/2020

Populist businessman Igor Matovic is set to become Slovakia’s next prime minister after his Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (Olano) movement enjoyed a surge of support in…

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Added on: 03/02/2020

Polish LGBT activists protest at Warsaw church against Catholic archbishop

03/01/2020

Several dozen activists protested in front of a Warsaw church guarded by police on Sunday as a Catholic archbishop, criticized for his anti-LGBT language, celebrated mass. Last…

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Added on: 03/01/2020

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

03/01/2020

Every wedding is an important day. But some marriages make history — such as the unions that signal a country’s acceptance of LGBT rights for the first…

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Added on: 03/01/2020

Tickets are now on sale for London’s first ever Muslim LGBT+ Pride

02/26/2020

Tickets are officially on sale for London’s first LGBT+ Muslim Pride festival, bringing together artists and advocates for an event that organisers hope will spotlight a community…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Shameful statistic staining Australia: Young LGBTI people twice as likely to be homeless

02/28/2020

A group of 1000 people will come together this weekend to stand in the shape of a house to raise awareness of a shameful statistic about the…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Washington state passes ban on gay and trans panic defenses for homicide

02/28/2020

A measure prohibiting homicide defendants from claiming a defense based on panic over a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been passed by lawmakers in Washington…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Four years, two continents: a gay Chinese couple’s journey for a surrogate son

02/28/2020

Before Qiguang Li could pass through customs and step on to US soil for the first time, he faced a three-hour detention where he learned that he…

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Added on: 02/28/2020

The Fight for LGBT Rights in Vietnam Still Has a Long Way To Go

02/27/2020

Prejudice, discrimination, and stigma against the LGBT community in Vietnam still loom large. Change will take concerted efforts. On September 14, 2019, on a sunny Saturday afternoon…

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Added on: 02/28/2020

Top Imam vows to stop ‘demonic’ LGBT conference from coming to Ghana

02/27/2020

The Pan Africa ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) is set to hold its 2020 annual conference in Accra, Ghana, in July. It will…

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Added on: 02/28/2020

Lesbian speaks about the heartbreaking process of trying to ‘prove’ sexuality to the government

02/27/2020

A lesbian from Zimbabwe has spoken out about how it took five gruelling years to convince the Home Office that she’s gay and should be granted asylum….

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Added on: 02/27/2020

As survivors speak out, 9 countries seek to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’

02/26/2020

From electric shocks to ‘praying away the gay’, global momentum is growing to ban so-called “conversion therapy”, with bills drawn up in nine countries, a rights group…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

‘Return the key’: the parents who reject their gay children

02/26/2020

Chris Jewell was in tears after a big, intense fight with his boyfriend of five years. So big, the police were called. Highly distressed, he phoned someone…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

Afro-Feminist Resistance in Brazil’s Carnival

02/26/2020

In Southern Brazil, the all women’s carnival block Cores de Aide is marching for political resistance and in defense of women, who have been particularly under attack…

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Added on: 02/27/2020

Pro-Trump preacher says Pete Buttigieg should be jailed for talking to 9-year-old about being gay

02/26/2020

A pro-Trump preacher has said that Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg should be jailed for speaking to a nine-year-old. Dave Daubenmire, more commonly known as right-wing internet persona…

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Added on: 02/26/2020

Priest who compared LGBT-inclusive education to Nazism invited to speak in UK parliament

02/26/2020

An anti-abortion Anglican priest who said LGBT-inclusive education is “state-sponsored abuse” and comparable to Nazism has been invited to speak in UK parliament. Reverend Lynda Rose was…

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Added on: 02/26/2020

Acting intelligence head Richard Grenell’s push to decriminalize homosexuality has yielded little

02/25/2020

Donald Trump became the first president to name an openly gay person to a Cabinet-level position Wednesday when he announced that Richard Grenell would serve as his…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

A THIRD OF POLAND DECLARED ‘LGBT-FREE ZONE’

02/24/2020

Local municipalities across a third of Poland have adopted resolutions “against LGBT propaganda” or “pro-family”, creating what rights groups describe as hostile spaces for anyone who is…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

SETBACKS FOR QUEENSLAND’S CONVERSION THERAPY BAN

02/24/2020

Australia’s first proposed legislation criminalising “LGBT conversion therapy” has suffered setbacks and divides after receiving criticism and support on issues of medicinal practice and gender dysphoria. Under…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

A Police Raid, Viral Videos and the Broken Lives of Nigerian Gay Law Suspects

02/24/2020

The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police truck into the glare of a sunny courtyard and a phalanx of cameras. Some clutched…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

Zionist Left Campaign Lures Arab LGBT Voters

02/23/2020

The Labor-Gesher-Meretz list on Monday launched an ad targeting the LGBT community inside Israeli-Arab society, in an attempt to appeal to liberal voters affiliated with the Joint…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

No Scottish police officers have been trained to tackle LGBT hate crime in four years despite being a ‘priority’

02/23/2020

Despite rocketing rates of violence against LGBT+ people in Scotland, absolutely no Police Scotland officers have been sent to a training course to better tackle the upsurge…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

Morality police swing out wildly in Indonesia

02/23/2020

Indonesia’s self-appointed morality police are at it again, this time featuring a university-educated member of the Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI) who drew public ridicule…

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Added on: 02/24/2020

Torched Effigy of Gay Couple Causes Outrage in Croatia

02/23/2020

The Croatian President, government ministers, LGBT rights groups and the Ombudsperson on Monday all condemned the burning of an effigy of a kissing same-sex couple and their…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Rainbow Scapes: Filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan on chronicling the lives of LGBT individuals who ‘lived fearlessly’

02/22/2020

In 2011, I travelled across India to document lives of 20 gay, lesbian and transgender persons who have lived their lives fearlessly and contributed in their own…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500%

02/22/2020

For several days this week the veteran Swedish journalist Malou von Sivers will cover the same topic in every episode of her nightly TV chat show: the…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Ivory Coast family beats up gay son after meeting his lover

02/21/2020

Jules Franckrin Kouamé Kouadio, ironworker by trade, was beaten up by members of his family after presenting his lover on his 35th birthday. On Saturday, Feb. 8,…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Polish court says campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia was “informative”

02/21/2020

A Polish court has ruled in favour of a campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia, claiming it was “informative” and that it raised awareness. Polish lawyer, Bartłomiej…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Australian state mulls nation’s first gay ‘conversion therapy’ ban

02/21/2020

An Australian state is considering the nation’s first ban and jail sentences for so-called gay conversion therapy, a bid that has sparked division more than two years…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Gay Nigerian’s achievement: a passionate public kiss

02/21/2020

Yomi, who is currently based in the UK, came out to his family sometime early last year on Whatsapp. Since then, he and his boyfriend moved in…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

China HIV patients risk running out of AIDS drugs in days – UNAIDS

01/20/2020

HIV patients in China risk running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because quarantines and lockdowns aimed at containing the coronavirus disease outbreak mean they cannot replenish vital…