Discrimination and Equality

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Added on: 03/27/2020
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Added on: 03/19/2020
03/18/2020
A new report on hate groups in the United States detailed an increase in the number of white nationalist groups even as the overall number of hate…

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Added on: 03/18/2020
03/17/2020
A transgender pastor has vowed to officiate same-sex marriages in Hong Kong despite a legal challenge failing to provide assurances that he will not face arrest. Marrz…

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Added on: 03/18/2020
03/17/2020
A lesbian sheriff who was allegedly fired because of her sexuality is running to replace her boss and become the first female LGBT+ sheriff in her state….

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Added on: 03/17/2020
03/16/2020
The Sun newspaper in Nigeria has published a diatribe on the rise of sadistic and hard-working “criminals”. Nigeria is one of the most dangerous countries in the…

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Added on: 03/17/2020
03/16/2020
The government of Bermuda is trying to ban same-sex marriage for the third time, as it has been banned and then legalised on the island twice already….

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Added on: 03/17/2020
03/16/2020
As of March 15, Seattle had recorded 420 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 37 deaths. As a historian of 20th-century queer and trans politics, I know that’s nothing…

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Added on: 03/16/2020
03/15/2020
Unlike Puerto Vallarta, Chiapas is a less familiar state among tourists travelling to Mexico but San Cristóbal de las Casas is the perfect location to discover Chiapa’s…

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Added on: 03/16/2020
03/15/2020
Ben Hodge, 20, didn’t feel able to come out as a trans man at school – despite coming out as non-binary at 14 and using they/them pronouns….

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Added on: 03/15/2020
In 1992, Cork made history when its St Patrick’s parade included the first-ever LGBT float to take part, which also won best new entry in that year’s…