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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…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

Gay Couple Moves Kerala HC For Recognition Of Homosexual Marriages

02/02/2020

Nikesh and Sonu, the first ‘married’ gay couple from Kerala, have moved the High Court of Kerala challenging the provisions of Special Marriage Act 1954 to the…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

With ‘pink yuan’ ads, China wakes up to the world’s biggest gay economy

02/20/2020

The growing popularity of online gay-friendly adverts in China shows business is waking up to the ‘pink yuan’ and more liberal attitudes among young people but the…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

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

02/20/2020

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: 02/20/2020

Indonesia could force LGBT people into rehabilitation under draft ‘family resilience’ law

01/19/2020

A proposed bill to be considered by Indonesian Parliament would compel people with “deviant” sexual persuasions to undergo “rehabilitation”. The so-called Family Resilience Bill, which covers many…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

Amid the Epidemic, a Quiet Leap Forward for China’s LGBT Community

02/18/2020

The days leading up to the Lunar New Year was a tense time for people across China amid the worsening COVID-19 epidemic. But Jiang Junjie had even…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

Trump’s Morality Police Are Obsessed With Buttigieg Kissing His Husband

02/18/2020

There is some good news about America: An openly gay candidate is mounting a serious campaign for the presidency and winning votes from rural Iowa to the…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

African countries must scrap outdated laws and fully legalise same-sex relations

02/18/2020

Sixty-eight countries around the world continue to criminalise same-sex relations. Almost half of them are based in Africa, comprising more than half the continent. These laws are…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

Extending marriage to same-sex couples is good for the Costa Rican economy

02/17/2020

Earlier this month, more than 30 businesses came out in support of extending marriage to same-sex couples in Costa Rica – from major multinationals such as Microsoft…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

French town suspends ties with Polish twin city over LGBT rights

02/17/2020

A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

As Australia looks to act on LGBT conversion practices, survivors and religious groups speak out

01/17/2020

Raised in an ultra-conservative Anglican family, transgender woman Roe Johnson says she spent her childhood being told she was broken. The 49-year-old from Melbourne says she lived…

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Added on: 02/17/2020

Uzbekistan: LGBT Rights Neglected

02/16/2020

LGBTI activists in Uzbekistan say that, despite high hopes for reform ever since Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in 2016, they continue to face routine violence and…

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Added on: 02/17/2020

Orthodox Jewish schools tell govt they won’t teach LGBT lessons

02/16/2020

Rabbis representing Britain’s main Orthodox communities have told the government that their schools cannot discuss LGBT-related issues with pupils. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the rabbinate of…

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Added on: 02/17/2020

Ukraine’s LGBT+ war veterans boost battle for equality

02/17/2020

Ukraine army veteran Viktor Pylypenko kept his sexuality a secret for years, worried that the men he had fought alongside would turn against him if they knew…

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Added on: 02/17/2020

Indonesians Are Turning To Exorcisms to ‘Cure’ Members of the LGBTQ Community

02/16/2020

After evening prayer at the mosque, 33-year-old Syifa’s* parents asked her to lie down on a prayer rug. As they recited verses from the Quran, Syifa tried…

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Added on: 02/16/2020

Fans told to remove rainbow flags on Israel Folau’s debut

02/16/2020

As Israel Folau made a try-scoring debut for his new club Catalan Dragons on Saturday, a man watching from the stands was told to remove a rainbow…

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Added on: 02/16/2020

Men who burgled London’s famous gay book shop caught after stopping to drink prosecco

02/16/2020

Two burglars who smashed their way into a historic gay bookshop in London were caught by police – after they stuck around to drink prosecco found at…

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Added on: 02/16/2020

Campaign launched to stop LGBT asylum seeker being sent to her death in Cameroon

02/16/2020

A campaign has been launched to help keep a Birmingham LGBT asylum seeker safe from being arrested or killed for her sexuality. Espoir Njei is fighting for…

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Added on: 02/15/2020

LGBT GROUPS OBJECT TO FEDERAL LAWSUIT THAT SEEKS TO REVERSE TRANS-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL ATHLETIC POLICIES

02/14/2020

A new federal lawsuit seeking to challenge trans-inclusive school athletic policies is receiving backlash from LGBT organizations, who view the action as the latest maneuver in a…

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Added on: 02/15/2020

LGBT gym forced to permanently close its doors after months of harassment by far-right hate group

02/14/2020

An inclusive LGBT+ gym in Canada has been forced to permanently close after being subjected to months of online harassment and doxxing by a far-right hate group….

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Added on: 02/15/2020

Hundreds of Slovaks urge gov’t at prayer rally to not ratify pro-gay ‘marriage’ European agreement

02/14/2020

Hundreds of Slovaks gathered outside the presidential palace on Tuesday to oppose LBGT ideology through public prayer. The Slovenský dohovor za rodinu (SDZR, or “Slovakian Convention for…

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Added on: 02/15/2020

Peruvian LGBTQ couples call for marriage equality in symbolic wedding

02/14/2020

LGBTQ couples in Peru took part in a symbolic wedding ceremony on Friday in an annual event aimed at calling for marriage equality in the conservative South…