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Added on: 02/05/2020

Nigerian court adjourns case of 47 men charged under homosexuality law

02/04/2020

After months of delays, Nigerian prosecutors began presenting their evidence against 47 men charged with public displays of affection with members of the same sex, but asked…

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Added on: 02/05/2020

Change to the Refugees Act moves South Africa much closer to Donald Trump’s America

02/04/2020

Since its inception, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa has protected South Africa from its government. A document heralded internationally as a model of democratic…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

How Pete Buttigieg Found Support in Iowa’s Formerly Anti-LGBTQ Communities

02/03/2020

Pete Buttigieg doesn’t often remind people that he’s running a historic presidential campaign. The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has emphasized an easy-to-like persona: a…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

Rising populism stokes homophobic hate speech across Europe

02/02/2020

Homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and other anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are rising across Europe, fuelled by divisive politics and socially conservative groups that also campaign against abortion access,…

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Added on: 02/03/2020

Mumbai Police denies permission for Pride 2020 at August Kranti Maidan

02/01/2020

Pride 2020, scheduled for February 1, the annual march of LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual) community in the city, the Mumbai…

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Added on: 02/03/2020

‘It’ll be OK. Spain is kinder to us migrants than the British are’

02/01/2020

If a fair few of the 300,000 Britons who live in Spain woke with pounding heads on Saturday morning, many could at least console themselves with the…

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Added on: 02/03/2020

Iceland Expands Its Evangelical Ban To Include Anti-LGBT Methodists

02/02/2020

The parliament of this island country in the North Atlantic declared today it is increasing its travel ban to include American evangelicals who are members of the…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refuses to meet with LGBT activists in Ukraine

02/01/2020

Donald Trump’s anti-LGBT+ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Ukraine this week, but refused to meet with LGBT+ community leaders. Pompeo made the trip to show America’s…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Tanzania ‘anti-gay’ force official Paul Makonda banned from US

02/01/2020

A top Tanzanian official who launched a surveillance squad dedicated to hunting down gay people has been banned by the US from entering the country. The US…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

In Peru, land of wild, corrupt politics, the economy hums right along

02/01/2020

Expectations for the Congress Peru elected this week are understandably modest. Nine feuding parties from the center to the extreme right emerged victorious, with the second-largest faction…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Franklin Graham banned by 2nd UK city over ‘repulsive’ LGBT+ views, official says

01/29/2020

Evangelist Franklin Graham was banned Wednesday from coming to a second arena in England on his upcoming summer tour of the United Kingdom. Julie Dore, the council…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Indian Supreme Court accepts trans lawsuit against new trans rights law

01/28/2020

The Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on Monday on a petition alleging that a legislation drafted to protect transgender persons was violative of…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Veracruz Congress rejects same-sex marriage

01/30/2020

The Veracruz Congress rejected the reform of 52 articles of the Civil Code that sought to establish formal union between people of the same sex, since it…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Croatia Gay Couple Foster Care Application Rejected: Court Decision Ignored

01/28/2020

The Social Welfare Center in Zagreb again rejected the foster care application submitted by Ivo Šegota and Mladen Kožić, who are life partners in Croatia. By doing…

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Added on: 02/01/2020

LGBT community in Hungary faces ‘increasingly concentrated attacks’ by government

01/31/2020

The LGBT+ community in Hungary is facing “increasingly concentrated attacks” by the far-right government, activists have said, and hard-won LGBT+ rights in the country could be at…

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Added on: 02/01/2020

Appeal to Tunisia: End prosecution of LGBT activist who offended Muslims

01/31/2020

The human rights group Human Rights Watch is urging Tunisian authorities to drop their lawsuit against LGBT rights activist Mounir Baatour, who wrote a Facebook post last…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

Church of England ‘sorry’ for LGBT sex guidance

01/31/2020

The Church of England will not be withdrawing guidance that said sex is only for “heterosexual married couples”. But the archbishops of Canterbury and York are “very…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

Bolsonaro makes former soap star Brazil’s new culture secretary

01/30/2020

A former soap opera star, Regina Duarte, has agreed to become Brazil’s culture secretary, replacing the previous secretary who was fired for giving a speech that used…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

Mauritania arrests 10 gay men after purported gay wedding

01/30/2020

Authorities in Mauritania have arrested 10 men after a video appeared on social media of a gay couple appearing to take part in a traditional wedding ceremony,…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

Indonesia: Rejecting homophobic pseudoscience

01/29/2020

Sensational headlines, clickbait articles and pseudoscience cannot be tolerated when they promote fear and hatred. Many in the media, including writers and editors, use these techniques to…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

South Dakota Lawmakers Just Voted to Send Doctors to Jail for Helping Trans Kids

01/29/2020

After hours of heated (and often comically inaccurate) debate, South Dakota’s House of Representatives on Wednesday became the first in the country to greenlight a bill that…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

Amnesty International urges Korea to take action on LGBT rights

01/29/2020

Amnesty International on Thursday expressed concerns about the rights of sexual minorities in South Korea in its yearly human rights report, calling on the government and parliament…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

A GOP lawmaker, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, compared doctors treating transgender children to Nazis

01/28/2020

The South Dakota legislature is considering the nation’s first law that could send doctors to jail for treating transgender youths younger than 16 with hormone therapy or…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

Israel Folau joins Europe rugby league team after being axed for homophobic comments

01/28/2020

Australian rugby player Israel Folau has been signed by the Catalan Dragons, a Super League rugby team, for a 12-month contract. The 30-year-old dual-code international was dropped…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

Lesbians more accepted than gay men around the world, study finds

01/28/2020

A new study exploring the attitudes toward nonheterosexual men and women in 23 Western and non-Western countries found lesbians are more accepted than gay men around the…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Queensland religious groups fight move to make gay conversion therapy a crime

01/27/2020

Religious schools and organisations are fighting a move by the Queensland government to make LGBT-related conversion therapy a crime in the state. In late November, the Queensland…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Hong Kong citizens back same-sex marriage and LGBT+ protection

01/27/2020

Support for LGBT+ people has soared to record levels in Hong Kong, a new survey has found. The Sexualities Research Programme at the Chinese University of Hong…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Gay Couple Moves Kerala HC For Recognition Of Homosexual Marriages Under Special Marriage Act

01/27/2020

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: 01/28/2020

Why are Dine LGBTQ people denied access to ceremony?

01/27/2020

When Rei Yazzie started his transition and his voice began to change, he knew it was time to prepare for a tá’cheeh – a traditional male puberty…

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Added on: 01/27/2020

72 LGBT organisations write to MSPs supporting trans rights

01/26/2020

Seventy two LBGT organisations have penned an open letter to MSPs, underlining their support for the government’s proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. Sports teams, pride…