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Added on: 07/02/2019

Tunisia: LGBT right group leader announces plans to run for November Presidential elections

07/01/2019

The leader of Tunisia’s LGBT community, Shams, has announced plans to run for November presidential elections, first time ever a gay enters a presidential race in the…

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Added on: 07/02/2019

Anti-LGBT hate crimes are rising, the FBI says. But it gets worse

06/28/2019

Friday marked 50 years since protesters fought back against a police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn and catalyzed the modern gay rights movement. But despite decades…

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Added on: 07/02/2019

Argentina says Guyana’s LGBTI community needs receptive police, hate crime laws

06/28/2019

Argentina, which chairs the 40-nation Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) that fights for the human rights of gays and bisexuals, wants Guyanese police to make reporting hate crimes…

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Added on: 07/02/2019

Turkish opposition sparks debate with pro-LGBTQ Pride campaign

07/01/2019

In an unprecedented move, dozens of Turkish opposition-run municipalities celebrated LGBTQ Pride Day on Sunday, triggering rebukes and strongly worded statements from ruling party officials and their…

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Added on: 07/02/2019

A library canceled an LGBT prom after backlash. Then a church stepped in.

07/01/2019

When the Storybook Pride Prom for LGBT teens in Jacksonville, Fla., was canceled after online conservative backlash, a local church made sure the story had a happy…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

A ‘pride’ that roared on the streets of Kolkata yet again

07/01/2019

On a muggy July afternoon in 1999, 15 people gathered at Park Circus Maidan in the heart of Kolkata dressed in bright yellow T-shirts that said Friendship…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

Protests in Pakistan after father arrested for murder of transgender daughter

07/01/2019

The transgender community in Pakistan are leading protests after a 19-year-old transgender woman was found “riddled with bullets” beside a river bank. The teenager’s father has been…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

Turkish police fire tear gas at crowds gathered for banned Istanbul Pride march

06/30/2019

Police in Turkey used tear gas to break up a banned Pride rally calling for rights for gay and transgender people. Several hundred activists had gathered in…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

Glaad’s bold new mission: An LGBT constitutional amendment

06/29/2019

Glaad almost died in 2014. After years of fighting homophobic news coverage and working to bring about inclusion in the entertainment industry, the L.G.B.T. advocacy organization found…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

Video: LGBT activists talk openly about life in Morocco

06/29/2019

In collaboration with the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE), Human Rights Watch released a video, Monday, June 24. The footage, published on the Human Rights…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

How the internet is helping queer Nigerian youth push for Pride

06/28/2019

For LGBTQ+ people growing up in Nigeria, the dangers of being out and visible are instilled in all of us. When I ask Logan February, a 20-year-old…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

Pioneers launching Pride in Bermuda, St. Lucia, Uganda, India

06/29/2019

Activists in Bermuda and St. Lucia are planning those nations’ first Pride celebrations, while a fund drive is under way for Uganda’s seventh Pride, which is held…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

As Pride celebrates Stonewall, Catalonia remembers its own LGBT breakthrough

06/28/2019

Franco’s Spain dismissed queer people as a “danger to society.” Then, they staged an unprecedented protest in Barcelona. Pride is back in Barcelona this weekend as the…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

LGBT community demands its rights with massive Mexico City march

06/30/2019

The Mexican LGBT community showed this Saturday how much it has advanced in demanding its rights with a huge march in the capital of a country where…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

LGBTQ Tour Group Cancels Ethiopia Trip After Death Threats

06/25/2019

Death threats force a Chicago-based gay tour group to cancel an upcoming trip to Ethiopia. “One of the emails was you cannot come here you are not…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

Gov’t promises support for LGBTIQ community

06/28/2019

Some 150 people, including representatives of the government and relevant ministries, the LGBTIQ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer), local authorities, ambassadors, parents and guardians…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

Treaty rejected over LGBT clause

06/27/2019

The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) and the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) voted against an international treaty to promote a harassment-and-violence free workplace because a section in…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

With ball gowns and dance, LGBT+ refugees in Kenya cast aside woes to celebrate

06/27/2019

LGBT+ refugees in Kenya – some dressed in sequined ball gowns and slinky black evening dresses – cast aside their troubles on Thursday to eat lunch, dance…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

Survivor of Jamaican hostility, I work to legalize our loves

06/27/2019

Risk of imprisonment. Death threats. Blackmail. Contempt from police. AIDS. Jamaican/Canadian activist lawyer Maurice Tomlinson tells why he works to overturn Caribbean nations’ anti-gay laws. The first…

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Added on: 06/28/2019

Meet the 41 out gay and bi soccer stars in the Women’s World Cup 2019

06/27/2019

It is still a hostile world to be a LGBTI athlete. Thankfully, the Women’s World Cup is here to show that you can be both LGBTI and…

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Added on: 06/28/2019

PM Lee: Whatever your sexual orientation, you’re welcome to work in Singapore

06/27/2019

Are the winds of change blowing over Singapore? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke up about sexual orientation and Section 377A of the Penal Code, which deem…

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Added on: 06/28/2019

Gay librarian’s suicide prompts LGBT rights debate in Myanmar

06/27/2019

The suicide of a gay man in Myanmar who was subjected to “homophobic bullying” from his co-workers has prompted a national conversation on LGBT+ rights in the…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

Middle East Survey Sees Patchy Progress in Views on Women’s and LGBT Rights

06/26/2019

More men than women in Iraq say they have been sexually harassed, while only 6% of Lebanese people think being gay is acceptable, according to a major…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

“The Deceased Can’t Speak for Herself:” Violence Against LGBT People in Malaysia

06/26/2019

The New Year rang in little cheer for transgender women in Malaysia. On January 1, a trans woman was killed in Klang, a Kuala Lumpur suburb, the…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

Gay Nigerian ex-priest honored for supporting asylum-seekers

06/26/2019

A gay Nigerian former priest has received an award in recognition of his work supporting LGBTI African refugees. John Adewoye is a lifeline for many across the…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

Nigeria: Three anti-gay criminals captured, but then freed

06/26/2019

Three members of a group of vicious anti-gay criminals were apprehended last week at Ibusa town in Delta State, Nigeria. Members of the gang reportedly were arrested…

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Added on: 06/26/2019

War veterans join biggest gay pride march in Ukraine

06/24/2019

War veterans in fatigues joined more than 8,000 people marching in Kiev’s Gay Pride parade amid tight security on Sunday, the biggest-ever annual celebration of diversity in…

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Added on: 06/26/2019

Abused as ‘dirty’, same-sex newlyweds in Taiwan fear backlash

06/25/2019

Although Jovi Wu and Mindy Chiu made history last month as one of the first lesbian couples in Asia to marry legally, they are fearful that conservatives…

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Added on: 06/26/2019

Living joyously is a radical act’: why America’s gay bars still matter

06/25/2019

The gay bar is in trouble. Fifty years after the Stonewall Inn in New York became the symbol for a new wave of gay activism, the three…

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Added on: 06/26/2019

Madrid accused of whitewashing Gay Pride

06/25/2019

The new right-wing government of Madrid is being accused of censoring pro-LGBT publicity ahead of the city’s Gay Pride festivities. The Madrid Gay Pride, which takes place…