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Added on: 03/22/2019

Loud and proud at Arab summit

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/21/2019
Luxembourg’s openly gay prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has boldly condemned Arab countries’ conduct towards LGBT individuals – much to their dismay. Leaders from Arab countries were taken…
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Added on: 03/22/2019

Students press city for LGBT protections

Mexico Ledger
03/22/2019
Two students from Blue Springs South High School made a presentation to the city’s Human Relations Commission this week, asking for assistance in lobbying for increased protection…
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Added on: 03/22/2019

Lebanon’s LGBT community is often denied healthcare, and it’s not OK

StepFeed
03/22/2019
With absent or inadequate sex education in school curricula, Lebanese youth are pushed to learn about sex from unreliable sources, with all the risks it entails. The…
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Added on: 03/21/2019

Gay Lawmaker Who Fled Brazil Amid Death Threats: Bolsonaro ‘turned me into a pariah

Japan Times
03/20/2019
Brazil’s first openly gay lawmaker, Jean Wyllys, who fled his country over mounting death threats after the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, fears he won’t be…
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Added on: 03/20/2019

Presidential Hopeful Cory Booker Pledges to Reverse Trump’s anti-LGBTI Policies

Pink News
03/19/2019
Presidential challenger Cory Booker has pledged to reverse a number of Trump administration policies undermining LGBT+ rights. The Democratic senator, one of 14 candidates who are seeking…
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Added on: 03/20/2019

Turkish Police Officer Suspended for Being Gay – DW

Ahval News
03/18/2019
A Turkish police officer in the eastern city of Van has been suspended from duty because he is gay, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Sunday. It all…
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Added on: 03/20/2019

Northern Ireland Equal Marriage Activists: UK Government ‘doesn’t care’

Pink News
03/18/2019
Activists have accused the UK government of “not caring” about equal marriage in Northern Ireland, after a car crash meeting with Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley. Karen…
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Added on: 03/20/2019

U.S. Top Court Hands Defeat to Hawaii B&B That Spurned Lesbian Couple

Reuters
03/18/2019
The U.S. Supreme Court handed a defeat on Monday to a bed and breakfast owner in Hawaii who turned away a lesbian couple due to her Christian…
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Added on: 03/19/2019

Dramatic increase in violence against LGBT people in Cameroon

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/18/2019
Humanity First Cameroon and Alternatives-Cameroon are two leading organizations advocating for human rights in Cameroon, with a particular focus on the rights of LGBT people. Working together…
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Added on: 03/19/2019

Will the African nation of Botswana decriminalise homosexuality in June?

Q News
03/19/2019
Botswana’s High Court is considering a challenge to the provisions of the penal code criminalising consensual same-sex relations in the country. It will hand down its judgment…
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Added on: 03/19/2019

Russian court jails top Chechen rights activist for 4 years

Pulse Nigeria
03/18/2019
A Russian court on Monday sentenced a top Chechen rights activist to four years in a penal colony after a drugs trial that has drawn condemnation from…
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Added on: 03/18/2019

Rainbow Rage: Kyrgyz Rail Against LGBT Community After Central Asia’s ‘First’ Gay-Pride March

Radio Free Europe
03/16/2019
What many consider the first gay-pride march ever held in Central Asia has unleashed a storm of controversy in Kyrgyzstan, with threats of violence against participants, counterprotests,…
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Added on: 03/18/2019

Poland’s Ruling Chief Speaks Strongly Against LGBT Rights

US News
03/16/2019
The leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party used hostile language Saturday while speaking against rights for LGBT persons, a subject that has risen to prominence in his…
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Added on: 03/17/2019

Authorities cancel activist youth festival in Russia’s Far East

The Art Newspaper
03/15/2019
An activist youth arts festival in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East has been cancelled after authorities raised concerns that it was promoting an LGBT agenda, apparently…
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Added on: 03/17/2019

No truth for Gambia’s queer people

Mail & Guardian
03/15/2019
Gambia is accounting for its past. Two years after the end of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal 23-year rule, the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission is under way….
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Added on: 03/17/2019

Pakatan vows no lgbt freedom after rowdy women’s day in Kuala Lumpur

The Independent
03/14/2019
Malaysia probably saw its first pro-LGBT march in the country but it has more than that to worry about with a surge in ‘religious’ attacks online Last…
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Added on: 03/16/2019

Fresno’s LGBT community ‘outraged’ over plea deal for man in transgender woman’s death

The Bay Area Reporter
03/15/2019
Members of Fresno’s LGBT community are “outraged” over a plea deal reached with a man charged in the fatal stabbing of a transgender woman nearly four years…
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Added on: 03/16/2019

Poland’s ruling party picks LGBT rights as election battlefront

Reuters
03/15/2019
Poland’s ruling nationalist party aims to stem a decline in its popularity ahead of two key elections this year with warnings that opposition support for LGBT education…
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Added on: 03/16/2019

LGBT Brazilians’ Mental Health Plummets With Anti-Gay President

South Florida Gay News
03/13/2019
When the proudly homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January, LGBT community members were worried their rights would be taken away. Two months later, watchdog groups…
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Added on: 03/16/2019

Groups blast ‘homophobic’ and ‘unjust’ family bill

Taipei Times
03/15/2019
A coalition of LGBT rights groups yesterday urged Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lai Shyh-bao to withdraw his draft bill on same-sex families, which they said could…
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Added on: 03/15/2019

Nigerian lesbian: I need to marry a gay man

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/13/2019
In Nigeria, many LGBTI persons grow anxious as they get older and confront pressures from their families and society to get married. They can’t simply marry the…
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Added on: 03/15/2019

How ‘Real America’ Became Queer America

New York Times
03/13/2019
This may seem like a strange time to feel optimistic about the future of L.G.B.T. rights in America. But as a queer transgender woman who has spent…
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Added on: 03/15/2019

Dutch priest who petitioned for pro-LGBT ‘rainbow crossing’ in front of basilica withdraws petition

LGBT Life
03/12/2019
Fr. Maickel Prasing, the Dutch priest who launched an online petition for a rainbow crossing to be placed in front of the Catholic Basilica of Oudenbosch, Brabant,…
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Added on: 03/15/2019

Nearly half of LGBT graduates in Japan report having uncomfortable experiences in job interviews

The Japan Times
03/13/2019
Over 40 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual students and over 80 percent of transgender students in Japan had uncomfortable experiences during job interviews, a survey by…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

BOTSWANA COURT CASE TO CHALLENGE LEGALITY OF GAY SEX

Jerusalem Post
03/14/2019
Botswana’s High Court will hear on Thursday a case challenging the decriminalization of homosexual intercourse, offering campaigners a rare chance to argue for lesbian, gay, bisexual and…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

Guinea-Bissau’s ‘Big Mamas’ advance gay pride in conservative West Africa

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/13/2019
Edimilson Silva wears tight jeans, sparkly jewellery and sometimes lipstick – outfits that in neighbouring countries could get him harassed, jailed or even killed. But in his…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

This transgender woman is running for a seat in India’s national parliament

Gay Star News
03/13/2019
India’s commercial hub, Mumbai has its first-ever transgender candidate for upcoming parliament elections. Sneha Kale announced she would contest the north-central constituency as an independent candidate this…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

Caribbean cricket lesson: ‘Nothing wrong with being gay’

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/12/2019
In the Caribbean, anti-gay slurs are less acceptable than they used to be. A star West Indies cricketer learned that the hard way last month. Umpires imposed…
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Added on: 03/13/2019

Poland’s ruling party launches attack on LGBT community at party convention

Emerging Europe
03/11/2019
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has launched an attack on gay rights as part of its election strategy ahead of European elections in May and…
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Added on: 03/13/2019

Cameroon university blocks career of LGBTI activist

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/11/2019
Kundy (a pseudonym) is one of the most experienced LGBTI activists in Cameroon. At age 30+, he has had an impressive amount of experience protecting and advocating…
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