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Added on: 09/25/2019

New York City To Repeal Ban On Gay Conversion Therapy

Here & Now
09/24/2019
The New York City Council is going to repeal its a ban on gay conversion therapy over concern the Supreme Court could end up reversing the law….
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Added on: 09/24/2019

Parties wade through pretrial issues in St Vincent buggery law case

Jamaica Observer
09/21/2019
The next hearing in the legal challenges to the buggery laws in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is slated for November 13 as the parties continue…
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Added on: 09/23/2019

‘Yes, I am transgender’: Indonesian singer braves hostility in emotional video

Asia One
09/23/2019
“It has been my inner turmoil for the last two years, but today I want to be honest. The rumours that you’ve heard out there about me…
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Added on: 09/23/2019

British Muslims launch first ever pride festival

Metro UK
09/22/2019
British Muslims are launching their first ever pride festival at a time when the community is ‘under attack more than ever’. The festival hopes to celebrate what…
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Added on: 09/23/2019

Gay fashion designer assaulted and called ‘f****t’ in front of children at Make-a-Wish fundraiser

Pink News
09/22/2019
Designer Pol’ Atteu and his husband Patrik Simpson are the stars of Amazon Prime’s reality show Gown and Out in Beverley Hills. The children’s fashion show was…
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Added on: 09/23/2019

Gay man who fled Ghana over attacks secures asylum in US

Ghana Web
09/22/2019
A Ghanaian [name withheld] who was attacked in Ghana in 2015 on suspicion of being gay has succeeded in securing asylum in the United States. Two law…
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Added on: 09/23/2019

Anti-gay Nigerian protesters demand harsher laws against LGBTIQ+ people

Rights Africa
09/19/2019
Homophobic Nigerian youths and officials protested this week to demand harsher laws and a crackdown on LGBTIQ+ people in Nigeria. Even though a recent survey has shown…
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Added on: 09/22/2019

Council of Europe presses Chechnya on gay torture

The International News
09/22/2019
A Council of Europe official tackled Chechen officials about reports of the torture and detention of gay people, during a rare visit to the Russian republic Saturday….
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Added on: 09/22/2019

‘I feel like it’s going to happen when it happens. We’re in Ireland and it’s very accepting of being gay’

The 42
09/21/2019
Last July, an anonymous Twitter account caused a major stir. A user of the site claiming to be an anonymous Championship footballer suggested he was intending to…
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Added on: 09/22/2019

Elizabeth Warren highlights violence against transgender women of color, reads names of those killed this year

ABC News
09/21/2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA., was the penultimate speaker at Friday night’s forum focused on LGBTQ issues, and took the stage with a powerful opening statement. “If elected…
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Added on: 09/22/2019

Gay couple become viral stars after taking perfect stance against anti-LGBT protesters

Indy 100
09/21/2019
A gay couple in Chester has become a viral hit and have received tons of support after they shared a kiss in front of anti-LGBT protestors. The…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER ALLOWED TO LABEL POPULAR MINISTRY “HATE GROUP” UNDER FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION

Newsweek
09/20/2019
A district court judge in Alabama has dismissed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that sought to keep the organization from labeling a Christian…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

The Plight of the LGBT Community in the Palestinian Authority and Muslim Countries

Global Diaspora News
09/20/2019
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s violent treatment of the gay community under its rule offers a gloomy reminder of this community’s difficult situation in most Muslim countries. On…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

Indonesian president postpones plans to outlaw extramarital sex

The Guardian
09/20/2019
Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has ordered his government to postpone the ratification of a deeply controversial criminal code that would outlaw living together outside marriage, extramarital sex…
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Added on: 09/21/2019

‘How can you be lesbian and Christian?’ Home Office using religion against LGBT asylum seekers

Pink News
09/20/2019
A new report has alleged that the Home Office is using religion against LGBT+ asylum seekers. The 85-page publication also found that the government department was using…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

‘We Tracked Your Social Media, You’re Gay’: Russian Student Threatened With Expulsion

Moscow Times
09/19/2019
A Russian university is said to have threatened a student with expulsion after his pink phone case and membership in pro-LGBT social media groups fueled suspicions about…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

SUSPICIONS ARISE AFTER CONFESSION IN MURDER OF RUSSIAN LGBT ACTIVIST YELENA GRIGORYEVA

Newsweek
09/19/2019
LGBT activist Yelena Grigoryeva’s body was found in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 20, with evidence she had been choked, stabbed and thrown into the bushes near…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

Rwandan gospel singer comes out as gay, to country’s shock

Associated Press
09/16/2019
Friends of Albert Nabonibo, a well-known gospel singer in Rwanda who recently came out as a gay man, do not want their names revealed. It is too…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

Nigerian press agog with protests against LGBT, cashless policy

Journal du Cameroun
09/19/2019
The renewed pursuit of cashless policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the protest by youths against lesbians, gays, and transgender are some of the…
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Added on: 09/20/2019

Report: LGBT People Of Color Lives In Rural America

Rainbow Times
09/19/2019
Media coverage often portrays rural America as singularly white, conservative and working-class. Yet at least 10 million people of color, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Gay couple held down and prayed over against their will at a church to ‘turn them straight’

GCN Magazine
09/19/2019
A gay man said that he and his boyfriend were attacked by a congregation at his Mother’s church in an attempt to convert them to heterosexuality. Sean Cormie,…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Myanmar’s ‘tomboys’ stride out of the shadows

Nikkei Asian Review
09/18/2019
In seventh grade, at school in a small town five hours’ drive north of Yangon, Jel Li developed a crush on another girl. Confused, she wrote her…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Trans woman defies danger to champion LGBTI rights in El Salvador

UNHCR
09/18/2019
Bianka Rodríguez was leaving a San Salvador shopping centre when a man with a gun came up and forced her into his car. He proceeded to drive…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Qantas and Virgin bosses reject Morrison government calls to be silent on social issues

The Guardian
09/18/2019
The chief executives of Australia’s major airlines have warned they will not be silent on social issues, with Qantas’s Alan Joyce arguing it was not just “morally…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Photojournalist Rescues Victim Of Anti-LGBT Mob

Petapixel
09/18/2019
On September 15, around 2,000 LGBT rights activists marched through Kharkiv in the first event of its kind in the eastern Ukrainian city. When the march ended,…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Homophobia and ‘Soviet hangover’ driving HIV infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, says David Furnish

The Independent
09/18/2019
Homophobia and a “Soviet hangover” are driving HIV infections in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to David Furnish, AIDS campaigner and Sir Elton John’s…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

‘I’m not giving up’: Belgrade Pride calls for Serbia to address LGBT rights

Euro News
09/17/2019
Marching under the slogan ‘’I’m not giving up’’ #NeOdricemSe, Sunday evening saw thousands take part in Belgrade’s eighth Pride Parade. The latest Balkans capital to hold Pride…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

Nepal’s sexual minorities say progress in rights has stalled

Times Argus
09/18/2019
Nepal seized the lead in equal rights for sexual minorities in South Asia four years ago with a new constitution that forbids all discrimination based on sexual…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

Transgender sex workers feel under attack. These women are working to protect their own.

The Washington Post
09/16/2019
With a bag of condoms and a stack of business cards, Tamika Spellman began a route she knew by heart, peering out the window of her Lincoln…
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Added on: 09/18/2019

Anti-gay candidate leads in Tunisia’s presidential election

Erasing 76 Crimes
09/17/2019
Anti-gay law professor Kais Saied won the most votes in the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election, the Tunisian electoral commission announced. This is the country’s second…
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