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Added on: 12/11/2024

Donald Trump appoints anti-trans lawyer to lead Civil Rights Division at DOJ

LGBTQ Nation
12/10/2024
Donald Trump added another strident supporter to his list of nominees for his incoming administration on Monday, announcing attorney Harmeet Dhillon, an avowed election denier and anti-woke…
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Added on: 12/11/2024

India’s first queer film is a thirsty love triangle drama from 1971 & was once thought to be lost forever

Queerty
12/10/2024
Gay characters have long existed in Indian cinema, though Bollywood—not unlike its American counterpart— often made them the butt of the joke. The country didn’t overturn its…
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Added on: 12/10/2024

Alberta Families And Advocacy Groups Challenge Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

The Pinnacle Gazette
12/10/2024
Legal battles are heating up over the recent legislation passed by the Alberta government, which imposes strict restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. This has…
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Added on: 12/10/2024

Warsaw Non-Profit Opens First Museum of Queer History in Poland

ARTnews
12/09/2024
On Friday, Poland inaugurated its first museum dedicated to LGBTQ history, a milestone in a country where legal recognition for gay rights remains limited. Located in Warsaw…
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Added on: 12/10/2024

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students

Associated Press
12/09/2024
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students. The justices, acting in…
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Added on: 12/10/2024

Traditional people worry Ghana anti-gay bill will target their Indigenous identities

Erasing 76 Crimes
12/09/2024
Traditional healer Naa Busuafi used to feel empowered when leaving tribal ceremonies held on the outskirts of Accra, proud to be living out practices that colonists sought…
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Added on: 12/09/2024

Gay venue Perth Steam Works offering free mpox vaccinations as cases rise across Australia

ABC News
12/08/2024
As mpox cases continue to rise across Australia, a gay venue in Perth is offering free vaccinations. The vast majority of cases in the recent outbreak have…
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Added on: 12/09/2024

She Sued Over Transgender ‘Conversion Therapy,’ a First for China

The New York Times
12/08/2024
For years after coming out as transgender, Ling’er, an aspiring influencer in eastern China, struggled from heartbreak to heartbreak. Her family refused to accept her. When she…
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Added on: 12/09/2024

Hate crime charges dropped for most of the Salisbury University students who allegedly beat a man they lured to an apartment

CNN
12/08/2024
Hate crime charges have been dropped for all but three of the 15 students at Salisbury University in Maryland who police said targeted a man and lured him to…
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Added on: 12/09/2024

Winner of Ghana’s presidential election will scrutinize anti-LGBTQ bill, might sign it

Erasing 76 Crimes
12/08/2024
John Mahama, former president of Ghana and the apparent victor in today’s presidential election, has said he will scrutinize the harsh anti-LGBTQ+ bill that Parliament passed in…
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Added on: 12/08/2024

LGBTQ+ refugees languish as Kenyan government blocks Canadians from resettling them

National Post
12/07/2024
In a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, seven people gather in an air-conditioned home around a dinner table for a Ugandan stew of matoke bananas…
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Added on: 12/08/2024

Belarus seeks to copy neighboring Russia’s repressive LGBTQ+ policies, activists say

Detroit News
12/07/2024
As police raided the home of a gay couple in the Belarusian capital of Minsk and brutally beat them, the officers didn’t hide that the crackdown was…
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Added on: 12/07/2024

Congo: Activist attacked and hospitalized as he opposes homophobic Minister of Justice

Erasing 76 Crimes
12/06/2024
Congolese LGBTQI+ rights activist Alphonse Mihigo was hospitalized after a mid-November attack that interrupted his campaign against the nation’s homophobic Minister of Justice, who has urged that…
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Added on: 12/07/2024

Russian LGBTQ+ activists describe a climate of fear amid new laws, court rulings

Voice of America
12/06/2024
In the year since Russia’s Supreme Court effectively outlawed any promotion of LGBTQ+ rights, activists say they are experiencing a climate of fear and intimidation in the…
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Added on: 12/07/2024

Vatican’s Holy Year calendar includes event for LGBT Catholics

Reuters
12/06/2024
The Vatican has included an event organised by LGBT Catholics on its official online calendar for the upcoming 2025 Roman Catholic Holy Year, in an unusual sign…
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Added on: 12/07/2024

CNN takes ‘giant leap forward’ by featuring transgender contributors on popular news shows, GLAAD says

Advocate
12/06/2024
It is not every day that transgender voices shape the national media narrative on transgender issues. Yet this week, CNN broke new ground with its coverage of…
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Added on: 12/06/2024

Target must face shareholder lawsuit over Pride backlash, US judge rules

MSN
12/05/2024
Target has failed to persuade a judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the retailer of deceiving shareholders after its sales of LGBTQ-themed merchandise for…
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Added on: 12/06/2024

Guilty ruling in murder of Kenya LGBTQ activist

Deutsche Welle
12/05/2024
Kenyan Justice Reuben Nyakundi ruled that the prosecution presented sufficient evidence to prove Jacktone Odhiambo’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in the murder of LGBTQ+ activist Edwin…
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Added on: 12/06/2024

Georgia’s opposition comes under attack as leader is dragged from HQ

BBC
12/05/2024
A Georgian opposition leader has been dragged from his party office by police and others have been physically attacked, after the prime minister vowed that organisers of…
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Added on: 12/06/2024

Cape Town misses out on hosting Gay Games 2030

The South African
12/15/2024
Following a hotly contested bidding process and presentation in Washington DC where the team received a standing ovation, Cape Town’s hopes were dashed when the city did not garner enough…
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Added on: 12/05/2024

The country risking it all for Europe – as Brexit Britain buries its head

iNews
12/04/2024
They come out every night. They’re shot at with rubber bullets and they’re fired upon by water cannons and they’re detained and they’re hospitalised. But they come…
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Added on: 12/05/2024

SCOTUS conservative majority appears ready to endorse Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors

CNN
12/04/2024
The Supreme Court appeared likely to back a divisive Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors after more than two hours of oral arguments on Wednesday…
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Added on: 12/05/2024

Gay clubgoers found guilty of “hooliganism” following Moscow raids

LGBTQ Nation
12/04/2024
As many as a dozen individuals rounded up at gay clubs in Moscow this past weekend have been found guilty of “hooliganism” by a Russian court and…
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Added on: 12/05/2024

End of gay sex ban a small step for Singapore’s LGBTQ+ couples

Live Mint
12/04/2024
Singapore’s decision to lift a colonial-era ban on sex between men is long overdue and will not end discrimination of LGBT groups in the city-state, rights activists…
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Added on: 12/04/2024

Three bills affecting transgender Albertans pass debate, set to become law

The Canadian Press
12/03/2024
A trio of bills affecting transgender people in Alberta have passed the final stage of debate in the legislature and are set to become law. LGBTQ+ advocacy…
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Added on: 12/04/2024

Transgender woman wins payout in China for electroshock ‘conversion’ therapy

Radio Free Asia
12/03/2024
A transgender woman in China who won an unprecedented compensation payout after being subjected to electroshock ‘conversion’ therapy in a psychiatric hospital where she said she was…
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Added on: 12/04/2024

A dozen Moscow clubgoers found guilty after anti-LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ raids

NBC News
12/03/2024
A dozen Moscow clubgoers were found guilty of “petty hooliganism” and detained following anti-LGBTQ “propaganda” raids by Russian security forces, according to Russian court documents and local…
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Added on: 12/04/2024

In Supreme Court battle over transgender rights, conservatives look to an unlikely ally: Europe

Politico
12/03/2024
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in a major fight over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, conservatives defending the law plan to point…
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Added on: 12/03/2024

Anti-gay bill targets promotion, not LGBTQ+ people — Former Justice Minister

Modern Ghana
12/03/2024
Ghana’s Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021, is not intended to target LGBTQ individuals but seeks to prevent the promotion of…
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Added on: 12/03/2024

Spain’s Socialists to ban trans women from female sports

The Telegraph
12/03/2024
Spain’s ruling Socialist party intends to ban transgender women from competing in female sports and to remove the Q+ from the LGBTQ+ acronym. The Socialists, led by…
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