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Added on: 06/17/2019

The Biggest LGBT Center In The World Just Got Bigger — And Better

Huff Post
06/17/2019
The construction wasn’t quite finished on the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new Anita May Rosenstein Campus in mid-May. There was still caution tape on some of the…
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Added on: 06/17/2019

Fighting For Recognition in Japan

Huff Post
06/16/2019
When 13 LGBTQ couples sued the Japanese government earlier this year, arguing for legal recognition of same-sex marriage, it made headlines around the world as a historic…
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Added on: 06/17/2019

Young people key to combatting homophobia: LGBT rugby chief

France 24
06/17/2019
Educating young people about the evils of homophobia was a key message from Europe’s largest LGBT+ inclusive rugby tournament, the biennial Union Cup, held in Dublin last…
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Added on: 06/17/2019

Teens on growing up LGBTI in Iran: ‘My boyfriend was killed’

Gay Star News
06/17/2019
Teens have opened up about what it’s like to grow up LGBTI in Iran. Dozens of young people revealed they are ‘depressed’ and ‘frustrated’ by living in…
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Added on: 06/17/2019

Male couple refused entry to restaurant ‘because a couple is a man and woman’

Times of Israeil
06/16/2019
A male couple were told they couldn’t dine at a restaurant in the northern city of Nazareth Illit because the special event was reserved for families and…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

Legalising homosexuality: Germany did it 25 years ago – what about other European countries?

EuroNews
06/14/2019
This week Germany celebrated legalising homosexuality twenty-five years ago. Until June 11, 1994, it was still considered a crime in Germany even though since 1969 homosexuals were…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

‘Police are a force of terror’: The LGBT activists who want cops out of Pride

The Guardian
06/14/2019
It took half a century, but this LGBT Pride month, the New York police department (NYPD) finally apologized for the infamous 1969 raid on the Stonewall gay…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

Understanding of LGBT realities ‘non-existent’ in most countries, says UN expert

UN News
06/12/2019
In a statement issued ahead of presenting his latest report to the Human Rights Council later this month, Victor Madrigal-Borloz urged States to collect more data in…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

Detective investigated for calling for execution of LGBT people

Pink News
06/13/2019
A church sermon by a sheriff’s detective is being investigated after it called LGBT+ people to be arrested and executed. The Knox County Attorney General’s Office is…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

Brazilian president says decision to criminalise homophobia ‘completely wrong’

EuroNews
06/15/2019
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro criticised the country’s Supreme Court after they ruled to criminalise homophobia, making it a crime equivalent to racism in Brazil. Bolsonaro told reporters…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

Malaysian human rights group reject LGBTI rights in letter

Gay Star News
06/13/2019
A Malaysian human rights campaigner has rejected LGBTI rights, claiming they are a ‘western import’. Azril Mohd Amin from the Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

Gay people unlikely to report intimate partner violence: expert

Focus Taiwan
06/14/2019
It is possible that more that 90 percent of individuals subject to intimate partner violence in homosexual relationships in Taiwan do not seek help from government-run support…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

AP Explains: The rocky rise of LGBT rights in Latin America

Associated Press
06/13/2019
Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

Supporters and opponents of LGBT pride march clash in Tbilisi

JAM News
06/14/2019
Participants of a protest demonstration of LGBT activists in the center of Tbilisi in front of the government office building clashed with Orthodox activists last evening. The…
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Added on: 06/14/2019

Reverence for tradition threatens same-sex marriage in Japan

Yahoo News
06/13/2019
As Japanese lawmakers grapple with a landmark same-sex marriage bill, campaigners fear it may die at the first legislative hurdle as lawmakers pander to aging voters and…
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Added on: 06/14/2019

Time for Swaziland to Follow Botswana’s Lead and Decriminalise Gay Sex

All Africa
06/13/2019
Swaziland should follow the example of its near-neighbour Botswana and decriminalise gay sex. The kingdom, also known as eSwatini, has much in common with Botswana. Both were…
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Added on: 06/14/2019

Ecuador approves same-sex marriage as LGBT+ groups hail landmark week

Reuters
06/13/2019
Ecuador’s decision to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBT+ rights after Botswana decriminalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do…
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Added on: 06/13/2019

Samoa Fa’afafine Association protests censor of Elton John film

RNZ
06/12/2019
LGBTI rights advocates in Samoa are protesting against the censoring of the Elton John biopic Rocketman. Samoa’s only cinema revealed the ban on Friday on its Facebook…
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Added on: 06/13/2019

Bermuda to hold first gay pride march

Royal Gazzette
06/12/2019
Bermuda’s first march to celebrate gay pride is to be held this summer. LGBTQ people and same-sex marriage campaigners said the Bermuda Pride event would help to…
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Added on: 06/13/2019

‘I categorically deny this vicious libel’: Malaysian minister Azmin Ali condemns gay sex video as attempt to ruin his reputation

South China Morning Post
06/12/2019
Malaysia’s Economic Affairs Minister Azmin Ali rejected claims he was in a gay sex video that went viral earlier this week, and vowed to expose those behind…
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Added on: 06/13/2019

With the help of his boyfriend, a German reporter asked Iran’s foreign minister why the country executes people for being gay

Washington Post
11/12/2019
When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif faced questions from foreign journalists on Monday in Tehran after a meeting with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, he may…
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Added on: 06/12/2019

Pakistani transgender woman ‘kidnapped and tortured’ by gang

Pink News
06/11/2019
A gang of thugs reportedly kidnapped and tortured a transgender woman in Mardan, Pakistan, shaving off her hair after she refused to give them money. Shakeela claims…
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Added on: 06/12/2019

How L.G.B.T. Couples in Russia Decide Whether to Leave the Country

New Yorker
06/11/2019
In March, a member of the Russian senate asked the prosecutor general to look into the issue of yoga in pretrial detention. Yoga classes, organized on the…
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Added on: 06/12/2019

Scores of LGBT+ refugees in Kenya slum face homophobic attacks, eviction

Yahoo News
06/11/2019
Scores of LGBT+ refugees are in desperate need of emergency shelter after facing homophobic threats, violence and eviction warnings from community members in a Nairobi slum, the…
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Added on: 06/12/2019

New lawyers’ group fights violence and stigma in Cameroon

Erasing 76 Crimes
06/11/2019
A group of young lawyers and courtroom professionals has founded Defenders Without Borders (Défenseurs Sans Frontières, or DSF), a human rights organization working on behalf of vulnerable…
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Added on: 06/11/2019

Vatican issues guidance questioning modern gender identity

BBC
06/11/2019
The Vatican has released a new document challenging modern conceptions of gender identity. The 31-page teaching guidance, released on Monday, is titled Male and Female He Created…
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Added on: 06/11/2019

IRAN’S FM AFFIRMS RIGHT TO EXECUTE GAYS AND BLASTS U.S. AND ISRAEL

Jerusalem Times
06/11/2019
In response to questions today in Tehran from a reporter for the mass circulation German paper Bild, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif…
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Added on: 06/11/2019

Germany: Gay conversion ‘therapy’ ban presented

Deutsche Weille
06/11/2019
German Health Minister Jens Spahn announced his plan on Tuesday to ban so-called gay conversion therapy nationwide. Although the practice is not as common in Germany as…
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Added on: 06/11/2019

Botswana’s High Court Decriminalizes Gay Sex

New York Times
06/11/2019
Botswana’s High Court ruled on Tuesday to overturn colonial-era laws that criminalized homosexuality, a decision hailed by activists as a significant step for gay rights on the…
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Added on: 06/10/2019

Botswana to rule on scrapping anti-gay laws

Pulse NG
06/10/2019
Botswana could decriminalise gay sex on Tuesday when its high court is due to rule in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya recently upheld…
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