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Added on: 08/01/2024

German colonialism in Africa has a chilling history – new book explores how it lives on

07/31/2024

Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But this colonial history is not told as often as that of other imperialist…

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Added on: 07/31/2024

For trans youth, working in corporate India is a losing battle

07/30/2024

It was a smoggy November morning in 2023. At the Gurugram shelter run by the Transgender Welfare Equity and Empowerment Trust, Ajay*, a trans man in his…

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Added on: 07/31/2024

Cardinal Zuppi reportedly praises ‘queer’ families at Italian film festival

07/30/2024

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi reportedly praised “queer” families at an Italian film festival last week, saying that “the point is to love each other.” The Daily Compass, an…

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Added on: 07/31/2024

US judge upholds protections for LGBTQ students in first win for Biden administration

07/30/2024

A federal judge in Alabama on Tuesday refused to block the Biden administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students in four Republican-led states, breaking with…

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Added on: 07/31/2024

Killers of trans people face 70 years in jail under reformed Mexico City law

07/30/2024

Following years of campaigns, the changes, promoted by the ruling Morena Party, were passed by 45 votes to one, making make Mexico City the second of the…

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Added on: 07/30/2024

How do LGBTQ+ groups feel about Kamala Harris’ campaign? ‘Re-energized’

07/29/2024

LGBTQ+ rights groups are praising Vice President Kamala Harris’ “historic” presidential campaign, and what it means for the queer community. Democrats and human rights groups celebrated Harris’…

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Added on: 07/30/2024

Puberty blockers ban imposed by Tory government is lawful, high court rules

07/29/2024

A ban on prescribing puberty blockers in England, Wales and Scotland has been considered lawful by a high court judge. An emergency order implemented by former health…

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Added on: 07/30/2024

I’m so scared that I’ll be arrested’: France clamps down on sex workers during Olympics

07/29/2024

As Paris hosts the 2024 Olympics, undocumented Chinese sex worker Hua says increased police patrols are threatening her livelihood. “I really feel under pressure, I’m constantly scared….

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Added on: 07/30/2024

The glitter and the grit: Inside Nigeria’s queer ballroom subculture

07/29/2024

When Countess Sasha Seduction, a Nigerian non-binary drag queen, got to attend their first ballroom experience, a 2022 Halloween ball in Lagos, Nigeria, it felt like a…

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Added on: 07/29/2024

Pride organisers call for laws to protect LGBTQIA

07/28/2024

Organisers of Sunday’s PrideTT parade emphasised the need for legislation to protect members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA) community from discrimination. Almost…

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Added on: 07/29/2024

‘Gayest Olympics ever’: Paris Games will spotlight growing LGBTQIA+ athletic community

07/28/2024

PHOENIX — The LGBTQIA+ community will be a focal point during the Paris Olympics, which officially kick off with Friday’s opening ceremony. “This will be the gayest…

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Added on: 07/29/2024

Transgender business program honored for helping people build economic power

07/28/2024

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recognized a local trans nonprofit this week for its program supporting trans and nonbinary entrepreneurs. During its regular meeting at San Francisco…

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Added on: 07/28/2024

Tricked into conversion therapy in Russia for being trans

07/27/2024

On a remote farm in Siberia, a man handed Ada a knife. In front of them was a pig. “Cut it off,” he said. “If you want…

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Added on: 07/28/2024

Man ‘held in psychiatric hospital’ after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

07/27/2024

A man is reportedly being held in a psychiatric institution by local authorities after attempting to create Pakistan’s first gay club. The individual, who has not been…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

Edafe Okporo, a Gay Nigerian Refugee, Could Be the First Former Asylum Seeker Elected to the NYC Council

07/26/2024

Edafe Okporo is running for the New York City Council because he still believes in the promise that America represents, even despite the ordeal he faced in…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

PROJECT 2025 AND ITS ASSUMPTIONS ON SEX

Lauren Davis

Alturi Contributor

Created by The Heritage Foundation, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (famously known as Project 2025) is a book that includes all the policies it wishes to implement…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

How the ultra-right used homophobic disinfo in Czech and Hungarian elections

07/26/2024

When Zuzana Huszár, 29, returned home one evening in June 2024, after a long day of work at a queer safe space in Prague, Czech Republic, she…

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Added on: 07/27/2024

Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City

07/26/2024

When the trans sex worker Paola Buenrostro was killed by a client in Mexico City, her friend Kenya Cuevas grabbed the man to stop him fleeing and…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Ghana’s top court upholds law criminalizing gay sex

07/25/2024

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a six-decade-old law criminalizing gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Namibia: Government Appeals Historic Same-Sex Ruling

07/25/2024

The Government of Namibia has chosen the wrong side of history by challenging the recent High Court ruling that declared the country’s apartheid-era ban on same-sex intimacy…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

All 45 Gay Women’s Soccer Players Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics

07/25/2024

It’s hard to believe it was little over a year ago. Just 12 months ago, the best women’s soccer teams from across the globe and their fans…

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Added on: 07/26/2024

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

07/25/2024

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Police Investigate Chilling Grindr Attacks in Canberra

07/24/2024

In distressing news, ACT Police are investigating two alleged homophobic assaults in Canberra, where gay men were lured via dating apps such as Grindr, and attacked. These…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events

07/23/2024

In June, the LGBT+ association Kap Caraïbe in the French Caribbean island of Martinique had to cancel many of the events it planned as part of Pride…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Here’s what Project 2025 says about gay marriage, LGBTQ+ rights

07/23/2024

Nothing in Project 2025 proposes banning gay marriage, but it does have several policy proposals that are anti-LGBTQ+….

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Added on: 07/23/2024

‘A big F’: LGBTQ+ groups disappointed with Marcos SONA

07/23/2024

LGBTQ+ groups are disappointed with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) as he did not mention equal rights as a priority issue…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

US Asks Supreme Court to Unblock Transgender Student Protections

07/22/2024

The Biden administration wants the US Supreme Court to step in and limit lower court orders that fully blocked it from extending protections against sex discrimination in…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

Out of the closet, out of care: LGBTQ communities in Malawi struggle to access health care

07/22/2024

In Lilongwe, Malawi, 24-year-old Cleo Jones recalls feeling more comfortable around girls than boys during childhood. Jones came out as queer and nonbinary at the age of…

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Added on: 07/23/2024

Israel LGBTQ+ Medical Society launches course on transgender-friendly protocols

07/22/2024

When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the…

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Added on: 07/22/2024

Police advice to LGBTQ+ individual to avoid public restrooms ruled as rights violation

07/21/2024

A court has ruled that police advising an LGBTQ+ individual, who was undergoing the process of gender correction and changing their resident registration number, to avoid using…