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Added on: 10/13/2021

Botswana appeals ruling allowing gay sex, court delays judgment

10/12/2021

Botswanan judges on Tuesday postponed ruling on a case in which the government is seeking to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, saying the matter…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Outrage after gay woman diagnosed at Spanish hospital with ‘homosexuality’

10/11/2021

A family and an LGBT collective in south-east Spain are demanding answers and an apology after a 19-year-old lesbian woman who visited a gynaecologist over a menstrual…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

LGBTI organisations say next government must enshrine rights in coalition deal

10/11/2021

Gender equality organisations will be urging the future coalition parties to include LGBTI rights in the government accord at a symposium being held in Assen on Monday….

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Wyoming librarians may face criminal charges for stocking LGBTQ books

10/11/2021

Local prosecutors in Wyoming may consider charging librarians for having books in the library’s collection that include information about reproduction, sex, or being gay. The books were…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Ghana church leaders intensify pressure on parliament to pass anti-gay bill

10/11/2021

Dis move dey follow from recent calls by some academics and lawyers who start dey criticize de anti-LGBTQ Bill. Pentecost, Anglican Church state dema position. House of…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

Poland’s LGBTQ+ community potentially at risk after court challenges primacy of EU laws

10/10/2021

On Thursday, the country’s constitutional tribunal ruled that the EU and some of its key treaty articles go against Poland’s own constitution. Back in March, the country’s…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

‘TUPAD for all’, Bello tells LGBTQ workers in Laguna

10/10/2021

The financial aid given by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is for all workers hardest hit by the pandemic, including members of the lesbian, gay,…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

UGANDA RECOGNISES ITS FIRST TRANSGENDER CITIZEN, CLEOPATRA KAMBUGU

10/10/2021

Cleopatra Kambugu, a Ugandan activist who advocates for sexual and gender minorities, has made history as the first transgender person in Uganda to have their new gender…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

North Carolina lieutenant governor won’t resign over anti-LGBTQ+ remarks

10/10/2021

The Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina has said he will not resign or back down over remarks in which he called transgenderism and homosexuality “filth”. Mark…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

‘Why are you attacking me? I’m great’: 8-year-old transgender girl asks lawmakers to oppose sports ban bill

10/7/21

During a marathon hearing Wednesday that lasted more than 10 hours, a transgender child pleaded with Texas House lawmakers to halt a bill that would prevent her…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

Tom Daley calls for Olympic ban on countries where being gay is punishable by death

10/8/21

British Olympic diver Tom Daley said that he will make it his “mission” to stop countries where homosexuality is punishable by death from competing in the Olympics….

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Added on: 10/10/2021

China’s LGBT community caught up in Xi Jinping’s widening crackdowns on big tech, education and celebrities

10/7/21

On August 13 last year, the organisers of Shanghai’s long-running LGBT pride festival abruptly announced the event was being cancelled indefinitely without explanation. The news came as…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

LGBTQ+ bill criminalizes persons who promote sympathy for the act, not persons involved — Sam George insists

10/9/21

The lead proponent of the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill which is before Ghana’s Parliament, Sam George has explained that the bill does not criminalize homosexuals but those who promote…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Turkish court acquits students of organising 2019 gay pride march

10/8/21

Turkey has acquitted 19 people who had been prosecuted for organising and participating in a Pride march. A Turkish court had ruled that the students and academic…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Portugal to stamp out anti-gay prejudice in blood donations

10/8/21

Portugal’s parliament approved four bills Friday that enshrine in law the country’s rules and procedures on blood donations, amid reports people are being turned away due to…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Alice Nkom, Cameroon’s tireless defender of LGBTQ rights

10/8/21

Nkom’s cane is the only thing that betrays the age of this great lady, whom her young clients call “Mama”. At 76, Nkom may be Cameroon’s oldest…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

N.C. lieutenant governor faces calls to resign for calling LGBTQ people ‘filth’

10/8/21

Multiple North Carolina state representatives are demanding that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican, resign after a video surfaced showing him describing the LGBTQ community as “filth.”…

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Added on: 10/08/2021

France moves closer to banning so-called gay conversion therapy

10/06/2021

France’s parliament has unanimously backed proposed legislation that would ban so-called gay conversion therapy. The new law would introduce prison sentences and fines for people who attempt…

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Added on: 10/08/2021

How a US group with links to the far-right may have influenced a crackdown on Ghana’s LGBTQ community

10/08/2021

Accra, Ghana (CNN)A safe house was the only place Joe felt protected enough to meet. Tucked away in a neighborhood of Accra, off Aflao Road, a group…

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Added on: 10/08/2021

Russia rejects Council of Europe demand to repeal country’s so-called ‘gay propaganda law’ & accuses body of ‘abuse of power’

10/07/2021

Russia has rejected calls from the Council of Europe’s Commission against Racism and Intolerance to repeal the country’s controversial ban on the dissemination of information about “non-traditional”…

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Added on: 10/08/2021

Outrage after gay woman diagnosed at Spanish hospital with ‘homosexuality’

10/08/2021

A family and an LGBT collective in south-east Spain are demanding answers and an apology after a 19-year-old gay woman who visited a gynaecologist over a menstrual…

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Added on: 10/07/2021

China’s LGBT community caught up in Xi Jinping’s widening crackdowns on big tech, education and celebrities

10/07/2021

On August 13 last year, the organisers of Shanghai’s long-running LGBT pride festival abruptly announced the event was being cancelled indefinitely without explanation. The news came as…

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Added on: 10/07/2021

“LGBT-Free” Declarations Repealed In Poland: A Step Forward? Or A Cruel Game?

10/07/2021

Last Monday, three Polish regional councils voted not to declare their provinces “LGBT-free zones” following the European Union’s threats to cut up to €126 million in funding…

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Added on: 10/07/2021

Posthumous Victory for S. Korean Transgender Soldier as Court Tells Army to Annul Dismissal

10/07/2021

SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean soldier who committed suicide earlier this year after being dismissed by the army following gender reassignment surgery won a posthumous victory…

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Added on: 10/07/2021

We’ll campaign against you if you vote against the passage of anti-LGBTQI Bill – Petencost Church threaten MPs

10/07/2021

The Church of Pentecost has vowed to campaign against parliamentarians should they fail to let the anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Bill passed into law with…

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Added on: 10/06/2021

Kenya Banned This Gay Documentary — It Will Now Stream Across Africa

10/05/2021

The Kenyan documentary about the life of a gay man navigating life in the conservative country I am Samuel was banned in Kenya in late September. While…

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Added on: 10/06/2021

Carrie Johnson urges Tories to back transgender rights

10/05/2021

Carrie Johnson has urged Conservatives to fight for the rights of transgender people, throwing her support behind a cause that has begun to increasingly divide the party….

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Added on: 10/06/2021

Librarians in Wyoming face criminal ‘obscenity’ charges for stocking LGBT+ books in teen sections

10/05/2021

Prosecutors are reportedly considering whether to bring charges against Campbell County Public Library staff over their decision to stock young adult books about sex education and LGBT+…

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Added on: 10/06/2021

Cameroon: Law enforcement officials join workshop on protecting LGBTI people

10/06/2021

The workshop was organized in response to a recommendation that Cameroon should “protect women, girls and all other vulnerable persons from all forms of violence”. That recommendation,…

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Added on: 10/05/2021

New Campaign ‘Proud AF’ Aims To Tackle Racism Among Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Men In Ireland

10/04/2021

The Gay Project has launched a new campaign “#ProudAF”, aimed at reducing racism towards gay, bisexual and trans (GBTQI+) people of colour and travellers and in Ireland….