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Added on: 05/02/2020

Groups Express Grave Concern about the Commission on Unalienable Rights

05/01/2020

As human rights organizations, scholars, defenders and activists, we the 167 undersigned, write to express our grave concern about the work of the U.S. State Department’s Commission…

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Added on: 04/30/2020

Gay in Nigeria: The Stark Reality For LGBT People In The West Africa Country

04/29/2020

Michael Ighodaro was attacked by homophobes in his home city of Abuja when he was waiting for a taxi outside his friend’s home. His attackers stormed up…

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Added on: 04/29/2020

Grindr witch-hunt sparks fresh call to make gay sex legal in Morocco

04/28/2020

Morocco is facing fresh demands to decriminalize gay sex after women started outing gay and bi men using dating apps. As GSN reported last week, a Moroccan…

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Added on: 04/29/2020

How Iran’s anti-LGBT policies put transgender people at risk

04/28/2020

Despite repressive laws against homosexuality, gender reassignment surgery remains legal in Iran. But Iranians who seek sex-change operations are faced with a harsh approval process and a…

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Added on: 04/27/2020

COVID-19: LGBTQ community kept in closet by public health officials

04/26/2020

Everyone knows I’m queer. Except one group of colleagues. Ironically, they’re the ones from my own field — public health professionals. I work for the National LGBT…

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Added on: 04/27/2020

Dozens of Gay Men Are Outed in Morocco as Photos Are Spread Online

04/26/3030

At least 50 to 100 gay men were outed in Morocco over the last two weeks, rights activists say, after the men were identified on location-based meeting…

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Added on: 04/26/2020

Lockdown, religion, migrant, survival, and more

04/25/2020

The good thing about this Chinese virus is that it has knocked the stuffing out of religion. Where are monotheism, polytheism, in fact theism itself? What about…

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Added on: 04/25/2020

Amid Pandemic, Trump is About to Roll Back Protections for LGBT Patients

04/24/2020

President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be just days away from rolling back an Obama-era policy prohibiting discrimination against LGBT patients. Politico reports: The health department is…

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Added on: 04/24/2020

Books with LGBT+ themes are ‘most challenged’ in U.S.

04/23/2020

Books with gay and transgender topics got a record number of objections at U.S. libraries and schools in 2019, said research on Monday showing growing protests over…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

Israel Shows Us the Future of Protest

04/22/2020

Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has always been a popular site for demonstration. Israelis gathered on this expansive plaza to protest the Gaza War in 2014 and…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

The danger of being transgender in Latin America in times of quarantine

04/22/2020

The trend started on April 1 in Panama, when President Laurentino Cortizo announced that men and women can only leave their homes on different days in an…

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Added on: 04/22/2020

One of Turkmenistan’s top showmen and entertainers has been arrested for the crime of being gay

04/21/2020

A well-known actor has been arrested in Turkmenistan for the simple crime of being gay, local media reports claim. The man, who has not been named, was…

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Added on: 04/21/2020

1 in 5 Russians Advocate ‘Eliminating’ LGBT Community – Poll

04/20/2020

Almost one in five Russians believe that LGBT people should be “eliminated,” according to the results of a new independent Levada Center poll. The figures showed 18%…

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Added on: 04/21/2020

LGBT people in Japan worry getting coronavirus may result in outing

04/20/2020

A 34-year-old man who lives with his same-sex partner in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, has chosen not to be open about his sexual orientation at his office. But…

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Added on: 04/21/2020

LGBTQ Orgs Say They’re in Deep Fundraising Trouble Because of Coronavirus

04/20/2020

Garden State Equality had its lowest month of fundraising in four years, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. New Jersey’s largest LGBTQ organization has…

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Added on: 04/20/2020

Helping others: Manado LGBT community raises funds for COVID-19 food aid

04/20/2020

The members of an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in Manado, North Sulawesi, have joined hands to raise funds and distribute relief aid to those…

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Added on: 04/20/2020

The Growing Threat of Accelorationists Worldwide

04/20/2020

As the world is paralyzed by the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), some violent non-state actors have welcomed the global pandemic as an opportunity to push their…

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Added on: 04/20/2020

Gay couple in Poland take on LGBT+ Free Zones with rainbow face masks

04/19/2020

Married YouTubers Jakub and Dawid Mycek-Kwiecinski handed out hundreds of rainbow face masks on the streets. It comes as Poland considers a new ‘Stop Pedophilia’ law. The…

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Added on: 04/19/2020

Fauci guided US through AIDS crisis, too. Survivors say it’s a roadmap for coronavirus.

04/18/2020

The slight, bespectacled doctor speaking at a White House briefing on TV revived bleak, 30-year-old memories for Gary Cooper. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reassuring voice guided Cooper and…

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Added on: 04/19/2020

Colorado’s Jewish, LGBT Governor Rebukes Comparison Between His Stay-at-home Order and Nazism

04/18/2020

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis became emotional during a news briefing about the coronavirus crisis in his state when a reporter said that the public has compared his…

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Added on: 04/19/2020

Gender Distancing: Some Latin American Countries Taking Radical Steps

04/18/2020

In a strong initiative to combat COVID-19, some of the Latin American nations have taken a step to promote social distancing, and that is to separate men…

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Added on: 04/18/2020

Polish lawmakers press on with anti-gay ‘Stop Pedophilia’ law

04/17/2020

Polish lawmakers have voted not to kill a law that compares LGBT+ people to pedophiles and which could end sex education. Poland’s anti-LGBT+ Law and Justice Party…

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Added on: 04/18/2020

Sharing hormones on Google Docs and ‘grey market’ pharmacies get gender-affirming care during the pandemic

04/17/2020

Evelyn was growing nervous as she watched her supply of spironolactone dwindle while the city of Boston, where she lives, started its coronavirus lockdown in mid-March. Evelyn,…

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Added on: 04/18/2020

How LGBTIQ+ Nigerians are coping with COVID-19 pandemic

04/17/2020

In late February, Nigeria recorded its first confirmed case of the virus when an Italian man working in Lagos tested positive, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…

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Added on: 04/17/2020

Pandemic closures are hurting gay bars, and those serving vulnerable populations may be the hardest hit

04/16/2020

Gay bars have been shuttered by public-place closure orders during the coronavirus pandemic. In March, more than half of US states issued statewide closure orders for bars…

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Added on: 04/17/2020

Arrests, Evictions & Scapegoating: Coronavirus Takes a Toll On LGBT+ Africans

04/16/2020

Just before breakfast on a Sunday morning, Ugandan security forces stormed an LGBT+ shelter outside the capital Kampala, accusing more than 20 gay, bisexual and transgender people…

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Added on: 04/17/2020

Tanzania is still arresting and persecuting LGBTQ people

04/16/2020

When James Wandera Ouma is asked what gives him hope as a gay man living in the east African nation of Tanzania, he can’t think of anything….

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Added on: 04/16/2020

Poland mulls law denouncing sex educators as paedophiles and gay activists

04/15/2020

Poland is set to vote on Thursday on a law that would jail people who promote underage sex for up to three years, in a move which…

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Added on: 04/15/2020

Pandemic Hits Sexual and Reproductive Health Efforts Worldwide

04/14/2020

Children may be less vulnerable to COVID-19, but the pandemic is disrupting their access to sexual and reproductive health worldwide. Schools are closed, community clinics are shut…

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Added on: 04/15/2020

The Activists: How ACT UP forever changed patients’ rights, protests and political organizing

04/14/2020

SUBMICROSCOPIC INFECTIOUS agents have a way of revealing the worst in us, and the best. That is the story of the AIDS epidemic generally, and in particular…