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Added on: 01/09/2020

Following backlash, Facebook disables misleading HIV medication ads

01/08/2020

Facebook has disabled some advertisements about the potential side effects of HIV prevention medication Truvada following complaints that they were misleading and a “harm to public health.”…

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Added on: 01/07/2020

Section 377 crusader Ashok Row Kavi steps down as Humsafar Trust Chairman

01/06/2020

Ashok Row Kavi, the founder Chairperson of Mumbai-based Humsafar Trust has stepped down from his post. The Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist had founded the Trust…

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Added on: 01/04/2020

Pakistan to provide free healthcare for trans people

12/03/2020

Pakistan has extended a government health insurance scheme to transgender people for the first time, in a move aimed at ending discrimination in access to care, an…

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Added on: 01/03/2020

Uruguay, the most LGBT-friendly country in Latin America

01/02/2020

Uruguay is ranked 18th in the world in the LGBT + Danger Index ranking that evaluates the friendliest and most dangerous destinations for the lesbian, bisexual and…

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Added on: 01/03/2020

The region which legislates who you can love

12/01/2020

“It’s mainly snide remarks due to toxic masculinity,” Aziza Lake says. But homophobia in Antigua and Barbuda sometimes manifests itself in sporadic brutality too, she continues. In…

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Added on: 01/01/2020

The Top LGBTQ Stories of the Decade

12/31/2019

The decade of the 2010s saw unprecedented steps forward for the LGBTQ community in the U.S., with the winning of the right to marry same-sex partners and…

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Added on: 12/30/2019

Over the rainbow: A life of LGBTQ dignity is within reach

12/29/2019

If someone told Sindhuja in the dying moments of 2009 that a decade later, she would be standing as a full citizen and garnering the adulation of…

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Added on: 12/30/2019

Transgender man gives birth after getting pregnant with female sperm donor

12/29/2019

Reuben Sharpe, 39, transitioned to male 12 years ago but decided he still wanted to become a parent. Six years ago he stopped taking hormones in the…

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Added on: 12/29/2019

LGBT refugees: Repeatedly attacked in Kenya but unable to leave

12/29/2019

On Christmas Day, LGBT refugees in Kenya again were the targets of homophobic attacks. It was just the latest outrage against LGBT asylum-seekers who are repeatedly told…

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Added on: 12/29/2019

UN official: Past decade has seen human rights `backlash’

12/28/2019

The past decade has seen a backlash against human rights on every front, especially the rights of women and the LGBT communities, according to a top U.N….

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Added on: 12/29/2019

The US Hasn’t Only Stopped Defending LGBTQ Rights Around The World, Now It’s Part Of The Problem

12/29/2019

My first job at BuzzFeed News in 2013 was something of an experiment: We wanted to cover LGBTQ rights worldwide as seriously as we cover wars or…

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Added on: 12/27/2019

From parades to punishments: 10 headline LGBT+ stories in 2019

12/25/2019

Millions of people joined Pride marches around the world in 2019 and gay, bisexual and transgender rights were increasingly in the spotlight, with some countries legalizing gay…

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Added on: 12/24/2019

After gay marriage law passes, Taiwan emerges as new market for LGBT+ surrogacy

12/23/2019

On Geoffrey Li’s 40th birthday last year, he put aside his dream of an early retirement on an idyllic island and instead decided to raise a child…

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Added on: 12/22/2019

Lambda Legal: Trump Administration’s Assault On the Courts and LGBTQ Protections Intensifies

12/21/2019

Lambda Legal released the third edition of its annual report of judicial nominees revealing the alarming extent to which the Trump-Pence administration, with the help of Senate…

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Added on: 12/21/2019

Anti-gay laws in 2019: You win some, you lose some

12/20/2019

2019 has been a mixed year for opponents of the anti-gay laws that still oppress LGBTQ people in dozens of countries worldwide. During 2019, millions fewer people…

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Added on: 12/20/2019

US Agency Could Pave Way for Anti-LGBT Discrimination

12/19/2019

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funds thousands of organizations that work on important health and social welfare issues including adoption and foster…

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Added on: 12/19/2019

Germany moves to ban gay ‘conversion therapies’

12/18/2019

Germany moved a step closer to banning so-called gay “conversion therapies” on Wednesday, as the cabinet backed a law that would punish bogus practitioners with up to…

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Added on: 12/19/2019

Anti-LGBT discrimination has a huge human toll. Research proves it.

12/18/2019

In a trio of cases heard in October, the Supreme Court weighed whether discrimination against LGBT people should be legal. Over the course of those and related…

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Added on: 12/17/2019

Gay Saudi journalists both freed from Australian detention after ‘powerful’ LGBT community rallied round them

12/17/2019

The two gay Saudi journalists who sought asylum in Australia have both finally been freed after one was forced to remain alone in a detention centre due…

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Added on: 12/15/2019

Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Punching Transgender Woman

12/14/2019

An Oregon man convicted of punching a transgender woman has been sentenced to probation. Dominick Gonzales, 38, changed his plea Friday and was convicted of first-degree bias…

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Added on: 12/14/2019

Gabon bans gay sex as global pace of reform falters

12/13/2019

Gabon has passed a law against gay sex, becoming the 70th country to ban the practice, an official confirmed, as the global pace of reform falters. The…

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Added on: 12/14/2019

Gay Afghans Facing Deportation From UK Told ‘Pretend To Be Straight’

12/13/2019

Gay Afghans facing deportation from UK told ‘pretend to be straight’ Gay Afghans being deported to their home country where homosexuality is illegal are being told to…

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Added on: 12/12/2019

‘God Has A New Africa’: Undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’

12/11/2019

This year, I accomplished a feat that I never thought I would: I went undercover to investigate a group that hates me. Not long after I took…

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Added on: 12/10/2019

Nicola Sturgeon vows to use SNP influence in hung parliament to champion ‘world-leading’ LGBT reforms

12/10/2019

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is pledging to lead the world in LGBT+ rights reforms as it releases its LGBTI Equality manifesto. The SNP is the only…

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Added on: 12/10/2019

For LGBTQ Youth, Human Rights Day Has Special Meaning

12/10/2019

“Youth Standing Up for Human Rights” — this year’s Human Rights Day theme — has particular resonance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world….

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Added on: 12/10/2019

How Russia uses porn charges against LGBT activist and trans woman

12/09/2019

Human Rights Watch cites two recent examples — feminist LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova, under house arrest for allegedly distributing pornography such a body-positive drawings, and Michelle, a…

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Added on: 12/09/2019

Attack the OAS: Inside the ultra-conservative war on the Inter-American human rights system

12/05/2019

“The attack first started when I was president”, Margarette May Macaulay, a lawyer and former judge from Jamaica who was elected to the top post at the…

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Added on: 12/09/2019

Facebook ads push misinformation about HIV prevention drugs, LGBT activists say, ‘harming public health’

12/09/2019

Facebook users have been bombarded with misleading ads about medication meant to prevent the transmission of HIV, according to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates, who say…

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Added on: 12/09/2019

UK‘s first LGBT retirement community set to open in Manchester

12/08/2019

The northern British city of Manchester has announced it is to open the country‘s first retirement community for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. There are…

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Added on: 12/08/2019

Uganda Renews Clampdown on the LGBT Community

12/04/2019

On November 11, police in Uganda arrested 125 members of the LGBT community. The Kampala police assert that the Ram Bar, which is frequented by the LGBT…