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Added on: 01/21/2019

Russia website calls for ‘gay hunters’ to attack LGBTIs across the country

01/20/2019

A website that gamified hunting gay men in Russia has been reactivated and is now calling for ‘gay hunters’ in several regions. In April 2018, Saw-inspired website пила (Russian for ‘saw’)…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities

01/20/2019

When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

The ‘angels’ helping migrants at US-Mexico border

01/16/2019

Hugo Castro rubs his temples before joining the sea of evening rush-hour traffic that snakes all the way from San Diego to the Mexican border. The beat-up…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Three billboards outside Nanjing: Chinese artist takes aim at gay ‘conversion therapy’

01/19/2019

On a hazy day this week, a convoy of three white trucks is making its way through the streets of Nanjing, in eastern China. They are covered…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Activists: Chechen Authorities Order Families to Kill LGBT Family Members

01/18/2019

Russian campaigners have told The Daily Beast that Chechen authorities have ordered people to kill LGBT members of their own families, and have demanded ransoms for the release of detained LGBT…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Vigilante Raid on Indonesian HIV Group

01/17/2019

This week a militant Islamist group in Indonesia raided the offices of an HIV prevention organization on suspicion that the group had been conducting “LGBT activities.” The…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Kyrgyzstan man has ‘gay’ carved into stomach in homophobic attack

01/16/2019

A bisexual man from Kyrgyzstan was forced to leave the country after suffering two homophobic attacks within the same month. The man, who is in his 20s,…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

HCMC: Quality Health Care Services Offered for LGBTI Community

01/15/2019

Dr Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc of the hospital said: “They can receive services in a private space with respect from the hospital’s health staff.” Nguyen Tan Thu,…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

New York bans gay conversion therapy, and passes historic trans protection law

01/15/2019

The state of New York has passed bills banning gay conversion therapy and adding gender identity to its anti-discrimination legislation. The state’s legislative body approved the bills on Tuesday…

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Added on: 01/12/2019

LGBT+ refugees in Kenya accuse U.N. of failing on protection, shelter

01/11/2019

It wasn’t long after Joe’s father was shot dead for being gay that the 24-year-old Ugandan college student realized the men from his church would be coming…

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Added on: 01/12/2019

Reports surface of fresh anti-gay purge in Chechnya

01/11/2019

Activists in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya are warning of a new gay purge even as Chelyabinsk celebrated a small victory. The Associated Press on Friday cited activist…

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Added on: 01/11/2019

Trans people flock to Malta’s new gender clinic

01/09/2019

About 35 people have accessed the services at Malta’s new gender clinic since it opened in mid-November. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne, said…

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Added on: 01/11/2019

Israeli Doctors Ban ‘Conversion Therapy’ for Gay People

01/10/2019

A ban on conversion therapy by Israeli doctors will help protect gay people from treatments that claim to make them straight, but more work needs to be…

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Added on: 01/11/2019

Human Rights Commission warns Depok’s policies produce potential for anti-LGBT discrimination

01/09/2019

State-sanctioned discrimination in Indonesia against the LGBT community and individuals saw a sharp increase towards the end of last year as officials in a number of cities…

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Added on: 01/11/2019

How stigma prevents Delhi’s gay men from getting tested for HIV

01/11/2019

When the news broke that India’s Supreme Court had struck down a colonial-era law making gay sex illegal, the reaction in Delhi was jubilant, with public celebrations erupting across the capital. Fast…

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Added on: 01/10/2019

Pushed to Fringes of Indian Society, Delhi’s Trans Women Face Constant HIV Threat

01/07/2019

Boby has lost track of the precise number of times she has been gang-raped. She thinks it is between eight and 10. “Every time it has been…

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Added on: 01/10/2019

Two Thirds of Teachers Have No Training on LGBTI Issues, Says Survey

01/09/2019

More than two thirds of teachers in Scotland have no recent grounding in LGBT+ issues, according to a new survey. The results of the research, released by Scotland’s…

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Added on: 01/07/2019

Iceland urged to partially end its ban on gay men donating blood

01/05/2019

Despite being one of the more socially liberal countries, Iceland still has a ban on gay men donating blood. One of the chief epidemiologists in Iceland has urged…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

New US ambassador Kyle McCarter speaks Kiswahili, opposes gay unions

01/04/2019

On Wednesday, the United States Senate approved the appointment of former Senator Kyle McCarter as the new Ambassador to Kenya. McCarter comes to a familiar territory with…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

Chinese gay dating app halts registration after underage HIV report

01/06/2019

Chinese gay dating app Blued is halting new user registration for a week, it said on Sunday, following media reports that underage users caught HIV after going…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

In this UK city, new sex education lessons are a victory for trans rights

01/05/2019

The city of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom will be teaching a more inclusive sex education curriculum. School children in the city’s schools will now…

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Added on: 01/04/2019

Rights of 286 LGBT Nigerians violated in 2018, report says

01/02/2019

The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs), a Nigeria-based human rights organization, has published a report, showing that the human rights of approximately 286 LGBTI persons were violated…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

Good news: conversion therapies CAN cure gay people … of religion!

12/31/2018

Teddy Prout, above, Director of Community Services for Humanists UK, claims that faith-based therapies aimed ‘curing’ homosexuality can result in people turning their back on religion. Speaking here about research…

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Added on: 12/31/2018

Fun and interesting things LGBT+ science taught us in 2018

12/30/2018

Among various topics worth intellectual consideration, LGBT+ science and research in 2018 gave us a better understanding of gender identity, sexual desire and same-sex reproduction. In the…

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Added on: 12/28/2018

Interview: Indonesians are gay-friendly if not brainwashed

12/27/2018

Dede Oetomo is the founder and trustee of the Indonesian LGBT advocacy group GAYa Nusantara Foundation, based in Surabaya. “Indonesia has always been conservative and it has…

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Added on: 12/28/2018

Trans prisoner moved to female prison after year-long court battle

12/28/2018

A trans woman prisoner has been transferred to a female prison in Illinois after a year-long court battle. Deon ‘Strawberry’ Hampton described being treated like a ‘sex slave’ while housed in multiple in male penitentiaries…

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Added on: 12/28/2018

Notes From My Time Surveying China’s Gay Community in 1993

12/26/2018

In 1993, I was appointed by China’s Ministry of Health to carry out a multi-city survey on the country’s population of men who have sex with men,…

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Added on: 12/27/2018

I survived conversion therapy as a child. Now, I’m part of the movement to ban it for good.

12/27/2018

As a child undergoing conversion therapy in Florida in the early 2000s, I could never have imagined how different this nation would be nearly 20 years later. I could…

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Added on: 12/26/2018

Gay refugees escape Kakuma’s dangers, reach Nairobi’s squalor

12/24/2018

The U.N. refugee agency has moved more than 200 gay refugees from dangers of Kakuma refugee camp to safety in crowded, unsanitary quarters in Nairobi. The O-blog-dee advocacy…

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Added on: 12/26/2018

Gay Life in Berlin Is Starting to Echo a Darker Era

12/25/2018

Germany has long been lauded for its liberal attitude toward sex. It recently passed laws allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt, and just became the first…