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Added on: 05/06/2023

More than 700 same-sex marriages celebrated in Cuba

05/05/2023

More than 700 same-sex marriages have been celebrated in Cuba since the new Family Code was approved in a referendum last year. The figure was confirmed this…

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Added on: 05/03/2023

Uganda parliament passes harsh anti-LGBTQ bill mostly unchanged

05/02/2023

Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed one of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including provision for long jail terms and the death penalty, after the president…

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Added on: 05/03/2023

Queerphobia in Kenya: a supreme court ruling on gay rights triggers a new wave of anger against the LGBTIQ+ community

05/02/2023

The Kenyan supreme court recently struck down a government decision to ban the registration of an LGBTIQ+ community rights organisation, sparking new homophobic rhetoric in the country….

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Added on: 05/02/2023

In a shift, Saudi Arabia to ‘welcome’ LGBTQ tourists

05/01/2023

LGBTQ tourists can now visit Saudi Arabia, according to the kingdom’s official tourism site. The shift follows a series of social and economic changes that the kingdom…

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Added on: 05/01/2023

‘LGBTQ+ people would have originated from Africa’, says Davis Mac-Iyalla: ‘We are everywhere’

04/30/2023

In January 2023, LGBTQ+ activist Davis Mac-Iyalla was installed as a chief of the Yamonransa Nkusukum area in central Ghana. With the title of Amankorehen, the Nigerian-born activist’s…

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Added on: 05/01/2023

Anti-LGBT Bill: Withdrawal of investment threats will not deter Africa – Speaker Bagbin

04/30/2023

Africa is not deterred by the veiled threats of withdrawal of investments and international aid, Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has said. He noted that those threats and…

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Added on: 04/30/2023

LGBTQ+ rights lag in Pacific despite Cook Islands’ gay sex move

04/22/2023

A move to decriminalise gay sex in the Cook Islands is a welcome step but LGBTQ+ people in the Pacific Islands region still lack basic rights and…

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Added on: 04/30/2023

Inside the Ugandan church offering sanctuary to the LGBTQ+ community

04/29/2023

In a quiet pocket of Kampala, Uganda, the sound of singing cuts through the Sunday morning silence. The harmonising voices are part of the Adonai Inclusive Christian…

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Added on: 04/29/2023

Japan’s LDP Promises to Push Forward LBGTQ Bill

04/28/2023

On Thursday in Tokyo, Endo Toshiaki – head of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)’s council on general affairs – told reporters that the ruling coalition would…

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Added on: 04/29/2023

Peoria school board votes to allow transgender students to use preferred bathroom

04/28/2023

Issues surrounding the rights of transgender students continue to make national headlines, and they’re hitting home in the Valley. One West Valley school district was considering changes…

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Added on: 04/27/2023

Uganda’s president asks for changes to LGBT bill so identity is not criminalised

04/26/2023

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has asked lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, as part…

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Added on: 04/27/2023

UK government funded anti-LGBTQ+ organisation in Uganda, says report

04/26/2023

The UK government has been helping to fund the work of a virulently homophobic religious organisation in Uganda, whose leaders have backed a proposed law that would…

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Added on: 04/26/2023

‘Traumatizing’: The Transgender Chinese Struggling to Access Health Care

04/25/2023

Threatening notes. Physical assaults. False accusations. In his years dealing with the families of young transgender people in Beijing, Doctor Poon has seen it all. Since 2016,…

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Added on: 04/26/2023

The LGBTQ rights debate is testing Ukraine’s commitment to Europe

04/25/2023

When Russian troops swarmed Kyiv in early 2022, Andrii Kravchuk was summoned to serve. As he approached the military office to enlist, his heart raced. He wasn’t…

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Added on: 04/25/2023

Hungarian president vetoes controversial anti-LGBT law

04/24/2023

In a surprising move, Hungarian President Katalin Novak rejected the new law that restricts the rights of homosexual and transsexual people on April 21. It marks the…

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Added on: 04/25/2023

Russia Wants to Ban Transgender People Changing Gender on Passport

04/24/2023

Russia’s Justice Ministry is gearing up to make it tougher for transgender people to change their gender markers in their passports, which will make gender transition tougher…

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Added on: 04/25/2023

Ugandans flee as Kill the Gays gains momentum across Africa

04/24/2023

Gay Ugandans are fleeing the country as the government’s Anti-Homosexuality Act moves closer to becoming law. “The government and the people of Uganda are against our existence,”…

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Added on: 04/23/2023

Goa trust speaks up for rights of state’s 10,000-strong LGBT community

04/23/2023

With more than 10,000 persons from the LGBT community living in Goa, they are struggling for their right of ‘Same Sex Marriage since the last two decades…

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Added on: 04/23/2023

LGBT rights increasingly targeted by reactionary GOP

04/22/2023

About eight years ago, the United States Supreme Court changed my life. By their majority ruling that there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it meant…

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Added on: 04/22/2023

Welsh schools to get guidance on supporting transgender pupils

04/21/2023

National guidance for schools in Wales on how to support transgender pupils will be published during the next academic year. The Welsh government said it required “extensive…

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Added on: 04/22/2023

Japan LGBTQ groups urge government to guarantee equality

04/21/2023

Japanese LGBTQ activist groups delivered a statement to the government on Friday urging that Japan enact an anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriages ahead of a summit…

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Added on: 04/22/2023

Minnesota Senate passes transgender protections, abortion ‘refuge’ bills

04/21/2023

The Minnesota Senate Friday passed a trio of proposals aimed at legally safeguarding people who come to Minnesota for abortion and gender-affirming care and outlawing what’s called…

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Added on: 04/21/2023

Uganda’s president sends anti-LGBTQ bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

04/20/2023

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for “strengthening”, the ruling party’s…

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Added on: 04/20/2023

Gay Rwandan woman says government can’t protect LGBTQ+ refugees: ‘They won’t be safe’

04/19/2023

Like many in Rwanda, Maria was raised Christian, which made it even harder for her to accept her sexuality. She recalls spending “a lot of time in churches…

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Added on: 04/20/2023

Japan grants refugee status to woman from Uganda fearing LGBTQ persecution

04/19/2023

A Ugandan woman was granted refugee status Wednesday following a district court ruling last month ordering the government to do so over fears she could be persecuted…

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Added on: 04/20/2023

Global scientists urge Uganda’s president to veto anti-LGBTQ bill

04/19/2023

A group of leading global scientists and academics have signed an open letter urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to veto a hardline bill criminalizing homosexuality in the…

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Added on: 04/19/2023

Iran protests: LGBTQ community rises up

04/18/2023

“Are you a degenerate,” asked the security officer interrogating a young bisexual woman arrested during the recent anti-government protests in Iran. The interrogator had searched the woman’s…

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Added on: 04/18/2023

Indian government labels same sex-marriage ‘elitist’ as supreme court hearing begins

04/18/2023

The Indian government has expressed its vehement opposition to the legalisation of same-sex marriage, calling it an “urban elitist concept” that undermines religious and social values, as…

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Added on: 04/18/2023

Full Interview: Frank Mugisha on New Anti-LGBTQ Bill in Uganda That Could Impose Death Penalty

04/17/2023

Full interview with Ugandan LGBTQ activist Frank Mugisha about a draconian new anti-gay bill the country is on the verge of imposing, which makes it a crime…

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Added on: 04/18/2023

In Malaysia, Conservative Forces and Police Crackdowns Are Putting LGBTQ Lives at Risk

04/17/2023

On March 12, activists across Malaysia converged on the capital of Kuala Lumpur to take part in the latest iteration of the Women’s March, a yearly protest…