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Added on: 04/14/2022

U.N. Development Program lauds Angola government for progress on LGBTQ rights

04/13/2022

The U.N. Development Program has lauded the government of Angola for its efforts to protect LGBTQ rights. Speaking on Monday at the opening ceremony of the See…

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Added on: 04/14/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians, fearing Russian attacks at home and discrimination in shelters, face an uncertain future

04/12/2022

When a friend called Andrii Zarytskyi at 5 a.m., his voice shaking, to say the first bombs had dropped on their city of Mykolaiv, Mr. Zarytskyi didn’t believe…

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Added on: 04/13/2022

Turkish prosecutor seeks closure of association for organizing LGBTI event.

04/12/2022

A Turkish prosecutor has launched legal proceedings against an association, seeking its closure in connection with a LGBTI event it organized, the Kronos news website reported on…

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Added on: 04/13/2022

The Internet ‘Protection Bill’ will hurt all Iranians, but the queer community will have the most to lose.

04/12/2022

International human rights organizations and the United Nations are saying a lot about the repressive “Regulatory System for Cyberspace Services Bill”—widely referred to as the “Protection Bill”—currently…

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Added on: 04/12/2022

ACTIVISTS DEFEAT HUNGARY’S ANTI-LGBTQ REFERENDUM.

04/11/2022

Although Hungary’s notorious right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán came away with yet another “crushing victory” in the country’s parliamentary election on 3 April, human and civil rights…

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Added on: 04/12/2022

Polish LGBT+ library helps queer Ukrainians safely navigate notorious ‘LGBT-free zones’.

04/11/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, more than 2.4 million refugees have fled across the border to Poland. In order to get to Lublin, the closest…

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Added on: 04/09/2022

Tough Territory for Transgender People in the Middle East and North Africa

4/8/22

Transgender people, whose assigned gender at birth does not match their gender identity, face a grim reality in much of the Middle East and North Africa region,…

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Added on: 04/08/2022

Singapore’s Slow but Steady Path Toward Decriminalizing Homosexuality

04/07/2022

Singapore’s strict legislation is often cited as one the city-state’s defining characteristics. Talks about the country’s most stringent laws, from the infamous ban on chewing gum to…

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Added on: 04/06/2022

Polish county launches legal action to be “free from LGBT ideology” again.

04/05/2022

A local authority in Poland has launched a legal action to make itself “free from LGBT ideology” again, after a resolution to that effect was invalided earlier…

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Added on: 04/06/2022

Cyprus push to ban gay conversion therapy amid exorcism claim.

04/05/2022

Cypriot lawmakers and activists are pushing to criminalise “gay conversion therapy” which has left members of the island’s LGBTQ+ community traumatised through “medieval” practices such as exorcisms….

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Added on: 04/04/2022

Agreement signed to prevent violence against transgender

04/03/2022

Expressing concerns over the increasing number and severity of reports of individual cases of humiliation of and violence against the transgender community, War Against Rape (WAR) has…

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Added on: 04/04/2022

‘It’s a living nightmare’ – LGBT Afghans on life after the Taliban takeover

04/03/2022

The panic-fuelled chaos that came to define last August’s invasion of Afghanistan may have subsided, but for the LGBT+ people still trapped and facing displacement, the trauma will…

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Added on: 04/04/2022

‘Shame and betrayal’: giving light to rural NSW’s dark LGBTQ+ chapter

04/03/2022

When the Sydney-based designer Josie Young undertook an online search for the queer history of her rural hometown, she stumbled onto the team researching a podcast about…

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Added on: 04/03/2022

Gays caught in the crossfire of Hungarian election

4/2/22

Among the political billboards and corflutes plastered on just about every lamppost and power pole along the bustling inner-city Budapest streets, one in particular catches the eye….

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Added on: 04/02/2022

‘We Want To Live a Happy Life’: LGBTQ People Are Leaving Hungary

4/1/22

Boldizsar Nagy is packing his bags and leaving Hungary. He and his boyfriend have had enough of Hungary’s attitude towards their relationship. But with an election this…

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Added on: 04/02/2022

Congress Splits Over How to Address LGBT Rights in China

4/1/22

A major annual congressional report documenting human rights abuses in China was delayed for six months after a behind-the-scenes impasse between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over a…

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Added on: 03/30/2022

Ukrainian LGBTQ Artist Who Can’t Leave Kyiv Is Painting For Peace.

03/29/2020

Dark thoughts haunt LGBTQ people in Ukraine. A relentless Russian invasion continues, despite peace talks beginning. If they win, a Russian occupation terrifies LGBTQ Ukrainians. In Russia,…

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Added on: 03/30/2022

Ugandan activists launch campaign against religion-fueled homophobia.

03/29/2020

Human rights activists in Uganda have launched a new campaign to end religious inspired homophobia, with a call to Abrahamic religions to embrace love and diversity. The…

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Added on: 03/26/2022

Canadian immigration minister Sean Fraser says he’s committed to LGBTQ2S+ refugees

3/25/22

Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser has a lot on his plate right now with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting refugee crisis….

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Added on: 03/26/2022

The media disinformation campaign against Ghana’s queer community

3/24/22

When Ako* heard that an LGBTIQ community centre was going to open in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the first thing she did was get herself a date….

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Added on: 03/25/2022

CZESLAW WALEK — PRAGUE PRIDE

Alturi Project Strategist

Prague Pride’s Motivation Before the war began, Prague Pride was more focused on issues like LGBTI crisis alleviation, nondiscrimination in the workplace, and legislation for marriage equality….

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Added on: 03/25/2022

Ukraine war shutters HIV clinics, disrupts drug supplies

03/22/2022

March 22 (Openly) – In basement shelters and makeshift clinics, Ukrainian doctors are striving to keep treatment for HIV-positive people on track as Russia’s invasion raises fears…

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Added on: 03/25/2022

SINGAPORE CONDUCTS FIRST EVER PUBLIC SURVEY ON LGBT ISSUES

03/24/2022

A Singapore government survey seeking feedback from the public about LGBTQI issues and section 377A that criminalises same-sex relationships has received over 30,000 responses. According to the Strait Times,…

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Added on: 03/25/2022

High Court delays ruling on closure of Ugandan gay ally group Chapter Four

03/24/2022

Uganda’s High Court in Kampala has postponed ruling on an application seeking to quash the government’s decision to indefinitely suspend the activities of Chapter Four Uganda, an…

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Added on: 03/24/2022

France’s Zemmour faces suit over denial of Nazi anti-gay crimes

03/23/2022

French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour is being targeted with legal action by gay rights groups, who say he denied that homosexuals were rounded up and deported…

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Added on: 03/23/2022

Disney employees walk out, as ESPN and Disney+ back LGBTQ+ rights.

03/22/2022

Disney employees staged a walkout Tuesday in protest of the company’s response to Florida’s controversial Parental Rights in Education law, which critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say…

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Added on: 03/23/2022

When Communism was Queer.

03/22/2022

Cuba is considering a new family code that could allow marriage equality for the first time in the communist nation. In the last year, the Cuban health…

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Added on: 03/23/2022

Iraq: Impunity for Violence Against LGBT People.

03/22/2022

Armed groups in Iraq abduct, rape, torture, and kill lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today with…

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Added on: 03/20/2022

Meet the asylum seeker who chairs Carlisle City of Sanctuary group

3/20/22

MINA Banisaeid is an asylum seeker who has not only changed her own life, but is helping to improve the lives of others around her. She is…

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Added on: 03/19/2022

I, Issa, transgender person from Senegal

3/17/22

At 44 years old, Issa Diatta (pseudonym) fled to France in order to assume his true trans identity, which was impossible at home in the Thiès region…