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Added on: 05/20/2022

DR Congo: Dejected LGBTI activist returns, despite dangers

05/19/2022

Congolese LGBTI rights activist Jeremie Safari thought he was out of the woods after he fled west in March to the anonymity of the capital city, Kinshasa,…

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Added on: 05/20/2022

‘I do not wish to be anonymous’: Doctor becomes ‘first’ Qatari to publicly come out as gay

05/19/2022

The moment Nas Mohamed knew for certain he was gay, he panicked. “I walked into a gay club and I knew I was 100 percent gay,” he tells The…

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Added on: 05/19/2022

Chile’s LGBTQ+ street artists see work defaced with homophobic slurs

05/17/2022

SANTIAGO, May 17 (Openly) – It was meant to be an open-air museum dedicated to Chile’s LGBTQ+ community, but days after the 40-meter (131-foot) mural was completed,…

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Added on: 05/19/2022

Chinese company makes ‘coming out’ kits for queer people

05/18/2022

In the early 2000s, queer activism had finally started flourishing in China—with more and more NGOs advocating for gay rights. This, however, has gotten harder ever since Xi Jinping…

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Added on: 05/17/2022

DRC queer rights activist forced to go into hiding.

05/17/2022

Crammed into a boat with more than 100 people, Cherie* prayed nobody would recognise her. “I wore a hat and a balaclava,” the transgender woman, 33, says…

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Added on: 05/17/2022

Rwanda: LGBT rights are protected on paper, but discrimination and homophobia persist.

05/16/2022

“From today, I no longer want to be called your mother, if you don’t want to change you can leave my house and come back when you…

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Added on: 05/14/2022

LGBTI rights in Ukraine conflict in focus at Cyprus conference

5/13/22

The IDAHOT + Forum 2022 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus, on 12-13 May, ahead of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Tuesday 17…

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Added on: 05/13/2022

Marking International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2022 in Albania

05/11/2022

To mark IDAHOT 2022 in Albania, the action on “Promotion of Diversity and Equality in Albania” under the joint European Union and Council of Europe “Horizontal Facility…

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Added on: 05/13/2022

Brazil: Attacks on Gender and Sexuality Education

05/12/2022

(São Paulo) – Lawmakers and other public officials at the federal, state, and municipal levels in Brazil have used pernicious legal and political tactics to undermine and even…

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Added on: 05/12/2022

Cameroon: Rising Violence Against LGBTI People

05/11/2022

(Nairobi) – Security forces in Cameroon are failing to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people from violent attacks and instead are arresting the victims, Human Rights…

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Added on: 05/12/2022

Out in the World: 60 LGBTQ Afghan refugees arrive in Canada

05/11/2022

The Canadian government has quietly relocated 60 LGBTQ Afghan refugees from Pakistan to the North American country. Afghan refugees flew out of Islamabad to Nova Scotia around…

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Added on: 05/12/2022

Home Office admits LGBTQI+ refugees could be persecuted if sent to Rwanda

05/10/2022

The Home Office has admitted that lesbian, gay and bisexual refugees could be persecuted if sent to Rwanda – but still plans to fly them 4,000 miles to…

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Added on: 05/11/2022

Cameroon: Rising Violence Against LGBTI People.

05/11/2022

Security forces in Cameroon are failing to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people from violent attacks and instead are arresting the victims, Human Rights…

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Added on: 05/10/2022

Polish Court Rejects Case Against ‘LGBT-Free Zones’ Activist.

05/09/2022

A court in the Polish city of Rzeszów has thrown out a case against Bartosz Staszewski, an LGBT rights activist who was being sued by the Niebylec…

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Added on: 05/06/2022

Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as cruel despot Putin’s bloodthirsty war rages on

05/06/2022

LGBT+ Ukrainians have been living in fear and uncertainty ever since Russia launched its full scale invasion in February. Now, some are retreating into the closet in the face…

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Added on: 05/05/2022

LGBT Community Under Increased Threat In Colombian Port Town

05/05/2022

Buenaventura, a major Afro-Colombian port city on Colombia’s western coast, has long been regarded as one of the country’s most dangerous cities. Armed groups would dismember victims…

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Added on: 05/05/2022

From Ugandan Oppression To Detroit Freedom: One Gay Immigrant’s Story

05/05/2022

Things were never great between Alistair Kiyingi and his father, but by 2017, they were getting worse, fast. In Kampala, Uganda, where his family lived, “there are…

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Added on: 05/04/2022

Australian sentenced to 12 years in prison for 1988 cliff-top murder of gay American Scott Johnson.

05/03/2022

An Australian court sentenced a man to 12 years behind bars Tuesday over the murder of a gay American in Sydney three decades ago, in a case…

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Added on: 05/04/2022

Greece: Letting police officers involved in brutal death of LGBTI activist off the hook sends chilling sign of impunity.

05/03/2022

Reacting to today’s decision by the Athens Mixed Jury Court acquitting four police officers of involvement in the death of LGBTI activist Zak Kostopoulos, Glykeria Arapi, Director…

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Added on: 05/04/2022

Queer Nigerians stage defiant protest as government tries to ban ‘crossdressing’.

05/03/2022

Around 50 LGBT+ activists took to the streets of Abuja, Nigeria, to protest a reviled bill that would make “crossdressing” illegal. The bill, which seeks to amend…

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Added on: 05/03/2022

‘Very scary’ leaked draft of abortion ruling could endanger LGBTQ decisions too.

05/02/2022

A purported draft of what is believed to be the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on whether to overturn a long-standing decision protecting the right to abortion…

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Added on: 05/02/2022

ILGA World conference comes to Long Beach to talk LGBTQ+ rights

04/30/2022

Hundreds of international LGBTQ+ activists will converge on Long Beach next week for the ILGA World conference. Approximately 600 human rights defenders, United Nations and government representatives,…

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Added on: 05/02/2022

eSwatini court refuses to recognise LGBTQ rights group

05/01/2022

A court in eSwatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy where homosexuality is still banned, has rejected a bid by the country’s leading LGBTQ rights group for official recognition,…

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Added on: 05/01/2022

It’s only 25 years since being gay stopped being illegal in Australia

5/1/22

When Tasmania decriminalised homosexuality on 1 May 1997, it became the last Australian state to do so. Today, LGBTIQ+ advocates there say there’s still work to be…

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Added on: 04/30/2022

Release of the First Annual Interagency Report on Advancing LGBTQI+ Human Rights

4/29/22

Today we released the first-ever public report on the U.S. government’s implementation of the 2021 Presidential Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,…

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Added on: 04/29/2022

Albania’s Pioneering LGBT Activist: ‘We Should Not Be Second-Class Citizens’

04/28/2022

When Xheni Karaj started to engage in LGBT activism 13 years ago, she was barely aware what activism was – and the relevant organizations were still at…

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Added on: 04/28/2022

The documentary film depicting the beginning of the political organization of the Brazilian LGBT movement

04/28/2022

Called “When We Dare To Exist – History of the Brazilian Gay Movement +”, the feature film that brings the vision of activists from the 70s and…

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Added on: 04/28/2022

How LGBTQ Life in China Has Gotten Tougher Under Xi

04/27/2022

China’s LGBTQ community has long had to deal with not only societal prejudice but also pressure from the state: censorship, surveillance and intimidation, at times even detention…

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Added on: 04/27/2022

Torture won’t fix me’ Protestors gather in Cardiff against transgender conversion therapy.

04/26/2022

Protestors gathered in the centre of Cardiff to oppose conversion therapy for transgender people all over the UK. Organised by south Wales based group, Trans Aid Cymru,…

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Added on: 04/26/2022

Disney is refusing to cut LGBTQ scene in Doctor Strange 2, Saudi Arabia says.

04/25/2022

Saudi Arabia has asked Disney to cut “LGBTQ references” from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before it can be screened in the kingdom, an official…