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Added on: 04/25/2022

What does Europe’s right want?

04/24/2022

The last time we had met, Ronald Reagan’s deregulation tsar Chris DeMuth reminded the audience, it was “the last week of normal life in Europe to date”….

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Added on: 04/24/2022

America is drowning in anti-LGBTQ attacks. Where is the Left’s lifeboat?

4/22/22

This week, Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow gave a powerful floor speech in response to a colleague who in a fund raising email to supporters accused McMorrow…

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Added on: 04/23/2022

#JusticeForSheila: Kenyan anger after lesbian’s murder

4/22/22

Rights groups are calling on Kenyan authorities to investigate the murder of a non-binary lesbian, which has sparked the trending hashtag #JusticeForSheila. “No one deserves such cruel…

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Added on: 04/22/2022

Rare Syrian NGO formed to defend LGBT community

04/21/2022

Homophobia remains prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa regions. Most countries in these regions do not recognize the rights of the LGBT community, and homosexual…

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Added on: 04/22/2022

Nations with anti-LGBT laws: 49% Muslim, 44% Christian

04/20/2022

Almost half of the world’s 71 countries that have anti-LGBT laws are nations where a majority of the citizens are Muslims. By comparison, Christian-majority countries account for slightly…

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Added on: 04/21/2022

South Korea’s top court overturns convictions of gay soldiers

04/21/2022

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a military court ruling that convicted two gay soldiers for having sex outside their military…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

India’s first openly gay prince endured years of torturous conversion therapy. Now, he’s fighting to make the practice illegal.

04/19/2022

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the 39th direct descendant of India’s Gohil Rajput dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12. But he could only live his truth…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

Look Inside Lambda Warszawa, the Organization Helping LGBTQ Ukrainian Refugees.

04/19/2022

A deeply Catholic country, Poland has long been a fraught place for LGBTQ people. But in 2015, when President Andrzej Duda was elected, anti-LGBTQ sentiments increased amid…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

The Mohyeddin Family’s Radical Restaurant Mission.

04/18/2022

If Samira Mohyeddin had grown up in Iran, she would be a different person. She would not be able to sing or dance in public, or leave…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

We did not run away’: Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community fights homophobia on the frontlines.

04/18/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, members of the LGBTQ+ community and activists have been visibly joining and helping Ukraine’s army – with some hoping their participation…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

LGBT+ Afghan deaths ‘preventable’ if West had prioritised evacuations, campaigners say

04/17/2022

The deaths of LGBT+ people in Afghanistan could have been prevented if Western governments had prioritised their evacuation after the country fell to the Taliban, campaigners have…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

How a small queer collective brought ‘Pride’ back to Assam

04/17/2022

As the world continues to push for more tolerance along the lines of gender identity and sexual orientation, the LGBTQIA+ community in India is constantly finding its voice…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

The dark past of an Australian prison where convicted homosexuals were sent to separate from ‘normal’ inmates – and authorities bizarrely tried to ‘CURE’ them

04/17/2022

It is now the state’s preferred prison for celebrity inmates, but Cooma Correctional Centre has a dark past which in the 1950s saw it designated as the…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Russia Adds Prominent Journalists, LGBT Activists To Registry Of ‘Foreign Agents’

4/16/22

The Russian Justice Ministry has added several journalists, including some who have collaborated with RFE/RL, and two LGBT rights activists to its registry of foreign agents. Two…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

The library sheltering queer refugees fleeing Ukraine

4/15/22

This is not the story I planned to write. Initially, it was about Biblioteka Azyl, the queer library Filip Kijowski founded at Lublin’s Galeria Labirynt in 2020…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

This organization is helping LGBTI people imprisoned in Senegal

4/15/22

The situation for LGBTI people in Senegal continues to deteriorate. Homophobic marches are organized and arrests are carried out against LGBTI people. In August 2020, the Free…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

Transgender migrants in Juarez wait chance to apply for U.S. asylum

4/15/22

Alejandra Gomez, a transgender woman, left her native Honduras a few months ago, fleeing discrimination and threats of violence. “That is the reason I am here,” Gomez…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Man Attacks Chair of Ukrainian LGBT Rights Group

04/14/2022

(WB) A man on Thursday attacked the chair of an LGBT rights group in Ukraine with pepper spray. Insight Chair Olena Shevchenko in a Facebook post said the…

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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…