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Added on: 08/05/2022

Saudi sisters found dead in Sydney told acquaintance queer women ‘live in fear’ in their homeland

08/04/2022

Two Saudi sisters found dead in their beds in Sydney attended a girls-only queer event in January where they told acquaintances gay women “live in fear” in Saudi…

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Added on: 08/05/2022

No Nigeria amnesty guarantees for gay dating app victims

08/04/2022

Police in Nigeria have urged victims of a same-sex dating app scam to come forward to give evidence. But they have refused to offer them the assurance…

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Added on: 08/05/2022

Dominican Anglican church goes rogue on gay rights

08/04/2022

The current Lambeth conference of global Anglican bishops has been rocked with divisions over the issue of same-sex marriage. In contrast, the primates (heads) of the global…

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Added on: 08/04/2022

Explainer: what makes Ghana’s anti-gay bill so extreme?

08/03/2022

Same-sex “conduct” is already illegal in Ghana, but MPs introduced a sweeping new anti-LGBTQ+ draft bill a year ago that would fully criminalisie LGBTQ+ people, along with rights…

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Added on: 08/04/2022

The Nigerians worried about a bill to outlaw cross-dressing

08/03/2022

Trans women and men and non-binary people in Nigeria are nervously eyeing a parliamentary proposal that seeks to criminalise cross-dressing. It aims to amend the Same-Sex Marriage…

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Added on: 08/03/2022

Hundreds hold ‘kiss-a-thon’ to support gay couple threatened in Colombia

08/02/2022

Hundreds of same-sex couples staged a ‘kiss-a-thon’ in a park in Bogotá, Colombia after a gay couple was attacked there. Santiago Maldonado and Jorge Esteban Farías were…

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Added on: 08/03/2022

Will Ghana introduce some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world?

08/02/2022

In February 2021, a community centre for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana was closed down weeks after it had opened, following a wave of protests. As our west…

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Added on: 08/02/2022

An Arabic anti-LGBTQ+ campaign is going viral on Twitter

08/01/2022

In late June, an account launched on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Telegram called Fetrah — the Arabic word for “human instinct.” Soon after, the account posted a…

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Added on: 08/02/2022

Ugandan police accused of anti-gay bias in murder investigation

08/01/2022

Ugandan police have been accused of homophobic bias and “extortion” following the brutal murder last month of a gay person who had previously been arrested and victimised…

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Added on: 08/01/2022

Saudi police arrest TikToker for alleged lesbian subtext

07/31/2022

Tala Safwan has five million followers on TikTok and 800,000 on YouTube. She lives in Saudi Arabia. Her content is similar to other young social media influencers…

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Added on: 08/01/2022

An interview with Emmie America: The defiant Russian fashion photographer and LGBTQ+ activist

07/31/2022

In 2021, fashion photographer and activist, Emmie America, was detained and fined by Russian authorities, after organising a politically charged photo shoot in Moscow, where 25 participants…

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Added on: 08/01/2022

Fleeing War and Discrimination, LGBT Russians Find Refuge in South Caucasus

07/31/2022

YEREVAN, Armenia — When tens of thousands of Russians fled the country this spring following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, many chose to resettle in Armenia and…

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Added on: 07/31/2022

Rising hate leaves ‘no place for gays’ in Senegal

7/30/22

Every time Abdou’s mother hears of a homophobic attack in the streets of Senegal’s capital Dakar, she locks him in her bedroom. Abdou – who, like other…

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Added on: 07/30/2022

Rise of homophobia in Senegal forcing LGBTQ people into the shadows

7/29/22

Every time Abdou’s mother hears of a homophobic attack in the streets of Senegal’s capital Dakar, she locks him in her bedroom. Abdou — who, like other…

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Added on: 07/29/2022

UK Government uses Commonwealth’s ‘soft power’ to push member countries to decriminalise LGBTQ community

07/29/2022

The Government has made use of the ‘soft power’ of the Commonwealth to attempt to influence a change in laws discriminating against the LGBTQ in more than…

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Added on: 07/29/2022

Saudi Arabia arrests Egyptian social media star Tala Safwan for ‘immorality’

07/27/2022

An Egyptian social media star has been detained in Saudi Arabia under accusations of being immoral and sexually suggestive online. Tala Safwan – who creates content on TikTok and YouTube –…

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Added on: 07/29/2022

Russia’s LGBT Community Braces For More Persecution As Duma Readies Stricter Propaganda Law

07/28/2022

Anna Kosvinitseva is a web designer in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan who has been working mostly from home for the past few years. She says…

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Added on: 07/27/2022

EU’s suit against Hungary over anti-gay law isn’t a sure win for LGBT rights in Europe.

07/26/2022

The European Commission is taking legal action against Hungary at the European court of justice, escalating a longstanding dispute over the country’s anti-LGBT laws. This is an…

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Added on: 07/27/2022

Life as an LGBTQ refugee in Turkey.

07/26/2022

Same-sex relationships may have never been criminalized in Turkey as in many other predominantly Muslim nations, but LGBTQ individuals continue to be seen as depraved or deviant…

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Added on: 07/27/2022

LGBTQ activists angered by Baja California governor’s stance on conversion therapy.

07/26/2022

The memories remain raw for 27-year-old Benjamin Sanchez. As the teenage son of a pastor in an ultra-Christian community of Tijuana, his identity was considered a sin….

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Double the risk for Russian tennis star speaking out on LGBTQ rights and war in Ukraine

07/24/2022

Russia’s top female tennis player, Daria “Dasha” Kasatkina, has done something no Russian athlete of her rank has done before — she came out. While seeing a professional athlete from Canada or the…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

Lebanon presses on with its crackdown on LGBTQ community

7/22/22

Nour never felt entirely safe as a queer person in Lebanon. But in the past few years, the 25-year-old pharmacist had begun letting his guard down, meeting…

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Added on: 07/21/2022

LGBTQ+ Nigerians fear violence after sharia court death sentence

07/29/2022

By Pelumi Salako – ILORIN, Nigeria, July 18 (Openly) – A Nigerian sharia court’s decision to sentence three men to death by stoning for homosexual acts could trigger…

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Added on: 07/21/2022

Three strategies to survive being LGBTIQ+ in Nigeria

07/19/2022

Nigeria’s discriminatory laws against LGBTQI+ people continue to have a huge negative impact on the lives of LGBTIQ+ folks living in the country. LGBTQI+ people are subjected to…

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Added on: 07/20/2022

Iranian LGBT Rights Defender Detained Again, Accused Of Trafficking Woman To Iraq

07/19/2022

The Intelligence Organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has arrested Zahra Hamadani, a defender of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, on a charge…

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Added on: 07/19/2022

‘We’re here:’ Queer communities in Africa are struggling to be seen

07/18/2022

Parades, flags and celebrations are all important to queer communities in Africa as they seek greater visibility and acceptance, despite the threats faced by many throughout the…

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Added on: 07/19/2022

Lebanon LGBTQ Community Suffers Setback Amid Wider Clampdown

07/18/2022

Nour never felt entirely safe as a queer person in Lebanon. But in the past few years, the 25-year-old pharmacist had begun letting his guard down, meeting…

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Added on: 07/18/2022

LGBTQ communities facing new repression in Middle East

07/17/2022

Most of the people around him don’t know he identifies as queer, the 20-year-old Iraqi student told DW. But life in his comparatively conservative southern city of Najaf…

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Added on: 07/17/2022

Iraq bid to ban homosexuality will ‘let government get away with murder’

07/17/2022

Iraq’s government has announced plans to outlaw homosexuality, sparking anger and fear in the Iraqi LGBTQ+ community. On 8 July, the Iraqi parliament began the process of…

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Added on: 07/17/2022

Rwanda ‘lies’ on gay rights as activist claims they were told to assure refugees

07/16/2022

Rwanda’s leaders are scrambling to make the country appear safe for gay people, it was claimed yesterday. A senior activist there told the People he was approached…