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Added on: 09/04/2021

Myanmar LGBTQ Makeup Artist Swaps Beauty Salon for Border Hideout and Revolution

9/3/21

Until the military takeover on Feb. 1, cosmetics, fashion and beauty design were the most important parts of May Oo’s daily life. For more than a decade,…

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Added on: 09/04/2021

Poland’s chief rabbi: ‘LGBTQ+-free zones is against Halacha’

9/3/21

“Creating LGBTQ+ free zones is against Halacha,” Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich said at the kickoff for The Agudah – The Association for LGBTQ+ Equality in Israel’s…

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Added on: 09/04/2021

Prejudice And Pride: Georgia’s LGBT Community Finds New Strength After Violent Attacks

9/3/21

In July, a planned LGBT Pride March in Tbilisi was called off after right-wing protesters attacked activists and journalists, whom they accused of spreading “anti-Georgian sentiments.” Dozens…

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Added on: 09/03/2021

Russian troops pretend to crush a gay man with concrete block in shocking theatre performance

09/01/2021

The performance was shown as part of an anniversary celebration for a local patriotic military club at the Dobrynin Palace of Culture in Yaroslavl on Sunday (29…

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Added on: 09/02/2021

Banned and blocked: LGBT+ websites censored from Russia to Indonesia

09/01/2021

When Russian cities started banning Pride marches, LGBT+ rights activist Mikhail Tumasov took to the internet to make sure his organisation kept its voice. But state authorities…

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Added on: 09/02/2021

Amend rules to punish police personnel who harass LGBTQIA+ community, Court directs Tamil Nadu

09/01/2021

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to amend the conduct rules applicable to police personnel and provide for punishment to those who harass…

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Added on: 09/02/2021

LGBT Afghans are on the run, afraid they could be stoned to death under Taliban law

09/01/2021

Ahmadullah says the Taliban beheaded his boyfriend on the day they entered Kabul. “We were in a restaurant having breakfast when we heard about the Taliban,” he…

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Added on: 08/31/2021

Afghan Gay Men Are Terrified. Taliban Continue to Hunt, Betray, Out, Rape, Beat, Murder, Cause Suicides…And That’s Just the Last 2 Weeks

08/31/2021

Taliban are going door-to-door looking for journalists, interpreters and LGBTQ+ people. The longest war the US has ever been in was not won by US. We are…

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Added on: 08/31/2021

Finland to consider conversion therapy ban after overwhelming public demand

08/31/2021

A citizens’ initiative to ban sexual orientation and gender identification conversion therapy is moving forward to being considered by parliament after it gathered the needed 50,000 signatures…

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Added on: 08/31/2021

No End to Chechnya’s Violent Anti-Gay Campaign

08/31/2021

The Russian LGBT Network has reported that in May 2021, Chechen-speaking men abducted Ibragim Selimkhanov in Moscow and forcibly returned him to Chechnya’s capital Grozny, where authorities…

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Added on: 08/30/2021

Motsoaledi frees gay Ugandan couple after arrest in KZN

08/29/2021

Durban – Home Affairs Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi and the department’s director-general Livhuwani Makhode have released a Ugandan couple detained for being in South Africa illegally due…

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Added on: 08/30/2021

Chinese school targets LGBTQ students with probe

08/29/2021

A Chinese university appears to have asked its colleges to make lists of their LGBTQ+ students and report on their “state of mind,” a purported internal directive…

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Added on: 08/29/2021

‘A virtual death sentence’: Gay Afghans brace for uncertain future under Taliban

8/28/21

N, a 20-year-old student living in Afghanistan, is in hiding as she hopes for news that she and her family can leave the country. As a lesbian,…

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Added on: 08/27/2021

UK HOME OFFICE TELLS GAY AFGHAN THAT HE COULD BE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN

08/27/2021

An undocumented Afghan man living in the United Kingdom has been reportedly told by the Home Office that he may have to go back to Afghanistan. Ahmad,…

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Added on: 08/27/2021

Moscow man abducted, taken to Chechnya and pressed for information on LGBTQ people, says Russian rights group

08/26/2021

A man was abducted in Moscow, taken to Chechnya and then pressed for information on LGBTQ people in the region earlier this year, according to the Russian…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 08/26/2021

Canada: True North for LGBTI Afghan Refugees

Alturi Project Strategist

Canada leads with a perfect 10.0 sexual orientation gender identity legal index (SOGI-LI) SOGI-LI ranks countries by the recognition and protection their laws offer LGBTI people. Canada…

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Added on: 08/26/2021

On Her Last Stop In Southeast Asia, VP Harris Emphasizes Human And Worker Rights

08/25/2021

HANOI — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris turned her attention to issues surrounding worker rights and civil liberties Thursday as she closed out her visit to Southeast…

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Added on: 08/24/2021

Gay, transgender conversion therapy ban initiative heads to Parliament

08/23/2021

A citizens’ initiative to ban sexual orientation and gender identification conversion therapy in Finland reached the required 50,000 signatures on Monday, which means it will now be…

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Added on: 08/22/2021

Romania’s LGBT community sees gains, ongoing rights struggle

08/22/2021

The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998. The country decriminalized homosexuality three years after that, in 2001, while reforming its laws…

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Added on: 08/21/2021

Sri Lanka discusses LGBTQ rights ‘over and over’, but clings to the past

08/20/2021

The government of Sri Lanka is undecided on LGBTQ rights, but the matter is under discussion, government officials say. The video, which surfaced on Twitter [on Aug….

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Added on: 08/21/2021

Gay Immigrant Recalls Tumultuous Escape From Nigeria

08/20/2021

Uchechukwu Onwa, a gay immigrant from Nigeria, said he knew it was time to leave his home country when a group of men brutally raped his teenage…

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Added on: 08/20/2021

This brave charity is helping desperate LGBT+ Afghans escape the brutal Taliban

08/19/2021

The Rainbow Railroad is a global NGO providing aid and asylum to LGBT+ people around the world. Since its founding it’s helped more than 1,600 LGBT+ people…

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Added on: 08/20/2021

LGBT in Afghanistan: ‘I could be killed on the spot’

08/19/2021

Before the Taliban uprising in Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangerous. If he’d spoken about his sexuality to the…

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Added on: 08/19/2021

‘Everything is gone’ for LGBT+ Afghans, says bisexual man who escaped before Taliban took over

08/19/2021

Afghanistan wasn’t a welcoming place for LGBT+ people prior to the Taliban takeover that shocked the world – but human rights activists are expecting things to get…

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Added on: 08/19/2021

World Cup hosts Qatar raise the rainbow flag even as LGBT+ community is forced to live a double life

08/12/2021

Degree-educated, bi-lingual and with a well-established career at one of the country’s leading companies, Hamad is, to all appearances, the very epitome of modern-day, outward-looking Qatar. But…

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Added on: 08/18/2021

President Museveni Refuses To Sign Homophobic Law

08/17/2021

The LGBTIQ community in Uganda has today caught a break after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni returned the notorious Sexual Offences Bill back to the floor of Uganda…

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Added on: 08/16/2021

Turkish LGBTQ Activists Counter Oppression With Art, Solidarity and Radical Hope

08/15/2021

Activism came to Hazar Kolancalı like a thunderstorm, at first a rumbling in the distance and then upon her all at once. The constant — and often…

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Added on: 08/16/2021

Classroom workshops offer support to LGBTQ youth in rural Quebec Social Sharing

08/15/2021

A new project launched by the Association for New Canadians is working to create a safe and welcoming environment for LGBTQ immigrants and refugees coming into Newfoundland…

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Added on: 08/13/2021

Ghana’s president in tight spot over anti-LGBT law

08/12/2021

Opposition lawmakers in Ghana are pushing President Nana Akufo-Addo into a tight spot by promoting an anti-LGBT law widely condemned by critics for undermining rights but applauded…

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Added on: 08/13/2021

Rights defenders tell details of queer girl’s abduction by Chechen law enforcers

08/13/2021

The “Russian LGBT Network”* is concerned about the fate of the girl who was abducted a year ago by Chechen law enforcers, and is going to appeal…