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Added on: 05/18/2021

Veteran lawyer Alice Nkom on fighting for LGBT rights in Cameroon

France 24
05/17/2021
To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we speak to Alice Nkom. She became Cameroon’s first female lawyer in her early 20s and now…
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Global News

Added on: 05/17/2021

UK government to host its first global conference on LGBTQ+ rights

The Guardian
05/16/2021
The UK government’s first-ever global conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is to be hosted in London next year, as ministers race to fulfil pledges…
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Global News

Added on: 05/16/2021

A card exempted a gay man from serving in Iran’s military. It may have cost him his life

CNN
5/15/21
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared’s future was brutally cut short last week when members of his family allegedly murdered him due to his sexual orientation, according to his partner and…
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Added on: 05/15/2021

Fear breeds bravery as LGBT+ S.Africans resist ‘war on queerness’

Reuters
5/13/21
Three months ago, Chippa Mohanoe’s fiancée was stabbed in the neck and killed in front of their neighbours in South Africa’s Sebokeng township. Every day since, Mohanoe…
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Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/14/2021

Guatemala LGBTI: Discrimination and Migration

Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Guatemala: LGBTI Interaction with Society and State As Equaldex notes, LGBTI rights in Guatemala are, at least on paper, quite elevated. The site notes that “homosexual activity”…
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Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021

Cameroon Sentences Transgender Women to 5 Years in Prison

New York Times
05/13/2021
Two transgender women were sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon this week after they were found guilty of “attempted homosexuality” and public indecency, the latest…
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Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021

Benin: Threat On Transgender People and Their Defenders Following Assault On Three of Them

All Africa
05/13/2021
Authorities in Benin must immediately take all necessary measures to protect transgender people and the associations that defend them, after three transgender women were forced to undress,…
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Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021

HELL ON EARTH Inside Indonesia’s horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to ‘cure’ LGBT people and ‘pray away the gay’

The Sun
05/11/2021
EXORCISMS have largely been confined to the history books – but they’re a grim modern-day reality in Indonesia. Many made to have the “treatment” don’t even have…
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Added on: 05/12/2021

Cameroonian transgender women convicted of ‘attempted homosexuality’

Reuters
05/11/2021
A local social media celebrity known as Shakiro, who also is identified as Loic Njeukam, and Patricia, also identified as Roland Mouthe, were arrested on Feb. 8….
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Global News

Added on: 05/12/2021

U.K. to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy and provide more support

NBC News
05/11/2021
Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBTQ community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic…
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Global News

Added on: 05/11/2021

White House Reverses Trump Ban on LGBT Health-Care Protection

Bloomberg
05/10/2021
The federal government will begin enforcing protections for LGBT Americans in health care again, reversing a ban put in place by the Trump administration, the Health and…
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Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021

UN Condemns Ugandan Bill to Criminalize Same-Sex Relations

Voice of America
05/09/2021
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling on Uganda to amend a bill to ban same-sex relations that it says would…
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Global News

Added on: 05/10/2021

Gay man brutally murdered and beheaded by family in Iran in ‘honour killing’

Pink News
05/09/2021
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from service because of…
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Global News

Added on: 05/09/2021

Iran’s anti-LGBT military law blamed for murder of gay man

Jerusalem Times
5/8/21
Three men murdered 20-year-old Alireza “Ali” Fazeli-Monfared on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ahvaz allegedly because they learned the Iranian military exempted him due to “moral…
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Global News

Added on: 05/08/2021

In hiding, Ghana’s queer activists keep up the fight

Erasing 76 Crimes
5/6/21
More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding. “It is very challenging….
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Global News

Added on: 05/07/2021

Outpouring of grief after alleged murder of leading Tongan LGBTQI activist

The Guardian
05/04/21
Police in Tonga are investigating the death of one of the country’s leading LGBTQI+ activists after his body was found on a beach near his home in…
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Global News

Added on: 05/06/2021

Uncertain future for LGBT+ rights in Uganda as controversial bill is passed

Deutsche Welle
05/05/2021
The Ugandan Parliament on Monday passed the Sexual Offenses Bill, which contains a clause to criminalize same-sex relationships. The bill prescribes a five-year-jail term for anyone guilty…
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Added on: 05/06/2021

Egypt’s Al-Sisi Regime Is Still “Disappearing” Researchers Who Oppose Its Crimes

Jacobin Mgazine
05/05/2021
It is three months since reproductive rights researcher Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali presented himself at the fifth district police station in central Cairo. He is still yet…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Uganda strengthens anti-gay laws, brands gay sex an unnatural offense

Metro Weekly
05/04/2021
Uganda has further strengthened its anti-gay laws with new legislation that brands gay sex an “unnatural offense.” The African nation already criminalizes same-sex sexual relations, with Uganda’s…
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Added on: 05/05/2021

Uganda strengthens anti-gay laws, brands gay sex an “unnatural offense”

Metro Weekly
05/04/20201
Uganda has further strengthened its anti-gay laws with new legislation that brands gay sex an “unnatural offense.” The African nation already criminalizes same-sex sexual relations, with Uganda’s…
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Global News

Added on: 05/03/2021

Court could force Honduras to stop ‘social cleansing’ of trans people

Pink News
05/02/2021
International LGBT+ advocates are waiting anxiously for the verdict of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which monitors human rights in the western hemisphe. The top tribunal…
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Global News

Added on: 05/02/2021

LGBTI refugees denied asylum by Home Affairs bigotry

News 24
5/1/21
A report released on Thursday by several civil society organisations has found evidence that LGBT refugees are being denied asylum in South Africa despite being, “… eligible…
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Global News

Added on: 05/02/2021

Russian LGBT Activist On Trial For ‘Pornography’ Launches Hunger Strike

Radio Free Europe
5/1/21
A Russian LGBT activist and artist has declared a hunger strike to protest the proceedings of her closed-door trial on pornography charges. Yulia Tsvetkova’s trial began on…
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Global News

Added on: 05/01/2021

Gay Ugandan refugee’s odyssey to Vancouver chronicled in film

Vancouver is Awesome
4/30/21
“We’re not rescuing. We’re not saving. We’re walking in solidarity with them.” So says Rainbow Refugee’s Chris Morrisey in Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams new film…
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Global News

Added on: 04/29/2021

Chechnya Grants State Protection to ‘Kidnapped’ Gay Men – Reports

Moscow Times
04/29/2021
Authorities in Russia’s republic of Chechnya have granted state protection to two gay men facing threats of familial “honor killings” after they were forcibly returned to their…
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Added on: 04/27/2021

Project lifts the voices of Eswatini’s LGBT people

Erasing 76 Crimes
04/26/2021
Voices of Eswatini, a new project from Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM) and All Out, amplifies the voices of the small but strong LGBT community in…
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Global News

Added on: 04/25/2021

LGBTQ migration on the rise in Poland as homophobia deepens

Deccan Herald
4/24/21
For months, government ministers spewed vicious rhetoric about gay people. Trucks blasted anti-gay hate messages from loudspeakers on the streets of Poland’s cities. Finally fed up with…
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Global News

Added on: 04/20/2021

Immigrant Detention For Profit Faces Resistance After Big Expansion Under Trump

CapRadio
04/20/2021
A dozen Central Americans in T-shirts that read Mujeres Luchadores — Fighting Women — marched through a small Texas town last month toward the gates of an…
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Global News

Added on: 04/20/2021

Gay conversion ban: Therapy is a ‘humiliating and harmful practice’

BBC
04/20/2021
Gay conversion therapy is a humiliating and harmful practice that needs to be banned, a Stormont assembly debate has heard. Politicians on Tuesday passed a motion calling…
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Added on: 04/20/2021

The Ugandan mum who was once ashamed of her gay son

BBC
04/19/2021
When Rita heard rumours that her son was gay she refused to believe it. At the time, she thought that homosexuality was an abomination – a “problem”…
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