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Added on: 07/02/2019

Tunisia: LGBT right group leader announces plans to run for November Presidential elections

07/01/2019

The leader of Tunisia’s LGBT community, Shams, has announced plans to run for November presidential elections, first time ever a gay enters a presidential race in the…

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Added on: 07/02/2019

Anti-LGBT hate crimes are rising, the FBI says. But it gets worse

06/28/2019

Friday marked 50 years since protesters fought back against a police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn and catalyzed the modern gay rights movement. But despite decades…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

Protests in Pakistan after father arrested for murder of transgender daughter

07/01/2019

The transgender community in Pakistan are leading protests after a 19-year-old transgender woman was found “riddled with bullets” beside a river bank. The teenager’s father has been…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

Video: LGBT activists talk openly about life in Morocco

06/29/2019

In collaboration with the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE), Human Rights Watch released a video, Monday, June 24. The footage, published on the Human Rights…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

How the internet is helping queer Nigerian youth push for Pride

06/28/2019

For LGBTQ+ people growing up in Nigeria, the dangers of being out and visible are instilled in all of us. When I ask Logan February, a 20-year-old…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

Pioneers launching Pride in Bermuda, St. Lucia, Uganda, India

06/29/2019

Activists in Bermuda and St. Lucia are planning those nations’ first Pride celebrations, while a fund drive is under way for Uganda’s seventh Pride, which is held…

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Added on: 06/30/2019

As Pride celebrates Stonewall, Catalonia remembers its own LGBT breakthrough

06/28/2019

Franco’s Spain dismissed queer people as a “danger to society.” Then, they staged an unprecedented protest in Barcelona. Pride is back in Barcelona this weekend as the…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

Gov’t promises support for LGBTIQ community

06/28/2019

Some 150 people, including representatives of the government and relevant ministries, the LGBTIQ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer), local authorities, ambassadors, parents and guardians…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

With ball gowns and dance, LGBT+ refugees in Kenya cast aside woes to celebrate

06/27/2019

LGBT+ refugees in Kenya – some dressed in sequined ball gowns and slinky black evening dresses – cast aside their troubles on Thursday to eat lunch, dance…

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Added on: 06/29/2019

Survivor of Jamaican hostility, I work to legalize our loves

06/27/2019

Risk of imprisonment. Death threats. Blackmail. Contempt from police. AIDS. Jamaican/Canadian activist lawyer Maurice Tomlinson tells why he works to overturn Caribbean nations’ anti-gay laws. The first…

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Added on: 06/28/2019

PM Lee: Whatever your sexual orientation, you’re welcome to work in Singapore

06/27/2019

Are the winds of change blowing over Singapore? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke up about sexual orientation and Section 377A of the Penal Code, which deem…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

“The Deceased Can’t Speak for Herself:” Violence Against LGBT People in Malaysia

06/26/2019

The New Year rang in little cheer for transgender women in Malaysia. On January 1, a trans woman was killed in Klang, a Kuala Lumpur suburb, the…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

Gay Nigerian ex-priest honored for supporting asylum-seekers

06/26/2019

A gay Nigerian former priest has received an award in recognition of his work supporting LGBTI African refugees. John Adewoye is a lifeline for many across the…

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Added on: 06/27/2019

Nigeria: Three anti-gay criminals captured, but then freed

06/26/2019

Three members of a group of vicious anti-gay criminals were apprehended last week at Ibusa town in Delta State, Nigeria. Members of the gang reportedly were arrested…

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Added on: 06/26/2019

Section 377 is History but Young LGBT Indians Need Concrete Policies to Protect them from Bullying

06/24/2019

The picture is bleak for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in India. Many face harassment and bullying, and to avoid humiliation and violence they often skip…

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Added on: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights

06/23/2019

The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone…

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Added on: 06/23/2019

How the US shapes queer activism in Liberia

06/22/2019

As the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean, dozens of queer Liberians and their friends and family gathered on a stretch of beach outside Monrovia, the West…

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Added on: 06/23/2019

How a housepainter and an army widow led the secret fight to save LGBT people from ISIS

06/22/2019

The first time Majid and Ahlam saved a gay person’s life, they didn’t even know what LGBT stood for. Word had reached them that three men were…

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Added on: 06/22/2019

An inclusive Pride flag is the first step in confronting racism in LGBT+ spaces

06/21/2019

Until people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds feel comfortable in LGBT+ communities, the new black and brown stripes are vital. The first bricks at the Stonewall…

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Added on: 06/21/2019

Gay refugees sent back to ‘homophobic Kenya camp’

06/19/2019

Kenya’s government has ordered a group of 76 refugees to return to a camp they had fled after some of them faced homophobic attacks, a UN agency…

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Added on: 06/20/2019

Transgender migrants find safe haven in Juarez

06/19/2019

A rainbow flag sways in the wind outside a pink two-story house in an out-of-the-way Juarez neighborhood. Inside, 38 men and boys tell jokes, try on new…

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Added on: 06/20/2019

LGBT rights across the world: Progress achieved in 50 years

06/19/2019

Fifty years since the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, which sparked an LGBT liberation movement in the U.S. and elsewhere, 36% of countries are yet…

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Added on: 06/19/2019

LGBT Refugees Allege Harassment in Kenya, a Rare Safe Haven

06/19/2019

Burundi national Nina Muregwa says she feels threatened again. After escaping death threats back home over her sexual identity the 17-year-old thought she had found a sanctuary…

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Added on: 06/19/2019

Malaysia PM Mahathir Mohamad: Gays shouldn’t get married because they can’t have kids

06/17/2019

Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has claimed that same-sex marriage is “regressive.” In an appearance at the Cambridge Union in the UK on Sunday (June 17), the…

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Added on: 06/18/2019

What it’s like to be gay and Qatari

08/05/2016

Homosexuality is so taboo in Qatar that it doesn’t feature in public discourse, yet practically it very much exists. Being gay is frowned upon here, and a…

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Added on: 06/18/2019

The Lavender Scare: the shocking true story of an anti-LGBT witch-hunt

06/18/2019

When Josh Howard began working on his documentary The Lavender Scare, way back in 2009, America was a very different place – not least for its LGBT…

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Added on: 06/17/2019

Teens on growing up LGBTI in Iran: ‘My boyfriend was killed’

06/17/2019

Teens have opened up about what it’s like to grow up LGBTI in Iran. Dozens of young people revealed they are ‘depressed’ and ‘frustrated’ by living in…

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Added on: 06/16/2019

Understanding of LGBT realities ‘non-existent’ in most countries, says UN expert

06/12/2019

In a statement issued ahead of presenting his latest report to the Human Rights Council later this month, Victor Madrigal-Borloz urged States to collect more data in…

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Added on: 06/16/2019

Detective investigated for calling for execution of LGBT people

06/13/2019

A church sermon by a sheriff’s detective is being investigated after it called LGBT+ people to be arrested and executed. The Knox County Attorney General’s Office is…

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Added on: 06/14/2019

Time for Swaziland to Follow Botswana’s Lead and Decriminalise Gay Sex

06/13/2019

Swaziland should follow the example of its near-neighbour Botswana and decriminalise gay sex. The kingdom, also known as eSwatini, has much in common with Botswana. Both were…