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Added on: 02/02/2019

Conservative Muslims reject antirape bill over ‘pro-adultery, LGBT’ concerns.

02/01/2019

The passing of a bill on sexual violence, which has been deliberated on by the House of Representatives since 2016, is at risk of being delayed again,…

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Added on: 02/02/2019

Cameroon: Crowd kills ‘man of God’ caught in the act

01/30/2019

Diallo (a pseudonym), a human rights activist in Maroua, reports. A homosexual couple was surprised in the midst of love-making one morning last October in a shop in…

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Added on: 02/01/2019

28 US states still lack basic equality for LGBT people, State Equality Index says.

01/30/2019

28 US states are still lacking in basic equality for LGBT people, according to the Human Rights Campaign’s State Equality Index. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation…

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Added on: 02/01/2019

Stop hating gay people, says Nigerian actress Tonto Dikeh.

01/31/2019

Dikeh made the positive comment on Instagram in support of Jussie Smollet, an African-American Nollywood actor who was recently brutally attacked by two men, which many are now…

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Added on: 01/31/2019

Indonesia Mayor Targets Gay People ‘because they’re possessed by demons’

1/29/2019

A mayor in Indonesia has ordered the arrest of LGBT+ people so religious authorities can conduct exorcisms on them. Mayor of Padang Mahyeldi Ansharullah has used the…

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Added on: 01/31/2019

Angola decriminalizes homosexuality

01/29/2019

In a landmark reform, 155 parliamentarians voted for Angola’s first overhaul of the criminal statute books since gaining independence from Portugal. They voted to drop the colonial…

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Added on: 01/30/2019

Barcelona’s LGBT centre is vandalised one week after opening

01/29/2019

Residents of Barcelona have shown their support for the queer community after the city’s LGBT+ centre was vandalised just over one week after opening. The Centre LGBTI Barcelona opened…

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Added on: 01/30/2019

Gay congressman who fled Brazil will be replaced by another gay politician

01/29/2019

Gay congressman Jean Wyllys, who fled Brazil in fear of his life, will be replaced by another gay politician. Wyllys, a pioneering gay politician in the country,…

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Added on: 01/30/2019

Russian LGBT Network formally requests federal investigation on Chechnya amid death threats to director

01/29/2019

The Russian LGBT Network has requested that Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee look into reports of renewed arrests, torture, and killings of those suspected of being LGBTQ in…

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Added on: 01/30/2019

Life in the Closet: The LGBT Community in Central Asia

01/29/2019

While much recent attention has been focused on the LGBT community in Chechnya and the wider North Caucasus, sexual minorities in Central Asia live under significant pressure…

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Added on: 01/29/2019

Londoners rally at Russian embassy demanding end to torture in Chechnya

01/28/2019

The situation in Chechnya is urgent. That’s why nearly one hundred people flocked to a rally outside of the Russian embassy in London to call for an end to…

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Added on: 01/29/2019

LGBT community fear living openly in Kurdistan

01/29/2019

Imagine living a lie. A life of lies, secrecy and often depression only to conform to cultural norms so that you or your family isn’t endangered or…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Trump Administration Sits on Hands As Chechnya Disappears LGBT People

01/28/2019

A violent crackdown on LGBT people in the Russian region of Chechnya has resulted in the arrest and torture of dozens of people so far. Advocates, attorneys,…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Taiwanese volunteer campaigns in China for LGBT rights

01/26/2019

Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) A Taiwanese volunteer who went to China recently to campaign against its sexual orientation therapies sees the LGBT communities on both sides of…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Egypt’s LGBT Crackdown Expands to Stifle Journalists

01/25/2019

An Egyptian television anchor was unexpectedly sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man on TV last week. The conviction of Mohamed Al-Ghaity, a host on the satellite…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Holocaust Memorial Day: How the pink triangle became a symbol of gay rights

01/26/2019

As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday (January 27), PinkNews remembers all those in the LGBT+ community that were persecuted by the Nazis—and how the…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Chandigarh demands right to be different

01/27/2019

The fate of LGBT community of Chandigarh swiveled into a different alley when Dhananjay Chauhan, a transgender student, led the campaign on Panjab University campus for a…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Myanmar’s first LGBT pride boat parade sets sail

01/27/2019

Rainbow flags flew high and gay anthems blasted out over Yangon’s river as a flotilla of boats took to the water of Myanmar’s biggest city on Saturday…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

“We exist”, gays say in message to Pope Francis in Panama

01/26/2019

A long and tender kiss between two women in downtown Panama on Friday was a quiet but symbolic message from the LGBT community to the visiting Pope…

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Added on: 01/26/2019

After LGBT paranoia threatened to shut it down, gov’t defends HIV prevention group in Riau

01/24/2019

Activists warn that the LGBT panic in Indonesia is not only causing wide scale discrimination and persecution against the protected minority group, it is also helping to create a…

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Added on: 01/26/2019

In the deepness of Siberian closets

01/23/2019

Until recently a flag, painted on the balustrade, contrasted the otherwise concrete-grey waterfront next to the Angara River, which trenches the city of Irkutsk into halves. Its…

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Added on: 01/25/2019

Nigeria police spokesperson tells gay people: Leave or face prosecution

01/23/2019

A prominent police officer in Nigeria has told gay people to “leave the country or face prosecution.” Dolapo Badmos, a Chief Superintendent and Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, also…

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Added on: 01/25/2019

Dozens of LGBT+ refugees in Kenya fall sick at U.N. shelter

01/24/2019

Dozens of LGBT+ refugees living in a shelter run by the United Nations in Kenya were taken to hospital after falling sick on Thursday, days after they…

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Added on: 01/24/2019

Activists Increase Efforts to Help LGBTI People Escape Chechnya Amid Ongoing Crisis

01/22/2019

The Russian LGBT Network, which announced on January 14 that it had received word of a new wave of arrests and torture in the Russian republic of Chechnya, has…

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Added on: 01/24/2019

The Missing Piece in Uzbekistan’s Reform Puzzle

01/23/2019

At the United Nations this past May, Uzbek Deputy Justice Minister Mahmud Istamov committed the authoritarian regime he serves to over 200 reforms proposed by the UN…

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Added on: 01/24/2019

Angola Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct

01/24/2019

Angola has finally shed the divisive “vices against nature” provision in its law, widely interpreted to be a ban on homosexual conduct. Taking things one step further, the government…

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Added on: 01/23/2019

How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK’s Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights

01/21/2019

“I once told Martin that although I loved being his wife and a mother, if that was all I did I would have gone crazy. I felt…

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Added on: 01/23/2019

Home Office Postpones the Removal of LGBTI Asylum Seeker

01/21/2019

THE UK Home Office has deferred the removal from Scotland of a young asylum seeker who is currently in the Dungavel detention centre. Isabella Katjiparatijivi, a 29-year-old from Namibia,…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

Kenya could make history by legalising homosexuality

01/18/2019

In Kenya, February 22 2019 could be an anniversary remembered for generations. This is the date on which a three-judge bench at the Constitutional Court in Nairobi…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

BILL LEGALISING GAY MARRIAGE TO BE DEBATED THIS WEEK

01/21/2019

The Czech Republic currently offers civil partnerships for same-sex couples. However, advocates of gay marriage say the current system still leaves them at a disadvantage. Apart from…