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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…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

Brexit threatens LGBT+ rights: top British lawyer

01/18/2019

The rights of British minority groups are under threat from hardline politicians holding the government to ransom during the Brexit process, leading lawyer Helena Kennedy told the…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

LGBT Muslims Struggle to Find Their Place in Turkey

01/21/2019

Deniz, a 20-year-old observant Muslim who lives in Istanbul, works as a sign language translator and is studying gastronomy in his spare time. But Deniz, who prefers…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

Beijing LGBT Center Celebrates 10 Years of Inclusivity

01/22/2019

With the end of January 2019 fast approaching, and with it, Chinese New Year just around the corner, it’s time again to look back and remember personal achievements over…

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Added on: 01/22/2019

Activists say they are helping people flee new anti-gay purge in Chechnya

01/21/2019

LGBT activists say they have begun helping people flee from the Russian republic of Chechnya amid what they claim is a new wave of detentions and torture targeting the gay…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

To what Extent are Human Rights respected in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

01/20/2019

There was little visible progress on human rights during 2018. Authorities failed yet again to end structural and political discrimination against Jews, Roma, and other minorities. There…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Russia website calls for ‘gay hunters’ to attack LGBTIs across the country

01/20/2019

A website that gamified hunting gay men in Russia has been reactivated and is now calling for ‘gay hunters’ in several regions. In April 2018, Saw-inspired website пила (Russian for ‘saw’)…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Dillian gets humanitarian protection

01/19/2019

“I feel vindicated.” That was the reaction of Dillian Johnson in an emailed response moments after he was told that he had been granted humanitarian protection by…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Court Decisions on LGBT Rights Echo ‘A Wild Wish’

01/17/2019

More than two centuries ago Mary Wollstonecraft laid the foundations for feminist thought with a simple premise: lack of equal opportunity diminished individual self-worth and hobbled social…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Three billboards outside Nanjing: Chinese artist takes aim at gay ‘conversion therapy’

01/19/2019

On a hazy day this week, a convoy of three white trucks is making its way through the streets of Nanjing, in eastern China. They are covered…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Activists: Chechen Authorities Order Families to Kill LGBT Family Members

01/18/2019

Russian campaigners have told The Daily Beast that Chechen authorities have ordered people to kill LGBT members of their own families, and have demanded ransoms for the release of detained LGBT…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Vigilante Raid on Indonesian HIV Group

01/17/2019

This week a militant Islamist group in Indonesia raided the offices of an HIV prevention organization on suspicion that the group had been conducting “LGBT activities.” The…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Using queer cartoons to promote LGBT+ rights in Bangladesh

01/17/2019

In April 2016, the police found the bodies of Xulhaz Mannan and Tonoy Mahbub, two prominent LGBT+ rights activists, in an apartment in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital….

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Kyrgyzstan man has ‘gay’ carved into stomach in homophobic attack

01/16/2019

A bisexual man from Kyrgyzstan was forced to leave the country after suffering two homophobic attacks within the same month. The man, who is in his 20s,…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Everyone in Armenia has the right to protection: MP on LGBT rights

01/16/2019

Everyone, including sexual minorities, have rights, and if they turn to the relevant Commission, we will discuss any issue, member of the Prosperous Armenia Party, candidate for…

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Added on: 01/18/2019

Suspect arrested over murders of Bangladesh LGBT activists in 2016

01/16/2019

Police in Bangladesh have reportedly arrested one of the main suspects involved in the murders of LGBT+ activists Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy. Mannan, the founder…

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Added on: 01/17/2019

Chechnya Resumes its Anti-gay Purge

01/16/2019

“Widespread detentions, torture and killings of gay people have resumed in Chechnya,” said Igor Kochetkov, program director for the Russian LGBT Network. He added, “Persecution of men…