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Added on: 03/30/2023

Gay Ugandan asks ‘Where will I go?’ as secret shelters under threat

03/29/2023

Uganda’s parliament last week passed one of the world’s toughest laws against homosexual activities, prompting widespread condemnation. If signed into law by the president, anyone who identifies…

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Added on: 03/29/2023

A Group Of Florida LGBTQ Kids Are Learning How To Fight Back

03/28/2023

“I love Florida, but Florida doesn’t love me back. ”Those were the words of Ollie, a nonbinary high school senior in Collier County who has lived in…

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Added on: 03/27/2023

Egyptian police using fake Grindr account to arrest LGBTQ+ community, says app

03/26/2023

A popular social networking app for gays, Grindr, has issued a warning to its users in Egypt after reports emerged that police are using fake accounts to…

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Added on: 03/26/2023

‘TransFormation’: A Mumbai salon run by transgender persons to promote inclusivity

03/25/2023

Deutsche Bank and Rotary Club of Bombay have teamed up to open Mumbai’s first transgender-run salon on Saturday, March 25 in an effort to create equal employment…

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Added on: 03/26/2023

Conservatives in LDP take issue with gender identity clause in LGBT bill

03/25/2023

Ahead of internal discussions on legislation aimed promoting a better understanding of the LGBT community, conservatives within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have taken issue with a…

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Added on: 03/25/2023

Florida sued over bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth

03/24/2023

Four families in Florida sued the state on Thursday over new rules prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, arguing the bans violate the US Constitution and should…

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Added on: 03/24/2023

Trans rights becomes a life and death issue in Peru

03/20/2023

A wave of murders of trans women in Peru — six since the beginning of the year, after eight all of last year — has exposed a…

Global News

Added on: 03/24/2023

Videos urged counter-protesters to attack LGBTQ+ activists outside Sydney church

03/22/2023

Videos circulating on WhatsApp in the days before LGBTQ+ activists say they were set upon by a mob outside a church in Sydney urged people to disrupt the…

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Added on: 03/23/2023

Christian activist charged after violent attack on LGBTQ protesters outside St Michael’s Church in Belfield

03/23/2023

Three men have been charged over a violent ambush on LGTBQ protesters who were picketing outside a Sydney church where One Nation’s Mark Latham was set to…

Global News

Added on: 03/23/2023

Why are Kenya and Uganda cracking down on LGBTQ rights?

03/23/2023

Kenya and Uganda are moving to further curtail the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, whose relationships are already deemed illegal in the…

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Added on: 03/23/2023

Uganda’s LGBT activists fight law making it illegal to be gay: ‘I’m not scared of going to prison’

03/21/2023

Herman Shasha’s shop is not far from one of the shrines dedicated to some of the male martyrs, publicly executed in the late 1800s for refusing to have…

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Added on: 03/20/2023

Complaints of Harm to LBGTQ Community Rose by 11 Percent in 2022

03/19/2023

The number of complaints of harm to members of the LGBTQ community rose by 11 percent in 2022, according to the annual report by The Aguda –…

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Added on: 03/20/2023

Council of Islamic Ideology slams ‘guru culture’ in ‘intersex’ people

03/19/2023

ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz on Sunday said there was a united stance that the ‘guru culture’ in the khawaja sira (non-binary…

Global News

Added on: 03/20/2023

Bosnia: rights activists assaulted following LGBT event ban

03/19/2023

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rights activists in the Serb-run part of Bosnia were assaulted late Saturday, hours after police banned an LGBT event planned there over the weekend,…

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Added on: 03/17/2023

Uganda leader calls gay people ‘deviants’ as anti-LGBT bill advances

03/16/2023

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday described gay people as “deviants” and called for an investigation into homosexuality as lawmakers in the conservative East African nation prepare…

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Added on: 03/13/2023

Inside China’s LGBTQIA+ re-education camps: survivors claim shock treatment and beatings

03/12/2023

Members of China’s LGBTQIA+ community claim they have been sent to government-sanctioned re-education camps. Some say they spent years in the camps and experienced forced conversion therapy,…

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Added on: 03/11/2023

German Catholic bishops back blessings for same-sex couples

03/10/2023

The Synodal Assembly — which is focused on reforming the Church — adopted a paper in Frankfurt on Friday to allow for same-sex couples to have their…

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Added on: 03/10/2023

Bosnia Women Rights Marchers Attacked in Banja Luka Over LGBT Flag

03/09/2023

Participants in the 12th annual women’s right protest on March 8 in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity,…

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Added on: 03/10/2023

Zambia: Four arrested for “championing homosexuality”

03/09/2023

The arrest of four women in Zambia for holding a march against gender-based violence (GBV) that police say was used to “champion homosexuality” has sparked a wave…

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Added on: 03/09/2023

Burundi court charges 24 for ‘homosexual practices’

03/08/2023

Burundian police arrested 17 men and seven women on February 23 ,2023, at a seminar in the country’s political capital Gitega hosted by MUCO Burundi, a non-profit…

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Added on: 03/09/2023

Zambia Police Arrest Feminist NGO Leaders, Accuse Them of Promoting Homosexuality

03/08/2023

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — Zambia’s government said it will not tolerate the promotion of LGBTQ rights, saying such rights are against the country’s Christian values. The warning came a…

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Added on: 03/05/2023

The Republican War On LGBTQ People Reaches A Fever Pitch

03/01/2023

Gwendolyn Herzig, a transgender pharmacist, went to the Arkansas statehouse last month to testify in support of providing transgender youth with gender-affirming health care. Herzig hoped lawmakers…

Global News

Added on: 03/05/2023

Serbia’s LGBTQ groups rally after spate of attacks on gays

03/03/2023

Serbia’s beleaguered LGBTQ activists on Friday rallied to demand state action following a spate of violence against gays, including a stabbing that injured a young man. The…

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Added on: 03/05/2023

LGBT Ugandans face backlash as parliament launches schools investigation

03/03/2023

Days after Uganda’s parliament ordered an investigation last month into the alleged promotion of homosexuality in schools, a video appeared online identifying Kampala resident Eric Ndawula as…

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Added on: 03/04/2023

Serbia’s LGBTQ groups rally after spate of attacks on gays

03/03/2023

Serbia’s beleaguered LGBTQ activists on Friday rallied to demand state action following a spate of violence against gays, including a stabbing that injured a young man. The…

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Added on: 03/04/2023

EU’s top court to rule on Romania’s refusal to accept transgender man’s identity

03/03/2023

The European Union’s top court will hear a case brought by a British-Romanian transgender man against Romanian authorities over their refusal to recognize his gender identity, Romanian…

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Added on: 03/03/2023

Uganda Pushes Hateful Bill Targeting LGBTQ Citizens and Supporters

03/02/2023

A Ugandan lawmaker has reintroduced an anti-LGBTQ bill that seeks harsher punishments for those who engage in same-sex relations and those who “promote” homosexuality or same-sex relations…

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Added on: 03/03/2023

Russia may be weaponising homophobia, but the war has strengthened Ukraine’s fight for LGBT rights

03/02/2023

In Kherson, two Russian occupiers used the same insult – “pinks” – when they burst into the hide-out of a lesbian couple. The men then violently raped the…

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Added on: 02/28/2023

Kenya’s LGBTQI community mourns the loss of activist Edwin Chiloba

Margerita Afom

Alturi Contributor

On January 6th, 2023, Chiloba was found dead in a metal box on the side of the road near the western Kenyan town of Eldoret. Chiloba was…

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Added on: 02/28/2023

Parents of LGBTQ children in Japan call for anti-discrimination legislation

02/26/2023

Parents of LGBTQ children in Japan have called for the enactment of legislation that clearly stipulates discrimination is unacceptable. The group held an online news conference on…