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Added on: 10/14/2022

Radicalised teenager’ killed two outside Slovakia gay bar

Reuters
10/13/2022
BRATISLAVA, Oct 13 (Reuters) – A “radicalised teenager” shot dead two people outside a gay bar in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said. A gunman killed…
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Added on: 10/14/2022

Bosnia Unveils LGBT Rights Strategy

Balkan Insider
10/12/2022
Bosnia and Herzegovina unveiled its first ever strategy to improve the rights and freedoms of LGBT people on Wednesday, a step towards bringing human rights protections in…
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Added on: 10/10/2022

Human rights campaigner fears ‘gay-bashing’ attacks by locals at Qatar World Cup

Yahoo! News
10/09/2022
LGBTQ+ visitors to Qatar for the World Cup could be left open to “gay-bashing” attacks from locals with the security forces lacking the resources to protect them, a Qatari human…
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Added on: 10/07/2022

New Zealand Gay Man’s Convictions Overturned 3 Years after Death

Edge Media
10/07/2022
New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Friday took the unusual step of overturning a man’s convictions even though he died three years ago. The court found there had…
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Added on: 10/06/2022

‘Transphobic narratives from politicians fuelling hate’ as recorded crimes soar

The Independent
10/06/2022
Senior politicians have been accused of perpetuating transphobia and fuelling hate crime against transgender people as official figures reveal such crimes rose by more than 50% in…
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Added on: 10/02/2022

Tennessee GOP urges pediatric clinic to stop providing gender-affirming surgeries

NBC News
10/01/2022
A group of GOP lawmakers in Tennessee sent a letter Wednesday to Vanderbilt University Medical Center calling on the hospital’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic — the only one…
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Added on: 10/01/2022

Pakistan launches anti-harassment hotline for trans people

ABC News
09/30/2022
Pakistan on Friday launched a hotline for transgender people in an effort to protect them from discrimination and harassment, a senior government official said. Trans people in…
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Added on: 09/30/2022

Dominica High Court accepts challenge to sodomy laws

Erasing 76 Crimes
09/27/2022
A constitutional challenge against laws that criminalize same-sex intimacy in the Caribbean country Dominica was to be heard today at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, acting as…
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Added on: 09/29/2022

Russians Are Fleeing Putin’s Draft. But in Georgia, Few Are Happy About a Fresh Influx

Time
09/29/2022
It’s not hard to understand why Nikolai Shushpan, who is gay, made the decision to become one of the thousands of Russians to flee to Georgia after…
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Added on: 09/26/2022

Cuba holds unusual vote on law allowing same-sex marriage

Associated Press
09/25/2022
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba held a rare referendum Sunday on an unusually contentious law — a government-backed “family law” code that would allow same-sex couples to marry…
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Added on: 09/24/2022

Turkey’s Anti-LGBTQ Display Reflects Nation’s Political Shift

Voice of America
09/23/2022
The 25-year-old translator by day and trans drag performer by night felt overwhelming panic and anxiety when several thousand demonstrators gathered and marched Sunday in Turkey to…
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Added on: 09/23/2022

In divisive election, Brazil’s trans candidates face threats, intimidation

Thomson Reuters Foundation
09/22/2022
At her campaign headquarters, Brazilian congressional hopeful Duda Salabert gently lays out the newspaper clippings sent to her in August. Her photo is on many of the…
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Added on: 09/23/2022

Prove World Cup will be safe, England LGBTQ+ supporters’ group tells Qatar

The Guardian
09/22/2022
The England national team’s largest LGBTQ+ supporters’ group has urged Qatar’s authorities to provide clear reassurances that it will be safe for gay fans to visit for…
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Added on: 09/18/2022

Police and anti-LGBT protesters clash in Belgrade as EuroPride march goes ahead

BNE IntelliNews
09/17/2022
Serbian riot police clashed with anti-LGBT protesters in the capital Belgrade on September 17, as a last minute government decision allowed the EuroPride march to go ahead….
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Serbian pride officially banned after threats

CNE
09/15/2022
The EuroPride was launched on September 12. Its opening passed without incidents, RFERL reports. However, on Tuesday, the Serbian authorities officially banned the event. The Pride Parade,…
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Added on: 09/15/2022

Violence against LGBTQI+ people continues

Kathmandu Post
09/15/2022
Last Saturday, Munni Kinnar was on her way back home to Dumari from Laxmipur with her friend, Chanda Raut, after visiting her ailing sister. What followed their…
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Added on: 09/12/2022

Transphobia in Germany: The danger of anti-queer attacks

Deutsche Welle
09/11/2022
Munster, Augsburg, Bremen: three German cities, three brutal attacks on queer people within the past three months. One of them ended in tragedy for Malte C.*, a transgender man who…
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Added on: 09/11/2022

‘I want to see the rainbow flag raised in Iran’

BBC
09/10/2022
For the first time, two women known to have been lesbian have been sentenced to death in Iran. It marks a new stage in the Islamic republic’s…
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Added on: 09/10/2022

LGBT solidarity march in Norway for canceled Pride parade

CT Insider
09/10/2022
Hundreds of people marched through the Norwegian capital on Saturday in an LBGT solidarity event to honor the Pride parade that was canceled in June after a…
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Added on: 09/10/2022

Iran: Rights groups slam death sentences for LGBTQ activists

Deutsche Welle
09/09/2022
Iran said this week that a court had sentenced to death two female gay rights activists for “spreading corruption on earth” — a charge frequently imposed on…
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Added on: 09/09/2022

Teen suicides are a clarion call to protect queer children

Mail & Guradian
09/08/2022
The queer community is still reeling from the tragic death of Tiro Moalusi. The Soweto teenager took his own life on 16 August after he was allegedly humiliated…
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Added on: 09/08/2022

How Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights Are Part of the Authoritarian Playbook

Human Rights Watch
09/07/2022
In the last three decades, protections for LGBT people’s rights have advanced rapidly in many countries and regions. However, rising populist authoritarianism poses a significant threat to…
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Added on: 09/05/2022

On this day: Gay Liberation Australia, angry and proud

Q News
09/05/2022
“Had I known at the age of 15 that my lesbianism could have been ‘cured’, I would have rushed to Dr McConaghy as my saviour,” wrote Lindy…
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Added on: 09/04/2022

Iran sentences two gay rights activists to death

Jerusalem Post
09/04/2022
The Islamic Republic of Iran imposed the death penalty on two LGBTQ activists for allegedly promoting homosexuality, human rights organization Hengaw reported on Sunday. According to Hengaw,…
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Added on: 09/04/2022

Gay man helps queer families fleeing red states with ‘above ground railroad’

Pink News
09/03/2022
A Texas estate agent has developed a programme to help LGBTQ+ homeowners across the US “flee red [Republican] states”. When broker Bob McCranie and his partner bought…
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Added on: 09/03/2022

Russian lawmakers propose doubling fines for ‘gay propaganda’ law

Gay Times
09/01/2022
Russian lawmakers have introduced a proposal that would increase fines for individuals that violate the country’s ‘gay propaganda’ law. Back in 2013, Vladimir Putin signed the archaic…
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Added on: 09/02/2022

Armed left- and right-wing protesters face off at ‘drag brunch’ in Texas

The Guardian
08/30/2022
Right- and leftwing protesters, some heavily armed with semi-automatic rifles, faced off outside a “drag brunch” at a restaurant in Roanoke, Texas, video showed. The standoff on…
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Added on: 09/02/2022

Man dies following ‘hate attack’ at LGBT+ pride event in Muenster

The National
09/02/2022
A 25-YEAR-OLD man has died from injuries suffered in an attack at a gay pride event in the western city of Muenster, prosecutors in Germany said. The…
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Added on: 09/02/2022

Peru opens torture investigation over trans man’s death in Indonesia

Reuters
09/01/2022
LIMA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who…
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Added on: 09/01/2022

‘I thought I would die before this moment’: one man’s fight against Singapore’s gay sex law

The Guardian
08/30/2022
Tan Eng Hong’s voice wavers as he remembers his 12-year struggle against Section 377A, a law that criminalises sex between men in Singapore. When he heard the…
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