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Added on: 04/20/2022

India’s first openly gay prince endured years of torturous conversion therapy. Now, he’s fighting to make the practice illegal.

04/19/2022

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the 39th direct descendant of India’s Gohil Rajput dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12. But he could only live his truth…

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Added on: 04/20/2022

Look Inside Lambda Warszawa, the Organization Helping LGBTQ Ukrainian Refugees.

04/19/2022

A deeply Catholic country, Poland has long been a fraught place for LGBTQ people. But in 2015, when President Andrzej Duda was elected, anti-LGBTQ sentiments increased amid…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

The Mohyeddin Family’s Radical Restaurant Mission.

04/18/2022

If Samira Mohyeddin had grown up in Iran, she would be a different person. She would not be able to sing or dance in public, or leave…

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Added on: 04/19/2022

We did not run away’: Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ community fights homophobia on the frontlines.

04/18/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, members of the LGBTQ+ community and activists have been visibly joining and helping Ukraine’s army – with some hoping their participation…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

LGBT+ Afghan deaths ‘preventable’ if West had prioritised evacuations, campaigners say

04/17/2022

The deaths of LGBT+ people in Afghanistan could have been prevented if Western governments had prioritised their evacuation after the country fell to the Taliban, campaigners have…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

The dark past of an Australian prison where convicted homosexuals were sent to separate from ‘normal’ inmates – and authorities bizarrely tried to ‘CURE’ them

04/17/2022

It is now the state’s preferred prison for celebrity inmates, but Cooma Correctional Centre has a dark past which in the 1950s saw it designated as the…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

This organization is helping LGBTI people imprisoned in Senegal

4/15/22

The situation for LGBTI people in Senegal continues to deteriorate. Homophobic marches are organized and arrests are carried out against LGBTI people. In August 2020, the Free…

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Added on: 04/17/2022

Murders of two gay men in Ireland serve as brutal reminder that LGBT+ people still aren’t safe

4/14/22

In September 1982, a gay man called Declan Flynn was brutally murdered in Dublin’s Fairview Park by a group of teenage boys for the simple crime of…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

The library sheltering queer refugees fleeing Ukraine

4/15/22

This is not the story I planned to write. Initially, it was about Biblioteka Azyl, the queer library Filip Kijowski founded at Lublin’s Galeria Labirynt in 2020…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

This organization is helping LGBTI people imprisoned in Senegal

4/15/22

The situation for LGBTI people in Senegal continues to deteriorate. Homophobic marches are organized and arrests are carried out against LGBTI people. In August 2020, the Free…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

Kosovo’s underground LGBTQ community leads ‘double life’

4/15/22

The Kosovo couple have hidden their relationship for eight years. Whenever they meet in public, common friends are invited in order not to raise suspicion. They also…

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Added on: 04/16/2022

Transgender migrants in Juarez wait chance to apply for U.S. asylum

4/15/22

Alejandra Gomez, a transgender woman, left her native Honduras a few months ago, fleeing discrimination and threats of violence. “That is the reason I am here,” Gomez…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Brooklyn Man Cuffed on Arson Charges at LGBTQ+ friendly Rash Nightclub

04/14/2022

A suspect has been arrested for starting a fire that injured two people at Bushwick’s Rash, a popular nightclub within the city’s LBGTQ+ community. John Lhota, 24, was…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Man Attacks Chair of Ukrainian LGBT Rights Group

04/14/2022

(WB) A man on Thursday attacked the chair of an LGBT rights group in Ukraine with pepper spray. Insight Chair Olena Shevchenko in a Facebook post said the…

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Added on: 04/15/2022

Thousands expected at LGBT vigils for Sligo murder victims

04/14/2022

Thousands of people are expected to attend vigils over the coming days to honour the memory of two men, Aidan Moffitt 41, and Michael Snee 58, found…

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Added on: 04/14/2022

LGBTQ Ukrainians, fearing Russian attacks at home and discrimination in shelters, face an uncertain future

04/12/2022

When a friend called Andrii Zarytskyi at 5 a.m., his voice shaking, to say the first bombs had dropped on their city of Mykolaiv, Mr. Zarytskyi didn’t believe…

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Added on: 04/13/2022

Turkish prosecutor seeks closure of association for organizing LGBTI event.

04/12/2022

A Turkish prosecutor has launched legal proceedings against an association, seeking its closure in connection with a LGBTI event it organized, the Kronos news website reported on…

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Added on: 04/13/2022

The Internet ‘Protection Bill’ will hurt all Iranians, but the queer community will have the most to lose.

04/12/2022

International human rights organizations and the United Nations are saying a lot about the repressive “Regulatory System for Cyberspace Services Bill”—widely referred to as the “Protection Bill”—currently…

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Added on: 04/12/2022

Polish LGBT+ library helps queer Ukrainians safely navigate notorious ‘LGBT-free zones’.

04/11/2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, more than 2.4 million refugees have fled across the border to Poland. In order to get to Lublin, the closest…

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Added on: 04/08/2022

Singapore’s Slow but Steady Path Toward Decriminalizing Homosexuality

04/07/2022

Singapore’s strict legislation is often cited as one the city-state’s defining characteristics. Talks about the country’s most stringent laws, from the infamous ban on chewing gum to…

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Added on: 04/08/2022

Anti-gay protests at Disney’s Burbank studios turns ugly

04/07/2022

Protesters have taken to the streets in the LA suburb of Burbank, demonstrating against a new Disney LGBTQ public service announcement. With tensions between entertainment giant The…

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Added on: 04/05/2022

Lebanese LGBT community fights to keep safe spaces.

04/04/2022

On a sofa in a dimly lit bar, two young women finish their beers while they caress each other’s hands. Oblivious to the music, to the people…

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Added on: 04/04/2022

Agreement signed to prevent violence against transgender

04/03/2022

Expressing concerns over the increasing number and severity of reports of individual cases of humiliation of and violence against the transgender community, War Against Rape (WAR) has…

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Added on: 04/04/2022

‘It’s a living nightmare’ – LGBT Afghans on life after the Taliban takeover

04/03/2022

The panic-fuelled chaos that came to define last August’s invasion of Afghanistan may have subsided, but for the LGBT+ people still trapped and facing displacement, the trauma will…

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Added on: 04/03/2022

Gays caught in the crossfire of Hungarian election

4/2/22

Among the political billboards and corflutes plastered on just about every lamppost and power pole along the bustling inner-city Budapest streets, one in particular catches the eye….

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Added on: 04/02/2022

‘We Want To Live a Happy Life’: LGBTQ People Are Leaving Hungary

4/1/22

Boldizsar Nagy is packing his bags and leaving Hungary. He and his boyfriend have had enough of Hungary’s attitude towards their relationship. But with an election this…

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Added on: 04/02/2022

Congress Splits Over How to Address LGBT Rights in China

4/1/22

A major annual congressional report documenting human rights abuses in China was delayed for six months after a behind-the-scenes impasse between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over a…

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Added on: 04/01/2022

Conversion therapy: Ban to go ahead but not cover trans people

04/01/2022

The government now says it will ban so-called conversion therapy for gay or bisexual people in England and Wales – but not for transgender people. It comes…

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Added on: 04/01/2022

Qatari official says rainbow flags may be confiscated to “protect” World Cup fans

04/01/2022

Fans at the World Cup in Qatar may have rainbow flags confiscated by security in order to “protect” them against perceptions they are “insulting” the society, a…

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Added on: 03/30/2022

Ukrainian LGBTQ Artist Who Can’t Leave Kyiv Is Painting For Peace.

03/29/2020

Dark thoughts haunt LGBTQ people in Ukraine. A relentless Russian invasion continues, despite peace talks beginning. If they win, a Russian occupation terrifies LGBTQ Ukrainians. In Russia,…