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Added on: 03/07/2022

Schools must wake up to the needs of LGBT children

03/06/2022

Despite the Supreme Court striking down the colonial-era law that criminalised homosexuality back in 2018, there still exists a deep-rooted social stigma against the LGBTQ community, keeping…

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Added on: 03/07/2022

“People Are Not Coming Back to the Closet”: The Fight for Ukraine Is Also a Fight for LGBTQ Rights

03/04/2022

On the seventh day of the war, Olena Shevchenko posted a message of despair on Facebook. Shevchenko, who leads the LGBTQ organization Insight, was not just voicing…

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Added on: 03/07/2022

A message from a Russian LGBT+ activist

03/04/2022

Working in human rights in Russia can give one a misleading sense of invincibility. Despite the dehumanising legislation and fact that the government sees enemies in its…

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Added on: 03/07/2022

Trans and non-binary people trapped in war-torn Ukraine

03/04/2022

The main obstacles to Valeria Kolosova escaping from Ukraine are her passport and ID card, which identify the 24-year-old transgender woman as a man – meaning she…

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Added on: 03/05/2022

LGBTQ refugees fleeing Ukraine face discrimination in countries with anti-gay laws

3/4/22

Late on Thursday night, Viktória Radványi, communications director for Budapest Pride, drove with her girlfriend to the border between Hungary and Ukraine. They were picking up four…

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Added on: 03/05/2022

ABC’s James Longman on Russia Bringing Back the Iron Curtain

3/4/22

As Russian President Vladimir Putin presses hard on his invasion of Ukraine, the world is almost collectively turning against him, and that might be fine with Putin,…

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Added on: 03/04/2022

Queer Africans fleeing Ukraine face ‘grave danger’ even after reaching ‘so-called safe countries’

03/03/2022

Queer African people fleeing Ukraine are facing “intersecting violence”, campaigners have warned. More than one million people have fled Ukraine since Russia declared war. However, not all refugees are being treated…

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Added on: 03/04/2022

Will Russia bring its war on LGBTQ people to Ukraine?

03/03/2022

Zi Faámelu wants to escape the war in Ukraine, but her identity will not let her. The 31-year-old singer, who is transgender, has a passport that says she is…

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Added on: 03/04/2022

Turkey’s LGBT+ under increasing government pressure, report reveals

03/03/2022

A recent report by the LGBT+ advocacy group KAOS GL has revealed that Turkey’s LGBT+ community is feeling increasingly threatened under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. The…

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Added on: 03/03/2022

Russian soldiers captured after being found hiding in basement by Ukraine LGBT+ activists

03/01/2022

Members of an LGBT+ organisation in Ukraine captured a group of Russian soldiers they found hiding in their offices. Viktor Pylypenko told Israeli newspaper The Israel Hayom that he and…

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Added on: 03/03/2022

Moroccan journalist supports Putin’s war on Ukraine praising homophobic stance of ‘Russian civilisation’

03/01/2022

A Moroccan journalist is facing backlash from the gay community in the kingdom after he expressed support for Putin’s war on Ukraine, praising the Russian leader for…

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Added on: 03/03/2022

LGBT Ukrainians Fear They’re on Putin’s Kill List. Many Are Staying to Fight Anyway.

03/01/2022

For years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Ukraine have fought to be recognized as equal members of society. But now, as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…

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Added on: 03/02/2022

8-year-old transgender activist invited to State of the Union.

03/01/2022

The Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating three cases that go against Governor Greg Abbott’s recent directive viewing gender-confirming care for kids as abuse. “DFPS…

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Added on: 03/02/2022

“A war within a war”: Transgender woman says transphobia and discriminatory laws keeping her hostage in Kyiv during Russian invasion.

03/01/2022

Zi Faámelu was born and raised in Crimea, an area of Ukraine that was invaded and taken over by Russia in 2014. Now the 31-year-old lives in…

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Added on: 02/28/2022

India’s LGBTQ+ ‘pioneer’ state bans abuse and boosts trans rights

02/27/2022

NEW DELHI – Police threats, slurs and even violence are all part of LGBTQ+ life in India, but a new rule could ease the onslaught in one southern…

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Added on: 02/28/2022

Gay activist stabbed to death by cousin in Azerbaijan

02/27/2022

Authorities in Azerbaijan say a cousin of local gay activist Avaz Hafizli stabbed him to death last Tuesday. Police conveyed the dead man to a morgue in a…

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Added on: 02/27/2022

Gay Afghan wounded in Taliban stabbing feels ‘alone’ during LGBT+ History Month

2/27/2022

A gay, non-binary Afghan has told of how they were left “injured and alone” after suffering severe injuries in a knife attack by the Taliban, as thousands…

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Added on: 02/26/2022

Ukraine’s Gay Combat Volunteers Are Ready to Fight for Their Lives Against Anti-LGBTQ Putin

02/25/2022

Desperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s bigoted regime falling over Ukraine, LGBTQ combat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay community had…

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Added on: 02/25/2022

National Medical Commission forbids conversion therapy

02/22/2022

CHENNAI: Any doctor found engaged in conversion therapy — a controversial gender and sexual reorientation practice often slammed as pseudoscience — is liable to be prosecuted for…

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Added on: 02/25/2022

Kyiv Pride sends defiant message to Putin after Russia invades Ukraine: ‘We will never give up’

02/24/2022

There was widespread shock and condemnation across the world on Thursday morning (24 February) when the Russian president launched a “military operation” in Ukraine. He announced the decision…

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Added on: 02/24/2022

Some LGBTQ Ukrainians fear human rights abuses if Russia stays: “We will fight”

02/24/2022

Kyiv, Ukraine – Some LGBTQ people in Ukraine are fearing targeted human rights abuses if Russia occupies the country. “That would mean a direct threat to me and especially, well,…

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Added on: 02/24/2022

Texas Gov. Abbott: Agencies must investigate gender-affirming care for trans kids as ‘child abuse’

02/22/22

AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered state agencies to investigate reports of transgender kids receiving gender-affirming care as “child abuse,” but it’s unclear what immediate effect…

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Added on: 02/23/2022

Chechnya jails queer siblings on ‘fabricated’ charges after years of persecution and torture.

02/22/2022

A court in Chechnya has sentenced a pair of LGBT+ siblings to almost a decade’s detainment on seemingly bogus charges. On Tuesday (22 February), the Achkhoy-Martan district…

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Added on: 02/23/2022

Transgender woman Doski Azad’s ‘honour killing’ uncovers disturbing culture.

02/22/2022

WARNING: Distressing. Doski Azad had been in hiding from her own family. The make-up artist, 23, had been forced to move to another city and start a…

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Added on: 02/22/2022

REIGN OF DEATH Russia drawing up ‘kill list’ of gay & ethnic minority Ukrainians amid fears of a ‘human rights catastrophe’, US claims.

02/21/2022

Russia is drawing up a kill list including gay and ethnic minority Ukrainians if it invades, the US has claimed. In a chilling warning, America’s ambassador to…

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Added on: 02/22/2022

Protesters Demand Longer Prison Sentences for LGBTQ in Senegal.

02/21/2022

A group of men gathered around a burning gay flag in Dakar Sunday and chanted: “Senegal will never accept homosexuality.” Others held signs that read: “Senegal says…

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Added on: 02/20/2022

Saudi activist speaks on LGBTQ status in Kuwait

02/19/2022

Days after Kuwait’s constitutional court struck down a law that criminalizes “imitation of the opposite sex” – considered a breakthrough for the regional transgender community – journalist…

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Added on: 02/20/2022

Freestyle skiing-Kenworthy urges IOC to consider host’s human rights stance

2/18/22

Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, an advocate for LGBT+ rights, said on Saturday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should take a host nation’s stance on human rights issues…

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Added on: 02/19/2022

JOURNALIST UNCOVERS ‘WORLD’S ONLY GAY PRISON’ IN AUSTRALIA

2/18/22

For over half a century the shameful and scandalous history behind “world’s only gay prison” located in a small regional town in New South Wales, Australia, had…

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Added on: 02/19/2022

One UN human rights expert’s fight to eliminate ‘conversion therapies’

2/18/22

Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights violations, two billion…