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Added on: 01/25/2022

Botswana president vows to honour gay rights judgment.

01/24/2022

Botswana’s president vowed Monday to fully implement a 2019 court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, two months after losing an appeal that sought to overturn it. President Mokgweetsi Masisi…

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Added on: 01/24/2022

‘Cars had stickers of DMK leaders’: Pro-Hindutva LGBTQ activist Gopi Shankar Madurai survives fourth attack, appeals to PM Modi for help

01/23/2022

Well-known LGBTQ activist Gopi Shankar Madurai has recently survived the fourth attack in Mahabalipuram of Tamilnadu. Gopi Shankar Madurai was obstructed in the road by six goons…

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Added on: 01/23/2022

Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan LGBT ally, flees for safety to Germany

1/22/22

Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi has fled to Germany with her children over fears of government persecution, arrest and torture. “I refuse to…

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Added on: 01/23/2022

Rightify Ghana launches fundraising appeal to expand advocacy for LGBTQI+ people

1/22/22

A leading LGBT advocacy group in Ghana that has put a spotlight on what it calls the “worst anti-LGBTQ bill ever” is seeking donations from LGBTQ rights…

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Added on: 01/22/2022

Israel’s LGBT+ community faces up to its ‘Me Too’ moment as sexual abuse survivors break silence

1/21/22

In June 2021, gay rights activist Omri Feinstein from Israel asked queer people on Instagram to share their stories of sexual harassment and assault – and he…

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Added on: 01/22/2022

We Can No Longer Ignore the Murders of LGBTQ+ People in Jamaica

1/21/22

Jasmyne Cannick, the journalist who brought national attention to the killings committed by Ed Buck in West Hollywood, is releasing a new podcast series exploring the many…

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Added on: 01/21/2022

Lesbian couple’s killing, dismemberment sparks protest in Juarez

01/20/2022

JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Women’s rights and LGBT activists took to the streets of Juarez on Thursday, demanding answers in the murder and dismemberment of a lesbian…

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Added on: 01/20/2022

Hearing on Polish judges could deepen standoff with Europe

01/19/2022

A top Polish court adjourned on Wednesday a sitting on whether a continent-wide human rights court had the power to question local judges’ legitimacy in a case…

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Added on: 01/19/2022

Peter Tatchell at 70: why the fight goes on – after Netflix stardom and 30 years of gay rights victories

01/18/2022

On a gloweringly grey January afternoon, Peter Tatchell arrives on time, bearing gifts. “Happy New Year!” he says, and hands me the latest issue of the New…

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Added on: 01/19/2022

Mexico threatens fans with 5-year bans for homophobic chant

01/18/2022

The Mexican Football Federation says any fan caught screaming a homophobic chant at its matches will face a five-year ban from national team games. Federation President Yon…

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Added on: 01/18/2022

‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together

01/17/2022

Since winning the TS Eliot award for poetry last week, Joelle Taylor has been referred to on more than one occasion as a “slam poet”. Which, she…

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Added on: 01/18/2022

LGBT ACTIVIST DETAINED IN LEBANON, FINALLY ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA

01/17/2022

After fleeing to Turkey from their home country of Jordan in July 2020, LGBTQI activist Alshaima Omama Alzubi has finally arrived in Australia. The 25-year-old Jordanian refugee…

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Added on: 01/18/2022

LGBTQ Groups Push for Voting Rights, Gun Control on MLK Day

01/17/2022

On what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday, national LGBTQ groups echoed growing calls for federal voting rights legislation and queer activists held a…

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Added on: 01/17/2022

Tom Cotton Senate bill would separate prison inmates by birth gender, not identity

01/16/2022

A prisoner’s gender at birth, not their gender identity, would determine where they would be housed, under a U.S. Senate bill proposed last week by Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas. The…

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Added on: 01/17/2022

Man finally admits to killing gay American college student nearly 35 years ago

01/16/2022

A man has pled guilty — against his lawyers’ wishes — to charges stemming from the death of a gay American man in 1988, which was initially…

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Added on: 01/16/2022

Tunisian LGBT activists fight back after alleged police assault

1/15/22

On October 21, 2021, prominent LGBTQ activist Badr Baabou was brutally assaulted in downtown Tunis by two men, one wearing a police uniform, who left him bruised…

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Added on: 01/15/2022

Tripura Cops Deny Allegations Of Transgender Harassment

1/14/22

The Tripura Police have refuted the allegations made by atleast four transgender persons, who asserted that personnel from Tripura Police stripped them on Saturday in a bid…

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Added on: 01/14/2022

Conversion therapy is now illegal in Canada

01/07/2022

OTTAWA — Conversion therapy is now illegal in Canada, marking a major milestone in LGBTQ2S+ rights in this country. After parliamentarians came together to unanimously pass legislation…

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Added on: 01/14/2022

Latin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms

01/13/2022

(New York) – Latin America is facing some of its gravest human rights challenges in decades, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2022. “Latin America…

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Added on: 01/13/2022

LGBT Members Allege They Were Made To Disrobe By Police To Prove Their Identity

01/12/2021

Agartala, Jan 11 (PTI) Four LGBT members were arrested by the police here and made to disrobe in a police station to prove their identity, according to…

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Added on: 01/10/2022

Man stabbed, beaten and called ‘batty boy’ by group of boys who suspected him of being gay

01/09/2022

Perry Ato Inkoom told SVTV Africa that in the early evening of 19 December he was attacked by the young people following a birthday party. In Tema, a coastal…

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Added on: 01/08/2022

Germany appoints first LGBTQ rights commissioner

1/7/22

Accepting his new position on January 5, Green Party politician Sven Lehmann said “everyone should be able to live freely, safely, and with equal rights.” In the…

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Added on: 01/07/2022

Turkish court releases two Bogazici students from jail

01/06/2022

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court ruled on Friday to release two students from jail in the first hearing of a broader case over campus protests against…

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Added on: 01/05/2022

Lawmakers in Senegal Reject Bill to Double Penalties for Same-sex Relations.

01/04/2022

Over the Christmas holidays, parliamentary lawmakers in Senegal rejected a proposed bill that sought to double the jail time for people convicted under the country’s anti-sodomy law…

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Added on: 01/05/2022

‘I’d been set up’: the LGBTQ Kenyans ‘catfished’ for money via dating apps.

01/04/2022

One day after work last month, Tom Otieno went to a shopping centre in Nairobi to pick up groceries before heading home. He got a call from…

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Added on: 01/05/2022

2022 WORLD CUP CEO SAYS HOMOSEXUALITY ‘NOT AUTHORISED’ IN QATAR.

01/04/2022

The CEO of the 2022 FIFA World Cup organising committee, Nasser Al Khater, says “homosexuality is not authorised” in his home country of Qatar. In 2010, the…

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Added on: 01/03/2022

Tucson nonprofit seeks to build tiny house community for transgender women of color

01/02/2022

With 2021 poised to be the deadliest year on record for violence against transgender or gender non-conforming people living in the United States, one local nonprofit is…

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Added on: 01/02/2022

30% of children in foster care identify as LGBTQ. Here’s one transgender teen’s story in Virginia.

1/1/22

Taliah, a 14-year-old transgender girl, looks and acts like any teenager growing up in Chesterfield County. She loves YouTube and TikTok and texting her friends. She listens…

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Added on: 12/31/2021

Burkina Faso: In Burkina Faso, Trans People Self-Medicate in ‘Dangerous’ Transition

12/31/21

It took Aicha Sylla three attempts to get a prescription for hormones in Burkina Faso so she could start to transition gender. In the end, one doctor…

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Added on: 12/31/2021

In Burkina Faso, trans people self-medicate in ‘dangerous’ transition

12/30/2021

OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It took Aicha Sylla three attempts to get a prescription for hormones in Burkina Faso so she could start to…