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Added on: 06/08/2021

Uzbekistan: Top lawmaker calls for deporting the LGBT community en masse

06/07/2021

The head of one of Uzbekistan’s leading political parties has suggested depriving gays, lesbians and transgender people of citizenship and deporting them as a way of ending…

Global News

Added on: 06/05/2021

Ghana court delays bail decision for 21 detained LGBT+ activists

6/4/21

A Ghanaian court on Friday delayed its ruling on a bail application for 21 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) activists detained two weeks ago for an…

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Added on: 06/05/2021

The Lives Of LGBTQ+ Youth In Puerto Rico Are In Danger — More Than Ever

6/4/21

A transgender woman, Mila García, was 12 years old when she started conversion therapy in Puerto Rico. Her parents found a love letter she had exchanged with…

Global News

Added on: 06/04/2021

New bill won’t “discriminate”, Cook Islands government says

06/03/2021

Same sex rights groups are expressing guarded optimism after Government disclosed that work is underway to ensure new criminal legislation will not contain clauses that discriminate against…

Global News

Added on: 06/02/2021

LGBTQ life in Africa: Arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests

05/31/2021

The staggering pace of arrests of LGBTQ citizens continued today, as Uganda Police raided an LGBTQ shelter and detained 44 members of the LGBTQ community, repeating a…

Global News

Added on: 06/01/2021

Ugandan LGBTQ activists respond to government attempts to further criminalize homosexuality

05/31/2021

LGBTQ Ugandan activists are mobilizing against the Sexual Offenses Bill 2019 before Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs it into law. Members of Uganda’s Parliament caught LGBTQ Ugandan…

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Added on: 06/01/2021

Homophobic Nationalists Disrupt Bulgarian LGBT Events

05/31/2021

A group of around 25 to 30 nationalists attempted to halt the screening in Sofia on Sunday evening of a film depicting a relationship between two women….

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Added on: 05/31/2021

Outcry after homophobic attacks in Barcelona

05/30/2021

The Observatory Against Homophobia (OCH) said five gay men had been injured in three separate attacks. In the most serious incident, a man needed facial surgery after…

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Added on: 05/30/2021

Why the LGBTQ community sidelined police for Pride

05/29/2021

The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar in New York City, was no different than many others before it. For decades, before…

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Added on: 05/29/2021

WATCH: Transgender Albanians battle taboos

05/28/2021

Transgender people find little acceptance in conservative societies like Albania. After years of isolation, members of the transgender community decided to confront taboos by launching a photo…

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Added on: 05/29/2021

I Am Samuel: the film aiming to ‘change the narrative’ on being gay in Kenya

05/28/2021

Samuel Asilikwa grew up in rural Kenya. There was a strict template for masculinity, informed by centuries of tradition – and intolerance. In a new documentary about…

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Added on: 05/27/2021

Major donors urge Ghana to respect LGBT+ rights amid crackdown

05/25/2021

Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in…

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Added on: 05/27/2021

Cops raid Bangkok gay sauna party, nab 62

05/24/2021

Police raided a gay sauna in Wang Thonglang district of the capital yesterday before dawn after a tip-off that a party of drugs and debauchery would be…

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Added on: 05/26/2021

LGBT Groups Join Hydropower Protest, Ask Leaders to Condemn Homophobic Violence

05/25/2021

Two key local LGBT rights groups, the Tbilisi Pride and the Equality Movement reiterated their support for the protest against Namakhvani Hydropower Plant, now held in the…

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Added on: 05/26/2021

Gay activists in Ghana demand release of 21 people arrested at LGBTQI conference

05/25/2021

Ghana’s LGBTQ community has called for the release of 21 people, who were arrested by security forces last week while attending a conference in the southeastern city…

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Added on: 05/25/2021

No safe haven: gay and transgender Africans fleeing persecution at home attacked in refugee camps

05/24/2021

When Bijoux Ferrazza realised she was transgender, she took a good look around her. Transgender women are nowhere to be seen in Cameroon. Every once in a…

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Added on: 05/25/2021

Hong Kong’s Transgender Community Speaks Out Against Stigma

05/24/2021

In Hong Kong, transgender people are far from accepted. Members of the community spoke out against discrimination after a survey published ahead of the International Day Against…

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Added on: 05/24/2021

SOUTH AFRICA HIT BY A WAVE OF GAY AND TRANS HATE MURDERS

05/23/2021

A wave of brutal murders of gay men and trans women has hit South Africa. The death toll over the last three months has now reached at…

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Added on: 05/22/2021

German authorities accused of revealing sexual orientation of asylum seekers

5/21/21

Lawyers working with the German Foreign Office have allegedly revealed the sexual identity of gay, lesbian and bisexual refugees to their home countries. The Lesbian and Gay…

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Added on: 05/21/2021

Outcast to icon: Peter Tatchell’s 50 years of LGBT+ activism

05/20/2021

Driven by passion and motivated by justice, veteran activist Peter Tatchell says LGBT+ equality remains elusive despite his 50-year campaign for gay rights in Britain and beyond….

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Added on: 05/21/2021

GAY ACTIVIST SHOT, SET ABLAZE IN BRAZIL

05/20/2021

The body of a 25-year-old teacher, Professor Lindolfo Kosmaski, who was active in his local LGBTQI community was found on April 30th, shot and burnt alive in…

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Added on: 05/20/2021

Namibia issues travel documents to gay couple’s children

05/18/2021

Namibia on Tuesday issued emergency travel documents to the twin daughters of a gay couple who have been battling to take them home following their birth to…

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Added on: 05/20/2021

Rights Court OKs Iceland’s Denial of Parental Rights in Lesbian Adoption Case

05/18/2021

STRASBOURG, France (CN) — Iceland wasn’t wrong to deny parental rights to a lesbian couple who had a child via surrogacy, Europe’s top rights court held Tuesday….

World Voices

Added on: 05/19/2021

Daniel Martinovic – Rainbow Families, Croatia

Ryan Eakins

Alturi Contributor

Daniel Martinovic is an individual that shows the true fundamental qualities of friendship and advocacy. During 2015, he dove into LGBTI work when two of his friends,…

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Added on: 05/19/2021

LGBT activists urge Italian government to approve anti-homophobia law

05/18/2021

Unlike many of its EU partners, Italy still does not have laws to punish homophobic hate crimes. But now a law proposed by Alessandro Zan, an MP…

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Added on: 05/18/2021

Lithuanian Gay League head calls for partnership law, special plan for LGBT people

05/17/2021

VILNIUS – Vladimir Simonko, head of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL), said on Monday that he expects the parliament to have the political will to pass a…

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Added on: 05/18/2021

Veteran lawyer Alice Nkom on fighting for LGBT rights in Cameroon

05/17/2021

To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we speak to Alice Nkom. She became Cameroon’s first female lawyer in her early 20s and now…

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Added on: 05/17/2021

UK government to host its first global conference on LGBTQ+ rights

05/16/2021

The UK government’s first-ever global conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is to be hosted in London next year, as ministers race to fulfil pledges…

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Added on: 05/16/2021

In Juarez, Transgender Women In Limbo Await U.S. Asylum Exception

5/15/21

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We’re going to stick with immigration for a few more minutes. The U.S.-Mexico border has been closed to most migrants during the pandemic, including…

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Added on: 05/16/2021

A card exempted a gay man from serving in Iran’s military. It may have cost him his life

5/15/21

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared’s future was brutally cut short last week when members of his family allegedly murdered him due to his sexual orientation, according to his partner and…