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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…

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Added on: 05/15/2021

Pakistan: How has COVID impacted the LGBT community?

5/14/21

The coronavirus pandemic has made being LGBT+ in Pakistan significantly more difficult, in a country where those communities already face numerous challenges, including systemic oppression, social stigma…

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Added on: 05/15/2021

Fear breeds bravery as LGBT+ S.Africans resist ‘war on queerness’

5/13/21

Three months ago, Chippa Mohanoe’s fiancée was stabbed in the neck and killed in front of their neighbours in South Africa’s Sebokeng township. Every day since, Mohanoe…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/14/2021

Guatemala LGBTI: Discrimination and Migration

Alexander Champeau

Alturi Contributor

Guatemala: LGBTI Interaction with Society and State As Equaldex notes, LGBTI rights in Guatemala are, at least on paper, quite elevated. The site notes that “homosexual activity”…

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Added on: 05/14/2021

Cameroon Sentences Transgender Women to 5 Years in Prison

05/13/2021

Two transgender women were sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon this week after they were found guilty of “attempted homosexuality” and public indecency, the latest…

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Added on: 05/14/2021

Benin: Threat On Transgender People and Their Defenders Following Assault On Three of Them

05/13/2021

Authorities in Benin must immediately take all necessary measures to protect transgender people and the associations that defend them, after three transgender women were forced to undress,…

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Added on: 05/13/2021

Former foster child abandoned for being gay ‘wouldn’t be alive’ if not for his two dads

05/13/2021

A former foster child adopted by two fathers after being abandoned for his sexuality has urged Congress not to stand in the way of loving LGBT+ families…

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Added on: 05/12/2021

Warsaw to run shelter for LGBT+ people

05/11/2021

Warsaw will open an intervention hostel for LGBT+ people who have become homeless. The establishment of the hostel comes at a time when the Polish state has…

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Added on: 05/12/2021

HELL ON EARTH Inside Indonesia’s horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to ‘cure’ LGBT people and ‘pray away the gay’

05/11/2021

EXORCISMS have largely been confined to the history books – but they’re a grim modern-day reality in Indonesia. Many made to have the “treatment” don’t even have…

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Added on: 05/12/2021

Cameroonian transgender women convicted of ‘attempted homosexuality’

05/11/2021

A local social media celebrity known as Shakiro, who also is identified as Loic Njeukam, and Patricia, also identified as Roland Mouthe, were arrested on Feb. 8….

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Added on: 05/12/2021

U.K. to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy and provide more support

05/11/2021

Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBTQ community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic…

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Added on: 05/12/2021

2021 is worst year for gay and trans rights in ‘war’ on LGBT+ Americans

05/11/2021

In less than five months, 2021 has become the “worst year” in recent history for LGBT+ rights in the United States, with dozens of gay and transgender…

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Added on: 05/10/2021

UN Condemns Ugandan Bill to Criminalize Same-Sex Relations

05/09/2021

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling on Uganda to amend a bill to ban same-sex relations that it says would…

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Added on: 05/10/2021

Gay man brutally murdered and beheaded by family in Iran in ‘honour killing’

05/09/2021

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from service because of…

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Added on: 05/10/2021

Prospects dim for passage of LGBTQ rights bill in Senate

05/09/2021

Controlling Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, Democrats were hopeful this would be the year they finally secured civil rights protections…

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Added on: 05/09/2021

Silicon Valley Not Immune To Anti-LGBTQ Violence

5/8/21

Three years ago, San Jose lawmakers voted to fly a rainbow flag over Chick-Fil-A—an effort to proclaim LGBTQ residents were welcome in one of the world’s most…

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Added on: 05/09/2021

Iran’s anti-LGBT military law blamed for murder of gay man

5/8/21

Three men murdered 20-year-old Alireza “Ali” Fazeli-Monfared on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ahvaz allegedly because they learned the Iranian military exempted him due to “moral…

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Added on: 05/08/2021

In hiding, Ghana’s queer activists keep up the fight

5/6/21

More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding. “It is very challenging….

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Added on: 05/08/2021

President of Tonga LGBT Rights Group Murdered

5/7/21

Media reports indicate Tonga Leitis Association President Polikalepo Kefu was killed near their home in Lapaha, a village on the island of Tongatapu on which the Tongan…

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Added on: 05/07/2021

Outpouring of grief after alleged murder of leading Tongan LGBTQI activist

05/04/21

Police in Tonga are investigating the death of one of the country’s leading LGBTQI+ activists after his body was found on a beach near his home in…

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Added on: 05/07/2021

Conservative millionaire Vasadze, who suggested anti-LGBT vigilante groups, to launch political movement

05/07/2021

After years of denying his intention to go into politics, the conservative millionaire Levan Vasadze finally announced on Thursday that he is launching a public movement. “I’ve…

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Added on: 05/06/2021

Uzbek Blogger Bazarov Under House Arrest Facing Libel Charges

05/06/2021

A month after suffering a brutal beating for championing LGBT rights, Uzbek blogger Miraziz Bazarov was released from the hospital on April 29. He was, according to…

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Added on: 05/06/2021

Egypt’s Al-Sisi Regime Is Still “Disappearing” Researchers Who Oppose Its Crimes

05/05/2021

It is three months since reproductive rights researcher Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali presented himself at the fifth district police station in central Cairo. He is still yet…

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Added on: 05/05/2021

Uganda strengthens anti-gay laws, brands gay sex an unnatural offense

05/04/2021

Uganda has further strengthened its anti-gay laws with new legislation that brands gay sex an “unnatural offense.” The African nation already criminalizes same-sex sexual relations, with Uganda’s…

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Added on: 05/05/2021

Hate crimes against LGBT+ people in Germany rise 36% in 2020

05/04/2021

BERLIN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hate crimes against LGBT+ people increased by 36% in Germany in 2020, highlighting an increase in homophobic attacks and politically motivated violence…