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Added on: 06/18/2019

The Lavender Scare: the shocking true story of an anti-LGBT witch-hunt

06/18/2019

When Josh Howard began working on his documentary The Lavender Scare, way back in 2009, America was a very different place – not least for its LGBT…

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Added on: 06/17/2019

The Biggest LGBT Center In The World Just Got Bigger — And Better

06/17/2019

The construction wasn’t quite finished on the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new Anita May Rosenstein Campus in mid-May. There was still caution tape on some of the…

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Added on: 06/17/2019

Teens on growing up LGBTI in Iran: ‘My boyfriend was killed’

06/17/2019

Teens have opened up about what it’s like to grow up LGBTI in Iran. Dozens of young people revealed they are ‘depressed’ and ‘frustrated’ by living in…

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Added on: 06/16/2019

‘Police are a force of terror’: The LGBT activists who want cops out of Pride

06/14/2019

It took half a century, but this LGBT Pride month, the New York police department (NYPD) finally apologized for the infamous 1969 raid on the Stonewall gay…

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Added on: 06/16/2019

Understanding of LGBT realities ‘non-existent’ in most countries, says UN expert

06/12/2019

In a statement issued ahead of presenting his latest report to the Human Rights Council later this month, Victor Madrigal-Borloz urged States to collect more data in…

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Added on: 06/16/2019

Detective investigated for calling for execution of LGBT people

06/13/2019

A church sermon by a sheriff’s detective is being investigated after it called LGBT+ people to be arrested and executed. The Knox County Attorney General’s Office is…

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Added on: 06/15/2019

Gay people unlikely to report intimate partner violence: expert

06/14/2019

It is possible that more that 90 percent of individuals subject to intimate partner violence in homosexual relationships in Taiwan do not seek help from government-run support…

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Added on: 06/15/2019

Same-sex couple on viral London bus attack: ‘We were just sexual objects’

06/15/2019

A same-sex couple have opened up about the homophobic and misogynistic attack they suffered on a bus in north London. A picture of a bloody and crying…

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Added on: 06/12/2019

Pakistani transgender woman ‘kidnapped and tortured’ by gang

06/11/2019

A gang of thugs reportedly kidnapped and tortured a transgender woman in Mardan, Pakistan, shaving off her hair after she refused to give them money. Shakeela claims…

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Added on: 06/12/2019

Scores of LGBT+ refugees in Kenya slum face homophobic attacks, eviction

06/11/2019

Scores of LGBT+ refugees are in desperate need of emergency shelter after facing homophobic threats, violence and eviction warnings from community members in a Nairobi slum, the…

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Added on: 06/11/2019

IRAN’S FM AFFIRMS RIGHT TO EXECUTE GAYS AND BLASTS U.S. AND ISRAEL

06/11/2019

In response to questions today in Tehran from a reporter for the mass circulation German paper Bild, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif…

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Added on: 06/10/2019

LGBT bullying in schools takes heavy toll, reveals Unesco report

06/10/2019

A few months ago, Orinam, an all volunteer collective of LGBTIQA+ people based in Chennai, celebrated its 15th anniversary. There they had an unexpected speakera 17-year-old who,…

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Added on: 06/10/2019

LGBT+ pride marches in US interrupted by neo-Nazis and stampede

06/09/2019

Separate LGBT+ pride marches in the US were disrupted on Saturday, one by a stampede triggered over fears of a shooting and another by one of America’s…

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Added on: 06/08/2019

Warsaw to Hold Gay Pride Parade Amid Fears and Threats in Poland

06/07/2019

The largest pride parade in central and Eastern Europe was expected to bring thousands of people to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday, at a time when…

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Added on: 06/08/2019

‘If nothing changes, I’ll kill myself’: The horrific plight of LGBT+ asylum seekers in Russia

06/07/2019

“Russia is the last place I wanted to end up,” says Ahmet, 25. “But I don’t have a choice – it is either this or death.” Ahmet,…

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Added on: 06/08/2019

Lesbian couple viciously beaten in homophobic attack on London bus

06/07/2019

Five teenagers have been arrested in connection with a homophobic attack on two women on a London bus that prompted widespread condemnation in the UK. The attack…

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Added on: 06/08/2019

Queer in the caravan: The dangers LGBT migrants face in search for asylum

06/07/2019

The journey north for migrants traveling through Mexico carries multiple risks—food insecurity, exposure to elements, assault, injury and more. Traveling with a caravan offers a measure of…

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Added on: 06/05/2019

Zimbabwe’s economic crisis driving homeless boys into illegal gay sex trade

06/04/2019

On a sunny morning in the central business district of Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo, 14-year-old Tapiwa is basking in the sunlight on a busy pavement. After running…

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Added on: 06/05/2019

Far-right extremists vow to disrupt Jerusalem Pride Parade

06/04/2019

The leader of a far right-wing group said Tuesday his organization plans to disrupt this week’s Jerusalem Pride Parade in order to fight what he called “LGBT…

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Added on: 06/04/2019

Gay rugby player faces deportation to Kenya as asylum claim rejected

06/03/2019

A gay rugby player who is facing deportation to Kenya, where he fears he will be subjected to persecution and violence because of his sexuality, has had…

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Added on: 06/04/2019

QATAR BANS HOMOSEXUALITY AS AL JAZEERA IN ENGLISH MARKS LGBT PRIDE MONTH

06/03/2019

Qatar bans homosexuality, but the Qatar-backed Al Jazeera’s AJ+ still recently marked June as LGBT Pride Month with a tweet about speaking to the cast of “Queer…

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Added on: 06/04/2019

Defeat in Kenya didn’t reverse gay Africans’ gains

06/03/2019

On May 24, three months late, Kenya’s High Court decided whether to legalise gay sex. Human rights advocates had hoped to watch the start of a rainbow-colored…

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Added on: 06/02/2019

After Brunei episode, Aceh now in spotlight in fight for LGBT rights

06/01/2019

George Clooney’s star power helped in Brunei, but LGBT+ advocates said a similar celebrity boycott of businesses in another anti-LGBT+ hotspot in Southeast Asia is unlikely to…

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Added on: 06/01/2019

Is your life expectancy different because you are LGBTQ+?

05/31/2019

What do you feel your life expectancy is? Do you think it is different because you are LGBTQ+? The current life expectancy for the “average” American is…

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Added on: 06/01/2019

In Colombia’s remote tribes, LGBT+ people face abuse, shame

05/31/2019

Colombia’s LGBT+ people who live in black and indigenous communities must cope with violence, humiliation and efforts to “cure” them of their sexual identities, according to research…

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Added on: 05/31/2019

I had to leave Lebanon after I came out as gay and HIV positive on TV

05/30/2019

I am a 29-year-old filmmaker and refugee from Lebanon living in the UK. My claim to asylum is based on my sexuality and my HIV status. I…

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Added on: 05/31/2019

Victory for Hong Kong’s LGBT community as High Court abolishes four offences that criminalise sex between men

05/30/2019

Hong Kong’s LGBT community has earned a long-awaited legal victory, with a court abolishing or revising seven offences that criminalised sex between men. The High Court on…

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Added on: 05/29/2019

Swedish LGBT group drops out of Sweden’s top political festival over Nazi threats

05/29/2019

The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL) has canceled its attendance at this year’s Almedalen political festival in protest over the hatred and…

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Added on: 05/28/2019

Brazil’s LGBTQ Challenege: Live and Let Live or Discriminate and Hate?

05/27/2019

Last week’s vote by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) laid the foundation for landmark legislation which will include protection for sexual minorities in the nation’s anti-discrimination laws….

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Added on: 05/28/2019

LESBIAN TIED TO A TREE AND BEATEN IN INDIA FOR ‘BESMIRCHING’ HER VILLAGE

05/27/2019

A woman in eastern India has been tied up to a tree and beaten after neighbors discovered she was in a same-sex relationship. Sarmila Malla, 19, was…