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Added on: 04/25/2019

Exposed: How Malaysia fosters anti-LGBT bias, violence

04/23/2019

In Malaysia, a wide range of government-sponsored programs spread misinformation about LGBT people, which leads to anti-gay discrimination and violence. After human rights defender Numan Afifi described…

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Added on: 04/24/2019

India opens health clinic run entirely for and by LGBT people

04/23/2019

India has opened the doors to its first health clinic run entirely for and by LGBT+ people. The healthcare centre, located in Mumbai, employs LGBT+ receptionists, pharmacists,…

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Added on: 04/24/2019

How a gay student’s suicide after being outed is helping Japan’s LGBT community speak up

04/22/2019

The name of a gay student who died after being outed may remain known to only a small number of people – his immediate family, friends, classmates,…

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Added on: 04/24/2019

Condoms: A controversial idea for fighting HIV in Jamaican prisons

04/23/2019

The doubling of HIV cases in Jamaica’s prisons has resurrected the debate on formally offering condoms to curb the spread of sexually transmitted infections, with a clergyman…

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Added on: 04/23/2019

Malaysian police investigate LGBT activist over UN speech

04/22/2019

Malaysian Police are investigating LGBTI rights activist, Numan Afifi, after he reported on the LGBTI rights situation at a UN Human Rights Council session last month. Police…

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Added on: 04/23/2019

Chechnya: Islam + tribal honor = danger for gays

04/22/2019

In Chechnya, traditional leaders feel threatened by society’s free access to information online, by empowered and independent women, and by the very existence of queer people. The…

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Added on: 04/22/2019

Our time to seek justice is now’: Transgender woman speaks for first time since Oak Cliff attack

04/20/2019

A transgender woman made her first public comments Saturday, a week after she was attacked by a large group in east Oak Cliff. Edward Dominic Thomas was…

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Added on: 04/22/2019

Lyra McKee: kindness defined her, we must fight for her memory

04/21/2019

Like a lot of gay people, Lyra McKee spent a long time hiding first. Of course she did. The Bible told her she was going to Hell….

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Added on: 04/19/2019

Thousands feared at risk after Mexico reforms HIV+ regime

04/17/2019

Thousands of Mexicans living with HIV or at risk of infection could be left without life-saving services after the government changed the way it funds treatment, according…

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Added on: 04/16/2019

LGBT Syrian refugees launch legal challenge against UK Home Office ‘abandonment’

04/15/2019

Fifteen LGBT Syrian refugees, living in Turkey, launched a legal claim against the UK Home Office on Monday. The group claim the British government has abandoned them…

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Added on: 04/16/2019

Gay hunters: How criminal gangs lure men on dating apps before extorting cash and beating them

04/14/2019

It was supposed to be a harmless liaison, starting as it sometimes did: an attractive profile on a gay site, a few messages about nothing much at…

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Added on: 04/15/2019

OutSaskatoon gets $1.1M to help LGBT survivors of gender violence

04/12/2019

OutSaskatoon says $1.1 million in new federal funding to provide support for LGBT people, particularly youth, who are survivors of gender-based violence will help the organization make…

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Added on: 04/15/2019

Brunei once held off on strict Islamic law to stay in a U.S.-backed trade pact. Then Trump pulled out.

04/12/2019

When more than 100 members of Congress raised worries in 2014 over plans to include Brunei in a sweeping Pacific trade deal, envoys from the tiny sultanate…

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Added on: 04/15/2019

Barbados: No jail time for violent attack on trans activist

04/09/2019

Brandon Coward, who attacked Barbadian trans woman Alexa Hoffmann with a meat cleaver on February 18, 2018, was today convicted in the Oistins Magistrates Court by Magistrate…

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Added on: 04/13/2019

One Man Is Allegedly Targeting Gay German Teenagers In A Sweeping Harassment Campaign

04/12/20219

On April 18, 2016, Max walked down the hall at his high school in Bremen, a midsize city in Northern Germany. He opened the glass door of…

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Added on: 04/10/2019

Calls for pastor who celebrated Orlando massacre to be banned from Ireland

04/09/2019

A petition has been signed almost 5,000 times calling for anti-LGBT+ pastor Steven Anderson to be banned from entering Ireland. Anderson—a preacher with the Faithful Word Baptist…

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Added on: 04/10/2019

LGBT protesters storm Dorchester Hotel over Brunei’s gay sex laws

04/06/2019

Gay rights activists storm and block the entrance of the Sultan-owned Dorchester hotel in central London in a protest against Brunei imposing a death by stoning penalty…

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Added on: 04/08/2019

Quebec City police investigate online threat against LGBTQ community

04/07/2019

The owner of Le Drague Cabaret Club in Quebec City filed a complaint with police after a hate message was discovered on social media — a message…

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Added on: 04/08/2019

‘It’s dangerous to go out now’: young, gay and scared in Brunei

04/06/2019

Draconian new laws have spread unease rather than outright panic in a population that is used to finding ways around legislation. A day after it became legally…

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Added on: 04/08/2019

In Indonesia, LGBT communities viewed as a moral threat – condemned by religion and, increasingly, by law

04/07/2019

There was a commotion and then there was silence. Many of the guests had gathered around a small stage on which the dancers, and Ezra, were naked….

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Added on: 04/04/2019

Joko Widodo: how ‘Indonesia’s Obama’ failed to live up to the hype

04/03/2019

Five years ago he was south-east Asia’s democratic poster boy, Indonesia’s Obama. His face plastered across Time magazine with three words: A New Hope. When Joko Widodo,…

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Added on: 04/04/2019

Gay sex now officially punishable by death by stoning in Brunei

04/03/2019

New Islamic criminal laws took effect in Brunei on Wednesday that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning offenders to death. The laws have triggered an…

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Added on: 04/03/2019

Lebanon urged to abolish anti-LGBT law, after military acquits soldiers on ‘sodomy’ charges

04/02/2019

Lebanon has been urged to abolish a law criminalising homosexuality after the top military prosecutor declined to prosecute a “sodomy” case. The rights group called the decision,…

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Added on: 04/03/2019

Brunei’s new anti-LGBT+ laws condemned as ‘inhuman’ and ‘draconian’ by UN

04/01/2019

A move by Brunei to punish gay sex by stoning to death has been condemned as “inhuman” by the UN. The new penal code is due to…

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Added on: 04/01/2019

Calgary LGBT advocates protest UCP plan they say would ‘out’ kids

03/29/2019

Hundreds of people marched in southwest Calgary Thursday in support of gay-straight alliances, and to oppose a plan that they say could see LGBT kids outed without…

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Added on: 03/28/2019

Trump’s transgender ban on the military gets full legal blessing

03/27/2019

The Trump administration’s long-wished-for transgender military ban now is officially – and legally – cleared to proceed. Different variations of the ban have been floating in legal…

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Added on: 03/28/2019

Zambian fleeing from arrest for Homosexuality denied Refugee Asylum in South Africa

03/28/2019

A young gay man who left a well-paid government job and fled from Zambia because of his sexual orientation has been denied refugee status by the South…

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Added on: 03/27/2019

Brunei urged to halt introduction of strict new anti-LGBT+ laws

03/25/2019

Brunei must rowback on plans to implement changes to its penal code next month that could see LGBT+ people whipped or stoned to death for same-sex activity,…

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Added on: 03/27/2019

LGBT refugees protest Kenya arrests and jail time

03/26/2019

LGBT refugee activists gathered outside a Nairobi courtroom today to protest the mistreatment of 20 LGBT refugees who were arrested at an earlier protest and have been…

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Added on: 03/26/2019

Majority of Americans back LGBTQ protections — but support is sliding

03/26/2019

Nearly 70 percent support nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, though support has fallen since 2015. A majority of Americans across every state and…