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Added on: 12/30/2018

Life is hard as a gay refugee

12/28/2018

I am a Ugandan man living in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya, where I am seeking asylum. I am 23 years old, the second child to…

Global News

Added on: 12/29/2018

Activists Agree With Canada Warning To Lgbtqi Community

12/28/2018

TWO LGBTQI activists yesterday agreed with Canadian government’s crime advisory warning Canadians to consider the risks of traveling to The Bahamas because homosexuality is not widely accepted….

Global News

Added on: 12/29/2018

Meet the lesbian prisoner who won apology from Colombian government

12/29/2018

Marta Álvarez was subjected to almost a decade of abuse and humiliation because of her sexuality. The lesbian activist spent nine years in a Colombian prison and experienced a…

Global News

Added on: 12/28/2018

Malaysian Activists condemn assault of two men accused of homosexuality

12/27/2018

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists today condemned the violent assault of two young men after they were beaten up by several unknown assailants for allegedly…

Global News

Added on: 12/28/2018

Interview: Indonesians are gay-friendly if not brainwashed

12/27/2018

Dede Oetomo is the founder and trustee of the Indonesian LGBT advocacy group GAYa Nusantara Foundation, based in Surabaya. “Indonesia has always been conservative and it has…

Global News

Added on: 12/28/2018

Trans prisoner moved to female prison after year-long court battle

12/28/2018

A trans woman prisoner has been transferred to a female prison in Illinois after a year-long court battle. Deon ‘Strawberry’ Hampton described being treated like a ‘sex slave’ while housed in multiple in male penitentiaries…

Global News

Added on: 12/27/2018

I survived conversion therapy as a child. Now, I’m part of the movement to ban it for good.

12/27/2018

As a child undergoing conversion therapy in Florida in the early 2000s, I could never have imagined how different this nation would be nearly 20 years later. I could…

Global News

Added on: 12/27/2018

Activists replace 200 Tube adverts with instructions on how to stop deportations

12/18/2018

Campaign asks members of the public to protest deportations on commercial flights by refusing to take seat. Campaigners have “hacked” hundreds of adverts on the London Underground, replacing them…

Global News

Added on: 12/26/2018

Gay refugees escape Kakuma’s dangers, reach Nairobi’s squalor

12/24/2018

The U.N. refugee agency has moved more than 200 gay refugees from dangers of Kakuma refugee camp to safety in crowded, unsanitary quarters in Nairobi. The O-blog-dee advocacy…

Global News

Added on: 12/26/2018

Gay Life in Berlin Is Starting to Echo a Darker Era

12/25/2018

Germany has long been lauded for its liberal attitude toward sex. It recently passed laws allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt, and just became the first…

Global News

Added on: 12/25/2018

‘Badhais’ criminalised, LGBT community opposes LS Bill

12/24/2018

At the office of the Shaan Foundation, which works with the LGBT community in the district, transgender persons begin a gathering early in the day, holding a…

Global News

Added on: 12/24/2018

LGBTQ young homeless people often remain invisible when mainstream providers deliver services

12/22/2018

Earlier this week, it was revealed that there has been a huge spike in deaths of homeless people sleeping on Britain’s streets. We’re shocked and extremely saddened…

Global News

Added on: 12/23/2018

Apple Removes App Accused of Promoting Conversion Therapy

12/22/2018

Truth Wins Out has won its battle to remove an app accused of promoting conversion therapy from the Apple Store. The national LGBTQ group had launched a petition…

Global News

Added on: 12/22/2018

Costa Rica passes decrees boosting LGBT rights

12/21/2018

Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado on Friday signed a number of decrees and norms granting various rights to the LGBT community. These measures will allow same-sex couples…

Global News

Added on: 12/22/2018

I was reborn here’: Gay Syrian refugee says Canada has welcomed him

12/21/2018

Khaled was born in Syria, but his life began anew when he arrived in Canada as a refugee in 2015. “I was born there, but I was reborn…

Global News

Added on: 12/21/2018

CONIFA referee Raymond Mashamba, outed as gay in Zimbabwe, granted asylum in UK

12/21/2018

Raymond Mashamba was being blackmailed over his sexuality by a former friend in Bulawayo before and during the CONIFA World Football Cup, an international tournament for teams…

Global News

Added on: 12/21/2018

11 women arrested in Nigeria for planning lesbian wedding

12/20/2018

A lesbian couple and nine other women have been arrested in Nigeria for planning the pair’s wedding. The 11 women were detained on Monday (December 17) in the northern…

World Voices

Added on: 12/20/2018

Kakuma: From Celebration to Desperation

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

The camp is run by the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights and houses 200,000 refugees from 10 countries, most being from conservative Muslim backgrounds. UNHCR…

Global News

Added on: 12/19/2018

Gay arrests in Malawi: More mixed signals on gay rights

12/19/2018

The southeast African country of Malawi remains torn about homosexuality — unwilling to repeal its anti-homosexuality law, but also unwilling to enforce it. This month’s arrest and…

Global News

Added on: 12/19/2018

Will gay Nigerians ever be free to openly live their authentic lives?

12/18/2018

Since the Nigerian government passed into law the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act (SSMPA), LGBT Nigerians have continued to suffer many forms of discrimination as well as exclusion…

Global News

Added on: 12/18/2018

Death of transgender woman in Malaysia sparks fears of hate crime

12/18/2018

The death of a transgender woman in Malaysia has sparked fears of a rise in hate crimes, campaigners said yesterday, as police moved swiftly to detain four…

Global News

Added on: 12/16/2018

Tanzania Says Tolerating LGBT Community Would Be ‘Intolerable,’ As Donors Pull Funding

12/16/2018

Tanzania said Friday that it would not comply with demands from donors to soften its opposition to LGBT rights. According to NBC News, Finance Minister Philip Mpango…

Global News

Added on: 12/15/2018

Cries for speedy action over murder grow louder

12/15/2018

The gruesome murder of a transgender woman has sparked widespread public outrage and calls for justice. Deputy Women, Community and Family Development Minister Hannah Yeoh said what…

Global News

Added on: 12/15/2018

U.N. moves LGBT+ refugees to safe houses after Kenya camp attacks

12/14/2018

LGBT+ refugees in Kenya’s remote Kakuma camp are being moved to safe houses in Nairobi after they were attacked when protesting for greater protection, the United Nations…

Global News

Added on: 12/14/2018

LGBT+ activists attacked on peaceful march in Kenya refugee camp

12/13/2018

LGBT+ activists were attacked and arrested by police after staging a peaceful march through Kakuma, a UNCHR refugee camp in Turkana County, Kenya. Around 40 LGBT+ activists took…

Global News

Added on: 12/14/2018

Russia’s gay propaganda law ‘endangers children’, says report

12/12/2018

Russia’s “gay propaganda” law is directly harming and endangering LGBT+ children and young people, according to a new report. The report – which is called “No Support:…

Global News

Added on: 12/13/2018

Study Finds High Levels of Depression Among LGB Teenagers

12/11/2018

Young lesbian, gay and bisexual people start becoming depressed and self-harming from the age of 10 because they feel different from their heterosexual peers, research has found….

Global News

Added on: 12/12/2018

Interview: The Law Damaging Russia’s LGBT Children

12/11/2018

When Russia passed a law banning what it called “propaganda of non-traditional relationships,” it made positive discussion about LGBT relationships illegal. The official rationale for the law…

Global News

Added on: 12/12/2018

Advocacy Groups Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of International Human Rights Day

12/11/2018

LGBTI advocacy groups and public figures celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights on Monday (10 December). 10 December is also commemorated annually as…

Global News

Added on: 12/12/2018

Strongmen Like Putin Threaten LGBTQ People Across the Globe

12/11/2018

The worldwide struggle for LGBT equality has dramatically changed in the past few years. From our movement’s inception, our great challenge has been to shed our invisibility…