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Added on: 02/26/2019

Story of a trans man who suffers Brazil’s hostile environment to LGBTQ

Devidiscourse
02/25/2019
Growing up in an evangelical Christian family in Brazil, life was pretty tough for Ariel Nobre. Designated female at birth, the 31-year-old transgender man was sent to…
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Added on: 02/26/2019

Kids Love Drag Queen Storytime. Anti-LGBT Groups Want To Shut Them Down

Daily Beast
02/23/2019
The children who listen to the drag queens reading stories in Houston, Michigan, and South Carolina love it. Anti-LGBT groups are mobilizing to menace the events out…
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Added on: 02/25/2019

GOP lawmakers push to ban LGBT conversion therapy in Utah

ABC News
02/21/2019
Two Republican lawmakers proposed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors in conservative Utah on Thursday, a plan that’s been hailed as a milestone by advocates…
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Added on: 02/25/2019

Colombia’s ‘Madonna’ helps LGBTQ people fleeing Venezuela

Al Jazeera
02/21/2019
Gusts of hot desert wind drift through the broken window, shattered by a stone, in the house that Madonna Badillo shares with seven Venezuelan sex workers. Badillo…
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Added on: 02/25/2019

Homosexual man faces being DEPORTED from Britain for ‘not being gay enough’

Daily Star
02/22/2019
Immigration chiefs believe Yew Fook Sam is lying about his sexuality because he does not have a boyfriend. He is a member of numerous gay associations, part…
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Added on: 02/23/2019

Iran: activist charged with normalising same sex relations

6Rang
02/22/2019
Rezvaneh Mohammadi, gender equality activist’s first court session was held in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court Branch 28 on February 18, 2019, presided by the notorious Judge Moghiseh, according…
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Added on: 02/22/2019

One in four pre-teen suicides may be LGBT youth

Channel News Asia
02/22/2019
Youth 12 to 14 years old LGBT are much more likely to die by suicide than their heterosexual peers, a disparity that persists but becomes less pronounced…
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Added on: 02/21/2019

Iceland’s Intersex Children at Risk As Without New Protection, Activist Says

Thomson Reuters Foundation News
02/19/2019
The future health of Iceland’s intersex children has been put at risk with the removal of protections from a draft law that promotes transgender rights, the country’s…
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Added on: 02/21/2019

LGBTQIA Members Walk for Pulwama Martyrs

Times of India
02/19/2019
I’m gay, that’s okay. I’m trans, that’s okay, I’m straight, that’s okay’…these slogans were chanted at the fourth edition of Nagpur Pride organised at Samvidhan Chowk on…
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Added on: 02/20/2019

Inside Monica Roberts’ Mission to Identify Transgender Murder Victims

Daily Beast
02/19/2019
Monica Roberts does in 30 minutes what reporters have been failing to do for years. She identifies murder victims who are transgender. Whenever she discovers through Facebook…
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Added on: 02/19/2019

No human rights violation in West Sumatra’s LGBT ban: Human rights commission

Coconuts Jakarta
02/15/2019
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), says it doesn’t see West Sumatra’s plan to ban LGBT behavior in the province as an infringement on the…
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Added on: 02/19/2019

Algerian student murdered, ‘he is gay’ written on wall with his blood

The Jerusalem Post
02/15/2019
Two assailants executed an Algerian medical student in a shocking homophobic killing on Sunday, in which victim’s blood was smeared on a wall reading “He is Gay.”…
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Added on: 02/18/2019

LGBTQ Armenians Face Reign of Terror

Advocate
02/16/2019
On Monday, there was another gay-bashing in Armenia, this time against a member of Right Side NGO, a trans activism organization. Max Yarzhapetyan was walking on the…
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Added on: 02/18/2019

German minister calls for ban on conversion therapy

The Guardian
02/15/2019
The German health minister, Jens Spahn, has said that he will seek to ban “conversion therapies” that claim to change sexual orientation. “Homosexuality is not an illness,…
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Added on: 02/14/2019

Top Brazilian Court to Decide Key Homophobia Cases

Reuters
02/12/2019
Brazil’s supreme court is expected to rule Wednesday on a pair of cases that could determine whether homophobia and transphobia should be considered criminal offenses. The cases,…
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Added on: 02/13/2019

Fury at HIV Data Leak in Conservative Singapore

ABS-CBN
02/10/2019
Rico has lived with HIV for almost a decade, confiding in only a small number of people in socially conservative Singapore, fearful of the reaction. Last month,…
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Added on: 02/13/2019

Mexico: LGBT Activist Oscar Cazorla Found Dead: Promoted Zapotec ‘3rd gender’

Yucatan Expat Life
02/12/2019
A defender of LGBT rights and proponent of muxe culture in Oaxaca has been found dead in an apparently violent attack. Óscar Cazorla was at home in…
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Added on: 02/13/2019

Small, Rural Businesses are Far Behind India’s Corporate Giants in Welcoming LGBTI People

Thomas Reuters Foundation News
2/12/2019
Following India’s September move to scrap a colonial-era ban on gay sex, more and more corporations are opening their doors to LGBT+ people and ushering in policies…
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Added on: 02/12/2019

What Does The Crisis In Venezuela Mean For LGBTQ People?

Instinct Magazine
02/09/2019
Venezuela’s long-running political crisis appears to be reaching a critical point. President Nicolás Maduro is still holding onto power, but there is growing international support to recognize Juan…
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Added on: 02/12/2019

‘Everyone is welcome’: Children reach out to gay teacher threatened over LGBT lessons

Independent
02/08/2019
A gay primary school teacher who has been targeted amid protests from parents over homosexuality teachings has been inundated with supportive cards from children saying “everyone is…
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Added on: 02/11/2019

LGBTQ HATE INCIDENTS UP 54% IN 2018

The Jerusalem Post
02/10/2019
Harassment of members of the LGBTQ community increased dramatically in 2018, with a 54% increase in reported incidents of homophobia, the Nir Katz Center revealed on Sunday…
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Added on: 02/11/2019

Two transgender women joined migrant caravan. Only one survived journey to San Francisco.

San Franciso Chronicle
02/10/2019
Moments before paramedics rushed Roxsana Hernandez out of an ICE jail in New Mexico, Charlotte consoled her dying friend. They’d known each other only a few months,…
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Added on: 02/11/2019

Amnesty: Ukrainian Authorities ‘Slow To React’ To Attacks Against Journalists, Rights Advocates

Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
02/10/2019
Ukraine has failed to prevent or investigate “numerous” human rights violations committed last year against rights activists, political opponents, and ethnic minorities, according to Amnesty International. “2018…
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Added on: 02/10/2019

Village where ‘love the same’ is embraced

Khmer Times
02/08/2019
Angkrong, a village in Prey Veng Province in Cambodia’s southeast corner, has been home to five couples over the age of 40, two young couples who recently…
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Added on: 02/09/2019

LGBT+ activists fear police missed chances to catch Canadian serial killer

Devdiscourse
02/08/2019
As Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of eight men on Friday, LGBT+ activists questioned whether homophobia and racism…
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Added on: 02/06/2019

Living in Venezuela Now is Hard. Being LGBTI Makes it Harder

Thomson Reuters Foundation
02/04/2019
Venezuela’s shrinking economy has sparked an exodus of LGBT+ people as the economic crisis has put the brakes on the country’s growing tolerance towards its gay and…
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Added on: 02/04/2019

LGBT Organization makes significant marks for inclusion of LGBT families in Belize

Breaking Belize News
02/03/2019
Our Circle, an LGBT advocacy group based in Belize is launching new projects aimed at strengthening ties within the local LGBT community. The organization has launched their…
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Added on: 02/04/2019

Violent comments against student who kissed his male partner are ‘worrying’: Inter-University LGBT Network

Coconuts Singapore
02/03/2019
The recent online vitriol some Singaporeans have spewed on a man from a local junior college who was seen on an Instagram post kissing his male partner…
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Added on: 02/03/2019

This Gay Man Speaks Out About Fleeing Iraq, Where He Says Being LGBT Is a ‘Death Sentence’

Hornet
01/31/2019
In commemoration of 2019 marking 50 years since the Stonewall Riots took place, the editors over at Gay Star News are inviting 50 international guest writers to…
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Added on: 02/01/2019

Stop hating gay people, says Nigerian actress Tonto Dikeh.

Erasing 76 Crimes
01/31/2019
Dikeh made the positive comment on Instagram in support of Jussie Smollet, an African-American Nollywood actor who was recently brutally attacked by two men, which many are now…
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