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Added on: 04/24/2024

New Queer Future Beckons for Former Sydney Police Station

The Urban Developer
04/23/2024
Not-for-profit Qtopia has applied to permanently transform a former police station into the Sydney Centre for Queer History and Culture. Along with Create NSW—the NSW Government’s arts…
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Added on: 04/23/2024

Dominica court overturns anti-sodomy law

Erasing 76 Crimes
04/22/2024
The High Court of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica has ruled that Dominica’s law against consensual same-sex intimacy is unconstitutional. The judgement against the anti-sodomy law…
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Added on: 04/20/2024

Trudeau’s 2024 budget includes $150 million to promote ‘2SLGBTQI+’ ideology at home and abroad

Todayville
04/19/2024
The Trudeau government plans to expand ‘equity groups’ to include people who identify as ‘2SLGBTQ+’ and to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to promote its…
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Added on: 04/20/2024

Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid addressing transgender athletes

Associated Press
04/19/2024
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the…
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Added on: 04/18/2024

Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf confirms trans women will be protected under new misogyny laws

Pink News
04/17/2024
The Scottish government are set to introduce a bill to address prejudice and violence against women and girls – which rightly includes trans women and girls – before the…
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Added on: 04/18/2024

Out in the World: Anti-LGBTQ bills, laws are spreading around the world

Bay Area Reporter
04/17/2024
Anti-LGBTQ bills and new laws are spreading around the world, including in several African nations and the former Soviet republic of Belarus. The proposed or approved legislation in…
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Added on: 04/17/2024

Uganda: Activists Appeal Shock Anti-Homosexuality Law Ruling

Mamba
04/16/2024
Twenty-two individuals have filed an appeal with Uganda’s Supreme Court against the Constitutional Court’s recent refusal to strike down the country’s vile Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA). The Supreme…
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Added on: 04/17/2024

Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf confirms trans women will be protected under new misogyny laws

Pink News
04/16/2024
Humza Yousaf has confirmed that trans women will be protected under new misogyny laws in Scotland. The Scottish government are set to introduce a bill to address…
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Added on: 04/15/2024

Beaten, Strangled and Robbed: New Grindr Gang Syndicate Cases in Durban

Mamba Online
04/13/2024
The LGBTQ+ community in KwaZulu-Natal is urged to be vigilant following new reports of several individuals being targeted by criminals on the Grindr dating app in the…
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Added on: 04/15/2024

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

Big News Network
04/13/2024
Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law…
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Added on: 04/12/2024

Government recognised violation of rights of LGBT representatives, however…

Turan
04/11/2024
On 11 April, the European Court of Human Rights announced a decision on the complaints of 24 representatives of the LGBT community. The complaint was related to the…
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Added on: 04/10/2024

Everywhere Is Queer app launches to help LGBTQ+ users support their local community

USC Annenberg Media
04/09/2024
Everywhere is Queer, founded by Charlie Sprinkman, is linking people to LGBTQ+ owned businesses with a new mobile app, making finding local community more accessible. There are…
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Added on: 04/09/2024

‘The purpose is getting lost’: debate obscuring point of Scottish hate law, say campaigners

The Guardian
04/08/2024
“We sell flat whites and make croissants in a bakery that’s supposed to be a safe place for the people who work here and the customers who…
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Added on: 04/05/2024

Gay rights activists call for more international pressure on Uganda over anti-gay law

Associated Press
04/04/2024
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the…
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Added on: 04/05/2024

Transgender People Lament Being Subjected To Bribery, Extortion By Police To Survive In Kenya

Sahara Reporters
04/04/2024
Some transgender people living in Kenya have narrated how they had been victims of extortion and bribery by the country’s police force. The victims whose experiences were reported…
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Added on: 04/03/2024

A Trans-Led Art Collective Is Shifting Perceptions Around Transgender People in India

ARTnews
04/02/2024
A decade ago, India’s top court ruled that transgender people should be treated as a third category of gender. While that decision would seem to indicate a…
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Added on: 04/02/2024

Africa Pride 2024 will celebrate love in the face of hatred and homophobia

ERASING 76CRIMES
04/01/2024
A coalition of African LGBTQ+ rights group has announced plans for a continent-wide celebration of Pride. Africa Pride 2024 events will consist of online programs and a…
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Added on: 03/30/2024

Sacramento becomes sanctuary city for transgender people

Q Voice News
03/29/2024
Sacramento is a sanctuary city for transgender people following the City Council’s unanimous vote Tuesday night. While California was already a sanctuary state, the city’s resolution, which…
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Added on: 03/29/2024

What does Senegal’s new president have in store for LGBTQ people?

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/28/2024
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected President of Senegal on Sunday, collecting 51% of the votes compared to his challenger, Amadou Ba, from the ruling party of outgoing…
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Added on: 03/29/2024

Shuttered Siberian Queer Bar Fined for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

Moscow Times
03/28/2024
A queer bar in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has been fined for “LGBT propaganda,” local police said Thursday, a month after the bar announced its closure over…
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Added on: 03/28/2024

Nine men sentenced to death by ‘crucifixion and stoning’ for alleged sodomy by Houthi court

Pink News
03/27/2024
Nine men were sentenced to death by a Houthi court in Yemen in a mass trial based on “dubious” charges of sodomy, a human rights organisation has…
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Added on: 03/28/2024

National Security Council meets with Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist

Watermark
03/27/2024
WASHINGTON | The U.S. National Security Council met with Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist Frank Mugisha on Monday, according to a spokesperson who reaffirmed America’s opposition to civil…
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Added on: 03/27/2024

The horrific reality of transgender individuals in Texas prisons

Advocate
03/26/2024
Even as people fight for justice, some cries remain unheard and voices unanswered. In American society, many of these lost voices belong to the incarcerated, who are…
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Added on: 03/27/2024

In Azerbaijan authorities remain silent over the murder of a trans woman

Global Voices
03/26/2024
Azerbaijan’s LGBTQI+ community was rocked by the news of yet another murder of a trans woman whose body was found on March 12 on the outskirts of…
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Added on: 03/26/2024

This is the full, shocking story of the decade-long destruction of LGBTQ+ rights in Putin’s Russia

Pink News
03/25/2024
On March 22 2024, Russia’s financial watchdog added the “LGBT movement” to its “terrorists and extremists” blacklist, the most recent move in a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights…
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Added on: 03/23/2024

Mother and son launch app to keep LGBT people safe

BBC
03/22/2024
A mother and son from Brighton have launched an app to help keep members of the LGBTQ+ community safe on nights out. Luciana and Nicholas Cousin set…
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Added on: 03/22/2024

Two bar workers in Russia become first people charged under anti-LGBTQ+ law

The Guardian
03/21/2024
A Russian court has ordered two bar workers to be placed in custody, accusing them of roles in an “extremist organisation”, under new legislation criminalising the LGBTQ+…
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Added on: 03/21/2024

Gay Man Jailed in Qatar Provisionally Freed Pending Investigation

Mamba Online
03/20/2024
A gay British-Mexican, who was entrapped by police in Qatar on Grindr, has been provisionally released from prison after a global campaign for his freedom. Manuel Guerrero Aviña was…
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Added on: 03/16/2024

New LGBTQ+ legislation is welcome, but not enough, says Dr Amanda Cohn

Star Observer
03/15/2024
On Wednesday, the Attorney General tabled long-awaited legislation to ban harmful LGBTQIA+ conversion practices. The changes are “overdue” and “welcome”, says Dr Amanda Cohn, NSW Greens spokesperson…
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Added on: 03/15/2024

Analysis: In deciding on anti-gay law, Ghana’s president is caught between a rock and a hard place

WRAL
03/14/2024
(CNN) — Sam George, the driving force behind Ghana’s harsh anti-LGBTQ legislation, portrays himself as a guardian of gay Ghanaians. “I have put in legislation that protects…
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