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Added on: 05/19/2020

Coronavirus causing a humanitarian crisis for LGBT+ people around the world

Gay Star News
05/18/2020
LGBT+ people around the world are facing a humanitarian crisis. And COVID-19 risks decimating the organizations they rely on for support. UK-based international LGBT+ charity, the Kaleidoscope…
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Added on: 05/18/2020

The ‘gender critical’ feminist movement is a cult that grooms, controls and abuses, according to a lesbian who managed to escape

Pink News
05/17/2020
“TERF is hate speech and it’s time to condemn it,” gender-critical writer Amy Dyess announced in October 2018 – words she now regrets. “TERF is a slur…
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Added on: 05/18/2020

Map Shows Where It’s Illegal To Be Gay – 30 Years Since WHO Declassified Homosexuality As Disease

Forbes
05/17/2020
It’s still illegal to be LGBT+ in 70 countries, and you could be given the death penalty in 12, as the world marks 30 years since “homosexuality”…
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Added on: 05/17/2020

May 17 Is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia

Voice of America
05/16/2020
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. First observed in 2004, the day was designed to focus “attention on the violence and discrimination experienced…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

Why banning anti-LGBT ‘conversion therapy’ isn’t enough

Open Democracy
05/14/2020
Lawmakers around the world have proposed new legislation to ban ‘conversion therapy’ – attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In Canada, for example,…
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Added on: 05/15/2020

US Navy grants first waiver for transgender service member to serve under their preferred gender

CNN
05/14/2020
The US Navy has granted a waiver allowing a transgender service member to serve “in their preferred gender” for the first time since the military enacted a…
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Added on: 05/14/2020

Morocco Instagram influencer apologises for role in outing of gay men

Reuters
05/13/2020
A transgender Instagram influencer blamed for a wave of homophobic attacks in Morocco apologised on Wednesday for encouraging her followers to download dating apps that were then…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

LGBT community hit hard by COVID-19 lockdown in Lakhimpur

Northeast Now
05/12/2020
The LGBT community in Assam’s Lakhimpur district is hit hard by the impact of nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown. The victims are four transgender persons in the district who…
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Added on: 05/13/2020

Michigan woman at center of transgender civil rights case dies at 59

Detroit News
05/12/2020
The Michigan woman at the center of a high-profile transgender rights case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court has died, her family said. Aimee Stephens, 59, who…
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Added on: 05/12/2020

Gender-based lockdown rules that fuelled rise in violence against transgender people to be lifted

Pink News
05/11/2020
Gender-based lockdown rules in Bogotá, Colombia, will be lifted after they fuelled a wave of violence against transgender people living in the city. Bogotá’s mayor, Claudia Lopez,…
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Added on: 05/10/2020

Radical Russian Imperial Movement Expanding Global Outreach

Voice of America
05/09/2020
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a white supremacist group based in St. Petersburg, is increasingly expanding its outreach beyond Russia through the establishment of transnational networks with…
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Added on: 05/09/2020

Aimee Stephens, transgender woman at center of pending landmark Supreme Court case, is in hospice care

Metro Times
05/08/2020
Aimee Stephens made national headlines when she said she was fired from her job at metro Detroit-based GR & RG Funeral Homes in 2013 after coming out…
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Added on: 05/07/2020

Forced exorcisms touted as ‘cure’ for LGBT Indonesians

Bangkok Post
05/06/2020
Andin is haunted by memories of being forced into an exorcism to “save” her from being transgender — a ritual that could become mandatory for Indonesia’s LGBT…
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Added on: 05/07/2020

One in three trans people targeted for ‘conversion therapy’ in Colombia

Reuters
05/06/2020
One in five LGBT+ people have undergone “conversion therapy” to make them straight in Colombia, rising to one in three trans people, researchers said on Wednesday, amid…
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Added on: 05/06/2020

LAWS ALLOWING LEGAL GENDER CHANGE WITHOUT SURGERY INTRODUCED IN AUSTRALIAN STATE OF VICTORIA

Gay Express
05/05/2020
New laws have come into effect in the Australian state of Victoria that now allow trans and gender diverse Victorians to alter the sex recorded on their…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

Top Egyptian actor goes public about trans son

Reuters
05/04/2020
A well-known Egyptian actor has spoken on television about having a 26-year-old transgender son, in a rare public show of support for LBGT+ rights in the conservative…
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Added on: 05/05/2020

In Ganjam’s quarantine centres, no separate provision for the transgender community

The Hindu
05/04/2020
Due to the lack of separate arrangements for transgender persons at a quarantine centre, Prasant*, an 18-year-old transgender person, had to spend a 14-day quarantine period, till…
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Added on: 05/03/2020

Trans woman sets herself on fire in Georgia as virus lockdown cuts income

Reuters
05/02/2020
A transgender woman set herself on fire in Georgia to highlight the plight of trans sex workers with no income during the coronavirus lockdown, LGBT+ groups said…
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Added on: 05/02/2020

Two arrested in alleged hate crime killing of transgender women in Puerto Rico

NBC News
05/01/2020
Two men have been arrested in Puerto Rico in the shooting death of two transgender women whose bodies were found last week in a burned-out car. The…
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Added on: 05/02/2020

Pope Francis just threw his support behind a small community of Italian transgender sex workers

Pink News
05/01/2020
Sex workers, particularly those who are undocumented, have been badly hit by the pandemic as many are unable to work or claim benefits. This was the case…
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Added on: 05/02/2020

Groups Express Grave Concern about the Commission on Unalienable Rights

Human Rights Watch
05/01/2020
As human rights organizations, scholars, defenders and activists, we the 167 undersigned, write to express our grave concern about the work of the U.S. State Department’s Commission…
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Added on: 05/01/2020

Wave of trans murders sparks fear of ‘hunting season’ in Puerto Rico

Reuters
04/30/2020
Puerto Rico has been hit by an “epidemic of violence” with five transgender murders in two months, LGBT+ activists said on Wednesday, adding that homophobic rhetoric from…
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Added on: 04/30/2020

Transgender man loses appeal court battle to be registered as father

The Guardian
04/29/2020
A transgender man who gave birth has lost his appeal court battle to be registered as a father in a case that wrestled with the legal definition…
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Added on: 04/29/2020

How Iran’s anti-LGBT policies put transgender people at risk

Deutsche Welle
04/28/2020
Despite repressive laws against homosexuality, gender reassignment surgery remains legal in Iran. But Iranians who seek sex-change operations are faced with a harsh approval process and a…
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Added on: 04/28/2020

EU urged to act as Hungary’s far-right government moves to end legal recognition of trans people

The Independent
04/27/2020
The European Union has been urged to take action against the Hungarian government as it moves to push through “discriminatory” legalisation that would end the legal recognition…
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Added on: 04/27/2020

Transgender players kick down doors in local football

Buenos Aires Times
04/26/2020
Mara Gómez and Marcos Rojo are blazing a trail for transgender players in Argentine football. Out on the pitch, they finally can feel like themselves. In addition…
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Added on: 04/26/2020

Two transgender women found burned to death in Puerto Rico

CBS News
04/25/2020
The bodies of two transgender women were found burned to death inside a vehicle this week in Puerto Rico, according to activists, raising alarm about the killings…
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Added on: 04/23/2020

The danger of being transgender in Latin America in times of quarantine

Open Democracy
04/22/2020
The trend started on April 1 in Panama, when President Laurentino Cortizo announced that men and women can only leave their homes on different days in an…
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Added on: 04/22/2020

Meet the artists driving Russia’s new wave of queer music

i-D
04/21/2020
The city of Norilsk is located above the Arctic Circle in Russia’s north. With just under 200,000 inhabitants, it’s known as a harsh, industrial place, its history…
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Added on: 04/21/2020

1 in 5 Russians Advocate ‘Eliminating’ LGBT Community – Poll

Moscow Times
04/20/2020
Almost one in five Russians believe that LGBT people should be “eliminated,” according to the results of a new independent Levada Center poll. The figures showed 18%…
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