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Added on: 03/20/2019

#GoodNews: India’s First LGBT Theatre Group Launched in Kerala

The Quint
03/18/2019
At the back of the temporary stage built on Queer Pride day, Prijith stands looking tense. He looks preoccupied even as he describes to journalists the new…
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Added on: 03/20/2019

Presidential Hopeful Cory Booker Pledges to Reverse Trump’s anti-LGBTI Policies

Pink News
03/19/2019
Presidential challenger Cory Booker has pledged to reverse a number of Trump administration policies undermining LGBT+ rights. The Democratic senator, one of 14 candidates who are seeking…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

Guinea-Bissau’s ‘Big Mamas’ advance gay pride in conservative West Africa

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/13/2019
Edimilson Silva wears tight jeans, sparkly jewellery and sometimes lipstick – outfits that in neighbouring countries could get him harassed, jailed or even killed. But in his…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

This transgender woman is running for a seat in India’s national parliament

Gay Star News
03/13/2019
India’s commercial hub, Mumbai has its first-ever transgender candidate for upcoming parliament elections. Sneha Kale announced she would contest the north-central constituency as an independent candidate this…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

Thailand’s Tourism Industry Looks to Cash In on Same-Sex Partner Law

Bloomberg
03/12/2019
Thailand is advancing same-sex partnership legislation. And one of the nation’s biggest industries, tourism, is paying close attention. Amid an election campaign, a measure that would give…
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Added on: 03/12/2019

Egyptian Transgender Woman Forcibly Arrested, at Risk of Torture and Sexual Violence

Morocco World News
03/10/2019
19-year-old Malak al-Kashef, who recently had sex reassignment surgery, has not been heard from ever since she was taken by the Egyptian national security at the early…
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Added on: 03/12/2019

American Transgender ‘Woman’ Named ‘Miss International Queen’

Liberty Headlines
03/09/2019
American contestant Jazell Barbie Royale was crowned “Miss International Queen” in Thailand on Friday at a beauty pageant for transgender women, becoming the first person of colour…
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Added on: 03/11/2019

In Muslim Malaysia, Uproar Over LGBT Groups at Women’s Day March

US News
03/10/2019
A Malaysian minister has decried the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups at a march celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday, calling it “a…
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Added on: 03/11/2019

Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus ‘face sexual violence, forced marriage, and murder’

Global Voices
03/07/2019
Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus face attempts to ‘cure’ them, beatings, rape, forced marriages, and murder, according to a recent report interviewing a number of queer…
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Added on: 03/07/2019

Author Samantha Allen’s Road Trip Through Red States Reveals LGBTI Communities Everywhere

GBP Radio News
03/05/2019
Author and journalist Samantha Allen wanted to go beyond the headlines in her new book, “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.” “Often the stories we hear…
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Added on: 03/06/2019

British Female Olympians Argue Against ‘unfair’ Trans Women Athletes

Reuters
03/05/2019
British female Olympians lined up to criticize the inclusion of transgender women in women’s sport on Tuesday, as debate rages over whether male-to-female athletes retain unfair physical…
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Added on: 03/06/2019

Two Arrested for Alleged Murder of Trans Woman Found Dead in Spanish Orchard

Gay Star News
03/04/2019
Two arrested for alleged murder of trans woman found dead in Spanish orchard. The woman was found in a church in Castelló de la Plana, Spain.  Two…
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Added on: 03/05/2019

In a Virginia school, a celebration of transgender students in a kindergarten class

The Washington Post
03/03/2019
When Jaim Foster began teaching nearly two decades ago in Nebraska, he said he was discouraged from being an openly gay educator. He had championed LGBT causes…
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Added on: 03/04/2019

Merkel successor Kramp-Karrenbauer under fire for anti-LGBT joke

Detsche Welle
03/03/2019
The CDU leader mocked the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms during a Carnival-themed program on public broadcaster SWR. Politicians and activists called the incident a “travesty.” Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer,…
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Added on: 03/04/2019

Transgender soldier on fighting the Australian army’s attempt to dismiss her

Pink News
03/02/2019
Transgender soldier Bridget Clinch has opened up about how she fought against the Australian army after it tried to dismiss her following her gender reassignment surgery. When…
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Added on: 03/04/2019

The Kimberley Queen who escaped persecution in Indonesia to find sanctuary in Broome

ABC News
03/01/2019
Escaping persecution as a gay man in Indonesia several years ago, the reigning Kimberley Queen has instead found a supportive community in the northern Western Australia town…
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Added on: 02/28/2019

Homophobia and Rising Islamic Intolerance Push Indonesia’s Intersex Bissu Priests to the Brink

ABC Australia
02/26/2019
Once kingmakers in one of the most gender fluid societies on earth, the intersex bissu priests of Sulawesi — Indonesia’s third-largest island — are on the verge…
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Added on: 02/27/2019

Pakistan opens public school for transgender students

Pink News
02/25/2019
Pakistan has opened a public school exclusively for transgender pupils, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the country. Around 20 students will…
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Added on: 02/27/2019

LGBT Kenyans’ Patience Has Gone Unrewarded

Human Rights Watch
02/26/2019
Kenya’s High Court on Friday postponed a much-awaited decision on a colonial-era law that has long deprived one group of Kenyans of uhuru, or freedom, promising to…
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Added on: 02/27/2019

Drag queens protest at border wall to raise money for LGBTQ asylum-seekers

NBC News
02/25/2019
Beatrix Lestrange stood in front of a crowd wearing a multicolored dress, red wig, black pumps and a choker with studs. “Who’s ready to have a political…
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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

Spain’s far-right debuts in Senate by blocking anti-homophobia motion

Reuters Openly
02/21/2019
Spain’s far-right party Vox debuted in the upper house of parliament by blocking a motion calling for an official stance against homophobia in sport. Vox automatically obtained…
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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: 02/23/2019

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: 02/21/2019

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: 02/20/2019

Gujarat Govt Establishes Transgender Welfare Board; Housing, Education & Other Issues To Be Taken Care Of

The Logical Indian
02/19/2019
A Transgender Welfare Board has been established by the Gujarat government, which has been constituted by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment. The community’s housing, education,…
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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

‘We are equal’: Thai party candidate aims to be first transgender Prime Minister

SBS News
02/15/2019
Pauline Ngarmpring wants to become Thailand’s first transgender prime minister to bring hope to the marginalised and make political life accessible for future LGBT people. As Pinit Ngarmpring,…
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