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Gay rights across the globe
- Released Date: 22-Oct-2019
Paris (AFP) Thirty years after the first-ever gay civil unions in Denmark, same-sex marriages are today allowed in 28 countries, but homosexuality remains illegal in some parts of the world. After the liberalisation of same sex marriage came into for
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Queer and conservative students are clashing at a religious Texas university
- Released Date: 20-Oct-2019
A group of LGBTQ students at Baylor University in Waco, Texas has begun clashing with Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a conservative student organization at the Baptist university.
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Reading LGBT protest held over Chick-fil-A outlet
- Released Date: 19-Oct-2019
LGBT rights campaigners have protested outside a shopping centre about a US fast-food chain's donations to anti-LGBT rights groups.More than 60 people joined the protest outside The Oracle shopping centre in Reading, where Chick-fil-A opened its firs
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Impeachment may just accelerate Trump’s anti-LGBTQ agenda
- Released Date: 19-Oct-2019
Before President Trump decided to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria, the only complaint that conservative Christians had against him was that <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/evangelicals-finally-find-reason-criticize-trump-curses/">he cur
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Polish Parliament Should Scrap Bill Against Sex Education
- Released Date: 18-Oct-2019
Threatening sex educators with jail may seem extreme – but it seems Poland’s ruling<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Pl-Prawo_i_Sprawiedliwo%C5%9B%C4%87.ogg">Prawo i Sprawiedliwość</a>(PiS) party is willing to go there to c
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Anglican churches reject Sydney archbishop’s stance on same-sex marriage
- Released Date: 17-Oct-2019
Anglican churches around Australia have rejected the Sydney archbishop’s call to same-sex marriage supporters to ‘please leave’ saying all are welcome. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian Anglican churches around Australia have pushed back against
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UN Body Urges South Korea to Improve Sexuality Education
- Released Date: 16-Oct-2019
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is <a href="https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CRC/Shared%20Documents/KOR/CRC_C_KOR_CO_5-6_37303_E.pdf">urging South Korea to revamp its sexuality education curriculum</a> to cover age-approp
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Neil Gorsuch could split the Supreme Court to a narrow victory on LGBTQ rights
- Released Date: 16-Oct-2019
The oral arguments in the <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/supreme-court-showed-liberal-conservative-split-lgbtq-cases-heres-went/"> and cases </a> have come and gone. In their wake? Much dread and, from some, a small amount of optimism
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Chick-fil-A's first UK restaurant sparks LGBT rights row
- Released Date: 16-Oct-2019
LGBT campaigners are calling for a boycott of a popular US restaurant chain's first UK branch. Chick-fil-A, the third-largest fast-food chain in the US, made its British restaurant debut last week in the Oracle shopping centre in Reading. But campaig
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Chick-fil-A offered a school a free lunch. The principal rejected it to support LGBTQ teachers.
- Released Date: 16-Oct-2019
A principal in Louisiana rejected a free meal from Chick-fil-A for his school, citing the company’s anti-LGBTQ donations. Teachers at Lusher High School in New Orleans were offered a free lunch from Chick-fil-A, but principal Dr. Steven Corbett rejec
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Ugandan MPs press for death penalty for homosexual acts
- Released Date: 15-Oct-2019
MPs in Uganda are to push for new laws to make homosexual acts punishable by death. James Nsaba Buturo, an MP, said parliamentarians wanted to retable a bill ruled unconstitutional by a court in 2014 that would introduce capital sentences for gay se
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LGBT teaching row: Call for larger exclusion zone
- Released Date: 14-Oct-2019
A bigger exclusion zone may be needed around a school due to ongoing protests against teaching of LGBT relationships, a court heard. The High Court granted a temporary injunction against protests outside the school gates at Anderton
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