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WATCH: Meet India’s first and only LGBTI choir
- Released Date: 15-Jul-2017
LGBTI choirs are commonplace in the US and UK, but far less so in other parts of the world.Despite having a population of 1.3billion, and an estimated LGBTI population potentially of over 70million, India only got its first gay choir in 2014.
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Chechnya leader describes gay people as the ‘devil’ and tells them to move to Canada
- Released Date: 15-Jul-2017
Chechnya lead Ramzan Kadyrov has called gay people the devil and once again denied reports of the gay purge in the region. Speaking to HBO, the Chechen president said that if there were any gay people living in the region, then they should move to Ca
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Gay couple seeking asylum in Germany viciously attacked
- Released Date: 15-Jul-2017
A gay couple from Serbia who are seeking asylum in Germany has been viciously beaten to within an inch of their life.The two men, who are married, have both been hospitalised after they were severely beaten in the attack that took place in a refugee
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Andrew Garfield is right. His gay comments were taken out of context
- Released Date: 15-Jul-2017
Last week, when talking about his lead role in the London production of Tony Kushner’s iconic play Angels in America, Andrew Garfield talked about how he felt he shouldn’t take the role.
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The Wildeblood scandal: the trial that rocked 1950s Britain – and changed gay rights
- Released Date: 14-Jul-2017
The Wildeblood case was less sensational than the Wilde case, but it has had as much of an afterlife. Peter Wildeblood’s ordeal – he was tried and convicted in 1954, along with Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and Michael Pitt-Rivers – is as far in the past
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Bronx cheer: Why won’t the Yankees support their LGBT fans?
- Released Date: 14-Jul-2017
Even though it is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, and home to one of the nation’s biggest pride celebrations every year, it turns out New York City is no better than Los Angeles, Cincinnati or Milwaukee.
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Supreme Court rules same-sex marriages should be totally equal, the rest is up to us
- Released Date: 13-Jul-2017
Yesterday the UK Supreme Court ruled same-sex married couples should get the same pension benefits as straight couples.That is very welcome. Of course, this should never have been the case as surely equal marriage should be – well, equal.
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Doctors must stop refusing to help trans people
- Released Date: 13-Jul-2017
To the UK trans and non-binary people who have been frustrated by NHS gender care for many years, a new set of service specifications may sound like a delicious and fulfilling box of your favourite chocolates. So magical, they don’t even contain any
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Indonesia moves anti-gay floggings out of the public eye
- Released Date: 13-Jul-2017
Indonesia has moved the flogging of LGBT people away from the public eye, but continues to punish LGBT people.Amnesty International earlier this year urged Indonesia to stop the caning and arrests of LGBT people.
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Man wins equal pension rights for husband at supreme court
- Released Date: 12-Jul-2017
A gay former cavalry officer has won a legal battle to provide his husband with equal pension rights in a landmark discrimination case at the supreme court.The unanimous judgment, which could benefit thousands of couples, will ensure that should John
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UK Supreme Court rules in favor of gay man seeking pension rights
- Released Date: 12-Jul-2017
A gay British retiree has won a legal battle to secure the same occupational pension rights for his husband that a wife would enjoy.Five judges at the Supreme Court, Britain‘s highest court, ruled that if John Walker died, his husband would be entitl
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper just linked same-sex attraction to bad health
- Released Date: 12-Jul-2017
LGBTI Australians are furious at a newspaper article that links same-sex attraction with health issues such as obesity, alcohol and drug use.Sydney’s most read newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, published a story today on a report about young people by
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