Anti-gay nonprofits, businesses received millions in Covid-19 aid

• Released Date: 12-Dec-2020

A number of organizations, schools and businesses with either a history of anti-LGBTQ advocacy or policies that explicitly discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals have received millions in pandemic relief fundin

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Civil partnership conversion for landmark gay couple

• Released Date: 12-Dec-2020

Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane were the first gay men in the UK to get a civil partnership back in 2005. But they were left in a legal limbo when the laws were changed to allow same-sex couples to get married in NI

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First same-sex religious wedding in Northern Ireland

• Released Date: 12-Dec-2020

"For most people, your wedding day is known as being the best day of your life - for us, it's a dream come true that growing up we thought we would never have," said Mr McNaughten.

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Bhutan Becomes Latest Asian Nation to Dial Back Anti-Gay Laws

• Released Date: 12-Dec-2020

Lawmakers in the Himalayan country voted this week to amend a 2004 law that criminalizes “sexual conduct that is against the order of nature,” previously treated as a reference to gay sex.

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Bhutan Becomes Latest Asian Nation to Dial Back Anti-Gay Laws

• Released Date: 12-Dec-2020

Lawmakers in the Himalayan country voted this week to amend a 2004 law that criminalizes “sexual conduct that is against the order of nature,” previously treated as a reference to gay sex.

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Bhutan Becomes Latest Asian Nation to Dial Back Anti-Gay Laws

• Released Date: 12-Dec-2020

Lawmakers in the Himalayan country voted this week to amend a 2004 law that criminalizes “sexual conduct that is against the order of nature,” previously treated as a reference to gay sex.

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Genderless uniforms spread in Japan as LGBT students gain notice

• Released Date: 11-Dec-2020

A growing number of Japanese prefectural high schools are relaxing or scrapping gender codes for uniforms to meet the needs of transgender and other sexual-minority students, with around a third of prefectures taking such steps in response to an Educ

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Kingdom of Bhutan finally votes to make gay sex legal

• Released Date: 11-Dec-2020

The isolated Asian country in the Himalayas had previously criminalized ‘unnatural sex’ under Sections 213 and 214 of its Penal Code. The authorities have long interpreted that as a ban on homosexuality.

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Genderless uniforms spread in Japan as LGBT students gain notice

• Released Date: 11-Dec-2020

A growing number of Japanese prefectural high schools are relaxing or scrapping gender codes for uniforms to meet the needs of transgender and other sexual-minority students, with around a third of prefectures taking such steps in response to an Educ

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LGBT+ employees still feel more lonely and less appreciated

• Released Date: 09-Dec-2020

LGBT+ employees are still hiding themselves at work and feel more isolated and less appreciated by their bosses. That’s according to new research looking at three European markets – Germany, Poland and the UK – and three high-growth economies – Chi

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Turkey is about to put 19 people on trial for organizing a Pride

• Released Date: 08-Dec-2020

The 19 people held the event on 10 May 2019 and authorities charged them in August 2019. But the courts have delayed the trial several times under international pressure. Now they have a new court date of 10 December – which also happens to be Intern

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Victory for trans advocates as Supreme Court rejects bathroom policy appeal

• Released Date: 08-Dec-2020

The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from Oregon parents who want transgender students in their school district to use locker rooms and bathrooms based on their sex assigned at birth.

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