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11 Ways the Global LGBT Community Has Helped the American LGBT Movement
- Released Date: 10-Feb-2015
The American LGBT community has increasingly begun to contribute to the success of LGBT rights worldwide. However, the contributions go both ways. Countries in some other parts of the world have adopted gay equality laws much earlier than the United
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Nepal committee recommends legalizing same-sex marriage
- Released Date: 10-Feb-2015
Nepal should legalize gay marriage, says a committee charged with implementing a 2007 Supreme Court ruling to improve LGBTI rights in the south Asian country.
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US confirms it will appoint gay diplomat to promote global LGBT rights
- Released Date: 10-Feb-2015
The State Department is creating the new role to promote LGBT rights across the world and Secretary Kerry wants to approach LGBT rights issues with a matter of urgency.
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Panel for legalising same-sex marriage
- Released Date: 09-Feb-2015
An expert panel formed to study the feasibility of same-sex marriage in the country submitted its report to the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday, recommending that the government legalise homosexual marriage.
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Obama urged to raise Brunei’s anti-gay laws in trade deal talks
- Released Date: 03-Feb-2015
President Obama has been urged to raise the subject of LGBT rights in trade talks with Brunei.
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Pakistani LGBT community’s fight for rights
- Released Date: 02-Feb-2015
Lahore, Pakistan - The transgender community in Pakistan has gained ground with the Supreme Court recognising a third gender on national identity cards, however, it remains widely discriminated against in the conservative society.
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Vietnam sees first celebrity gay wedding
- Released Date: 02-Feb-2015
Vietnam has got its first gay showbiz wedding, just weeks after the southeast Asian country lifted its ban on same-sex marriage.
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Mike Huckabee compares homosexuality to drinking alcohol and swearing
- Released Date: 01-Feb-2015
Rumoured Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has compared being gay to drinking alcohol.
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With De Mai Tinh 2, has Vietnam finally embraced gay film-making?
- Released Date: 30-Jan-2015
The slapstick comedy has broken box-office records in Vietnam, but LGBT campaigners are protesting against its flamboyantly camp central character
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Republican congressman: ‘Homosexual rights are not human rights’
- Released Date: 29-Jan-2015
A Republican congressman has been condemned for saying that he does not construe homosexual rights as human rights.
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Nigeria: 12 arrests at party; police call it ‘gay wedding’
- Released Date: 27-Jan-2015
Sharia police in northern Nigeria have arrested 12 feminine young men in the middle of a party that police allege was actually a gathering to celebrate a gay wedding.
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Malaysia Federal Court Decides Appellate Court’s Ruling on Transgender Rights Can Be Contested
- Released Date: 27-Jan-2015
(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) January 27, 2015 – A 2014 Malaysian landmark ruling in favor of trans rights has come under threat. The ruling recognized the rights of mak nyah (male to female gender non-conforming persons) in Negeri Sembilan (one of Malays
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