Ghanaian man narrowly escapes being burned alive by violent ‘vigilante’ gang who suspected him of being gay

• Released Date: 11-Mar-2020

The incident occurred in  <a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/27/top-imam-vows-to-stop-demonic-lgbt-conference-from-coming-to-ghana/">Accra</a>, Ghana on February 11, where homosexuality is illegal and anti-LGBT+ sentiment is common.Ebenezer

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Federal court settlement ends South Carolina ban on talking about LGBTQ people in schools

• Released Date: 11-Mar-2020

The state of South Carolina has settled a lawsuit against its ban on discussing LGBTQ people in school sex education curricula and agreed not to enforce the law anymore. <a href="https://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article241090486.html">LG

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Politician claims school’s rainbow flag sticker is a sign of the “collapse of humanity”

• Released Date: 11-Mar-2020

High school students and parents in Wythe County, Virginia are standing up to a County Supervisor who attacked their school’s LGBTQ student association, calling it a sign of the “collapse of humanity.”County Supervisor Stacy Terry posted on Facebook

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Donald West obituary

• Released Date: 11-Mar-2020

The criminologist and psychiatrist Donald West, who has died aged 95, made his name with his book Homosexuality, first published in 1955. The time was right, West wrote then, to deal with the “problem” of homosexuality in a dispassionate and popular

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LGBTQ association achieves major legal milestone in Tunisia

• Released Date: 10-Mar-2020

TUNIS — In a first for Tunisia and the Arab world,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lgbtrightstunisia/">Shams</a>, an association founded in early 2015 to defend LGBTQ rights, was  <a href="http://www.attessia.tv/news/politics/713110/%D8%A7%D9%84%D

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Canada may soon have the world’s “most progressive and comprehensive” conversion therapy ban

• Released Date: 10-Mar-2020

The Canadian government has introduced legislation to ban conversion therapy across the country. Parliament is expected to approve the bill, making it the “most progressive and comprehensive” conversion therapy ban anywhere in the world.The legislati

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Gay man’s face was cut up with a meat cleaver in vicious hate crime

• Released Date: 10-Mar-2020

Two men attacked a gay man with a meat cleaver and threatened to cut off his genitalia in a horrifying home burglary, leaving him with scars and other injuries all over his body.Joseph Stanislav was planning to attend Sydney Gay Lesbian Mardi Gras a

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‘The media can help shift the narrative about sex work’ - LGBTIQ activist

• Released Date: 10-Mar-2020

Sex work is a complex social issue and the discussion should address the most pressing needs and issues of sex workers, LGBTIQ and human rights activist RUTH BALDACCHINO told Giulia Magri during an interview. Baldacchino believes that Malta should be

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These men said they would “kill” a gay couple for holding hands if they didn’t pay $26

• Released Date: 10-Mar-2020

David Bailey, 18, and Ashley Roberts, 19, were sentenced 32 months in a youth prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an attack on a gay couple for holding hands.“They were perfectly entitled to walk as they were, hand in hand,” Judge S

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Transgender people, “Come out, come out, wherever you are”

• Released Date: 10-Mar-2020

It’s official. The Trump administration and several red states are reversing gains made during the Obama administration for LGBTQ people.For instance, the South Dakota House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would criminalize doctors who

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Ohio LGBTQ civil rights bill could finally pass

• Released Date: 09-Mar-2020

Ohio has yet to pass statewide anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, leaving the  <a href="https://www.equalityohio.org/our-work/local/municipal-map/">majority of Ohio cities without protection</a> in

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Joe Biden is the candidate that LGBTQ people should choose for President

• Released Date: 08-Mar-2020

As  <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/pete-buttigieg-wins-primary-democrats-need-rally-behind/">I wrote in an article</a> back in December 2019, I strongly believed that Pete Buttigieg was the number one choice when it came to the field of

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