Ecuador Court votes to legalize same-sex marriage in landmark decision

• Released Date: 12-Jun-2019

Ecuador has voted in favor of marriage equality in a landmark ruling today (12 June).’’Confirming the hopes of local activists, the country’s Constitutional Court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage in the country.’’Today’s ruling centered on whether

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Social media both a blessing and curse for LGBT community, ‘Sapiens’ author says

• Released Date: 12-Jun-2019

Social media has drastically changed what it means to be a young person struggling with your sexual identity, philosopher and historian Yuval Noah Harari said at the first National Conference for Israel’s LGBT Community, on Tuesday in Tel Aviv.’’As t

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23% of young black women in the US now identify as bisexual

• Released Date: 12-Jun-2019

According to the latest General Social Survey, 23% of black women between 18 and 34 in the US now identify as bisexual.’’The scientists who conducted the study said the figure in the recent survey was three times higher than previously.’’The survey,

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Botswana decriminalizes gay sex in latest LGBT rights victory in Africa

• Released Date: 11-Jun-2019

Botswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex on Tuesday in a landmark case for Africa. The High Court of Botswana rejected as unconstitutional sections of the penal code punishing same-sex relations with up to seven years in prison.’’’

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Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics

• Released Date: 11-Jun-2019

The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies.’’The document, published during LGBT Pride Month, was imme

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LGBT | RIGHTS GROUP CHEERS BHUTAN’S MOVE TOWARD LEGALIZING GAY SEX

• Released Date: 10-Jun-2019

A global rights group yesterday welcomed Bhutan’s move toward becoming the latest South Asian nation to decriminalize homosexuality.’’The tiny Himalayan kingdom’s lower house of Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday to repeal provisions that said

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LGBT support growing in K-pop

• Released Date: 10-Jun-2019

When BTS addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York last year as goodwill ambassadors, something novel happened for South Korean artists. Leader RM told young people to speak for themselves, “no matter who you are, where you are from,

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’No one can live without love’: athlete Dutee Chand, India’s LGBT trailblazer

• Released Date: 10-Jun-2019

Dutee Chand, India’s fastest sprinter and the nation’s first athlete to reveal she is in a same-sex relationship, doesn’t describe herself as gay. When the word is used during an interview with the Guardian, she breaks in. “I didn’t tell reporters I

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Rights group hails Bhutan’s move to decriminalise homosexuality

• Released Date: 09-Jun-2019

A global rights group has welcomed Bhutan’s move towards becoming the latest South Asian nation to decriminalise homosexuality.’’The tiny Himalayan kingdom’s lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday to repeal provisions that said "unn

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After Taiwan, India...? The LGBT community speaks

• Released Date: 08-Jun-2019

A few weeks ago, Taiwan became Asia’s first state to legalise marriage between same-sex couples. It was a moment that Indian LGBT activists like Harish Iyer describe as one whose time had come. Asia’s giants such as China and India both have historie

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US man charged with triple murder targeting LGBT victims

• Released Date: 07-Jun-2019

A US man charged with fatally shooting three people and wounding two others targeted his victims because they were gay or transgender, prosecutors said.’’Devon Robinson, 19, of Detroit, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two c

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Four male teens arrested in violent attack on lesbian couple in London

• Released Date: 07-Jun-2019

London police arrested four male teenagers in connection with a violent, homophobic attack on a lesbian couple.’’On 30 May, Melania Geymonat was riding the N31 bus from West Hampstead with her girlfriend, Chris. The group of teenagers began harassing

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