Remembering the gay bar inferno that most people have forgotten

• Released Date: 07-Feb-2019

The 2016 massacre at Pulse in Orlando was, at the time, the worst mass shooting in US history. Most of those killed were members of the LGBTI community. Gay people across the world remember and <a href="https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/orlando-p

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Australian senator Cory Bernardi says same-sex marriage leads to bestiality

• Released Date: 05-Feb-2019

The leader of the Australian Conservatives, Cory Bernardi, has suggested that the legalisation of same-sex marriage in his country has resulted in a push for bestiality laws. In an interview with Sky News Australia, Bernardi, who campaigned against

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Faith should be no barrier to schools teaching respect for LGBT rights

• Released Date: 04-Feb-2019

Some parents may not be happy about it, but programmes like No Outsiders are important and should be expanded <span class="drop-cap"><span class="drop-cap__inner"></span></span>recently we’ve seen several clashes between local communities and educat

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Being a queer parent is never easy, but you’re not alone

• Released Date: 04-Feb-2019

For LGBTQ parents, the challenges are largely the same as those faced by anyone else raising a child. That first lost tooth is the same no matter what, just like the first skinned knee and the first day of school: the obstacles and the milestones

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This is why Lunar New Year is a time of massive anxiety for LGBTIs in China

• Released Date: 03-Feb-2019

Sometimes our parents are more like children than we are,’ one gay man in China said. Justin doesn’t plan to return to his hometown in southern China this Lunar New Year. As a closeted gay man, Justin said he could not face the ‘worry and uncertainty

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Hong Kong top court denies male status to three transgender men

• Released Date: 02-Feb-2019

Hong Kong’s High Court refused to allow three transgender men to be recognized as males on their official identity cards because they have not undergone full sex-change operations. The ruling Friday was seen as a blow to the fledgling LGBT movement i

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Trans woman shot to death by armed men, one critically injured in Pakistan

• Released Date: 31-Jan-2019

The trans community in Pakistan plans to take to the streets to protest another murder of a trans woman. Armed men on motorbikes allegedly opened fire on three trans women as the returned home after a wedding on Tuesday night (29 January). The attac

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Christian print shop owner rejects brochure for LGBT charity fund

• Released Date: 31-Jan-2019

The Christian owner of a print shop has defended his decision to reject a LGBT charity fund’s brochure, claiming it’s against his religion to “promote” the gay lifestyle. Yorke Printe Shoppe in Lombard, Illinois had received the order for brochures

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Shocking video shows women barging into meeting and harassing trans woman

• Released Date: 30-Jan-2019

Sarah McBride, who works for the Human Rights Campaign, was specfically targeted. A shocking video posted on Facebook shows two women barging into a meeting in Washington, DC, and harassing a transgender woman. Posie Parker began streaming the live v

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70% of Americans believe trans people should be able to serve in the military

• Released Date: 30-Jan-2019

A large majority of Americans (70%) believe transgender people should be able to serve in the military, according to a new Quinnipiac University National Poll released on Tuesday (29 January). The poll surveyed people across the United States on a v

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Ninety percent of trans Indians face harrassment, survey finds

• Released Date: 29-Jan-2019

Most trans people said they did not feel safe on the streets and had been rejected from their families. Nearly all trans people face daily harassment and discrimination, according to a survey by Panjab University in Chandigarh, northern India. Ninet

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More in Japan identify as LGBT as social awareness grows

• Released Date: 28-Jan-2019

In a survey aimed at 60,000 people nationwide by Dentsu Inc. on the 11th, it was announced that 8.9 percent of respondents identified themselves as sexual minorities (LGBT), which means homosexual individuals such as lesbians or gays, bisexual people

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