Iran publicly hangs man on charges of homosexuality

• Released Date: 28-Jan-2019

Human rights activists have questioned the speed in which the man was executed. Iran has publicly hanged a man on charges of homosexuality. The unidentified man, 31, was executed after he was found guilty of raping two males, as well as kidnapping c

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Washington DC becomes the first territory in the US to ban gay ‘cure’ therapy for adults

• Released Date: 27-Jan-2019

Several states and dozens of cities have imposed bans on minors, but not adults. Washington DC has become the first territory of the United States to ban gay ‘cure’ therapy for not just minors, but adults as well. The only other place in the country

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2% of high school students are transgender according to the federal government

• Released Date: 27-Jan-2019

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds that nearly 2% of current high school students identify as transgender, even as more than half of them report feeling u

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Employees forced out of jobs at American Bible Society for not signing anti-gay document

• Released Date: 25-Jan-2019

Employees at the <strong>American Bible Society</strong> will be out of a job starting 1 February unless they sign an anti-gay document. The American Bible Society is a nondenominational organization translating, publishing, and distributing the Bib

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LGBTQ people suffer when religion government mix

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2019

A pair of recent decisions from two of the southern federal Circuit Courts of Appeals should be alarming us all.  Instead, they’re only alarming a handful of us – because, overall, our community still clings to the inexplicable belief that religion c

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Angola becomes the first country to legalize homosexuality in 2019

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2019

Angola overturned a law that was used to prosecute people for homosexuality and banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.This past Wednesday, Angola’s parliament passed a new penal code to replace the one it inherited from Portugal

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LGBTQ people suffer when religion government mix

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2019

A pair of recent decisions from two of the southern federal Circuit Courts of Appeals should be alarming us all.  Instead, they’re only alarming a handful of us – because, overall, our community still clings to the inexplicable belief that religion c

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Transgenders are successful people too, says activist

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2019

KUALA LUMPUR: Cosmetics entrepreneur Nur Sajat Kamaruzzaman has worked hard to be the successful person she is today, a transgender advocate said.Khartini Slamah said: “Sajat worked hard. There are many Mak Nyahs who have also succeeded but whose

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Supreme Court allows Trump’s ban on trans military members to go into effect

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2019

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Second Act director Peter Segal says LGBTQ stories will “reinvigorate” rom-coms

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2019

<h4>“I think the mainstream is realising that this is the way of the future, and that love is love.”</h4>Peter Segal has directed some of the most legendary comedies of the 21st century (fact!).His newest release, Second Act, sees Jennifer Lopez retu

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A gay couple was brutally attacked for holding hands in public. They’re lucky to be alive.

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2019

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LGBT statistics accused of underestimating queer population in Britain

• Released Date: 21-Jan-2019

tonewall’s director of campaigns, policy and research, Paul Twocock, told <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/21/number-people-uk-identifying-heterosexual-falls-again-ons?CMP=twt_gu">The Guardian</a></em> that the statistics cou

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