Hong Kong leader accused of snubbing LGBTI issues in live Q&A

• Released Date: 20-Aug-2018

LGBTI groups released a statement expressing disappointment at Carrie Lam for ignoring their questions and messages on Facebook Live.

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California’s Senate passes bill to make conversion therapy a ‘fraudulent practice’

• Released Date: 20-Aug-2018

California is on the brink of banning gay conversion therapy with a new bill that could protect LGBT+ people across the state from the harmful practice.

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Austria has rejected gay asylum seekers for the most ridiculous reasons

• Released Date: 18-Aug-2018

At least two gay asylum seekers have been rejected by Austria in the past few months for some of the most ridiculous reasons. One of the men who was rejected was Navid, who came from Iran.

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Massachusetts fails to pass bill banning conversion therapy

• Released Date: 17-Aug-2018

Massachusetts this month failed to pass a bill banning conversion therapy for minors, even though both the Senate and House approved it.

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Cuba may legalize marriage equality. That doesn’t mean it’s a gay paradise.

• Released Date: 16-Aug-2018

Cuba looks like it’s about to join the growing list of countries that have legalized marriage equality. The country is considering a new constitution that would define marriage as between two individuals, not as between a man and a woman.

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Christian law school drops gay sex ban after Supreme Court ruling

• Released Date: 16-Aug-2018

A Christian university in Canada has abandoned a rule forcing all law students to agree not to have gay sex after the Supreme Court ruled against the school.

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Germany has approved plans to legally recognise a third gender

• Released Date: 15-Aug-2018

In November, the highest court in the country ruled in favour of an intersex person and ordered the Parliament to legally recognise a third gender from birth or remove gender from documents.

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Outcry over sentence for gay women in Malaysia

• Released Date: 15-Aug-2018

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is routinely persecuted in Muslim-majority Malaysia, where they are seen as a threat to conservative values.

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First transgender candidate sets sights on November election

• Released Date: 15-Aug-2018

The transgender woman who won Vermont’s Democratic primary is now turning her sights on the November election and her upcoming political battle with the Republican incumbent.

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Germany approves measure to recognize third gender on birth certificates

• Released Date: 15-Aug-2018

The move comes several months after the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the government must create a third gender category or scrap the gender marker on birth certificates completely.

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Fuziah: Don’t drive LGBT group away from Islam

• Released Date: 15-Aug-2018

KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Fuziah Salleh yesterday said the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) group must be approached with compassion and respect

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Keep The Rainbow Out Of The Corporate: The LGBT Community is Desperately Seeking Freedom At Workplace

• Released Date: 15-Aug-2018

The Right to Privacy judgement attributed sexual orientation as an essential attribute of privacy, but is sexuality limited to being confined to the comfortable privacy of our bedroom? With the bells tonging for our 72nd Independence Day, how safe is

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