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Ecuador adoption law bars LGBTQ+ couples and adds custody risk for parents supporting trans children

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LGBTQ+ advocates and Human Rights Watch have condemned Ecuador’s new adoption reform for explicitly barring LGBTQ+ couples and requiring single adopters to be straight, while also creating a potential route to custody loss for families accused of “promoting” gender-affirming care for trans children. The Reform Law of Various Legal Bodies for the Streamlining of Adoption took effect on 14 August after being approved by Ecuador’s National Assembly in a 118-0 vote. The law has been presented as an effort to streamline adoption and reduce the time children spend in foster care. Under the legislation, only different-sex couples can adopt children. […]

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Grindr to pay out £26million settlement in lawsuit over sharing HIV status info

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Grindr has agreed to pay a £26million settlement in a UK lawsuit brought by thousands of users who allege the app shared highly sensitive personal data, including their HIV status, with advertising companies. The settlement, reports The Guardian, ends a two-year legal battle after Austen Hays filed a claim at the High Court of England and Wales in April 2024 on behalf of Grindr users, alleging breaching privacy laws during a period of time up to the start of 2020. Austen Hays represented 12,000 people in the case, who will receive an average compensation of £2,167 each if the settlement is distributed equally. Grindr said […]

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San Diego repeals bathhouse ordinance passed during HIV/AIDS crisis

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San Diego has officially removed a decades-old ordinance that targeted LGBTQ+ people from its books. The San Diego City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday (1 September) to repeal a bathhouse ordinance originally passed in 1988 and amended in 1991, during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The law explicitly sought to regulate bathhouses in an effort to prevent gay and bisexual men from having sex and transmitting HIV, as reported by KPBS. The ordinance had effectively been sitting unused for years. Council President Joe LaCava’s office brought the repeal forward after a staffer stumbled across it while searching the city’s municipal code. LaCava said the law […]

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Nepal LGBTQ+ group marks Pride with vigil for flood victims

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Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society (BDS) chose to pause its usual Pride and Gai Jatra celebration this year, instead marking the occasion with a candlelight ceremony in solidarity with a nation facing devastating floods. In an Instagram post on 30 August, BDS said it wanted to “remember, mourn, support and care together” rather than hold its usual celebration. The organisation gathered to remember members of Nepal’s gender and sexual minority communities who had died over the past year, while also mourning those killed in the recent floods, including Nepali citizens and foreign tourists. The candlelight ceremony honoured those who lost their lives, while […]

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Trump administration report links trans support to political violence

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The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has released a new report claiming that support for transgender rights is associated with “left-wing authoritarianism” and a greater willingness to justify political violence. Critics have dismissed the 20-page report released on 27 August as “junk science” and accused the administration of using taxpayer money to manufacture a justification for targeting trans people and their allies. The Human Rights Campaign released a statement the same day as the report, writing: “The entities that conducted the supposed ‘research,’ the Manhattan Institute and the Network Contagion Research Institute, are both known conservative-leaning think tanks with track records of producing reports that […]

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Record number of US adult population are LGBTQ+, census data suggests

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There are an estimated 26.5million LGBTQ+ adults in the US (Image: Getty Images) LGBTQ+ people now make up 12% of the adult population in the US, according to a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation analysis of US Census Bureau data, estimating roughly 26.5million people nationwide. The analysis drew on more than 2.4million entries from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, collected between 2021 and 2024. HRC president Kelley Robinson said in a statement, as per Them: “LGBTQ+ Americans are everywhere,” adding: “There are 25million of us across the country, and we now have critical mass in almost every state in the nation. We’re not […]

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Ghana Anglican Church officially speaks out against country’s new anti-LGBTQ+ laws

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The leader of Ghana’s Anglican Church has officially opposed harsher anti-LGBTQ+ laws that will soon be introduced in the West African country. Archbishop Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith spoke out against the impending laws last week while speaking to the BBC. The Draconian law will make simply identifying as anything under the LGBTQ+ umbrella a criminal offence. The bill also criminalises the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities, and introduces a “duty to report” acts that go against the law. Anyone that identifies as an ally to the community can also face imprisonment. Exemptions would be made for those who work in the legal, media and healthcare sectors […]

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Russian LGBT Network shuts down after ‘extremism’ ruling makes its work ‘impossible’

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Gay rights activists march in St. Petersburg in May 2013 (Image: Getty Images, stock) The Russian LGBT Network has announced it is shutting down after a St Petersburg court designated the group an “extremist” organisation, saying the ruling makes public operations too risky for staff, supporters and people seeking help. The group confirmed the decision in a statement on Telegram. A St Petersburg court in April declared the Russian LGBT Network “extremist” following a lawsuit by Russia’s Justice Ministry. The Russian LGBT Network said the label makes its previous public format of work impossible because “any connection to the organisation may create additional […]

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Ohio blocks trans people from changing their gender marker on ID in sudden move

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Ohio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) has stopped allowing people to change the gender marker on driver’s licences and state ID cards to reflect someone’s gender identity, instead requiring the marker to match a birth certificate or passport. Previously, Ohioans could change the gender marker on their licence or ID by submitting a form to the BMV, however that process has been immediately discontinued. Ohio joins a growing list of states, including Wyoming, where changes to gender markers on ID are either banned or more difficult to make. BMV spokesperson Lindsey Bohrer told the Toledo Blade: “The BMV will record the sex that is stated […]

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Five LGBTQ+ Democrats advance after winning Florida primaries

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Florida voters delivered a series of wins for out LGBTQ+ candidates Tuesday (18 August), with five out Democrats advancing in races for the Florida House as LGBTQ+-backed candidates also made gains in school board contests across the state. The five candidates, Jane Aman, Felipe Sousa Lazaballet, Samuel Vilchez Santiago, Luis Salazar and Todd Delmay, were among the candidates endorsed by Equality Florida, whose political arm reported that 81 percent of its endorsed candidates won their races. Equality Florida Action PAC celebrated the results as a sign that voters are pushing back against the state’s increasingly conservative political landscape. “Last night, Florida voters […]

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