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Swiss Voters Approve Ban on Anti-gay Discrimination

Swiss voters on Sunday approved a referendum to ban anti-gay discrimination in a landslide, 63 percent to 37 percent, reaffirming an antidiscrimination law approved by the Swiss Federal Assembly in 2018. The reaffirmed law makes it illegal to publicly denigrate, discriminate or stir up hatred based on a person’s sexual orientation. The 2018 bill was an expansion of a law passed in 1995 that banned denigration, discrimination and hate speech on the basis of race and religion with potential fines and prison sentences for violations. The new law does not ban gender identity discrimination. Only three of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, […]

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Man Found Dead after Arranging a Grindr Hook-up

The body of a 56-year-old Australian man was found hours after he allegedly left home for a Grindr hook-up. The unidentified Canberra man was discovered dead on February 2 by a man walking his dog in Boulee, New South Wales. His body had been dumped in bushland a few metres away from the purple Honda Jazz he had been driving. He had no visible injuries, and police are waiting for autopsy results to determine his cause of death. Officers believe the man had been on his way to a Grindr hook-up, as he was known to use the app and […]

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Same-Sex Marriage Begins In Northern Ireland

RTE news reports: Two Belfast women have become the first same-sex partners to get married in Northern Ireland. Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, tied the knot at 2pm in Carrickfergus, just outside Belfast, following the landmark law change last year championed by the Love Equality campaign. “We didn’t expect to be the first couple, it’s coincidental,” said Ms Edwards. “Today is our six-year anniversary so we wanted to go ahead with a civil partnership but when the bill was passed, it was perfect timing. “It was a happy coincidence, we couldn’t be more grateful.”

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Systemic Discrimination Against Transgender Women Happening in Lebanon

Transgender women—people designated male at birth but who identify and may present themselves as women—face systemic discrimination in education, employment, housing, and the provision of health care in Lebanon. They are also at greater risk of arbitrary arrest. Arrests and questioning at checkpoints are often accompanied by physical violence by law enforcement officials. Trans women also face routine violence and the threat of violence by members of the public and are denied police protection, compromising their ability to live in safety and positioning them in a perpetual state of precarity. This discrimination, which emanates from severe social stigma and isolation, […]

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Most UK LGBT Youth Hide their Identity to Protect Themselves from Bullying, Study Finds

Homophobic and transphobic bullying are commonplace in Britain’s school, nearly 4,000 LGBT+ youth, have said according to a glaringly obvious study. In the hallways and cafeterias of schools up and down Britain, half of queer young people reported facing abuse from fellow pupils, research from the British LGBT Awards published yesterday found. Moreover, just one in four LGBT+ people under the age of 25 said they felt able to come out in school, and eight in 10 pupils were pelted with verbal abuse. Research leads called the findings of the report “startling”, noting that as much as progress is going ahead in […]

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Coronavirus ‘Panic’ Could Leave HIV-positive People without Lifesaving Medication, WHO Warns

As scientists report tentative success in treating coronavirus patients with HIV drugs, health officials fear that misinformation about the virus could spark a run on medications. Last month clinical trials in Wuhan, China, began treating coronavirus patients using a combination of two anti-HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir, which are sold under the brand name Kaletra by AbbVie. The treatment showed promising results, and on Sunday doctors in Thailand confirmed that one patient who was given a mixture of flu drugs and the lopinavir-ritonavir combination had “vastly improved”. But the global panic over the virus has been accompanied by a wave of misinformation […]

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Every Single UK Venue Has now Dropped Hate Preacher Franklin Graham

Every single UK venue booked by anti-LGBT preacher Franklin Graham has now ditched his events, after an outcry from activists. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an evangelist tour. However, every single venue booked for the eight-date tour has now cancelled, after being made aware of his extreme anti-LGBT views. Last UK venue drops Franklin Graham The Utilita Arena in Newcastle was the final venue to announce it had axed the preacher, following […]

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Ten Men Behind Bars to await ‘Judgement’ for a Secret Gay Wedding in Mauritania

Ten men have been jailed in Mauritania after a video emerged of a gay couple appearing to take part in a traditional wedding ceremony. Homosexuality is illegal in the North African country of Mauritania and punishable by death under Sharia law, although there are no known cases of executions in the past decade. The arrest of the ten men marks a rare enforcement of the Islamic law, and if convicted they could face the death penalty by stoning. They were detained by police after a video of the ceremony surfaced on social media. It soon began circulating in local news and […]

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Two More UK Arenas Cancel Hate Preacher Franklin Graham’s Events

Two further venues have cancelled rallies by US hate preacher Franklin Graham, as a backlash grows to his planned UK tour. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an evangelist tour. Venues hosting the tour have faced complaints from LGBT+ activists – with a Liverpool conference venue dropping him on Monday. Following the pressure, two further venues have followed suit. Franklin Graham dropped by Sheffield and Glasgow venues Glasgow’s SEC Arena confirmed on Wednesday […]

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‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Documents Russian Region’s Anti-gay Purge

You can do anything with a face on screen these days, whether it’s shaving decades off with a digital scalpel or deepfaking it into unrecognizable oblivion. Usually this wizardry has the air of a stunt, a transformation pulled off merely because it’s possible. Never, however, have such effects proven as chillingly essential as they are in “Welcome to Chechnya,” a vital, pulse-quickening new documentary from journalist-turned-filmmaker David France that urgently lifts the lid on one of the most horrifying humanitarian crises of present times: the state-sanctioned purge of LGBTQ people in the eponymous southern Russian republic. Closely charting multiple missions to extract […]

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