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Bangladesh university condemned as students reportedly expelled and handed to police over alleged homosexuality

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Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University has been condemned by advocacy groups for their treatment of students (Image: Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University) A technical university in Bangladesh has reportedly expelled four students and handed two others to police following allegations of homosexuality, prompting condemnation in a statement by JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF). JMBF chief adviser Robert Simon said: “When an educational institution attempts to control private life, personal relationships, and sexual identity, it ceases to be a place of education and humanity and instead becomes an instrument of oppression. This must stop immediately”. JMBF said the incidents […]

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Zelensky Backs New Discussions On LGBTQ Rights

The Kyiv Independent reports: There should be open public discussion about the rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 11, in a rare reference to the topic. Zelensky’s comment came during a cultural event in Kyiv, as legislative efforts to advance LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine continue to face slow progress, despite growing public support in recent years. Oleksandr Demenko, a veteran and head of an LGBTQ+ military and veterans NGO asked the president whether Ukraine needs cultural products that “normalize LGBTQ+ topic” and help increase public tolerance in the country. “I believe that everything should be […]

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30,000 Christians Counter-Protest Seoul Pride 

The Chosun Daily reports: On the 13th, the Seoul Queer Festival, one of South Korea’s representative queer events, was held. Meanwhile, a counter rally opposing homosexuality also took place, causing congestion in downtown Seoul. The Seoul Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee held the 27th Seoul Queer Parade, an event with an estimated 50,000 participant along Ujeongguk-ro in  Seoul. The core event, the queer parade, began at 4 p.m. Approximately 600 meters away from the queer culture festival venue, in front of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, a rally opposing homosexuality with an estimated 30,000 participants was held. The rally, titled *Marriage Between Men […]

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What Do Canadian Separatists Want for LGBTQ People? Albertans May Soon Find Out

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On a Friday afternoon in February, Teresa McCleary and Rose Milner sat near the entrance to Calgary’s Boddums Up Pub, collecting signatures for a petition pushing for Alberta—which is widely recognized as Canada’s most conservative province—to separate from the rest of the country. “I want the old Alberta back. I want our free Alberta back. … We are a cash cow for the East. They don’t care about us,” says McCleary, who sported a baseball cap with the words “I am Albertan!” As for Milner, she feels Canada is becoming “communist.” “Bring back the ‘60s,” she told Uncloseted Media and GAY TIMES. […]

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Italian Catholic Scouts group to allow LGBTQ+ leaders for first time

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Italy’s Catholic Scouts is set to allow LGBTQ+ Scout leaders to join the group for the first time ever as it updates its outdated selection criteria. The council for the Italian Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts, also known as AGESCI, announced the change in a document shared on 28 May. “AGESCI has reached the conclusion that… emotional orientation and gender identity cannot constitute exclusion criteria in the discernment that community leaders are called upon to exercise when an adult requests to join the association to play an educational role,” the document said. It went on to say that the teaching of being […]

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More gay and bi men in the UK are donating blood than ever before

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Gay and bisexual men in England are donating blood in larger numbers than ever before, a new survey has shown. The surge follows a change in the eligibility criteria for England, Scotland and Wales that was introduced in 2021. In the 1980s, queer men were completely banned from donating blood to prevent the transmission of HIV after the AIDS crisis. In 2011, the ban was then lifted, but queer men wanting to donate had to adhere to strict rules, including a requirement to abstain from having sex with another man for 12 months prior. That period was then reduced to three months in 2017. Matt Hancock, […]

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Police Approve Budapest Pride March After Last Year’s March Banned By Viktor Orban Drew 200,000 Protesters

Via press release from the European Green Party: The European Green Party is very happy that Budapest Pride 2026 has received approval to go on, after last year’s edition was a powerful show of defiance against Viktor Orbán. Ciarán Cuffe, co-chair of the European Green Party, said: “We are very happy that this year’s Budapest Pride has received approval from the police. It is a hopeful signal for democracy and fundamental rights in Hungary after years of attacks on the LGBTQI+ community.” “We still have vivid memories of last year’s Budapest Pride 2025, when far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán tried […]

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Ghana Moves To Criminalize Identifying As LGBTQ

The BBC reports: The parliament in Ghana has approved a new bill criminalising homosexuality and the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities. It proposes that identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer be punished by up to three years’ imprisonment. The bill also introduces a “duty to report” prohibited acts to police. Religious leaders have pressured President John Dramani Mahama, who still needs to ratify the legislation, to strengthen anti-gay laws since he came to power last year. In an address to parliament, the bill’s sponsor Reverend John Ntim Fordjour [photo] said it would protect Ghanaian family and cultural values. Anyone who […]

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Europe has a new best country for LGBTQ+ rights

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ILGA Europe has published its annual Rainbow Map and LGBTQ+ rights index, and Spain has now claimed the number one spot for the most LGBTQ+-positive laws and policies. Spain displaced Malta from the number one spot, a position that Malta had held for the last 10 years. ILGA explained in its report that, “Spain’s rise to the top reflects a combination of achievements, including a fully functioning depathologization of trans identities in healthcare, new legal protections, new national LGBTI and trans strategies, a new independent equal treatment and non-discrimination authority, and a determined fightback against far-right attempts to dismantle national trans […]

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13-year-old Russian kid prosecuted for “LGBT propaganda” after he shared a video he found online

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Police in Russia charged a 13-year-old schoolboy for “LGBT propaganda” and displaying “extremist” symbols in May, after he shared an unidentified video with his classmates, and their parents complained, Mediazona reports. His identity was withheld to protect his privacy. Any number of symbols associated with LGBTQ+ identity are now classified as “extremist” in Russia, including rainbows. The designation came into effect with the Russian Supreme Court’s determination in 2023 that the so-called “international LGBT movement” is an “extremist” organization and now banned in the country. “He wasn’t trying to spread propaganda. He doesn’t even know what that is,” a lawyer representing the schoolboy told Mediazona. […]

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