International

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REPORT: Israel Sees Sharp Rise In Anti-LGBTQ Violence

Ynet Global reports: A report published Sunday by the Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel presents an unusually severe picture of anti-LGBTQ hatred in 2025, warning that online abuse is increasingly spilling into public spaces and turning into physical attacks, some of them allegedly carried out by organized groups. According to the report, at least one physical assault against an LGBTQ person occurs in Israel every week. Physical attacks accounted for half of all reported public-space incidents this year, a sharp rise from 32% in the previous report. Cases of extortion and threats also climbed dramatically, from 3% of reports last […]

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School celebrates as SCOTUS rejects forced outing case: “The good guys win, and truth prevails”

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The Supreme Court rejected a couple’s appeal on Monday in a case seeking to limit trans students’ rights in schools.  January and Jeffrey Littlejohn sued Florida’s Leon County School District in 2021 after claiming that school officials met with their child and created a support plan for trans/nonbinary students — in accordance with district policy — essentially “forcing” her child to be “a trans boy” without first consulting her. Littlejohn claimed that school officials discussed restrooms and name-change requests with their child without parental consent.  Anti-LGBTQ+ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) invoked the Littlejohns’ story as inspiration for signing the state’s Don’t Say Gay […]

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Man in critical condition after suspected homophobic assault in Bristol city centre

A man is in critical condition after a suspected homophobic attack in Bristol city centre. Emergency services were called to St Nicholas Street in the early hours of 24 April, where a man in his 30s was found unconscious with serious facial injuries. He was taken to the hospital, but his condition later deteriorated. Police say he is now in a critical but stable condition. Avon and Somerset Police are treating the incident as a hate crime and are searching for a group of three or four men believed to be responsible. The suspects reportedly fled on foot before leaving the […]

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European Parliament adopts measure to ban conversion therapy

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The European Parliament voted in favor of a ban on conversion therapy this Wednesday. The demand is now being sent to the European Commission for a response. The move comes after the European Citizens’ Initiative successfully petitioned the European Parliament to take up the issue. Starting in 2024, the ECI gathered over 1.2 million signatures from EU citizens to ban conversion therapy. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a debate on the matter earlier this week, which resulted in the committee adopting two opinions, one calling for stronger enforcement of the EU’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 and the […]

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Under New Extremism Laws, LGBTQ Russians Must Fight to Survive

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Natalia Soloviova always knew she was putting herself at risk. As the chair of the Russian LGBT Network, the largest queer advocacy group in the country, she had spent years preparing detailed security protocols for what she would do if the government came after her.  But it was still a nasty shock when she had to use them. In November 2023, almost two weeks before Russia’s supreme court would designate the “international LGBT movement” as an extremist organization, Soloviova’s heart sank when she watched Channel One, a state-funded TV network, air a reportabout her organization. They flashed her and her colleagues’ […]

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Botswana officially removed its anti-sodomy law from its Penal Code

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Botswana’s anti-sodomy law has been officially repealed. Section 164 of the Southern African nation’s Penal Code used to ban sodomy and carried a possible seven-year sentence with it. But in 2019, the country’s High Court ruled unanimously that the law was unconstitutional. “Human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalized,” wrote Judge Michael Leburu for the court at the time. “Sexual orientation is not a fashion statement. It is an important attribute of one’s personality.” “Personal autonomy on matters of sexual preference and choice must, therefore, be respected. Any criminalization of love or finding fulfillment in love dilutes compassion and […]

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BRITAIN: HIV+ “Grindr Rapist” Gets Life Sentence

The Telegraph reports: A rapist who deliberately infected multiple boys and men with HIV has been jailed for life. Adam Hall was convicted of raping five victims aged as young as 15 having met them on Grindr or at bars in Newcastle-upon-Tyne between 2016 and 2023. Hall, 43, also had consensual sex with victims without protection. He will spend at least 24 years behind bars after being sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court, which heard he had “never apologised” for what he did. Though the former Tyneside sex shop worker had been diagnosed with HIV in 2010, he could have kept his viral […]

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Court allows lesbian group appeal to exclude trans women from events

A Federal Court in Australia has allowed an appeal for a trans-exclusionary lesbian group to legally ban trans women from its public events for five years amid a lengthy, high-profile battle. The Melbourne-based Lesbian Action Group has been fighting for an exemption to Australia’s Sex Discrimination Act for years, with the most recent court date on 15 April being its third attempt. The group’s first attempt at securing the exemption was in 2023, when it submitted a later rejected application to the Human Rights Commission. The second was in the form of an appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal, which was dismissed. Lesbian Action Group describes […]

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Senegal’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law used for first conviction as man jailed for six years

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A court in Senegal has handed down the first conviction after the country’s newly toughened anti-LGBTQ+ law criminalising same-sex acts, sentencing a 24-year-old man to six years in prison and a $3,300 fine. The case is an early sign of how quickly the harsher penalties are being enforced. On 10 April, the man was convicted in Pikine-Guédiawaye, a suburb of Dakar, for “acts against nature and public indecency”, and sentenced to six years in prison. He was arrested earlier this month. Human Rights Watch researcher Larissa Kojoué said the law has created a climate of “constant fear” for LGBTQ+ people in Senegal. Speaking […]

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EU Top Court Strikes Down Hungary’s Anti-LGBTQ Law

Politico Europe reports: Hungary violated EU law when it banned children from accessing LGBTQ+ content, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday, ordering Budapest to scrap the legislation. The landmark judgment marks a blow to outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s legacy as his longtime rival Péter Magyar prepares to take office next month. Hungary’s legislative crackdown on LGBTQ+ representation is in breach of a series of EU laws and “constitute[s] a particularly serious interference with several fundamental rights,” the Court said in a press release, siding with the infringement procedure originally lodged by the European Commission. The case […]

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