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Protests in Spain against suspected LGBTQ hate crime

People took to the streets of Spain’s biggest cities on Monday evening to express their anger at the death of a man in a suspected homophobic attack at the weekend. Crowds filled a central Madrid square and activists marched down a major street in Barcelona, chanting slogans and waving placards and rainbow-colored flags. “The response to the wave of LGBT-phobic hatred that ended the life of Samuel in A Coruna is overwhelming,” the left-wing Podemos party that governs in coalition with the ruling Socialists wrote on Twitter. Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was beaten near a nightclub in the […]

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Young gay man tortured and killed in Mexico after he revealed that he had HIV

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A young gay man was tortured, burned and killed in Mexico after he revealed at a party that he was living with HIV, activists say. The victim, who has not been named, was allegedly slain in a blacksmith shop in Cancún, a southeastern beach town in the state of Quintana Roo, in early June. t was a night of revelry that slipped into mayhem when the victim informed party-goers that he was living with HIV, advocacy group Resilientxs told Presentes, a local queer news outlet. He died from a “blow to the head with a blunt, short object”, the Attorney General’s […]

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Tbilisi Pride Canceled After Violent Attack By Far-Right Mob, Journalists Beaten, US And EU Condemn

Euronews reports: LGBT activists in Georgia have cancelled a Pride march in the capital Tbilisi after violent clashes ahead of the parade. Violent groups stormed and ransacked the office of gay rights campaigners on Monday, Georgian authorities confirmed. Activists posted photos and videos of people breaking into the premises and some journalists had reported that their equipment was broken in the attack. After scuffles between anti-LGBT groups and the police, the organisers of the 2021 Pride said they would be cancelling the event. The Guardian reports: Video and photographs showed anti-gay protesters scaling a three-storey building to break into the headquarters of the […]

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Czech President Calls Transgender People “Disgusting”

Sky News reports: Czech President Milos Zeman has said he finds transgender people “disgusting”, while appearing to support a new Hungarian law banning educational programmes and material for children which the government considers to be promoting homosexuality or gender change. Asked about the law passed earlier this month by Hungarian politicians, he told CNN Prima: “If you undergo a sex-change operation you are basically committing a crime of self-harm.” “Viktor Orban says that he is not against homosexuals, but that he is against the manipulation not only of parents, but also of children in sex education,” he said. “I see no […]

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British and American embassies in homophobic UAE boldly fly Pride flags

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British and American embassies in the United Arab Emirates raised the LGBT+ Pride flag in a historic regional first. On Monday (28 June) the two embassies tweeted their support for LGBT+ rights as they raised the Pride flag alongside their national flags at their Abu Dhabi residence in the UAE. t marked the first time any diplomatic mission has flown a Pride flag in the religiously conservative Arab Gulf, where homosexuality is punishable with prison time, chemical castration, public flogging, or even death. “On the anniversary of Stonewall, a milestone in the American civil rights movement, the US Mission shows its support for […]

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First-ever Malawi Pride sees brave activists deliver demands to the president

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Braving the threat of persecution, dozens of queer people packed the streets of the capital of Malawi for the country’s first-ever Pride parade Saturday (26 June). Organised by the Nyasa Rainbow Alliance, some 50 LGBT+ people marched through the streets of Lilongwe in a show of defiance. After an hour-long march through winding but silent thoroughfares as masked attendees sang and danced, the protesters handed a petition over to city officials demanding marriage equality and better access to healthcare, Malawi 24 reported. Principal administrative officer for Lilongwe City Council, Hudson Kuphanga, told the outlet he has received the petition and pledged to […]

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Gay widower takes on Hong Kong’s government; wins victory for LGBT+ rights

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Same-sex couples in Hong Kong will now be allowed to own subsidised housing together after a landmark High Court ruling which saw a gay widower take on the government. Henry Li was not able to inherit the government-subsidised flat his late husband Edgar Ng bought in 2018 after they wed in the UK because the city’s housing policies deny same-sex partners joint occupancy and ownership rights. The court said that the refusal to acknowledge married same-sex couples in Hong Kong’s subsidised housing policies “constitute[s] unlawful discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation”. Justice Anderson Chow, who presided over the case, […]

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LGBT+ refugees desperately need help, but UK’s plans will send them back to danger

Benali Hamdache, Green Party spokesperson for migration and refugee support, looks at the issues facing LGBT+ refugees on World Refugee Day. In too many places, this pandemic has allowed regimes to crackdown on LGBT+ people. Cameroon, Ghana, Philippines and Uganda have all seen outbreaks of arbitrary arrests and violence. LGBT+ refugees in Kenyan camps have experienced assault and murder. Here in the UK the Home Office’s social media is currently adorned with the rainbow flag and Boris Johnson has acknowledged that COVID has worsened the situation for LGBT+ people globally. We have a government that professes inclusivity, openness and action. […]

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Trans woman went out drinking with friends. They violently beat her to death

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A trans woman was reportedly beaten and brutally dismembered by her friends after going for drinks in an attack that has fuelled fear in Miranda, Venezuela. Elizabeth Rondón, a 33-year-old vegetable seller, was slain Monday morning (13 June) after at least three people beat her, according to activists and witnesses. Loved ones described Rondón as a quiet but charismatic person who traded vegetables for food in the Santa Cruz del Este neighbourhood of the Baruta municipality. But her friends, they said, “bothered her a lot” for being trans, often harassing her for it. On Sunday night (12 June), Rondón went to drinks with […]

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WWII codebreaker Alan Turing becomes 1st gay man on a British bank note

The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 bank notes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, which would have been the pioneering math genius’ 109th birthday. Often referred to as the “father of computer science and artificial intelligence,” Turing was hailed a war hero and granted an honor by King George VI at the end of the war for helping to defeat the Nazis. Despite this, however, he died as a disgraced “criminal” — simply for being a gay man.  “I’m delighted that Alan Turing features on our new £50 bank note. He was a brilliant scientist […]

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