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Hundreds of Thousands Demand the EU Intervene in Poland’s LGBT-free Zones

More than 340,000 people have signed a petition demanding the EU fight back against the rising homophobic hate in Poland’s “LGBT-free” zones. The petition was launched by the global equality movement All Out and delivered to EU commissioner for equality, Helena Dalli, on Tuesday (September 22).× It urges her to denounce the discriminatory policies and pass legislation on hate crimes to protect the Polish LGBT+ community. “LGBT+ people in Poland are under attack,” it reads, describing the spread of “LGBT-free zones” and aggressive “nationalist hooligans and far-right groups” at Pride. “We call on you to condemn these acts of violence and discrimination and […]

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Lesbian Nurse Drugged, Electroshocked 200 Times and Hospitalized for 12 Years

A New Zealand nurse who was repeatedly hospitalised for 12 years and given electroconvulsive therapy more than 200 times has said her fight for justice has been “almost as bad as the abuse”. Joan Bellingham shared her horrific experiences as part of the abuse in care royal commission of inquiry, which is looking into historic abuse in state care and faith based institutions in New Zealand between 1950 and 2000.× According to the Otago Daily Times, in 1970, at the age of 18, Bellingham was working as a trainee nurse at Burwood Hospital in Christchurch. She said she had always been “very open” about […]

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Joe Biden Condemns Poland’s ‘LGBT-free Zones’

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden condemned Poland’s so-called LGBT-free zones, saying they “have no place in the European Union or anywhere in the world.” Biden retweeted an Associated Press article on Sunday about European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s condemnation of what she called “humanity-free zones.”https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=NBCNews&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1307831910089990144&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Ffeature%2Fnbc-out%2Fjoe-biden-condemns-poland-s-lgbt-free-zones-n1240757&siteScreenName=NBCNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&width=550px Without mentioning Poland by name, she said such entities “have no place in our Union.” “I will not rest when it comes to building a union of equality, a union where you can be who you are and love who you want — without fear of recrimination or discrimination,” von der Leyen said in her […]

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Once again, a Hong Kong Court has Refused to Legalize Equal Marriage

A Hong Kong court has thrown out mixed messages for the protection of LGBT+ rights, with two verdicts that constitute one win and one loss for LGBT+ campaigners. The High Court has ruled in favour of a gay homeowner, but has also once again refused to recognise same-sex marriages. Edgar Ng, a gay homeowner who applied for judicial review in 2019, was granted the right to equal home ownership with his husband. Ng launched the legal bid when he found out his husband, Henry Li Yik-ho, would be unable to inherit their home as the marriage wasn’t legally recognised in Hong Kong. […]

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More than 60 Queer People Brutally Killed in Eight Months in Colombia

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At least 63 LGBT+ people were killed in Colombia in the first eight months of the year as acts of violence increased during the pandemic. Among those killed were 17 transgender women, 12 gay men, six lesbian women and one transgender man, as well as several other members of the LGBT+ community whose sexual orientation or gender identity was not specified. The disturbing figures were published in a report from the country’s human rights ombudsman on Tuesday (September 15), Reuters reported. “During the pandemic prejudice and discrimination have been exacerbated while obstacles to accessing justice in the receiving of complaints increased,” the […]

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British Medical Association Rules Trans and Non-binary People Should be Able to Self-declare Gender

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Trans and non-binary people should be able to self-declare their legal gender without the need for a medical diagnosis, says the British Medical Association. And the British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the government to ensure the rights of trans and non-binary people in accessing healthcare, after the successful ruling yesterday in favour of trans rights.x The trade union, which is the professional association of doctors in the UK, passed the historic motion at its Annual Representatives Meeting (ARM) meeting. The BMA motion declares the union supports: self-declaration of gender for trans and non-binary people, continued access to gender-related healthcare for under-18s, trans […]

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Philippines Deports U.S. Marine in Transgender Killing

A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a Filipino transgender woman was deported Sunday after a presidential pardon cut short his detention in a case that renewed outrage over a pact governing American military presence in the Philippines. Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton said in a farewell message that he was “extremely grateful” to President Rodrigo Duterte for pardoning him and expressed his “most sincere sympathy” to the family of Jennifer Laude, who he was convicted of killing in 2014 in a motel northwest of Manila after finding out that she was a transgender. In his nearly six years of confinement, Pemberton said […]

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Newsreader Who ‘Liked’ Transphobic Facebook Comments Ordered to Pay Trans Woman $10,000

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A newsreader has been ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation to a trans woman for liking Facebook comments that wrongly branded her “a male bully”. The dispute began when Canberra radio broadcaster Beth Rep misgendered Bridget Clinch, Australia’s first transgender soldier, in a string of Facebook posts in March 2018. Clinch complained to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Human Rights Commission, and mediation led to Rep writing an apology and paying Clinch AU$ 700. However, the ACT said Rep then “added fuel to [the] conflict” by liking many of the offensive comments posted under the apology, including “Bridget Clinch is a […]

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Russian ‘Cossack Soldiers’ Hunted Down LGBT+ Folk During Pride

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Groups of men in Cossack military uniforms have been filmed roaming the Russian city of Yekaterinburg during Pride week in “anti-LGBT patrols”. According to the Russian news outlet E1RU, the men were on the look out for LGBT+ activists, but succeeded in targeting straight people who they thought looked queer. The group briefly detained at least one “absolutely heterosexual” student, 19-year-old Alexander Zinovyev, because he had dyed hair and wore an earring. “Why’d you dress up like this? Are you one of them?” Zinovyev recounted one of the men saying to him. “Do you even know that we control the propaganda of gayness among […]

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Mexico’s Transgender Community in Fear after Second Murder

The gruesome killing on Saturday of a second transgender woman in northern Mexico has unnerved the local transgender community and amplified calls for greater protections in the Latin American nation. The murder of Leslie Rocha in the border city of Ciudad Juarez came days after a transgender civil society group staged a protest there to demand greater protection. Those demands were sparked by the murder late of Ciudad Juarez-born transgender activist Mireya Rodriguez Lemus, whose body was found earlier this week in Aquiles Serdan, a town in the northern Chihuahua state. Related NBC OUT Philippine president pardons U.S. Marine convicted […]

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