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26 04 2012
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Hillary Clinton Discusses Challenges for LGBT Rights
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out about advocating for LGBT rights in anti-gay countries at an appearance yesterday at Syracuse University, NewsCore reports: "You can imagine the conversations that I have," she said. In parts of Africa and Asia, she said, gay rights is "just a totally f
25 04 2012
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LGBT Rights Could Be Coming Soon to France
Socialist François Hollande has won the first round in the French presidential election. The second round will happen in a couple weeks with only the top two candidates - Hollande and current president Nicolas Sarkozy - and Hollande expected to win. What this means is that same-sex marriage is prob
19 04 2012
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Iran Cleric Slams Gays And Lesbians As Being Inferior To Animals
As The Guardian is reporting, Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an influential cleric and an Islamic scholar based in Iran's holy city of Qom, referred to homosexuals as inferior to dogs and pigs in a new speech. "If a society commits a new sin, it will face a new punishment," Javadi-Amoli said, acc
18 04 2012
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$2 Million for LGBT Higher Education Scholarships Raised
$2 million to support higher education scholarships for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students was announced and raised at the April 16, 2012 Point Honors New York gala. More than 500 people attended the event benefiting Point Foundation (Point), the nation's largest scholarship-gran
16 04 2012
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Yes, Travyon’s Death Is an LGBT Issue
In a recent opinion piece titled “All aboard the Trayvon bandwagon,” Washington Blade editor and co-owner Kevin Naff accuses 28 national LGBT groups of hype-riding because they issued an open letter opposing racial profiling and expressing solidarity with Trayvon Martin’s family and friends. Of cou
15 04 2012
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Obama: LGBT Civil and Human Rights
On Wednesday afternoon the White House summoned representatives of the LGBT community to a meeting with Presidential Counselor Valerie Jarrett and other administration officials to tell them that the president was not going to add five simple words, "sexual orientation and gender identity," to an ex
15 04 2012
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Hungary: Increasingly hostile climate for LGBT people
Echoing developments in Russia, extreme-right parliamentarians in Hungary have tabled proposals to outlaw public discussions of homosexuality. In parallel, the Budapest police has rejected a request to hold the annual LGBT pride march in July 2012. A member of far-right party Jobbik, which holds 47
14 04 2012
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Latinos are more LGBT tolerant than we think
The National Council of La Raza and Social Science Research Solutions, a public opinion research firm, have released a survey suggesting that Latinos are not as unaccepting of LGBT peers or even of same-sex marriage as perceived to be, although those who are deeply religious are less tolerant, simil
13 04 2012
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First LGBT high school opens in Phoenix
PHOENIX - The Valley now has a high school geared specifically toward lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender students. It's the first of its kind in Arizona and one of only a handful in the entire country. Tyler, a junior at the school, recently enrolled at Q High , seeking a more tolerant enviro
11 04 2012
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CIA and ODNI Sponsor First Intelligence Community LGBT Summit
The CIA and the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) recently hosted the first Intelligence Community (IC) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Summit. Participants included members of LGBT employee groups from nine IC agencies and CIA and ODNI leaders. The Summit was de
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GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance
GRADATION is a collaborative installation of Women's Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG) and artist Uta Bekaia, supported by Propaganda.network. The voices and video images used in the installation belong to Transfeminist activists and our sisters - Amanda, Gabi, Nata, Tako. All of us are united by the grief that will forever remind us about our Trans sisters killed in the recent years, but we are also united by the same goal - to achieve living in a country and in the society free from Transphobia! #TDOR
GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance
Queer Sisters Run - Social and Environmental Justice