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02 01 2012
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LGBT Roundup: Backlash and Repression
A whole new country, South Sudan, was born with a sodomy law and exclusion of LGBT from rights supposedly promised to ‘all.’ Turkish LGBT groups suffer repeated attempts to legally shut them down and to block their websites. The increasingly visible LGBT organizing in Malaysia suffered a backlash,
02 01 2012
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Budapest Mayor Not Thrilled To Be Hosting EuroGames
As Budapest gears up to host the annual LGBT sportsfest known as the EuroGames next summer, one thing’s fairly clear: The Hungarian capital’s mayor, István Tarlós, won’t be watching. In a just-released letter to Berlin’s openly gay mayor Klaus Wowereit, Tarlós says that while he respects the right
23 12 2011
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Best LGBT Characters of the Year
10. LAURENT (Jérémie Renier) in Potiche This comedy from out French auteur François Ozon with Catherine Deneuve, presents the latent über gayness of Deneuve's character’s son Laurent. 09. LISBETH SALANDER (Rooney Mara) in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Everyone's favorite socially maladjusted bi
21 12 2011
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UN Issues First Report on LGBT Human Rights
The first ever United Nations report on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, released Dec. 15 by the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, outlines “a pattern of human rights violations emerges that demands a response.” Homophobic and t
08 12 2011
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Hillary Clinton Vows to Support Global Fight for Gay Rights
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday vowed that the United States would help fight discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world. She marked Human Rights Day by announcing that the U.S. will use diplomacy and $3 million in foreign aid to help expand the rights of gay, lesbian, b
08 12 2011
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Obama Offers Asylum to Overseas Gays
Building on pro-gay policies put in place by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama today ordered overseas federal agencies to fight local anti-gay violence and provide asylum to homosexuals seeking protection. Obama said, "I am deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targe
04 12 2011
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Femen against Opposition
Today, FEMEN undressed in the middle of thousands of people, in order to protest a pseudo meeting arranged in favor of politician Jacenuk. The protest was directed towards the “new Ukrainian opposition” which feeds off the poverty of students, pensioners and unemployed and “buys” them in thousands
03 12 2011
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Jailed Afghan rape victim freed but 'to marry attacker'
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pardoned a rape victim who was jailed for adultery, after she apparently agreed to marry her attacker. The woman, named as Gulnaz, gave birth in prison to a daughter who has been kept in jail with her. Senior Afghan officials told the BBC the government put no pre
28 11 2011
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Gay Pride in Delhi
A colourful gay pride parade and a live rock concert will ensure that it would be a rollicking Sunday for the capital's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. "We don't take any sponsorships and like every year, money has been raised through a fundraising party that was held earli
27 11 2011
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Strontium in Water makes you gay
Huarmey, Peru mayor Jose Benitez is reportedly concerned that high levels of strontium in his town's drinking water are turning men gay. “Unfortunately Strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality," (Benite
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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