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05 09 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/ja2/
UN peacekeepers traded food for sex
A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reveals that UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex for food. The US Embassy cable written in January 2010 focuses on the behaviour of peacekeepers from Benin stationed in the western t
26 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/5d4/
WEST AFRICAN LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS PROJECT
Friday August 26, 2011 saw the Coalition of African Lesbians, CAL, launch its LGBT Human Rights Defenders, HRD project in Lagos, Nigeria. Participants in the HRD workshop, which was held in collaboration with The Initiative for Equal Rights, TIER, a Nigerian-based LGBT human rights organization, at
25 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/ve9/
Cyndi Lauper Opens Shelter
True Colors Residence will be first facility of its kind in New York City Cyndi Lauper is set to open a 30-bed housing facility for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth in Manhattan on September 1st. The True Colors Residence, named after her 1986 hit "True Colors," will be locat
24 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/9m9/
Four of the Femen Activists Arrested
Four of the Femen activists were arrested during the celebration of the Independence Day in Ukraine, for ruining the flower composition shaped as Ukraine’s coat of arms. Police arrested the four feminists after they destroyed the state’s coat of arms - Tryzub, made of flowers and situated on the la
23 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/hq4/
Germans are thrilled with FEMEN
West has appreciated the achievements of Ukrainian feminists, who thankfully to their “naked protests” managed to gain attention, which oppositional political parties strive for years. A German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung states that Ukrainian authoritarian government can’t manage to
15 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/895/
Trans-woman ties knot with gay man in Cuba
A gay man has married a transgender woman in Cuba - in what has been hailed as a 'significant step forward' for gay rights in the communist Caribbean country. Ignacio Estrada, 31, and Wendy Iriepa, 37, tied the knot in a simple civil ceremony on the same day as Fidel Castro's 85th birthday - in wha
14 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/w4z/
OUT IN CHICAGO: A BOOK OF ESSAYS
CHICAGO (August 10, 2011) — The publication, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads, which is being produced in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, is an150-page book that includes seven important and ground-breaking essays. The essays explore many areas of LGBT history including gen
12 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/5fz/
Offices of Activist Bulldozed in Azerbaijan
Authorities in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, bulldozed the offices of Leyla Yunus, an activist who has long campaigned against forced evictions in the city, hours after a report on her efforts was published in The New York Times. According to Azat Isazade, a psychologist who was working in the bui
08 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/yk2/
LGBT Film Fest sneak peek: “Circumstance”
Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz has created a beautiful Persian-language film that is as much Iranian as it is American. Circumstance straddles the line between Iranian and American youth culture so delicately that when we are shown hip underground clubs or clandestine parties,
08 08 2011
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https://lesbi.ge/s/gk8/
Afghan Women March Against Sexual Harassment
Kabul, Afghanistan – Holding signs that read “This street belongs to me too”; “We won’t tolerate insults anymore”; and a banner with a verse from the Koran emphasizing the wrongness of abusing women, around 30 young Afghan women and men marched in the sweltering afternoon heat to protest the rampant
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Queer Sisters Run - Social and Environmental Justice
Queer Sisters Run 2019 edition's co-organisers were ახალგაზრდა მწვანეები • Georgian Young Greens and StudioMobile - Accent on Action SMAA სტუდიომობილი - აქცენტი მოძრაობაზე. The main topic of 2019 marathon was Social and Environmental Justice and the common purposes of Queer and Green Politics. This year's motto: Queer Politics is Green Politics!  Queer Sisters Run, started in 2018, is a new initiative by WISG, aiming for strengthening the queer community and finding new spaces and forms for activist communications and relations. #queersisters #queerpoliticsisgreenpolitics
Queer Sisters Run - Social and Environmental Justice
GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance