Catholic priest suspended for hosting gay sex parties

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

A Catholic priest in Italy has been suspended because he organized gay sex parties.The Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, officially suspended the parish priest of the Santa Maria degli Angeli parish it was revealed on Tuesday (21 Februa

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Trangender woman becomes first to marry in Kolkata

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

Shree Ghatak Muhuri has become the first transgender woman to legally marry in Kolkata, India’s second-biggest city.The 30-year-old married her childhood ceremony Sanjay Muhuri in a lavish ceremony on Saturday which is believed to be a first in the s

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49 People Tell Us When They Realised Being Open About Their Sexuality Mattered

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

My sexuality mattered a lot when I was 19 because being of Indian background, I knew my parents wanted me to get married. And being the eldest of three boys, they wanted me to carry on the family name. I had to actually tell them I’m gay and I’m not

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Celebrities Respond to Trump Rescinding Transgender Student Bathroom Protections

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

This article originally appeared on EW.com.Actors, music artists, comedians, authors, and other celebrities are speaking out on social media about their opposition to the Trump administration’s decision to revoke federal protections for transgender s

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Alliance Defending Freedom—source of many anti-LGBTQ lawsuits and bills—finally labeled a hate group

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

When the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last week on the The State of Religious Liberty in America, they brought in a representative of the notoriously anti-LGBTQ legal group Alliance Defending Freedom to testify.

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Education Secretary Betsy Devos reportedly wanted to keep transgender guidance

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

The Trump administration is reportedly at odds over a plans to rescind guidance that helps provide non-discrimination protections for transgender students in the US education system.

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New Indian school resource tells kids it’s ok to be gay

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

The Indian government has released a new health resource for school students which discusses sexual consent and homosexuality.Health Secretary C K Mishra created the Saathiya Resource Kit which includes a mobile app and Peer Educators who will help a

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Will gay victims of ISIS terrorist win justice after his arrest in Turkey?

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

A German ISIS terrorist arrested in Turkey was revealed to have nearly kicked a gay couple to death three years ago.Adnan Sutkovic is accused of being one of the Islamic State soldiers in Syria.Now the Weser-Kurier, a newspaper in Sutkovic’s hometown

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Christian group targets people who like ’Gay Pride’ on Facebook with creepy ’ex-gay’ advert

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

A Christian group have posted on Facebook a bizarre video starring an ‘ex-gay’ man advocating dangerous ‘conversion therapy’.In the expensively produced video set to twinkly inspirational music, Becket tells his story about how he came to identify as

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Trump administration working on transgender bathroom guidelines

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is working on a new set of directives on the use of school bathrooms by transgender students, the White House said Tuesday.

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Prisoner ‘placed in indefinite isolation’ because she is transgender

• Released Date: 22-Feb-2017

A convicted murderer who has been placed in indefinite isolation because she is transgender has told the High Court her human rights are being violated.

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Indonesian journalist wins top award for LGBTI reporting

• Released Date: 21-Feb-2017

Indonesian journalist Febriana Firdaus who once had to go into hiding from Islamic militant groups has won a top award for her reporting.Firdaus won the inaugural Oktovianus Pogau Award for her fearless reporting on human rights, including LGBTI issu

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