This is how Brexit could hurt you as an LGBTI person in the UK

• Released Date: 18-Apr-2018

Indonesia’s hostility to LGBTI people Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, but a severe clamping down on the community in the past two years has seen an increase in arrests of gay men.

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It’s Still (Just About) OK to Be Gay in China

• Released Date: 17-Apr-2018

The Chinese social media service Weibo rapidly reversed its position Monday after issuing a ban on gay content as part of a “cleanup” campaign Friday. A massive outpouring of online protest by LGBT users and their allies prompted a public disavowal o

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Theresa May “deeply regrets” anti-gay laws introduced by Britain

• Released Date: 17-Apr-2018

May acknowledged that the anti-gay laws were “put in place” by her own country, and said “they were wrong then, and they are wrong now.” “As the UK’s Prime Minister, I deeply regret both the fact that such laws were introduced, and the legacy of disc

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The push to make conversion therapy legal has been shut down, for now

• Released Date: 16-Apr-2018

One political leader has shut down plans to potentially reintroduce gay and trans conversion therapy in the Australian state of Victoria. But LGBTI advocates are worried there are still many more proposed anti-LGBTI laws that migh slip through the cr

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Portugal changes law to allow trans people to self-identify their legal gender

• Released Date: 14-Apr-2018

A new law in Portugal has removed the need for a medical diagnosis before someone can have their gender legally recognised. It now allows trans people in the country to change their legal gender through self-determination. The new law also allows peo

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Corporate Policies for LGBT in Japan Remain Largely Unsuccessful

• Released Date: 13-Apr-2018

As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics draw closer, there has been a trend towards creating awareness of human rights issues. Especially over the past year, companies have strengthened their efforts to create initiatives for LGBT individuals

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Ugandan politicians aiming to bring back harsher anti-gay laws

• Released Date: 12-Apr-2018

Politicians are campaigning for the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014, known as ‘Kill the Gays Bill’, to be brought back into law. The country passed the act in December 2013, but it was ruled invalid on procedural grounds the following August.

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Petition calls for Theresa May to apologise for anti-gay laws Britain once imposed

• Released Date: 11-Apr-2018

All Out have launched a petition to urge Theresa May to apologise for these old anti-gay British colonial laws, in an attempt to expose the horrific reality for LGBTQ people who are still persecuted by them today, and to begin to remove them from the

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apanese Sexual Minorities Express Distaste for LGBT Activism – Opinion Survey

• Released Date: 06-Apr-2018

There are many dissenting voices from within the sexual minority community calling for the media to change its tendency to cover only the views of activists, and some have even come to express a distaste for activists. Why have some sexual minorities

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Opinion Survey Asks Japanese Netizens What They Think of LGBT

• Released Date: 04-Apr-2018

What do you think when you hear the word LGBT? Everyone’s heard of Shinjuku 2-Chome and onee, but what other images does it conjure up?

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Marriage Equality, Transgender Rights Might be on the Horizon in Costa Rica

• Released Date: 04-Apr-2018

Same-sex marriage came to the fore in the run-up to the election after the Inter-American Court on Human Rights delivered an advisory opinion finding that the American Convention on Human Rights should be interpreted to require Costa Rica and other c

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A contest to convert gay students has been launched at a Malaysian university

• Released Date: 04-Apr-2018

A student group at the Universiti Sains Malaysia recently launched a contest to come up with ideas on how to make LGBTQ people heterosexual.

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