The Supreme Court could issue a major ruling in favor of LGBTQ rights soon

• Released Date: 18-Mar-2018

This isn’t the first time the courts have ruled against religious exemptions from nondiscrimination laws. We’ve been here before. Most recently, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a fine against a bakery that refused to bake a wedding cake for a les

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An Indian Education Minister has claimed that there are no lesbians in his schools

• Released Date: 17-Mar-2018

Partha Chattejee made the comments after a school in West Bengal forced ten female students to sign a letter confirming that they are lesbians.

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An Indian Education Minister has claimed that there are no lesbians in his schools

• Released Date: 17-Mar-2018

Partha Chattejee made the comments after a school in West Bengal forced ten female students to sign a letter confirming that they are lesbians.

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Texas clarifies LGBT prisoner policies following a settlement with abused trans inmate

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2018

Texas will clarify its policies regarding the treatment of LGBTQ inmates following a settlement with a former prisoner, a transgender woman who reports she was abused during her time behind bars. Passion Star, 34, who was housed in men’s prisons, fil

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After transgender inmate was raped, beaten, Texas agrees to clarify LGBT prisoner policies

• Released Date: 15-Mar-2018

Texas will clarify its policies regarding the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inmates as the result of a settlement with a former prisoner.

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Brazil Boosts Transgender Legal Recognition

• Released Date: 14-Mar-2018

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that the government can no longer require transgender people who want their name and gender marker on identification documents changed to undergo medical procedures or subject their decisions to judicial review. Last week

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Lebanese politicians call for decriminalisation of gay sex

• Released Date: 14-Mar-2018

Right-wing Christian Democrat party, the Kataeb party, announced plans to scrap the law on television over the weekend.  Discussing a 131-step plan that the party will put in place if they win the May 6 elections, officials from the party stressed t

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Lebanese politicians call for decriminalisation of gay sex

• Released Date: 14-Mar-2018

Right-wing Christian Democrat party, the Kataeb party, announced plans to scrap the law on television over the weekend.  Discussing a 131-step plan that the party will put in place if they win the May 6 elections, officials from the party stressed t

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Council flies rainbow flag after telling protesters it would ‘breach their flag policy’

• Released Date: 13-Mar-2018

The policy states that the Union Flag, the St. George’s Cross and the Borough Flag must be continually raised over the town hall’s central green.

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Ten Indian students ‘forced to sign’ letter confessing: ‘I am a lesbian’

• Released Date: 13-Mar-2018

A school in India has forced ten female students to sign a letter that they are a lesbian as a punishment for their “intense friendships” at school.

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Commonwealth of homophobia: One billion live under anti-gay laws exported by Britain

• Released Date: 12-Mar-2018

As royals, politicians and diplomats celebrate the 41st Commonwealth Day, 37 of the 53 countries in the Commonwealth continue to criminalise being gay.

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Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar slams Donald Trump’s America for failing on LGBT rights

• Released Date: 12-Mar-2018

Mr Varadkar said he would raise gay rights when he has a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House this Thursday. “What I intend to say is that for the vast majority of people around the world including people from gay lesbian

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