26 US states still deny LGBT people ‘basic equality’

• Released Date: 10-Jan-2018

26 US states still have laws that deny LGBT people basic freedoms.The annual State Equality Index, released by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute, breaks down state-by-state laws and policies that affect LGBTQ

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A court has just ordered these 16 countries to make same-sex marriage legal

• Released Date: 10-Jan-2018

A court has just ordered 16 countries to make same-sex marriage legal.In one of these countries, Barbados, gay sex is still criminalized.This order, by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, is being considered the ‘biggest same-sex marriage court

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Mississippi’s anti-LGBT law allowing discrimination to remain in place after Supreme Court declines to hear challenge

• Released Date: 09-Jan-2018

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a case regarding a Mississippi law that allows people to deny services to LGBTQ people based on sincerely held religious beliefs.The Mississippi state law went into effect on 10 October 2016 - just a year afte

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Midnight wedding ceremonies usher in same-sex marriage laws across Australia

• Released Date: 09-Jan-2018

Same-sex couples married in midnight ceremonies across Australia on Tuesday, after the country’s last legal impediment to equal marriage expired. Marriage equality became law on 9 December with overwhelming support in Parliament, but Australia’s requ

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The owner of Coachella is still donating money to anti-LGBTQ organisations

• Released Date: 08-Jan-2018

Anschutz hit out against the reports, and said to Rolling Stone: Neither I nor the Foundation fund any organization with the purpose or expectation that it would finance anti-LGBTQ initiatives, and when it has come to my attention or the attention of

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Ghana: Campaigners demand decriminalisation of homosexuality after spike in anti-LGBT violence

• Released Date: 08-Jan-2018

Human rights campaigners are calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ghana after a new report found violence towards LGBT people by mobs and family members is on the increase.The report, No Choice but to Deny Who I Am: Violence and Disc

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One of Donald Trump’s judicial nominations doesn’t think that gay judges should hear LGBTQ-related cases

• Released Date: 07-Jan-2018

Related: Donald Trump ignores LGBTQ community in World AIDS Day proclamationHe also opposed the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges case – which legalised same-sex marriage across the whole of the United States – arguing that marriage should be kept to be just

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India’s openly gay prince opens up palace to vulnerable LGBTQ people

• Released Date: 07-Jan-2018

Speaking to the International Business Times, Gohil said: If I could undergo these problems then any other gay person could face a similar situation.Gohil also pledged to fight for LGBTQ equality worldwide, saying: Gay rights are human rights. We won

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Illinois becomes second U.S. state to ban gay and trans panic defence

• Released Date: 06-Jan-2018

The law was passed unopposed in May 2017 and signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner in August 2017. The ban is believed to be the first LGBTQ-related law to have passed into Illinois law unanimously.Although the defence is rarely used, a new report found that

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Anti-LGBT discrimination costs states billions of dollars, study reveals

• Released Date: 05-Jan-2018

States like Texas are tossing away billions of dollars by not passing laws to ensure LGBT equality, new research has found.The Texas legislature was engrossed last year with its attempts to pass a transphobic bathroom bill, similar to the one which N

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Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to ban anti-LGBT conversion therapy

• Released Date: 05-Jan-2018

The City of Vancouver will soon decide whether or not to ban anti-queer conversion therapy, as recommended by its LGBT advisory committee.The recommendation strongly condemns pseudoscientific practices that attempt to ‘cure’ LGBT people, and cites a

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Trans man told he could not enlist in military because of his gender identity

• Released Date: 05-Jan-2018

A transgender man who tried to enlist in the US military was told that he would not be able to because of his gender identity.Despite a court ruling that overturned President Trump’s ban on trans troops, one trans man has told BuzzFeed News that he w

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