New Publication: Civil society engagement with the UN human rights mechanisms on sexual orientation, gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in Southeast Asia

• Released Date: 24-Aug-2017

Civil society engagement with the UN human rights mechanisms on sexual orientation, gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in Southeast Asia

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LGBT rights group sues for documents on federal transgender bathroom guidance

• Released Date: 23-Aug-2017

An LGBT rights groups is suing to force the Trump administration to turn over documents related to its decision to withdraw guidance that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.

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Why the LGBT community should get behind the couple campaigning for straight civil partnerships

• Released Date: 23-Aug-2017

When talking about the LGBT community as if it’s one group, it’s easy to make generalistic assertions. What unites us is that the differences in our gender and sexuality place us outside a mainstream.

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Marriage equality advocates fear young people are not enrolling for survey

• Released Date: 22-Aug-2017

Marriage equality advocates are concerned that just a fraction of the expected enrolment surge before the postal survey on same-sex marriage has occurred, with young people most likely to miss out.The Australian Electoral Commission has announced tha

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More measures taken for LGBT staff / Companies working to extend benefits, bring an end to discrimination

• Released Date: 22-Aug-2017

Japanese companies are making greater efforts to accommodate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees in their workplaces. In May, the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) formulated its first guidelines on this subject, indicating po

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Government of Canada support needed for Montreal LGBT Pride

• Released Date: 21-Aug-2017

One of the biggest travel and tourism event in French Speaking Quebec and Montreal and as the LGBT pride parade draws near, along with the final activities that will close 11 days of festivities that have once again rocked Montréal, the Government of

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Hundreds take to Downtown to support LGBT community during annual Pride Parade

• Released Date: 21-Aug-2017

Near the front of Madison’s annual Outreach Pride Parade on Sunday, the Madison Area Transgender Association’s float flew flags of the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.A sign on the float, which read, Standing with our trans troops, represented

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LGBT family who appeared on ‘My Lesbian Mums’ accused of ‘promoting homosexual propaganda’

• Released Date: 21-Aug-2017

A woman who made a documentary about her lesbian mothers has been abused online and accused of promoting homosexual propaganda.Jillian Stewart explores her own relationship with her mothers after she came out as well as the broader topic of parents c

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Drag queens save New Zealand man in homophobic attack

• Released Date: 21-Aug-2017

A New Zealand man who was decked by a coward punch while on a night out in Sydney, and said he feared for his life, was rescued by a trio of unlikely saviours. Ivan Flinn, 34, from Surry Hills, said that during the attack earlier this month he hoped

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World Photography Day: Viewing the LGBTQ community through the lens of this Mumbai group

• Released Date: 20-Aug-2017

From a queer film festival to a transgender dancing troupe — a Mumbai group has been capturing the city’s changing LGBTQ landscape on film since 2014. On World Photography Day, HT takes a picturesque trip down memory lane with them.

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Labor accuses Turnbull of ’giving in to extreme elements’ on marriage equality

• Released Date: 20-Aug-2017

The Victorian premier has accused Malcolm Turnbull of giving in to extreme elements within his government by holding a postal survey on marriage equality.There’s no need for us to be having this postal plebiscite, this postal survey, but the prime mi

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Democratic candidates for governor pledge LGBT support

• Released Date: 19-Aug-2017

The three Democratic candidates for Florida governor all pledged to support protections for the gay community during a conference of the Florida LGBTA Democratic Caucus on Saturday.Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, former state Rep. Gwen Graham and Or

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