1 in 3 LGBTs harassed or bullied at work

• Released Date: 06-Jul-2017

One in three LGBT people are harassed or bullied at work.And only half are out at work, says a new study by the Trades Union Conference (TUC) released today.With over 5,000 respondents the TUC says this makes the report one of the most

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Groups say LGBTI people must be included in global health

• Released Date: 06-Jul-2017

Leading health groups have called for a global health approach that includes LGBTI people.A new report was released today by The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) and OutRight Action International. It was written in collaboration with The

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Romania’s LGBTI campaigners continue to fight for rights with first Pride in Transylvania

• Released Date: 06-Jul-2017

The Transylvanian city of Cluj held its first Pride parade last weekend; the latest initiative by local campaigners to push back against right-wing forces.In Romania in November 2015 an initiative to ban gay marriage in was published in the coun

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Stockholm becomes latest city to install same-sex traffic lights for Pride

• Released Date: 06-Jul-2017

Stockholm in Sweden is to become the latest city to receive same-sex traffic lights to show support for LGBTI Pride.The first country in Europe believed to utilize same-sex couples on traffic lights instead of solo figures was Vienna. It introduced t

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WATCH: New Zealand apologizes to men convicted of homosexuality

• Released Date: 06-Jul-2017

The parliament in New Zealand will issue an formal apology to men convicted of homosexuality.Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1986, but many men still have the convictions recorded on their name.New Zealand Justice Minster Amy Adams moved a motion

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Montreal celebrates pride with extraordinary display of rainbow lights

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2017

Imagine walking beneath a rainbow street, celebrating LGBTQ life and culture, in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.18 Shades of Gay celebrates the evolving spectrum of LGBTQI community identities – plural, diverse, inclusive and nuanced

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Puerto Rico takes first step toward equal rights for all

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2017

Puerto Rico‘s governor has created the island’s first government advisory board to champion LGBTQ issues and protect the rights of that community.Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Wednesday that he’s striving to make the U.S. territory more diverse and incl

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Bisexual people are 80 percent more likely to feel anxiety than the average person

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2017

Bisexual people are nearly 80 percent more likely to report feeling anxious than the average person, new research has shown.Gay, lesbian and bisexual people all feel overwhelmingly less worthwhile and satisfied with their lives than straight people.

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Chinese gay man wins court case after suing hospital for forced conversion therapy

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2017

A man who was forced to have gay conversion therapy has won a lawsuit against the psychatric hospital where he underwent the therapy.The psychiatric hospital must pay compensation and apologize to the man, surnamed Yu, who was forced into the institu

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Take pride, but keep fighting homophobia

• Released Date: 04-Jul-2017

Zoe Williams is right to point to increasingly open homophobia around the world (Opinion, 2 July). We are in Pride fortnight, 50 years after the 1967 Sexual Offences Act partially decriminalised male homosexuality in parts of Britain.

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50 Shades of Gay review – from public toilets to establishment weddings

• Released Date: 04-Jul-2017

Rupert Everett is in an underground public toilet in Manchester with a man named Roger. No, not like that; it doesn’t happen like that any more, Grindr has done for public toilets

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Chinese man wins forced gay conversion therapy lawsuit

• Released Date: 04-Jul-2017

A gay man in central China has successfully sued a psychiatric hospital over forced conversion therapy, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in a country where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emerging from the fringes.

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