Human Rights Group Hopes to Evacuate Gay Men From Chechnya

• Released Date: 18-Apr-2017

A Canadian human rights organization that assists LGBT people in escaping places where they face persecution is launching a campaign to help gay men get out of Chechnya, the semiautonomous Russian republic where at least 100 gay men have been arreste

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Tony Abbott welcomes axing of Safe Schools anti-bullying program in NSW

• Released Date: 17-Apr-2017

The former prime minister Tony Abbott has welcomed New South Wales’ announcement the Safe Schools program will be replaced by a new anti-bullying strategy in the state’s schools after the federal government refused to fund it beyond mid-year.Abbott s

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Tony Abbott welcomes axing of Safe Schools anti-bullying program in NSW

• Released Date: 16-Apr-2017

The former prime minister Tony Abbott has welcomed New South Wales’ announcement the Safe Schools program will be replaced by a new anti-bullying strategy in the state’s schools after the federal government refused to fund it beyond mid-year.Abbott s

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‘You didn’t win, we won’: the great LGBT TV revolution

• Released Date: 15-Apr-2017

When EastEnders co-creator Tony Holland was a jobbing television producer in 1975, he took a sitcom idea to the head of Thames Television drama, Verity Lambert. The comedy would rest on a gay couple whose emotional wellbeing was complicated by their

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Eliminate Hate Campaign Seeks to Stomp Out Anti-LGBT Extremism

• Released Date: 14-Apr-2017

he new campaign led by Media Matters For America focuses attention on conservative groups it sees as extreme and hateful against LGBT people, according to Reuters.

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Gay men in Chechnya are being tortured and killed. More will suffer if we don’t act

• Released Date: 13-Apr-2017

Gay Chechens released to their families following torture and confinement sadly risk more persecutionA brutal campaign against gay men is sweeping Chechnya, with reports of abduction-style detention, enforced disappearances, torture and deaths. Chech

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Anti-gay sentiment seen threatening Indonesia’s goal to end AIDS by 2030

• Released Date: 12-Apr-2017

Growing anti-gay sentiment in Indonesia could hamper efforts to combat fast-rising HIV infections among one of the most at-risk groups, threatening the country’s target to end an AIDS epidemic by 2030, a senior official has warned.Although new infect

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The rainbow’s not over – it’s the style symbol of the season

• Released Date: 11-Apr-2017

Forget flamingos, cacti, pineapples and love hearts. The symbol set to sum up summer 2017 is the rainbow – sure, occasionally the natural one in the sky, but more often the cartoon-ified version, as seen on emoji keyboards.Versions of the emoji rainb

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Indonesia: gay men facing 100 lashes for having sex

• Released Date: 11-Apr-2017

Two gay Indonesian men have been arrested and face 100 lashes in a case that is drawing international attention to the enforcement of controversial new Islamic bylaws in the semi-autonomous Aceh province.Mobile phone footage, showing vigilantes slapp

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Why there’s hope for LGBT rights under Trump Steven W Thrasher Steven W Thrasher

• Released Date: 07-Apr-2017

In the United States we enjoy an advantage as we resist Donald Trump (which not all societies do when they fight incoming autocrats): we are a nation with many centres of power. Cultural, financial and even political power are not solely concentrated

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LGBT people need straight allies to lend a helping hand

• Released Date: 06-Apr-2017

I recently thanked an old school friend for being one of the only people I heard, back in the grisly early 1990s, saying he was cool with gay guys. Men then seemed to believe if you didn’t hate poofs it meant you were one. To be anything less than ho

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Companies cannot discriminate against LGBT employees, federal court rules

• Released Date: 05-Apr-2017

Companies cannot discriminate against LGBT employees in the workplace because of their sexual orientation, a federal appeals court said, in a ruling that a gay rights group called a game changer.The 8-to-3 decision Tuesday by the full seventh US circ

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