Empowering Twitter hashtag shows off stunning queer women

• Released Date: 05-Mar-2017

The hashtag #IssaGayGirl was trending on Twitter this weekend, with thousands of queer women posting empowering selfies.Twitter user Victoria (Eland_V) started the hashtag and wrote: ‘I’m starting a new thing @ me the cutest selfies you have with the

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Brothers found guilty of beating man to death over ‘being called gay’

• Released Date: 05-Mar-2017

Two brothers are facing jail time after being found guilty of manslaughter for beating a man to death to teach him a lesson after his friend suggested [they were] gay.

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South Dakota passes anti-gay adoption bill allowing religious freedom to discriminate

• Released Date: 05-Mar-2017

This bill will allow tax-payer funded adoption agencies the right to discriminate against LGBTI couples based on religious beliefs

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One man comes forward in hunt for five who hospitalised gay couple in violent beating

• Released Date: 05-Mar-2017

A man has come forward after a gay couple was beaten viciously on board a train near London on Valentine’s Day.The couple, Phil Poole, 35 and his boyfriend Zbynek Zatloukal, 26, had been on a night out in Reading for Valentine’s and were beaten and h

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Gay former US chart topper, Tommy Page, commits suicide

• Released Date: 04-Mar-2017

Tommy Page commits suicide, age 46.The gay former US chart topper was found dead on Friday (3 March), reports Billboard.Billboard Entertainment Group President John Amato said: ‘We are all mourning the loss of our friend and colleague Tommy Page.

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New documentary explores being gay, trans and illegal in Lebanon

• Released Date: 04-Mar-2017

A new BBC documentary explores what it’s like being LGBTI and illegal in Lebanon.The documentary takes a close look at the criminalization of homosexuality and how it affects LGBTI people.

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Trans students in NYC schools now must be addressed by their preferred pronouns

• Released Date: 03-Mar-2017

Transgender students attending New York City schools must be addressed by their preferred pronouns, according to a directive handed down this week.The city’s Department of Education issued a memo less than two weeks after federal guidelines for the t

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Man who blackmailed royal over gay sex claims found dead

• Released Date: 02-Mar-2017

A man who blackmailed a junior royal over claims had performed a gay sex act has been found dead.Ian Strachan , who also went by the name Charles Goldstein, was jailed in 2008 over the plot to blackmail the unnamed member of the Royal Family.

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Saudi police arrest 35 trans women, 22 still in custody, two tortured and beaten to death

• Released Date: 02-Mar-2017

Saudi Arabia police arrested 35 trans women and and allegedly tortured two by throwing them into sacks and beating them with sticks until they died.

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The Ignorance About Gay Lives Was on Full Display at the Colorado Capitol

• Released Date: 02-Mar-2017

The legislator asked, Ma’am, what evidence do you have to support your claim that all or most LGBT people were abused as children? The witness replied, Well, there are a number of high-profile gay celebrities that have recently admitted they were abu

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Anger as Chinese media call homosexuality ’wrong’

• Released Date: 02-Mar-2017

Chinese LGBTI groups are angry homosexuality was described as the ‘wrong concept of love’.A coalition of LGBTI groups are calling on the online streaming platform to apologise for the gaffe.

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This Same-Sex Couple Ad Will Make You Cry

• Released Date: 02-Mar-2017

ANZ Australia produced a touching ad called #HoldTight about how the simple act of holding hands can be difficult.

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