Europe fines Russia for banning St Petersburg Pride

• Released Date: 09-Feb-2017

The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia for blocking a Pride march in St Petersburg.LGBTI activists Yuri Gavrikov, Alexander Sheremetyev, Dmitry Milkov, and Maria Yefremenkova were awarded €27,500 damages in total over authorities’ repeat

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Being gay does not make you depressed

• Released Date: 09-Feb-2017

In what comes as no surprise to most people, it is not a person’s sexuality that causes mental health issues.Poor mental health and higher suicide rates of LGBTI people are in fact caused by the stigma they face.

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Man ‘horribly disfigured’ after being stabbed in the face by homophobic thugs

• Released Date: 08-Feb-2017

Police are hunting for two thugs who disfigured a man for life in a stabbing attack in which they used homophobic slurs.23-year-old Lee Michael of Manchester was injured in the attack in the early hours of Monday morning, while walking home from a fr

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First openly transgender member of Boy Scouts: ’I’m so proud’

• Released Date: 08-Feb-2017

ust like a lot of boys in Pack 20 in Maplewood, New Jersey, Joe Maldonado is happy to be a member of the Boy Scouts.But the elementary school student had to fight harder than anyone else to be there.

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Police held down and beat trans professor, punched his daughter

• Released Date: 08-Feb-2017

Police jumped a Venezuelan trans man outside their own police station and beat him while shouting trans abuse.That’s according to Venezeula’s leading LGBTI equality group. They just made public details of the attack, which happened on 31 January.

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Taiwan vice president criticises marriage equality plan

• Released Date: 08-Feb-2017

Taiwan’s former vice president criticized the country’s plans to legalize same-sex marriage.Wu Den-yih of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was last week asked to show more support for marriage equality by a member of the public.

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Anti-LGBTI Betsy DeVos confirmed as Education Secretary

• Released Date: 07-Feb-2017

Betsy DeVos has been confirmed as the US Secretary of Education in a historic vote.Today (7 February), the Senate confirmed DeVos, but only with the help of Vice President Mike Pence.

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Same-sex marriage will ‘destroy the whole human race’, Australian parliament told

• Released Date: 07-Feb-2017

Bawa Singh Jagdev, who has received the Order of Australia, also suggested that gay men should refer to their relationships as homo unions as he tried to encourage the chamber not to introduce equal marriage.

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Man pleads guilty to federal hate charge in killing of gay man

• Released Date: 07-Feb-2017

A man charged with a federal hate crime for beating a gay man to death has pleaded guilty in exchange for a 28-year sentence instead of life in prison.

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French president hopeful accused of being supported by ’very wealthy gay lobby’

• Released Date: 06-Feb-2017

French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron is being supported by the ‘gay lobby’, a right-wing politician claims.Nicolas Dhuicq made the claims in an interview with Russian news agency Sputnik on Saturday (4 February).

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Is Vienna Pride in danger over Austria’s new law on protests?

• Released Date: 06-Feb-2017

Vienna Pride is in danger as activists fear proposed changes to Austria’s law that gives people the right to protest.New legislation would mean any demonstration must have a ‘named chairperson’ who could be held accountable for damage.

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Australian transgender teens wanting hormone therapy up 360 per cent

• Released Date: 06-Feb-2017

The number of Australian teenagers applying to start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has jumped by 360 per cent.In Australia people under the age of 18 must seek permission from the Family Court to begin HRT.

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