Early-fall festivals are heading to Philadelphia, including Midtown Village Fall Festival in the heart of the Gayborhood,

• Released Date: 12-Sep-2014

Get ready. In the next few months, 60+ (!) early-fall festivals are heading to Philadelphia, including Midtown Village Fall Festival in the heart of the Gayborhood, Night Market Chinatown and Longwood Gardens Autumn’s Colors Festival. Click through f

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UK Football Players Team Up For #RainbowLaces Campaign

• Released Date: 06-Sep-2014

Homophobia and sports dont have to go hand in hand -- and this group of athletes are teaming up to help combat the pervasive mentality the queers dont have a place in the sports world.

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It’s official: Lesbians have better sex than everyone

• Released Date: 18-Aug-2014

Lesbians have better sex than anyone, according to new research.

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Vietnam’s LGBT movement lacks feminist agenda: research

• Released Date: 14-Jul-2014

Editor’s Note: LeiChandra Truong is a Vietnamese American who spent two years living in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. She submitted this story on LGBT rights issues to Tuoi Tre News from Vancouver, Canada, where she now lives.

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Vietnam Activists Regroup After Failure of Same-Sex Marriage Bid

• Released Date: 04-Jul-2014

HANOI—When Vietnam’s National Assembly passed revisions to the Marriage and Family Law in June, the countrys gay and transgender rights activists were left disappointed.

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LGBT activists: ’Recognize transgender rights in the Philippines now’

• Released Date: 28-May-2014

MANILA, Philippines – While transgender people are culturally celebrated, they are not politically recognized, model and transgender rights activist Geena Rocero said at a forum held at the UP Center for Women’s Studies (UP CWS), moderated by Rappler

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Boost For LGBT Rights In Peru As Leading Politician Comes Out

• Released Date: 25-May-2014

The front page of one of Peru’s major newspapers blared the headline: I’m gay, and proud to be so.It was a quote from an interview with Carlos Bruce, a former cabinet minister, one-time serious contender for the vice-presidency, and now one of Peru’s

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Stoning to death in Brunei is not just an LGBT issue

• Released Date: 21-May-2014

Since Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei passed a Sharia law into effect that would reintroduce death by stoning, limb amputation, and flogging as a punishment for certain crimes, Western media has kept the public aware of how the law will violate cit

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Features Transgender Malaysians await court decision

• Released Date: 21-May-2014

An outreach worker with the PT Foundation, an HIV/AIDS organisation in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Ayub fights for the rights of the countrys transgender women who call themselves Mak Nyah and are mostly ethnic Malay Muslims.

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International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia Taking Place In Over 120 Countries

• Released Date: 17-May-2014

Today, May 17th, 2014, marks the ninth annual International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia held in over 120 countries and impacting hundreds of millions of lives. IDAHOT, as it is commonly referred to, is the largest LGBTI solidarity action in

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Equality far off for Cambodia’s LGBT community forced to undergo ‘curing’

• Released Date: 16-May-2014

As the Kingdom celebrates Pride Week, many Cambodians still struggle to find acceptance from their families and in wider society. Will Jackson reports.After Meas Sophanuth – who was born with female anatomy but identifies as a male – started wearing

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SOGI included in ‘Anti-Bullying Act of 2013’ IRR

• Released Date: 21-Apr-2014

The Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Republic Act No. 10627 includes gender-based bullying, which is any act that humiliates or excludes a person on the basis of perceived or actual sexual orientation and gender identity.

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