Month: June 2019
Photo credit Mark Fletcher, CEO Manchester Pride Charter
Manchester Pride Announces Innovative Event for Young LGBTQ+ People
Free Yourself, Know Yourself – Manchester Pride has announced its programme of events for Youth Pride MCR – a brand new element of this year’s Manchester Pride Festival.
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Elijah Daniel buys town and renames it Gay Hell in spite of Donald Trumps pride ban
Elijah Daniel found a way around Donald Trump’s ban on U.S. embassies flying the gay pride flag and, it involves buying an actual town.
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Sasha Domansky tells a heartbreaking coming out story
YouTuber Sasha Domansky tells his coming out story to his religious Russian family and what a nightmare that followed.
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USA: Transgender Rikers inmate found dead allegedly ignored by guards
A silent and unresponsive Layleen Polanco — the transgender inmate found dead in her Rikers Island cell last week — was ignored by guards for nearly two hours before they tried to help, a jailhouse eyewitness is claiming.
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Global Call to Reform Japan’s Law on Transgender People
A leading international health organisation has urged the government of Japan to reform its legal recognition procedure for transgender people.
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Botswana: High Court Strikes Down Sodomy Laws
The High Court in Botswana ruled on June 11, 2019 that laws criminalising consensual same-sex relations were unconstitutional, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The ruling upheld the rights of the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.