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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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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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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.
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One in four MEPs committed to work on LGBTI equality in new European Parliament
With the highest voter turnout the European elections has seen since 1994, so too arrives the largest number of MEPs elected committed to LGBTI equality.
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Rediscovering New York Radio and Podcast Episodes to Honour LGBTQ Rights Movement
Halstead, one of the top residential real estate brokerage firms in the New York metropolitan area, today announced that one of its leading agents, Jeff Goodman, will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement on his Rediscovering New York radio show and podcast.