Tag: homosexuality
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Grindr data release of people’s HIV status
Statement from Peter Tatchell Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation.
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Forced Anal Examinations for Gay Men are Stopped in Kenya
Today, a Court of Appeals in Kenya, led by a 5 judge bench, ruled that forced anal examinations are contrary to the law. Forced anal examinations have largely been used to “prove” whether or not a man is homosexual in countries where homosexuality is criminalised.
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End criminalisation of LGBTQ in 37 Commonwealth states
Eighty LGBTQ rights defenders protested as Her Majesty the Queen, the UK Prime Minister and Commonwealth High Commissioners celebrated Commonwealth Day 2018 at Westminster Abbey in London, 12 March 2018.
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Hornet Launches Global #DecriminalizeLGBT Campaign
New campaign highlights LGBTQ Rights as human rights and calls for the end of the criminalisation of LGBTQ people worldwide.
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Australian boxer Anthony Mundine : Gay people should be killed to ‘deter the problem’
Anthony Mundine compared gay people to pedophiles and claimed they should be killed as a deterrent.
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Prominent Turkish LGBTIQ Activist Arrested in His Home in Ankara
On Friday morning, Ali Erol, a prominent Turkish human rights activist and a founder of Kaos GL Association, Turkey’s first registered LGBTQ organisation, was arrested and detained in a home he shares with his partner.