Tag: LGBTQ
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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.
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Vatican Confirms Hate Against LGBTIQ People Are A Religious Value
On 10 June 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Vatican issued a 31 page long guidance on gender identity, stating decisively that gender is binary and imparted by God, not only denying the existence and rights of transgender people, but framing their existence as dangerous and threatening, and entirely overlooking the existence of intersex people.
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High Court in Botswana Rules to Decriminalise Same-Sex Relations
Today, on 11 June 2019, a full bench of the High Court of Botswana ruled to shake remaining relics of its colonial past and to strike down section 164(a) and (c), and section 167 of the penal code which criminalise same-sex relations, or «carnal knowledge against the order of nature», and prescribe a prison sentence of up to 7 years for those found guilty. The court unanimously ruled that the provisions are discriminatory, against public interest and unconstitutional.
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Matthew James – «Right Now»
Matthew James Harrou Sivertson (born August 11th, 1996 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), better known by his stage name Matthew James, is a Moroccan-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and professional pianist located in Los Angeles, CA.
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London bus hate crime attack: Arrests after gay couple who refused to kiss beaten
Two women say they were subjected to a homophobic attack and left covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.