Tag: LGBTQ
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Drag Queens share the disgusting racism they face while performing
Drag Queens open up about the racial slurs they face on the LGBTQ+ scene ahead of ‘pride not prejudice’ panel at National Student Pride 2019
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ILGA-Europe calls on MEP candidates to defend human rights in new ComeOut EU Elections campaign
Yesterday, as Europe faces a social and political climate of uncertainty and polarisation, ILGA-Europe formally launches ComeOut – our campaign for the 2019 European elections.
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Global LGBTQ Story Archive «I’m From Driftwood» to Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary
«I’m From Driftwood», the worldwide online LGBTQ story archive, is poised to mark its 10-year anniversary in 2019. The nonprofit has spent the last decade producing, curating, and publishing first-person stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of all backgrounds.
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Turkey: End Ankara Ban on LGBTI Events
The ban in Turkey’s capital Ankara on public events focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues discriminates against LGBTI people and violates their fundamental rights, and should therefore be immediately lifted, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Photography Exhibition Highlights 1980s-1990s Queer Nightlife in SF
A new exhibition opening February 15 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum highlights the extraordinary vitality of queer nightlife in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) district during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis, an era that simultaneously marked the peak of AIDS activism and queer militant organising in the city.
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Singapore must protect the rights of LGBTI people, says European Parliament
On 13 February 2019, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and Singapore.