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Vatican makes Cardinal Newman a saint & erases his sexuality
Cardinal Newman was canonised as a saint in Rome by Pope Francis last Sunday, Sunday 13 October 2019.
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In homophobic Poland, big handouts and gay-bashing win votes
Poland has a president and a prime minister. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the nationalist Law and Justice (pis) party, is its true ruler.
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Homophobic Uganda Plans to Re-introduce «Anti-Homosexuality Act»
In an interview with Thomson Reuters today the Ethics and Integrity Minister of Uganda, Simon Lokodo, has announced plans to introduce to parliament a bill imposing the death penalty for same-sex relations and «promotion and recruitment» of homosexuality in order to curb a rise in «unnatural sex». Local activists confirm that it is to be tabled on October 28, 2019.
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Marielle Franco is the first-ever LGBTI person to be on the Sakharov Prize shortlist
The European Parliament announced the finalists for the Sakharov Prize on 9 October 2019. And for the first time in its 30 years of existence, a person from the LGBTI community is on the list: Marielle Franco.
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U.S. Supreme Court Case on Anti-LGBTIQ Discrimination to Have International Implications
On October 8, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States of America started hearing arguments in a case which will determine whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, race, colour, national origin and religion, applies to cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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World Congress of Families to Boost Export of LGBTIQ-phobia in West Africa
The World Congress of Families (WCF), designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, announced last week that a regional conference would be held on October 31 and November 1 in Accra, Ghana, marking an expansion of its right-wing fundamentalist agenda in West Africa.