World
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Black Eyed Peas Take a Stand for the LGBTQ Community
The Black Eyed Peas weren't shy about making their support for the LGBTQ, Jewish, and African American communities loudly heard.
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Polish County Fights Inclusion in “Atlas of Hate”
An anti-LGBTQ county in Poland lost a lawsuit against a group of activists who had included the county in the “Atlas of Hate,” an online...
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World Boxing Council to Introduce Separate Transgender Category
The World Boxing Council, one of four major organizations that sanction professional boxing matches, plans to launch a separate category dedicated to transgender fighters over...
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Couple Scammed Gay Victims Out of £400,000 on Dating Apps
A couple from South London duped approximately 80 people, primarily gay men, out of more than £400,000, or $482,126 in U.S. dollars, as part of...
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Amir Ohana Becomes Israel’s First Openly Gay Knesset Speaker
On Thursday, the Knesset, or Israeli parliament, elected Amir Ohana, a politician with the right-wing Likud party, as its next speaker, making him the first...
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Israeli Politician Wants to Allow Doctors to Deny Care to LGBTQ People
A far-right Israeli lawmaker who is set to be a minister in the new Israeli government has suggested that doctors should be allowed to refuse...
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Russian LGBTQ History Museum Closes Because of Anti-Gay Law
The pop-up museum in St. Petersburg protested the new Russian law banning LGBTQ “propaganda.”
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Brittney Griner Says She Intends to Return to WNBA This Season
WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was released from a Russian penal colony last week after being held in custody for 11 months, said in her...
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Barbados High Court Strikes Down Law Penalizing Same-Sex Intimacy
In a historic decision on Monday, the Barbados High Court issued an oral ruling decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations. The high court struck down a law...
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Grant Wahl, Journalist Detained at World Cup for Wearing Rainbow Shirt, Dies
Grant Wahl, a journalist who made headlines after being detained by security for wearing a shirt featuring a soccer ball on a rainbow background to...
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LGBTQ Groups React to Brittney Griner’s Release
LGBTQ groups celebrated the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from a Russian penal colony as part of a prisoner swap negotiated by the Biden...
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Brittney Griner Released from Russia as Part of Prisoner Swap
In exchange for the WNBA star's release from a Russian penal colony, the United States will return arms dealer Viktor Bout to Russia.
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Australian Accused of Killing Gay American Has Conviction Overturned
A man convicted of killing gay 27-year-old U.S. mathematician Scott Johnson in 1988 had his conviction overturned on appeal last month. For years, Johnson’s death...
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party Signs Agreements with Anti-LGBTQ Groups
Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party came in first during the country’s November 1 election — officially setting them up to retake control of...
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Indonesian Soldiers Jailed for Consensual Gay Sex
Two Indonesian male soldiers have been sentenced to seven months in prison for engaging in consensual sex, which is considered a form of “inappropriate behavior”...
