World
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Being trans is illegal in only 13 countries, but many more nations use other laws to criminalize trans people
Report documents progress and regression in various countries when it comes to recognizing transgender rights
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Sperm donor sues clinic for helping gay couples have children
British man claims he's not homophobic for only wanting heterosexual couples to use his sperm
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JK Rowling promotes anti-trans shop selling ‘f*** your pronouns’ merch
Rowling shared a T-shirt she had purchased from the store, which is owned by the cofounder of a transphobic group
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Joe Biden criticizes ‘LGBT-free zones’ in Poland
Biden said the exclusionary zones have "no place" in the EU or "anywhere in the world"
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JK Rowling’s new book sparks anger over ‘transvestite serial killer’
Rowling's novel "Troubled Blood" features a character who dresses as a woman in order to kill his victims
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Christians threaten to hang gay people ‘in a loving way’ in leaked WhatsApp chats
Religious leaders in the Cayman Islands reportedly participated in the WhatsApp group, which urged criminalizing homosexuality
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Burger King celebrates Pride by having mascot kiss Ronald McDonald
Poster featuring the kiss celebrated Pride in Helsinki, Finland, with Burger King stating that "love conquers all"
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Uniformed Russian “Cossacks” are patrolling streets of Yekaterinburg during Pride Week seeking out LGBTQ people
Groups of uniformed men have been patrolling the streets of Yekaterinburg during Ural Pride Week, a weeklong festival organized by the city’s LGBT Resource Center....
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Proposed Russian law would prohibit transgender people from officially changing their gender
Law would also close a loophole allowing registration of same-sex marriages and would ban LGBTQ couples from adopting
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Pakistan bans Grindr and Tinder due to ‘immoral content’
TikTok and YouTube have also been ordered to censor content in the Muslim-majority nation
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Three men arrested after gay couple attacked for holding hands in public
Suspects allegedly yelled homophobic slurs and sprayed beer on the victim, who was dragged 82 feet by the assailants' car
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Church leader who blamed pandemic on gay marriage tests positive for COVID-19
Ukraine's Patriarch Filaret said the virus was "God's punishment" for same-sex marriage
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Court orders release of U.S. Marine jailed for killing transgender woman in the Philippines
Human Rights activists call Marine's release, after serving less than half of his prison sentence, a "travesty of justice"
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Antigay preachers broke a man’s leg after he challenged their bigotry
Justin Morissette had bones in his leg snapped after challenging hate preachers in Vancouver
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Lesbian penguins celebrate birth of new chick after adopting an egg
Newborn chick is the first to be adopted by a same-sex penguin couple at Oceanogràfic Valencia
