World
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Canadian Pride festival won’t allow mounted police to ride in their parade
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are being barred due to ongoing debates about police presence at Pride
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UK vows to ban conversion therapy in bid to make LGBTQ people more accepted
Government promises to outlaw "abhorrent practice" after surveying LGBTQ Brits on their quality of life
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Police use tear gas and rubber bullets on Istanbul Pride march
Authorities have banned Pride marches from taking place since 2015
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Homophobic parents forced a British school to make its Pride event private
Parents felt the school was "shoving LGBT issues down the kids’ throats"
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Report: Anti-gay climate in Indonesia could be fueling HIV epidemic
A new report by Human Rights Watch claims that the increase in anti-LGBTQ hostility, increased raids by police, and failure of the country’s political leaders...
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Trans woman Angela Ponce makes history winning Miss Universe Spain
Angela Ponce will compete in Miss Universe 2018 later this year
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Study: British people care more about animal rights than LGBTQ rights
Only 3% of straight people picked LGBTQ rights as an issue that most concerns them
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Israel retroactively removed non-biological lesbian parents from birth certificates
An Israeli couple learned while trying to get travel visas that their names had been removed from their children's birth certificates
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Report: “Gay glass ceiling” prevents gay men from being promoted
The analysis of British people found that gay employees are less likely to be promoted than their straight peers
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Some Pride-themed merchandise is produced in countries with anti-LGBTQ laws
Some Pride-themed merchandise is being produced in countries where homosexuality is criminalized or where anti-LGBTQ persecution is common, reports The New York Times. The demand...
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Transgender people no longer considered to have mental disorder by World Health Organization
Also known as gender incongruence, the term has now been reclassified as a sexual health condition to address healthcare needs
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British Royal family announces its first same-sex wedding
Two years after coming out, Lord Ivar Mountbatten will marry his partner in a small, private ceremony
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Pope Francis says Catholic Church shouldn’t recognize gay families
The Pope told a Catholic families event that the church should only recognize heterosexual parents
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Moscow police arrest British gay rights activist as World Cup begins
Activist Peter Tatchell was arrested for protesting Putin's silence on gay men being kidnapped and tortured in Chechnya
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Carnival to resume same-sex marriages on cruise ships after Bermuda changes law
Carnival had to stop allowing same-sex couples to marry on board after Bermuda repealed same-sex marriage
