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Miraziz Bazarov

Uzbek LGBT+ activist may need brain surgery after savage attack by masked thugs with a baseball bat

Emma Powys Maurice - March 29, 2021

Egypt: Police are using Grindr to hunt, imprison and torture LGBT people

Egyptian police are using Grindr to hunt and imprison queer people. Once behind bars, it only gets worse from there

Emma Powys Maurice - October 2, 2020

Pussy Riot members had staged the protest to mark Vladimir Putin's birthday

Terrifying new law that would legally erase transgender people inches closer to reality in Putin’s Russia

Nick Duffy - September 7, 2020

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Remember Trump’s supposed campaign to decriminalise homosexuality around the world? Unsurprisingly, it’s a ‘sham’

Emma Powys Maurice - August 26, 2020

Gay and trans Syrians routinely mutilated and raped by ISIS militants

Gay and trans Syrians routinely mutilated, raped and anally violated by ISIS militants and government officials alike

Josh Milton - July 29, 2020

Russia withdraws terrifying bill to legally erase trans people – but the threat hasn't yet gone away

Plot twist. Russian court rules… in favour of trans woman, says her firing was unlawful

Vic Parsons - June 26, 2020

Boris Johnson

Current Affairs

Boris Johnson warned ‘regressive’ anti-trans plans would put vulnerable trans women at risk of violence

Vic Parsons - June 18, 2020

Mohamad al-Bokari: Pro-LGBT blogger tortured by Saudi Arabia authorities

Saudi authorities beat blogger, subject him to anal exam and demand he ‘confess’ being gay – all because he supports LGBT+ rights

Nick Duffy - June 10, 2020

Black Lives Matter

75 LGBT+ groups join coalition in support of Black Lives Matter: ‘We understand what it means to rise up’

Emma Powys Maurice - May 30, 2020

Ugandans

Homeless LGBT+ Ugandans finally released after being held for almost 50 days on ‘unlawful’ coronavirus charges

Emma Powys Maurice - May 18, 2020

Uganda

Uganda urged to free 19 queer men arrested, whipped and interrogated under ‘bogus’ coronavirus charges

Emma Powys Maurice - May 12, 2020

Colombia: Gendered lockdown that sparked anti-trans violence to be lifted

Gender-based lockdown rules that fuelled rise in violence against transgender people to be lifted

Vic Parsons - May 10, 2020

Hungary

EU urged to act against Hungary as Viktor Orbán pushes ahead with ‘evil’ plan to devastate trans rights

Emma Powys Maurice - April 28, 2020

Camila Díaz Córdova trans El Salvador

Murder trial of trans woman allegedly killed by police officers to proceed, but it won’t be classed as a hate crime

Patrick Kelleher - March 12, 2020

Vietnam Pride

Children in Vietnam are still being taught that being gay is ‘a disease’

Lily Wakefield - February 14, 2020

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