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Jamaican gay activist found murdered in his home
A gay LGBT activist has been found dead in his home in Jamaica. Dexter Pottinger’s body was found with multiple stab wounds earlier this week on Thursday. It is not yet known when Pottinger was killed because he was found decomposing. The death of the activist, who was also a fashion designer and model, has shaken the community.
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World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art export
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Chechen leader: Gay men don't exist in my country
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has denied claims that gay men are killed in his country, denying that any even exist there. Rejecting allegations of human rights abuses, Mr Kadyrov said: "We don't have those kinds of people here". Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported in April that more than 100 gay men had been locked up and tortured in the Russian republic.
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Chinese man wins forced gay conversion therapy lawsuit
A gay man in central China has successfully sued a psychiatric hospital over forced conversion therapy, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in a country where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emerging from the fringes.
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German lawmakers vote to legalize same-sex marriage
German lawmakers voted by a wide margin to legalize same-sex marriage Friday, a landmark decision which came just days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her longstanding opposition to a free vote on the issue.
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Germany Wipes Slate Clean for 50,000 Men Convicted Under Anti-Gay Law
In what the justice minister, Heiko Maas, called a “belated act of justice,” the German Parliament has voted unanimously to void the convictions of roughly 50,000 men prosecuted for homosexual acts since World War II. The measure, approved on Thursday, also awards compensation to about 5,000 of the men who are still living. Each will receive 3,000 euros ($3,350), and an additional €1,500 for each year spent in prison for the convictions.
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Madrid’s Museo del Prado Celebrates Pride Month With Queer Rehang
Coinciding with the LGBTQ Pride celebrations in Madrid, the Museo del Prado is staging a show of artworks focusing on same-sex relationships.
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Gay Men’s Chorus Drowns Out Christian Bigots During Knoxville Pride Festival
Knox Pride took place in Tennessee yesterday, so naturally, there were Christian bigots there to protest and tell everyone they’re going to Hell. But they probably didn’t expect the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC to be in the area on tour. And they clearly didn’t plan for those singers to surround them and drown out their hate with song.
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Putin backs inquiry into Chechnya 'gay purge'
President Vladimir Putin has said he will intervene over reports of gay men in the Chechnya region being locked up and tortured. He told Russia's human rights ambassador, Tatyana Moskalkova, that he would personally "talk to the prosecutor-general and the interior minister". More than 100 gay men were arrested and tortured, at least two killed by relatives and one died in custody, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported in April.
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Gay teen in Chechnya pushed from 9th floor balcony after being outed
A gay teen in Chechnya has been brutally killed by his uncle after he was outed to his family. The anonymous 17-year-old was pushed from a balcony from the ninth floor of a building.
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Chechnya gay rights: Merkel urges Putin to intervene
Germany's leader urges Russia to protect gay rights, amid reports of persecution in Chechnya.
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Russia detains protesters against Chechnya anti-gay violence
Russian police on Monday detained young activists protesting against the persecution of gay men in Chechnya at a May Day parade in Saint Petersburg, an AFP photographer witnessed. Recent reports of a brutal crackdown on gay men in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus region led for a decade by strongman Ramzan Kadyrov have caused an international scandal.
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Chechnya’s President: I Will Exterminate The Gay Community By The Start Of Ramadan
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has publicly vowed to exterminate his country’s LGBT community by the start of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan on May 26. Britain’s deputy foreign secretary Alan Duncan revealed the chilling threat during a parliament session about the ongoing “purge” of homosexuals in Chechnya. More than 100 gay men have reportedly been detained and tortured in concentration camps, and at least four are believed to have been killed.
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Chechen Authorities Send Threats To Journalists Reporting On Gay Concentration Camps
Leaders in Chechnya are now threatening journalists who attempt to report on the concentration camps for gay men that have been formed in the Russian republic. Novaya Gazeta, the publication that first broke the news of gay men being detained and tortured in the region, issued a statement saying it now fears for the safety of its employees. Two days after news of the concentration camps first made headlines, Chechen authorities, Islamic scholars and public opinion leaders held...
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LGBT community worldwide raises funds to get Chechen gays to safety
All Out and the Russian LGBT Network have launched a joint fund-raising campaign to help victims of the “preventive cleansing" affected by the Chechen authorities and to get the remaining homosexual men out of the region. “What is happening in Chechnya is outrageous. Our priority now is to help get as many people as possible to safety, before it’s too late,” said Matt Beard, Executive Director at All Out.
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Oliver Sacks remembered in his partner Bill Hayes' intimate memoir
Oliver Sacks was regarded by many is one of the great minds of his generation, but it wasn't until late in life that he found love.
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Family Values
Mapping the spread of antigay ideology. By Masha Gessen.
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Being gay in Latin America: Legal but deadly
On a February night in 2008, Luis Alberto Rojas Marin says, his life changed forever. At 26 years old, the Peruvian gay man was arrested by police officers while heading home shortly after midnight. Throughout the six hours he was in police custody, he says, he was stripped, raped with a baton and verbally abused by police officers before being let go. All of this, he says, because of his sexuality.
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ISIS has gay wing: Homosexuality rife among terrorists say experts
And some experts fear intolerance among the British Muslim community has sent young gay Muslims into the arms of ISIS. The Times says the messages, uncovered by counter-terrorism experts, show the men have stronger feelings than what an expert dubbed "heterosexual bonding". If the men were caught having a gay relationship they would probably be put to death as jihadists consider homosexuality a sin.
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Boy Scouts on transgender youths: We defer to birth certificates
The Boy Scouts of America once again landed under the harsh glare of the media spotlight for their policies on LGBT children. Recently, a woman from New Jersey has been speaking to local media about how her transgender son was removed from his local Boy Scout troop because of his gender identity.
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