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South Africa, Which Once Led On Promoting LGBT Rights Abroad, Could Become A...
Advocates fear South Africa might turn against an LGBT rights resolution at the UN that it sponsored three years ago. The flag of the South African gay community sits next to a portrait of former...
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St. Petersburg Lawmaker Leads Mob Attack On LGBT Festival
Several participants fell ill after hooligans sprayed them with a “putrid gas” in a disruption led by local lawmaker Vitaly Milonov. Polina Andrianova of the St. Petersburg LGBT organization Coming...
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LGBT Egyptians Go Into Hiding As Regime Cracks Down
“The targeting of gay persons in Egypt happens when someone, on the senior level, chooses for it to happen,” an Interior Ministry official told BuzzFeed News. Defendants in a courtroom cage during the...
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Azeri Couple Goes Into Hiding After Their Engagement Makes Headlines
“This happy event turned into a nightmare.” Javid "Atilla" Nabiyev The head of an LGBT organization in Azerbaijan and his partner say they are going into hiding after receiving death threats on...
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Grindr Warns Egyptian Users As Six Accused Of Homosexuality Are Convicted...
“Police may be posing as LGBT on social media to entrap you,” said a warning Grindr sent to Egyptian users on Thursday. Grindr Grindr Six men were sentenced by an Egyptian court on Thursday to two...
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LGBT Rights Resolution Passes United Nations Human Rights Council In Lopsided...
The 25–14 vote may indicate support is growing for protecting LGBT rights under international human rights law. Denis Balibouse / Reuters An LGBT rights resolution was adopted on Friday by the United...
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Gay And Extramarital Sex To Be Punished With 100 Lashes In Indonesia's Aceh...
The law follows the imposition of similar rules by the nearby country of Brunei. An Acehnese man found guilty of gambling by a Sharia court receives a public flogging outside a mosque in the...
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Russia Suspends U.S. Exchange Program, Claiming Student Was Illegally Adopted...
The U.S. agency administering the exchange program confirmed to BuzzFeed News that one student did not return to Russia. exchanges.state.gov / Via exchanges.state.gov The Russian foreign ministry...
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Facebook Requires LGBT People To Use Real Names Even In Countries Where...
As news comes that police are targeting LGBT people through Facebook in countries like Egypt, a Facebook spokesperson tells BuzzFeed News the “real name” policy applies to Facebook users everywhere....
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Lawyer Says Russian Student In U.S. Custody; Kremlin Says Victim Of "Gay...
BuzzFeed News speaks exclusively with the lawyer for an exchange student who Russian officials allege was “illegally” put up for adoption and placed in the custody of a same-sex couple. Facebook:...
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Ugandan President Urges Lawmakers To Drop New Push For Anti-LGBT Law
“Should we endlessly involve Uganda in endless wars with our potential partners in trade on account of this group of voluntary homosexuals?” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Noor Khamis / Reuters...
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Kenyan Court Defends Trans Rights In New Ruling
“These are the orders that will make the applicant … complete as a human being.” Audrey Mbugua Ithibu facebook.com / Via facebook.com A Kenyan judge ordered education authorities on Tuesday to issue a...
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Lawyer Slams U.S. Official For Outing Russian Teen Seeking Asylum
“We’re shocked that an American official would … out him as an asylum-seeker.” Facebook: FLEXProgram / Via Facebook: FLEXProgram A lawyer for a 17-year-old at the center of a confrontation between the...
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Estonia Becomes First Former Soviet Country To Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships
“It [says] to Europe that we are with you…. Russia can see that we want to be in the EU,” an Estonian LGBT activist told BuzzFeed News. Facebook: EestiLGBT / Via Facebook: EestiLGBT RIGA, Latvia — The...
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Vatican Backtracks On "Welcoming Homosexual Persons" In Family Report — But...
Changes to the English translation of the interim report from the Synod on the Family is the latest sign of the depth of the backlash in Rome. Pope Francis celebrates a mass to mark the opening of the...
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Conservative Cardinal Who Clashed With Pope Francis Confirms He Has Been Ousted
The head of the Catholic Church’s highest court speaks to BuzzFeed News from the Vatican. Cardinal Raymond Burke leaves meeting during Extraordinary Synod on the Family in Vatican City. Franco Origlia...
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Interview With Cardinal Raymond Burke: The Full Transcript
At the request of many readers, BuzzFeed News has published a full transcript of its interview with Cardinal Burke in which he confirms his removal from the Catholic Church’s highest court. BuzzFeed...
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No More “Welcoming To Homosexual Persons” In Vatican Statement
Toned-down language on “pastoring to people with homosexual orientation” failed to receive the two-thirds majority needed to pass a summit of church leaders. Pope Francis leaves at the end of a mass...
View ArticleItalian Mayors Defy Government On Same-Sex Marriages
“How can you not call this love?” tweeted Roman Mayor Ignazio Marino Saturday as he transcribed the marriages of 16 same-sex couples. Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino became the latest city leader to...
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This Short Film Shows How Terrifying It Is To Be LGBT In Jamaica
Of the 56 cases of assault on LGBT Jamaicans documented in a new report from Human Rights Watch, police made only four arrests. Gay and trans youth living in a Kingston sewer in Dec. 2013. J. Lester...
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