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Nigerian Court Throws Out Challenge To Anti-LGBT Law
A judge ruled that the person who brought the challenge couldn’t sue because he is straight and not directly harmed by it, the plaintiff’s attorney told BuzzFeed News. Nigerian president Goodluck...
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Ugandan Court Dismisses Charges Against Two People Accused Of Sodomy
If the case had gone to court, the defendants would have been the first ever to be tried for sodomy in Uganda even though homosexuality has been criminalized for more than a century. J. Lester...
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Armenian Activists Sue Over Article Outing Several LGBT People
The article was titled, “They serve the interests of international homosexual lobbying: the blacklist of country’s and nation’s enemies,” and named more than 50 individuals. Illustration from the...
View ArticleKazakh Music Students Win Lawsuit Claiming Moral Damages From Poster Showing...
A court awarded them $188,000 because of a poster of 19th-century Kazakh composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly kissing Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. A court in the Kazakh city of Almaty on Tuesday ordered...
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Ugandan Court Dismisses High-Profile Case Against Ugandan LGBT Activist
Sam Ganafa was arrested in November 2013 in the run-up to passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act. facebook.com / Via facebook.com A Ugandan court has dismissed charges against Sam Ganafa, head of the...
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Singapore's Highest Court Upholds Sodomy Law
“Whilst we understand the deeply-held personal feelings of the appellants, there is nothing that this court can do to assist them. Their remedy lies, if at all, in the legislative sphere,” the court...
View ArticleIndian Man Arrested For Homosexuality After Being Filmed On Wife's Spy Cameras
“My husband is a homosexual performing acts against nature,” the wife said in her complaint to Bangalore police. Police in the Indian technology hub Bangalore have arrested a 32-year-old man for...
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Armenian Activists Lose Suit Against Newspaper That Named "Homosexual Lobbyists"
“Hate speech and homophobia [are] highly sponsored by high level officials of Armenia,” said activists denouncing the decision. Illustration from the Iravunk article, “They serve the interests of...
View ArticleEgyptian Court Sentences Eight Men In "Wedding Video" To Three Years In Jail
This is the most high-profile prosecution of people alleged to be gay in Egypt in more than a decade. youtube.com On Saturday, a court in Cairo sentenced eight men who appeared in a YouTube video...
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Latvian Foreign Minister Confirms He Is Gay
The announcement made waves in the former Soviet republic and across its border with Russia. Latvia's Current Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs greats NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and...
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Victory For Transgender Activists Over Sharia Law
“As long as section 66 is in force the appellants will continue to live in uncertainty, misery, and indignity. Therefore, section 66 is unconstitutional and void.” AFP/AFP / Getty Images Transgender...
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New Anti-LGBT Legislation Drafted In Uganda
And it’s even more draconian than the Anti-Homosexuality Act, struck down earlier this year. President Yoweri Museveni exchanges gifts with Pope Frances during a private audience at the Vatican...
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The LGBT Kids Who Flee Their Countries — And Their Families — For The U.S.
Some of the thousands of Central American children trying to get to the United States are seeking a love and acceptance they can’t get at home. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed MEXICO CITY — Jefferson's face...
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Catholic Archbishop Compares LGBT People To Undocumented Americans: "Love The...
“We have to help people to realize that they should not demonize the undocumented; nobody should be demonized because of their sexual orientation,” said Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski to BuzzFeed...
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LGBT Rights Group Wins Landmark Case In Botswana
This is the second ruling from an African court this year upholding the right to form LGBT organizations. Facebook: 204201474250 / Via Facebook: 204201474250 A court in Botswana's capital, Gaborone,...
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“They’re Going To Kill Us”: LGBT Gambians Fear They’re Next In Police Raids
BuzzFeed News spoke to the people who fear that the West African nation’s president plans to make good on his promise to exterminate LGBT people the “same way we are fighting malaria-causing...
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South African Court Sentences Man To 30 Years In Prison For Rape And Murder...
The brutal murder of Duduzile Zozo forced the South African government to get serious about an epidemic of violence targeting black lesbians. LGBT activists participate in a demonstration rally...
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How The Father Of Soviet Pornography Became A Crusader Against “Gay Propaganda”
“I was the father of the sexual revolution, and now I’m becoming the father of the sexual counterrevolution,” Vladimir Linderman told BuzzFeed News in the Latvian capital, Riga. J. Lester...
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EU Countries Banned From Requiring LGBT Asylum Seekers To "Prove" Their...
EU’s top court issued a ruling that protects the rights of asylum seekers on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Participants from Uganda, where homosexuality is outlawed, take...
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Latvian Ruling Party Official Resigns After Praising Nazi Extermination Of...
“Thank God â at one time, the Germans shot them. It improves fertility,” Unity Party official Inga Priede tweeted . Twitter: @IngaPriedeV / Via Twitter: @IngaPriedeV A member of the executive board...
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