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Iraq
Iraq: Rainbow flag outrages government in Baghdad
On the occasion of the International Day against Homo-, Bi- and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), the EU representation in Baghdad last Sunday demonstratively raised a rainbow flag outside its building. The Iraqi government was outraged.
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Great Britain
The Corona Crisis: A unique opportunity to decimate STI’s?
With the decline in casual sex, the Corona crisis is an unprecedented opportunity to detect new infections of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) in time say experts at 56 Dean Street, the largest sexual health centre in the UK.
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Brazil
Brazil and Hungary lift MSM blood donation ban
From Brazil and Hungary, there are improvements for the queer community to report: The ban on blood donation for MSM has now been lifted in two countries ruled by anti-queer presidents.
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Ukraine
Ukraine: new laws on hate crimes polarise society
The Ukrainian Parliament is currently examining three draft laws that will make it possible to prosecute hate crimes related to sexual orientation, gender identity or religious practice in the future.
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Does the queer community own the rainbow flag?
Many people in the UK use the rainbow flag in the Corona crisis as a symbol to thank health care workers – on the one hand, this ensures greater visibility, on the other hand, members of the queer community fear a symbol theft. Meanwhile, the power of the symbol can be seen in Turkey, where children are forbidden to paint rainbows. The politicians claim that rainbows make them homosexual.
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Kenya
Refugee protest in Kenya ends with tear gas and batons
Using tear gas and batons, Kenyan police disbanded a sit-in of about 60 LGBTIQ* refugees outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kakuma, Kenya, late last week.
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Georgia
Trans*community in Georgia (Caucasus): Demonstrator sets herself on fire
During a protest against the lack of government support during the COVID 19 pandemic, a transgender woman set herself on fire in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
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Germany
Germany bans gay conversion therapy
The law on protection from conversion treatments was passed today with the votes of CDU, SPD and FDP. Germany is only the second country in the EU after Malta to ban the dangerous pseudo-therapies – but with some exceptions.
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Nothing new in the Vatican: About popes, gays and the Antichrist
Joseph Ratzinger (93) has lived withdrawn from public life in the Vatican monastery Mater Ecclesiae since he voluntarily renounced his pontificate in 2013. Apparently this does not prevent him from expressing his opinion on world events. In an interview the emeritus Pope now took up the cudgels for homophobes and etched against the equality of marriage, abortion and artificial insemination.
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Brazil
Corona failure of his government: Bolsonaro accuses WHO of homo propaganda
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro follows in the footsteps of Donald Trump and heaps absurd accusations at the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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