Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap
…le for months over a massive corruption probe targetting Rousseff’s party. Turkey: Timeline shows slide to anti-LGBT positions by Erdoğan’s party LGBTI News Turkey released a timeline showing the deterioration of the positions on LGBT issues taken by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which was founded in 2001. That year, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a television interviewer, “Gays must have legal protections in terms of their rights and freedo…
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