Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap
A dozen UN agencies issued a joint statement calling for an end to discrimination in health…
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Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap
October 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the Vatican’s “Letter to the Bishops on…
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More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap
OutRight Action International’s Rashima Kwatra reviews the record of human rights work by Vitit Muntarbhorn,…
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Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap
Wikileaks came under fire for releasing documents that included personally sensitive information, including the name…
Read MorePope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap
There are reportedly a record number of openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual athletes competing in…
Read MoreIndonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap
Pride celebrations continued this weekend, with major events in San Francisco, New York, and London,…
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Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap
Tuesday, May 17 was commemorated as International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, or IDAHOT….
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LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap
The Global Philanthropy Project has published “The Perfect Storm: The closing space for LGBT civil…
Read MoreIntolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap
The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaboration of more than a dozen…
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Inventing “Jihad”
Last week, in the wake of Russian-led investigation, it was reported that when Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in Russia he was, in fact, more eager to wage war than the Islamist contacts he had traveled to find. Accounts reveal that he arrived in Russia with “an avid interest in waging jihad.”
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