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Russia reportedly bans transgender drivers
Russia has reportedly banned transgender people from driving vehicles.LGBT rights advocates have criticized what they describe as the Russian government’s decision to ban transgender people from...
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Reports indicate Islamic State executing men for sodomy
Islamic State militants in January released images they contend show the execution of a man in the Iraqi city of Ninevah who they said engaged in sodomy. (Image released by ISIS)The Islamic State this...
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Bid to block spousal benefits for gay U.N. employees fails
(Photo by Steve Cadman; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)A U.N. budget committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a Russia-sponsored resolution that sought to overturn Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s...
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Maltese lawmakers approve ‘cutting-edge’ gender identity bill
Maltese lawmakers on April 1, 2015, unanimously approved a “cutting-edge” gender rights bill. (Photo public domain)Maltese lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved what LGBT rights advocates are...
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Advocates criticize new Malawi marriage law
Parliament Building of Malawi (Photo by Achipungu; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)Advocates contend a new Malawi law designed to curb rates of child marriages will subject LGBT people in the African...
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Islamic State focus of U.N. Security Council’s first LGBT meeting
Subhi Nahas, a gay Syrian refugee who now lives in the U.S., speaks with reporters at the United Nations on Aug. 24, 2015. Nahas earlier in the day spoke at a U.N. Security Council hearing on LGBT...
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Report: Islamic State executes 9 men for sodomy
Islamic State militants have reportedly executed more than 30 men in Iraq and Syria over allegations they engaged in sodomy. They posted this picture online in January that appears to show militants...
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EXCLUSIVE: IGLHRC to change its name
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on Sept. 28, 2015, will formally announce it will change its name to OutRight Action International. (Photo courtesy of OutRight International...
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Dupont Circle ANC Commissioner Michael Feldstein dies at 73
Michael Feldstein Michael Feldstein, a retired official with the U.S. Agency for International Development and member of the Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commission since 2009, died April 13 at...
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