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US Still Faces Reactionary Legislation

Posted on 14 Apr 2021 in World

Despite the victory of a progressive Presidency in the United States a couple of months ago, the cultural warfare being waged by the political right wing against anything they consider to be black, feminist, socialist or gay, continues. Arkansas, says the BBC News Channel, has prohibited all gender affirmation treatments for transgender people under the age of eighteen. Medical professionals are not even allowed to refer such clients to other services.

Rally United Against Anti-Asian Hate Crime

Posted on 31 Mar 2021 in World

The long standing San Francisco paper the Bay Area Reporter notes that LGBTQ groups put aside their differences and rallied alongside anti-racists on Sunday in response to an act of anti-Asian terror in Atlanta, which had left eight people dead.

Irish LGBTQ Groups Mark St Patrick's Day

Posted on 17 Mar 2021 in World

It's a Happy Saint Patricks Day to Irish people round the globe as we pass 17th February, the Saints Day for Ireland.

Tashnuva is Bangladesh's First Trans TV Host

Posted on 12 Mar 2021 in World

Congratulations are due this week, says the BBC, to Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who became Bangladesh's first transgender news reader, delivering her first bulletin for Boishakhi Television channel in the country on Monday, International Women's Day.

Webinar Looks at Anti-Gay Global Conservatism

Posted on 11 Mar 2021 in World

The Global Investigative Journalism Network is holding a webinar early on Thursday morning (9am Eastern Time, USA). Speakers including Lydia Namubiru of Open Democracy,

Mar

Vaccine Time with Dolly as LGBTQ Ally Has Jab

Mar

Tik Tok Takes Down 90 Million Toxic Videos

Capital Radio UK says that the new social media giant TikTok has admitted it has taken down ninety million videos in the last six months, for viol

Mar

Nalvany as Opponent to Putin has "Problems"

The anarchist newspaper Freedom republishes a statement this week from the Federation of Russian Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists in which the group distances itself from both t

Feb

Matriarchal Guinea-Bessau to Feature in Doc

Deutsche Welle, the international TV network from Germany, will be considering the way in which the archipelagio of Guinea-Bessau is governed in a documentary sche

Feb

LGBTQ People Take on Myanmar Dictators

Out Traveller The liberal daily The Guardian and the fortnightly US gay magazine The Advocate are amongst those reporting that LGBTQI people have taken their place in the broad coa