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Foreign Policy (blog)
April 17, 2018
Official homophobia in China has never reached the level of countries such as Russia or Uganda, where gay men are demonized as an alien, predatory threat. Since China ended the prosecution of gay men under hooliganism laws, the authorities have been uncomfortable with LGBT groups but notÃâà...
lareviewofbooks
April 17, 2018
Looking back over a tumultuous year, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in many parts of the world, 2017 was grim by any standard. The most disturbing trend was the scale and frequency of arbitrary arrests, state-sponsored discrimination, and violence against LGBT people.
BBC News
April 16, 2018
Chinese social media network Sina Weibo has backtracked from a controversial gay content ban after a massive outcry. Last Friday the microblogging platform said that posts related to homosexuality would be taken down. It prompted a deluge of posts from outraged netizens protesting against the decisionÃâà...
Advocate.com
April 6, 2018
One year ago, reports first surfaced of gay and bisexual men being rounded up, tortured, and killed in Chechnya, a semi-autonomous republic within Russia. Yet despite an international outcry, a mounting reported death toll, and survivors coming forward, Russia has refused to act. This week, to mark thisÃâà...
The Independent
April 4, 2018
At least 36 people have suffered “abusive treatment” in secret prisons over the past year according to the Russian LGBT Network, an NGO based in St ... Kheda Saratova, an activist on the humans rights council of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, responded at the time: “I haven't had a single requestÃâà...
TheStranger.com
March 26, 2018
Flashback: When The Stranger Helped Organize a Protest at Seattle's Russian Consular Residence ... Even though gay activists from Russia say that attention from the US will help halt the country's anti-gay rapes, beatings, and murders, Seattle City Council president Sally Clark has said the city shouldn'tÃâà...
RT
March 26, 2018
READ MORE: Free speech or hate speech? Right-wing activists 'banned' from Britain (VIDEOS). Speaking on YouTube to air her grievances, Southern said she has now been banned completely from the UK for the Luton stunt. “Why does (sic) the rights of Muslims to be homophobic trump the rights of gayÃâà...
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