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TEL AVIV — (06-08-23) — A 33-year-old homophobe was arrested on Thursday after he approached the Tel Aviv LGBT Pride Parade area with an electric taser, pepper spray, a sharp spike and an unidentified chemical substance. According to the Tel Aviv District Israel Police, the suspect has a record for threatening harm members of the [...]
KYIV, UKRAINE — (03-08-23) — Ukraine’s former deputy culture minister announced on Tuesday that Zelensky's government is proposing to legalize same-sex civil partnerships, saying it would both reward the service of LGBTQ soldiers and please the European Union. Inna Sovsun of the Golos party announced on Tuesday that she has submitted the same-sex civil partnership [...]
NAIROBI, KENYA — (02-25-23) — Kenya' Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Kenyan authorities were wrong to ban the LGBT community from registering a rights organization. Yet at the same time it stressed that gay sex remains illegal. The judges ruled three-to-two that the country's NGO board were in error to stop the National Gay [...]
UNITED KINGDOM — (01-30-23) — Egyptian police are targeting the LGBTQ community (primarily Gay Men), through dating apps. That is what BBC investigative reporter Ahmed Shihab-Eldin discovered. While the LGBTQ community is heavily stigmatized in Egypt, there have long been allegations that police officers are targeting the LGBTQ community via dating apps. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin reports...: [...]
KENYA — (01-11-23) — Kenyan LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba was smothered to death, according to pathologist Johansen Oduor. According to police, socks were stuffed into Chiloba's mouth and a piece of denim from jeans tied around his face, said Johansen Oduor. "He died from asphyxia, which is caused by smothering," said Oduor. Edwin Chiloba's body [...]