Fear and Loathing

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US: New Rule Protects Health Care Workers Who Refuse Care For Religious Reasons

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The rule, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, is designed to protect the religious rights of health care providers and religious institutions.

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US: New study on gun violence against LGBT people highlights need for data and research

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A new report from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law examines gun violence against LGBT people, including suicides, homicides, and other forms of gun violence.

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Japan: How a gay student’s suicide is helping Japan’s LGBT community speak up

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Gay graduate student was found dead on campus soon after he was outed in 2015

Japan’s LGBT community has long been silent about the struggles of coming out, and advocates say the country still has ‘a huge problem’ with insensitivity around the subject

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Official Statement by Aliança Nacional LGBTI+ About President Jair Bolsonaro’s Escalating Intolerance of Diversity

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Brazil demands respect for diversity: we will not accept attitudes and actions linked to racism, machismo, discriminations against lesbian women, gay men, bisexual men and women, transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI+), nor any other attitudes that promote hate. 

Ireland: Lyra McKee: kindness defined her, we must fight for her memory

In the North young gay people still come into their LGBT identities mostly on their own. Even in 2019. If their secret is exposed too soon – and Lyra's was – the penalty is isolation, a sort of social solitary confinement, teenage Purdah.