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Indonesia mulls bill to make LGBTQ people go to “rehabilitation centers” for conversion therapy
The bill calls homosexuality “sexual deviation,” akin to incest and sadomasochism.
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A father slit his son’s throat for being gay in an attempt to kill him
The father put a knife to his son’s throat and shouted, “Are you gay? Are you gay?”
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Tanzania lost almost $10 million in foreign aid because of recent anti-gay comments
One of the biggest donors to Tanzania is cutting off aid out of concern for gay rights.
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10 men in Tanzania were arrested at a wedding because they may be gay
They were sitting “two by two” according to the police. Now they may be tortured to “prove” that they’re gay.
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Police arrested 12 trans women & cut their hair off in public in a brutal raid
They were forced to chant “until their male voices came out” in front of a crowd.
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Tunisia pledges to stop forced anal examinations of gay and bi men
Judges can tell men suspected of being gay to undergo an anal examination, and refusing is considered an admission of guilt.
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Pride march stopped in Moldova as leader says he isn’t ‘president of the gays’
“They should have elected their own president.”
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U.N. urges action on gay killings in Chechnya as Kremlin denies the problem
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta said that it fears for the safety of its journalists after exposing the persecution of gay men in Chechnya.
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Everything you need to know about our world right now in under 4 minutes
From Colorado to Chechnya, Matt Baume’s got you covered with this week’s debrief.
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Al-Qaida says it hacked gay activists to death in Bangladesh
It said the two were killed because they were “pioneers of practicing and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh …with the help of their masters, the U.S. crusaders and its Indian allies.”