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It’s official: Leo Varadkar is now Ireland’s first gay prime minister

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

He's also the youngest, and the first of both Irish and Indian descent.

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University waives tuition for transgender students

Friday, April 14, 2017

The university is in India and the local government has taken other steps that recognize transgender people as an oppressed class.

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India issues pro-trans public accommodations guidelines

Thursday, April 6, 2017

The government issued guidelines this week that urged state governments to ensure that transgender people are recognized as equal citizens.

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You’ll boo this loser as he pays the price for his homophobia on a blind date

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

A woman ends a blind date with class when her potential love interest loses it over a gay couple holding hands.

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This heartwarming Vicks ad celebrates transgender mothers

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Based on a true story, the ad depicts an Indian trans woman and the sacrifices she made for her adopted daughter, who in turn wants to fight for her mother's rights.

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Transgender model Anjali Lama breaks barriers in India’s fashion world

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Anjali Lama has become the first transgender woman to model at one of the top events on India's fashion calendar and one sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand.

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Indian censors will allow music video with vaguely gay scene to be shown on TV

Friday, February 3, 2017

A ten second scene in which the two men in the video appear on a bed only in shorts - not engaging in sexual activity - was deemed too "intimate."

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Nuns in India have started a school for transgender dropouts

Thursday, January 5, 2017

This may be the very first group of its kind in all of India.

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Violent attacks on transgender women end in two more tragic deaths

Monday, November 28, 2016

In India, police officers hurled abuse at a transgender woman and told her to “go die” before she was found engulfed in flames.

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Hundreds march in India to demand LGBT rights

Monday, November 28, 2016

The parade highlighted the continuing discrimination India's LGBT community faces and demanded the repeal of a law criminalizing homosexual acts.

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