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Human rights group says Meta endangers queer Middle Easterners & urges big changes to keep them safe
Police in Middle Eastern and North African countries are using social media to entrap, extort, and torture LGBTQ+ users.
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Police are using Grindr & other apps to entrap & torture LGBTQ+ people
A new report says social media companies aren’t doing enough to protect LGBTQ+ users in Africa and the Middle East.
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These LGBTQ activists are leading the charge in some of the most LGBTQ hostile countries on Earth
As the LGBTQ landscape rapidly changes across Africa and the Middle East, new leaders continue to emerge. These leaders are helping to create a world where love is love, no matter where you live.
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ISIS & militia members are raping gay men & transgender women because they’re “soft”
Militants “look at gestures. The way we sit and move our hands, body language. They target gay and trans people.”
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6 Pride events that went on in the face of violent threats
They wouldn’t let hate win.
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Lebanon may ban ‘Wonder Woman’ for the dumbest reason possible
Lebanon’s ministry of economy says it has asked the country’s security agency to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie.
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Threat of violence cancels party at Beirut Pride
A Salafist group threatened violence if a party happened at Beirut Pride.
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Commentary
Here’s why we still need an international day against LGBTQ hate
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDHOT) is needed now as much as ever.
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8 countries force men to have anal exams to prove they are gay
The exams are rooted in discredited 19th century theories that homosexuals can be identified by characteristics of the anus.