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Two Iranian men were executed for forced sodomy in trial called not “credible”
The Iranian government is extremely anti-LGBTQ and is routinely condemned by human rights groups for its frequent use of the death penalty.
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Sodomy laws are still being used to persecute queer people
A man is still forced to register as a sex offender due to a 2001 sodomy charge, even though SCOTUS overturned such laws in 2003.
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Lawmaker wants Texas to allow people the option not to recognize marriage equality
State Rep. James White has just opened the door for Texas’s Attorney General to decide whether the Supreme Court’s ruling making marriage equality the law of the land has to be “recognized” by Texas citizens.
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A Chicago suburb is finally repealing a law that bans people from wearing opposite sex clothing
The ordinance governed “obscene and immoral acts.” And relics of old anti-LGBTQ laws like it are still on the books nationwide.
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Four men arrested for breaking sodomy law in Maryland police raid
They’re accused of violating the state’s ban on “unnatural or perverted sexual practices” almost two decades after the Supreme Court overturned sodomy laws.
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Take a moment to remember these out LGBTQ veterans you may not know
We recognize these seven veterans from the American Revolution to the present who, while not having lost their lives in military action, sacrificed themselves in other ways.
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Christian official says his newly out son will be a secret “instrument of God” to change gay people
“Mark my words, he is on a sojourn to the gay community in order to be an instrument of God to that community eventually.”
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Two men receive 77 lashes in public as punishment for having sex with each other
Their neighbors turned them in to Islamic police in Indonesia and said they caught them having sex with each other.
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Bhutan votes to decriminalize homosexuality
Finance Minister Namgay Tshering suggested it be removed during a meeting to reform the penal code, saying it had become “a stain” on the country’s reputation.
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Dozens of men detained in police raid of a gay party in Indonesia
Homosexuality is technically legal in the country, but some of the men could get 15 years of jail for the gay party.