All posts tagged "persecution"
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Detentions of gay men and women signal another anti-LGBTQ crackdown in Chechnya
Several men and women have been detained in Russia’s Chechnya region on suspicion of being gay, signaling yet another renewal of efforts to purge the...
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Police demand Israeli pride parade erect giant walls along route
Stating it's "for their protection," Kfar Saba's police department won't help finance the walls
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Rugby star who said gays were going to hell claims he doesn’t have “phobia towards anyone”
Israel Folau wrote an op-ed stating "people’s lives are not for me to judge. Only God can do that."
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Australian rugby boss calls homophobic player a “strong role model”
Rugby Australia CEO Raelene Castle refused to punish Israel Folau for saying gay people would go to hell
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Brian Sims responds to rugby star feeling “persecuted” for anti-gay comments
Pennsylvania state representative and LGBTQ advocate says getting "backlash for being an idiot isn't persecution"
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Congressmen ask Mike Pence to raise human rights abuses on Egypt trip
A bipartisan group of members of Congress has written a letter to Vice President Mike Pence asking him to bring up concerns about recent human rights...
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U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning anti-LGBTQ violence in Chechnya
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed, via voice vote, a resolution condemning the violence and persecution directed against LGBTQ people in Chechnya. The resolution is...
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LGBTQ groups decry study claiming facial recognition technology can tell if you’re gay
The Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD are outraged after media outlets reported on a study by a professor affiliated with Stanford University that claims that...
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Russia halts deportation of gay journalist to Uzbekistan
The Moscow City Court has temporarily halted the deportation of a gay Uzbek journalist after receiving widespread criticism from human rights advocates, The Moscow Times...
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HRC to Trump: Address anti-gay persecution in Chechnya at G-20 summit
The president of the Human Rights Campaign has penned an open letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to speak out on and condemn...
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Chechnya leader: Purge of gay men is “absolute lies”
Ramzan Kadyrov invites French and German leaders to Chechnya, despite growing evidence of persecution
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U.S. House introduces resolution condemning anti-gay persecution in Chechnya
A bipartisan group of House members have introduced a resolution condemning reports of anti-gay violence and persecution in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. The resolution,...
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Marco Rubio denounces anti-gay human rights abuses in Chechnya
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) denounced the anti-gay pogrom currently going on in the Russian republic of Chechnya, where hundreds of gay men have been detained...
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GLAAD calls on Trump to condemn anti-gay persecution in Chechnya
GLAAD is calling on President Donald Trump to personally condemn a series of attacks in the Russian region of Chechnya against men suspected of being gay. U.S....
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Republican lawmaker compares gays to ISIS
A Republican lawmaker in Colorado says that not allowing Christian business owners to discriminate against LGBT customers is the cultural equivalent of the Islamic State...
