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06 02 2013
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Sex Worker elected to the International Board of AWID
Kay Thi Win has been elected to the International Board of the Association of Women in Development (AWID). Kay Thi’s inclusion as part of AWID’s decision making body is a big step forward in bridging the gap between sex workers and the broader feminist movement. The inclusion of sex workers as part
24 01 2013
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“LGBT for the traditional values” actions took place in Russia
“LGBT for the traditional values: love, family and respect for human dignity” actions took place in a number of Russian cities. Activists used elements of Russian traditional costumes. This was a way to show that slander and discrimination against LGBT using the rhetoric of traditional values is una
23 01 2013
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Member of the European Parliament protests Russia’s federal censorship bill
Today the LGBT Intergroup joined non-governmental organisations and other demonstrators outside the Russian embassy in Brussels. They rallied against Bill 6.13.1, which would make it a crime across the Russian Federation to express support for LGBT people. Nine Russian regions already make it a cri
16 01 2013
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HRC to Honor Whoopi Goldberg for LGBT Activism
Longtime LGBT activist Whoopi Goldberg will receive the Human Rights Campaign's Ally for Equality Award on February 2 in New York City. Goldberg, current co-host of The View and former Oscar-winner for Ghost, has put her neck out for LGBT people for years. Goldberg frequently defends LGBT rights on
15 01 2013
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Jodie Foster comes out
The 50-year-old actress, who has long kept her private life as guarded as anyone in Hollywood, came as close as she ever has to outing herself publicly as a lesbian as she accepted the Cecille B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at Sunday night’s Golden Globes. “I guess I have a sudden urge t
04 01 2013
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Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89
Beate Sirota Gordon, the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who at 22 almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan, and then kept silent about it for decades, only to become a feminist heroine there in recent years, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She wa
03 01 2013
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Indian protests increase over violence against women
Hundreds of women have been demonstrating in the Indian capital in memory of the victim of a brutal gang rape. The silent march was one of several protests that have taken place in New Delhi as a debate intensifies over violence against women. The victim died over the weekend in a Singapore ho
21 12 2012
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Albania launches LGBT Action Plan
An ‘Action Plan’ to help fight discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) communities of Albania has been launched in Tirana. The 17 December event was attended by Spiro Ksera, Minister of Labour Social affairs and Equal Opportunities, Irma Baraku, Albania’s Commiss
20 12 2012
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LGBT begin kissing protest as Duma readies to vote on gay propaganda bill
Police have broken up a demonstration by gay rights activists as they started kissing in the street near the Parliament building despite sub zero temperatures. The protesters oppose the nationwide ban on gay propaganda that will be soon put on vote. The State Duma will now consider the bill that
06 12 2012
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The Best LGBT Books of 2012
Are all our successes making us postgay? Or, is leaving the gay ghetto – as the protagonists in two of the highest vote-getters pictured here do literally -- less about moving away from gay-centric plots and more about queering the traditional themes of the midcentury British women’s novel (Coral Gl
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GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance
GRADATION is a collaborative installation of Women's Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG) and artist Uta Bekaia, supported by Propaganda.network. The voices and video images used in the installation belong to Transfeminist activists and our sisters - Amanda, Gabi, Nata, Tako. All of us are united by the grief that will forever remind us about our Trans sisters killed in the recent years, but we are also united by the same goal - to achieve living in a country and in the society free from Transphobia! #TDOR
GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance
Queer Sisters Run - Social and Environmental Justice