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Articles Hungary LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

Could Hungary’s election bring change on LGBTQ+ rights?

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With LGBTQ+ rights in the spotlight, Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday for a closely contested parliamentary election and a parallel referendum on a law that limits schools’ teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues. Prime Minister Victor Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party faces a united opposition for the first time since he came to power in a 2010 election landslide, and polls suggest his opponents are within striking distance of unseating his party. LGBTQ+ groups are hoping for a change of government after repeated rollbacks on the rights of gay…

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Articles HIV LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Russia Russia-Ukraine War Ukraine

Ukraine war shutters HIV clinics, disrupts drug supplies

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In basement shelters and makeshift clinics, Ukrainian doctors are striving to keep treatment for HIV-positive people on track as Russia’s invasion raises fears that years of progress to combat the virus could be undone. Russian bombing and fighting has shuttered HIV clinics in two Ukrainian cities and forced others to limit their services, a leading nonprofit said, while the supply and distribution of vital antiretroviral drugs is also at risk. “(The war is) making people with HIV more vulnerable to everything,” Valeriia Rachynska, the head of human rights at the All-Ukrainian…

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Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Russia Russia-Ukraine War Ukraine

LGBTQ+ Ukrainians fight for their country, and their rights

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Before Russia invaded Ukraine three weeks ago, Oleg used to get up early every day to walk his dogs along the wide, French-inspired boulevards of the capital, Kyiv. He had been planning a cycling trip to Odessa on the country’s Black Sea coast. But three days after Russian tanks rolled across the border, Oleg, a 22-year-old bisexual man and former beer sommelier, began a very different life – signing up to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces along with his father. “My favourite places in Kyiv are now in ruins,”…

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America Articles Greg Abbott LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Texas Trans

Texas bid to ban gender care for trans minors fuels LGBTQ+ rights clash

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With young transgender Americans caught in the middle of a culture war over LGBTQ+ rights, Texas has sought to clamp down on gender-transitioning medical treatments that Governor Greg Abbott says are “child abuse.” A Texas judge on Friday imposed a temporary injunction on investigations into parents that Abbott had ordered state child protection services to carry out, saying the probes endangered children and their families. Friday’s ruling marked a victory for LGBTQ+ groups, medical professionals and civil liberties advocates opposing moves by conservative politicians in dozens of states to criminalize…

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Articles India LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Trans

India’s LGBTQ+ ‘pioneer’ state bans abuse, boosts trans rights

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Police threats, slurs and even violence are all part of LGBTQ+ life in India, but a new rule could ease the onslaught in one southern state as it becomes a “pioneer” for sexual minorities. The government of Tamil Nadu recently changed state conduct rules, telling its police officers to stop harassing LGBTQ+ Indians, on the orders of a high court judge. The change, on paper at least, is radical – even if it is yet to trickle down to street level and mark a true turning point for sidelined minorities…

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Articles Culture Films LGBTQ+ film LGBTQ+ News Movies News Openly Three Months Troye Sivan

Pop star Troye Sivan fights HIV stigma in first big film role

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Australian pop singer Troye Sivan, whose YouTube videos and music have inspired a generation of young LGBTQ+ people, wants his first major film role to combat ignorance around HIV/AIDS. In “Three Months”, Sivan plays 17-year-old Caleb, who is exposed to HIV after a one-night stand on the eve of his high school graduation. The film details the shame and anxiety Caleb experiences while waiting three months for diagnosis. Current medical guidelines require 12 weeks from exposure to be 100% certain. Set in 2011, when a positive diagnosis was no longer…

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Articles Culture Dania Bdeir Films LGBTQ+ News Movies News Openly

Arab film directors tackle gender taboos on big screen

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A Lebanese director who has just scooped up an award at Sundance Film Festival says she wants her short to “break the norms” on sexuality and gender in the Middle East. “Warsha” is part of a new wave of Arabic-language films – some screened abroad, others showing on streaming platforms – to confront long-standing taboos in a broadly conservative region. The movie, which is making the rounds at top film festivals this year, revolves around Mohamad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in the Lebanese capital Beirut, who…

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America Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

Poet-politican: first Black trans American to run a city council

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Poet, performance artist, politician and ground breaker. For Andrea Jenkins, the first Black transgender American to lead a city council, all roles rest on her lifelong quest for justice. “Poetry and politics have had a very close connection,” Jenkins, 60, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video call. “As one of my favourite poets and mentors, Amiri Baraka, said, ‘Poets are the legislators of the world.’” After almost three decades in local government, Jenkins still teaches poetry at her local arts college but it is a drive to secure…

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Passport to acceptance? LGBTQ+ travellers wary about gender-neutral IDs

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Student Mars Proppe, who identifies as non-binary – neither male nor female, hoped one day to have a passport marked “X” for gender. But when Iceland’s government made that choice possible a year ago, Proppe had second thoughts. While more than a dozen countries have introduced gender-neutral travel documents, some non-binary and transgender people are reluctant to use them because they fear facing discrimination or bureaucratic hurdles when travelling abroad. “I have yet to go and get my master’s degree and hopefully travel through the world, and that’s not something…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Articles Football LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Sport

LGBTQ+ fans tackle homophobic chanting in English football

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England’s decision to classify a soccer chant as anti-gay shows a game in transition, LGBTQ+ fans say, as authorities confront homophobia and racism in the home of modern football. Players from Chelsea FC, currently third in the Premier League, are routinely mocked from the stands with loud chants of “rent boys” – slang for male sex workers and a dig at the area’s historic reputation as a gay hotspot. But this month, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for England and Wales – an independent body that decides which cases to…

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