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Afghanistan Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

As Taliban threats grow, LGBTQ+ Afghans struggle for work and food

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LGBTQ+ Afghans face increasing threats and violence five months since the Taliban seized power, with many forced into hiding and unable to earn a living amid a worsening economic crisis, researchers said on Wednesday. Sixty LGBTQ+ Afghans who were interviewed by rights groups said the community was being targeted by members of the hardline Islamist movement and their supporters, making it too risky for them to work or even leave the house. Two gay men said they had been raped by Taliban fighters, while many others said they had been…

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Articles Cryptocurrency LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

Why has LGBTQ+ cryptocurrency maricoin whipped up controversy?

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An attractive alternative investment or no better than a Ponzi scheme? Cryptocurrencies are controversial – challenging conventional financial wisdom and worrying regulatory authorities around the world. But few recent launches of virtual currencies have provoked as much debate as the maricoin, which its founders billed as the world’s first LGBTQ+ cryptocurrency and rolled out for a pilot test in Madrid on Dec. 31. Even its name, a play on words drawn from a homophobic insult in Spanish, has proved controversial. With the maricoin set to start trading on major exchanges…

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Don’t ignore butch lesbians, says T.S. Eliot prize winner Joelle Taylor

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British poet Joelle Taylor, winner of this year’s prestigious T.S. Eliot prize for a collection exploring lesbian identity, says it is time the mainstream media gave a voice to “butch dykes” like herself. Taylor, 54, said she hoped her prize-winning “C+nto & Othered Poems” could act as a catalyst for other under-represented LGBTQ+ people to offer “an alternative narrative”, urging TV production companies to embrace them as writers. “It’s about the media accepting a far more diverse set of narratives, and the way we look and owning the fact that…

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Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly South Africa Trans

Facing hormone shortages, South Africa’s trans men try black market

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South African tech adviser Josh Stols felt a wave of euphoria when his doctor handed over his first testosterone prescription, allowing him to finally start his physical transition as a transgender man after a year of psychiatric assessments. He was looking forward to starting a new chapter until he discovered that testosterone supplies often ran short – an issue that has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic – pushing him and other desperate trans men to seek risky, black market hormones. “These shortages mess with our sense of self,” 29-year-old Stols…

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Articles health LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Trans

Hormones help trans teens, U.S. study finds, as state bans loom

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Transgender teenagers prescribed cross-sex hormones are less likely to have suicidal thoughts and other mental health problems as adults, research showed this week as lawmakers in several U.S. states seek to ban the treatment among minors. Debate has grown about the age at which transition treatment should begin as more people come out as trans. Some fear hormones and puberty-blocking drugs are prescribed too early or hastily, but others say access to them can be life-saving. The new paper published by researchers at Stanford University and The Fenway Institute, a…

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Articles Blood health LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

What countries are lifting gay blood donation bans?

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Greece has lifted a decades-old ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood, while France has announced it will scrap rules requiring a year of abstinence from gay sex to donate. The measures, both announced this week, are the latest in a wave of countries lifting blood donation restrictions on gay and bi men that were often first put in place during the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Which other countries are lifting such bans and why? WHERE ARE GAY BLOOD DONATION BANS BEING REMOVED? Israel’s…

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Articles Cryptocurrency LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

First LGBTQ+ cryptocurrency bets on ‘changing the world’

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It might sound like a marketing gimmick, but the founders of the first LGBTQ+ cryptocurrency said they want to harness the community’s economic power with the aim of “changing the world”. The maricoin, a play on words taken from a homophobic slur in Spanish, was launched on Friday in a week-long pilot test involving 10 businesses in Chueca, known as the LGBTQ+ neighbourhood of Spain’s capital, Madrid. Maricoin’s backers are aiming for the virtual currency to start trading early next year, paving the way for it to be used as…

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Articles Black Trans Lives Matter health Life News Openly Trans

In Burkina Faso, trans people self-medicate in ‘dangerous’ transition

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It took Aicha Sylla three attempts to get a prescription for hormones in Burkina Faso so she could start to transition gender. In the end, one doctor agreed – if she had sex with him first. “I didn’t have any choice … The other doctors didn’t even listen to me; they refused,” Sylla, 22, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, visibly upset, as she sat in a restaurant in the capital, Ouagadougou. Despite the health risks, she has been self-medicating ever since using the same prescription, a practice that trans rights…

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Short back and sides – gender no object under new hair app

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Jess Palfrey first realised the power of hair when she was ordered to shave hers off. As a young British army recruit, she was told her cropped hairstyle did not meet regulations and would have to go. The “traumatic” shave was not the only time Palfrey had struggled because her hairstyle did not meet norms: she has frequently been turned away by barbers who do not cater to women in a business riven with gendered divides. Those experiences led her to launch an app offering cuts for all without the…

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Articles Chile LGBTQ+ equality LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly same-sex Same-sex marriage

Tourism to jobs: How Chile’s same-sex marriage law could lift the economy

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At his LGBTQ-friendly boutique hotel in Chile’s capital, Will Martin is hoping the country’s decision this month to legalise same-sex marriage will draw in newlywed couples eager to celebrate. “Visibility is something people take very seriously,” Martin said by phone from The Aubrey in Santiago. “They want to be seen, proud and open about what they do.” But as more countries legalise same-sex weddings, researchers and LGBTQ+ activists say the economic benefits of marriage equality extend far beyond wedding celebrations and honeymoons, and can give nations an important competitive edge.…

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