Winds of Change

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US: New Campaign Honors LGBTQ Senior Advocates In AR

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Not Another Second is a new cultural awareness campaign that shares the stories of 12 LGBTQ+ seniors – which includes a politician, veteran, Stonewall Survivor, and Black Panther – who collectively lost 485 years living in the closet.

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Uganda: Maintaining Essential Health Services for Key Populations During Times of Uncertainty

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Out of concern for the safety and security of community members and the organisations and service providers that provide for our health and other needs, the Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC) is issuing this advisory.

Senegal: Victims of homophobia find respect inside prison walls

African prisons often are hotbeds of homophobic violence, but that hasn’t been the experience of seven Senegalese men convicted in November on homosexuality charges. Treated respectfully by at least two prison officials, last month they also met with LGBTQ rights advocates who visited them in prison.

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China dating app helps raise awareness of LGBT issues

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Discussion of LGBT issues remains contentious in China, with activists complaining of tightened restrictions on public discussion in recent years. But despite Danlan.org being repeatedly shut down in the first few years of its existence, Blued has largely avoided conflict with authorities

Turkey: “We shall defend the rights of LGBTI persons without any exception”

In the series of “Rights”, which we initiated by saying that “Now, it is high time”, our second guest is Öztürk Türkdoğan, Co-Chair of the Human Rights Association (IHD). We discussed the brief history of the relation between human rights struggle and LGBT rights in Turkey with Türkdoğan today.