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Death By Sadness Or The Taliban: LGBTQ Afghans

As the Taliban appeared on every corner of Kabul, Marwa and her friend – both gay Afghans – took the drastic decision to become husband and wife.The hurried marriage was conducted with no ceremony or family around them."I was telling myself that the Taliban would come and kill me," the 24-year-old said in an interview conducted by AFP over WhatsApp."I was afraid, I was crying all the time...

28 September 2021
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No Place For LGBT Malaysians?

In recent years, same-sex relations, activity, and marriage have been legalised in a number of countries (nationwide or some parts) such as in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and New Zealand, among others.A rainbow flag, which is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) pride and LGBTQ social movements, would be waved at pride parades carried out in different parts of the world.However, despite the increased visibility of the pride movement, LGBTQ+ peo

25 January 2021
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Singapore activist in new challenge to gay sex ban

A Singaporean gay rights activist said Wednesday he has filed a legal challenge against a law banning sex between men, the third recent bid to overturn the legislation.The law - known as "Section 377A" of the penal code - was inherited from the British colonial era but is rarely enforced in Singapore.Campaigners in the city-state have renewed efforts to do away with it since India's Supreme Court last year decriminalised gay sex by overturning a statute from its own period unde

26 September 2019
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