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US: Virginia’s New Laws on L.G.B.T. Protections, Guns and Marijuana Reflect a Shift in Power

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The leftward transformation of Virginia since President Trump was elected crescendoed over the weekend, with the governor signing into law protections for L.G.B.T. residents, gun background checks, no jail time for simple marijuana possession and early voting.

Kenya: Tragedy as Ugandan LGBTIQ Refugee Hangs Self in Nairobi

As the world continues to become lonelier than it already was due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LGBTIQ persons are taking even harder hits with the isolation. Tragedy befell the LGBTIQ community yesterday when 27-year-old Aneste Mweru from Uganda took his own life in Westlands in the Kenyan Capital of Nairobi.

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Ukraine: LGBT organization has sued Patriarch Filaret

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Public LGBTI-organization "Insight" has filed a lawsuit against the honorary patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and former head of the UOC Kiev Patriarchate Filaret (Denysenko) for his statement that the coronavirus could be influenced by same-sex marriage.

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UKraine: LGBT+ group sues religious figure linking coronavirus to gay marriage

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A Ukrainian LGBT+ group said on Monday it has sued one of the country's most prominent religious figures over comments blaming the spread of the coronavirus on same-sex marriage, in what the group said was the first such case in ex-Soviet nation.

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Covid-19 sparking 'devastating' global condom shortage

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A  global condom shortage is looming as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic shutters factories and disrupts supply chains, the world's top maker of the contraceptives said, with the United Nations warning of "devastating" consequences.

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Fear, bigotry and misinformation – this reminds me of the 1980s Aids pandemic

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I am a gay man who lived through the Aids pandemic, so many people have asked me to compare that crisis with the one we now face. The main difference between the two is that Aids at first appeared to afflict specific populations, while coronavirus is an equal opportunity malady.