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Exposing Anti-LGBT Government Strategies in MENA

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How do governments in the MENA region use anti-LGBT rhetoric to advance their political agendas? The answer to that question reveals the state-sponsored homophobia that negatively impacts the lives of LGBT people in the region.

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Chile: Fundación Iguales achieves for the first time the legal recognition of two lesbian mothers

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For the first time in Chile, a court declares that a family made up of two women who participated in an assisted reproduction technique must be legally recognized as mothers of their child. With this, the child has the recognition and protection of the same rights that children born in heterosexual families enjoy.

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Panorama of the legal recognition of gender identity in the Americas

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The American continent is characterized by being the most violent region towards people with Non-normative gender identities in the world. These cycles of violence, present in all areas of life of trans people, are intermingled with high levels of discrimination and stigmatization, resulting in lack of access to their civil, political, economic, social rights, cultural and environmental.

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Out of the Margins

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Between February and September 2019, the Out of the Margins network documented the profound exclusion facing lesbians, bi women and trans (LBT+) communities, in their own countries and contexts, using the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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“No One Left Behind” Fund For LGBTI organisations and groups in Europe and Central Asia:

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The Fund’s mission is to support the LGBTI movement’s capacity to effectively address socio-economic inequalities within LGBTI communities at this critical moment. It builds on ILGA-Europe’s strengths and recognised experience in building the capacity of LGBTI groups and organisations to respond to the needs of LGBTI communities in a sustainable manner.

US: Armed police ‘violently raid’ queer bar helping wounded Black Lives Matter protesters on the first day of Pride Month

An LGBT+ bar in Des Moines, Iowa, was “violently raided” by police after club organisers gave medical assistance to Black Lives Matter protesters. The protesters limply wandered into the bar, their bodies bruised, their voices hoarse, strained from chanting.