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Groups giving money and hope to LGBT people during COVID.

Sometimes supporting LGBTQ+ people in crisis is as easy as buying a t-shirt. Self-Evident Truths, a portrait series depicting the spectrum of queer and trans identity in the U.S., announced it is donating 100 percent of proceeds from sales of the…

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Facebook pulls lesbian wedding ad because it’s a ‘social issue.’

Facebook has rejected an advert that celebrated a same-sex wedding during the first-ever Lesbian Visibility Week because of rules around “social issues, elections or politics”. The advert was posted by the Peter Tatchell Foundation, a human-rights charity, and celebrated unconventional…

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The first Arab country to recognize same-sex marriage…sort of.

The Republic of Tunisia has become the first Arab state to recognise a same-sex marriage, a Tunisian LGBT+ rights organisation has announced. According to Association Shams, a marriage settlement between a Frenchman, 31, and a Tunisian man, 26, was legally recognised in…

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LGBT groups seek safeguards against COVID discrimination.

At least 170 national, state, and local LGBTQ and allied organizations on April 21 released a joint open letter to health care and public policy leaders calling for measures to prohibit discrimination in the treatment and prevention of the novel coronavirus…