YEAR 14, NUMBER 3, 23 SEPTEMBER 2021

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> 23 September 2021 - Today, GALE launches an international survey to map how LGBTIQ+ people have experiences the Covid-19 epidemic, and whether the epidemic affected their possibilities to access necessary services. The survey is part of a needs assessment by the RAINBO partnership, which is active in 6 European countries: Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the UK. The results will be used to develop an international online course for service providers.

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>> 15 August 2021 - In April, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Koumbou Boly Barry, issued a submission tot the Human Rights Council on the cultural dimension of the right to education. This submission includes a number of remarks that are relevant for LGBTIQ culture in relation to education, and the report even mentions gender and sexual diversity in some remarks. For example that In Japan the mandatory use of uniforms in schools promotes rigid gender norms and limits the rights of transgender students, and that in some countries access to information about LGBTI people is forbidden.

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>> 25 July 2021 - Yet another country has proposed legislation to censor any neutral or positive expression of sexual preference or gender identity. This time it is Ghana, where the government proposed a so-called “family values bill”. The bill proscribes “propaganda” and advocacy for “LGBTIQQIAAP” and related activities. The text of the bill is full of offenses and lies about LGBTI+ people to support the censorship. It proposes sentences of 3 to 10 years imprisonment for any visible education or advocacy activity, and even for forming an LGBTI+ organization.

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>> 7 July 2021 - The Chinese tech giant WeChat social media platform deleted dozens of accounts of LGBT groups run by university students, as well as private accounts of students running the group accounts. According to WeChat the LGBT profiles had broken rules on internet information. Spreading positive information is forbidden by the public internet (censor) authority of China.

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> 5 July 2021 - The Polish minister of education Przemyslaw Czarnek called the equal rights march on 19 June in Warsaw an insult to public morality. He asked if the participants were normal. He later came back of this remark, saying he had meant the protester’s cross-dressing behavior was not bizarre, “not the participants themselves”. But at the same time he called non-heteronormative desire a perversion.

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OTHER NEWS

• 8 September 2021 – Popgroup BTS billboard taken down in Pakistan for “promoting homosexuality”
• 8 September 2021 – Students walk out of school in support of teacher put on leave for coming out
• 6 September 2021 - Catholic schools can’t fire teachers for being gay, USA federal court rules
• 3 September 2021 - China bans men it sees as not masculine enough from TV
• 20 August 2021 - US Teacher told students fetuses turn gay when they’re “unwanted in your parents’ womb”
• 19 August 2021 - US administration officials tell trans youth their rights at school matter
• 19 August 2021 - [US LGBTQ youth are scared to go back to school|https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/08/lgbtq-youth-scared-go-back-school-heres-schools-can|
• 19 August 2021 - US Oregon community builds giant Pride flag in view of high school after school board bans it
• 10 August 2021 - Australian Christian school fires lesbian teacher
• 4 August 2021 - Parents sue USA State Tennessee for discriminating against trans students
• 21 July 2021 - Orban referendum plan raises stakes in Hungary's LGBT row with EU
• 21 July 2021 - Hungary's Viktor Orban calls referendum on anti-LGBTQ law
• 21 July 2021 - U.S. federal court blocks state of West Virginia's ban on trans student athletes
• 16 July 2021 - Christian teacher in USA Indiana is refused request for a legal religious exemption to use new names of transgender students
• 16 July 2021 - USA California budget includes $3 million to train teachers on LGBTQ issues
• 15 July 2021 - European Commission launches infringement procedures against Hungary and Poland over LGBTIQ issues
• 15 July 2021 - Senator Lindsey Graham from USA South-Carolina swears he’ll go to “war” to defend Chick-fil-A from Catholic students who protest the food chain’s homophobia
• 8 July 2021 - Florida parents sue Catholic school for not being anti-LGBTQ enough
• 5 July 2021 US students of Brigham Young University in Utah organized a large Pride march despite their Mormon school’s anti-LGBTQ policies
• 1 July 2021 A USA trans student sued his school to let him use the bathroom. He won $218,000
• 30 June 2021 USA Texas conservatives mocked for list of scary words like “diversity” & “ally” being taught in schools

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