Fear and Loathing

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Japan: How a gay student’s suicide is helping Japan’s LGBT community speak up

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Gay graduate student was found dead on campus soon after he was outed in 2015

Japan’s LGBT community has long been silent about the struggles of coming out, and advocates say the country still has ‘a huge problem’ with insensitivity around the subject

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Official Statement by Aliança Nacional LGBTI+ About President Jair Bolsonaro’s Escalating Intolerance of Diversity

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Brazil demands respect for diversity: we will not accept attitudes and actions linked to racism, machismo, discriminations against lesbian women, gay men, bisexual men and women, transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI+), nor any other attitudes that promote hate. 

Ireland: Lyra McKee: kindness defined her, we must fight for her memory

In the North young gay people still come into their LGBT identities mostly on their own. Even in 2019. If their secret is exposed too soon – and Lyra's was – the penalty is isolation, a sort of social solitary confinement, teenage Purdah. 

Burkina Faso: «On est loin d’envisager une gay pride au Burkina Faso»

A report, published the following year by independent researchers , the Afrobarometer, even ranks Burkina Faso among the three African countries most intolerant towards homosexuals. "The vast majority of the population is against us, especially religious and customary chiefs,"continues Marcel. Yet homosexuality has always existed here. "

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Northern Ireland: How uncomfortable conversations can save lives

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In 2014, aged 24, McKee wrote to her teenage self about being gay, her future in journalism, and being happy