LGBTQ+ refugees may face outing in their home countries before being dragged through an archaic asylum system that forces them to ‘prove’ their identities to complete strangers, case studies from a refugee charity shared for National Coming Out Day show. National Coming Out Day takes place every year on 11 October and was first celebrated […]

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The former director of a Wyoming library has been awarded $700,000 after she was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books. Former director of the Campbell County Public Library, Terri Lesley, agreed to drop her lawsuit after she was removed from her position in 2023. After nearly three decades working within the library system the […]

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The number of anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales have marginally decreased, but they are still not figures to celebrate. Home Office figures published on Thursday (9 October) show in the year ending March 2025 there were a total of 115,990 hate crime offences, up from 113,166 the year previous year, which marks […]

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