LGBT
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Letter to Kharkiv City Council concerning Kharkiv Pride
“Freedom of assembly is important for a prosperous Ukraine. Don’t further strengthen anti-LGBTI groups who are supported by Russia.”
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LGBTQ-activists want to hold first ever rally in Kazakhstan
On Thursday, August 22, an LGBTQ-activist filed two applications to hold the very first LGBTQ Rally in Kazakhstan. Rémy Bonny had an exclusive interview with the applicant. While having huge economic developments in the metropolitan areas, Kazakh people experienced a crack-down on human rights in recent years. If the rally would go through, it would…
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PRESS RELEASE: LGBT+ Political Scientist Rémy Bonny speaks on Stonewall Rally Commemoration in New York City
On the 28th of June Rémy Bonny will be one of the speakers during the Stonewall Rally Commemoration in front of the legendary Stonewall Inn in Christopher Street – New York City. The Stonewall Uprising is internationally seen as the start of the modern international LGBT+ movement. This year the movement celebrates the 50th anniversary…
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Political Imprisonment In Poland: LGBTI-Activist Arrested
This morning, the Polish police arrested a 51-year-old woman suspected of desecrating the image of ‘Our Lady of Częstochowa’. The police found the image on the streets in Płock – a city north of the Polish capital. After an investigation they found out that the ‘culprit’ was living in Warsaw. “This is political imprisonment in one…
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A New ‘Momentum’ For Hungarian LGBT+ Politics?
BUDAPEST – Hungarian politics and LGBT+ rights: it seems to be contradictory. In recent years, Viktor Orban’s government has been portrayed as the defender of the European conservative & catholic identity. Their policies are focussed on the traditional nuclear family. Non-traditional families their life’s are made very difficult. Orban’s party – Fidesz – changed the…
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PRESS RELEASE: LGBT+ Researcher Rémy Bonny violently thrown out of World Congress of Families
Friday Morning, political scientist and LGBT+ activist Rémy Bonny was violently thrown out of the World Congress of Families’ annual summit in Verona. After he was denied entrance, he left the property. Nonetheless, he followed a press cohort following WCF Chairman Brian Brown. After WCF press officers and security identified Bonny they violently thrown him…
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Polish Culture Minister: “Organising LGBT+ event is a provocation towards Pope John Paul II”
LGBT+ organisation Tolerado is organising a conference on 2 April in the European Solidarity Centre, but that’s ‘not done on the anniversary of the death of Pope Johan Paul II – according to deputy minister Jarosław Sellin. The European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk commemorates the Polish fight against the communist rule in the 1980s –…
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Polish Gay Party Leader Robert Biedron releases 5 plans for more LGBT+ Equality
Today, the openly homosexual party leader Robert Biedron, announced a five-point plan to reach more LGBT+ equality in Poland. He did that while chalking a rainbow in front of the Polish Presidential Palace in Warsaw. This are the five points which Biedron proposed Today: Registered partnerships Marriage equality Protection against hate speech and hate crimes…
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Polish leader to LGBT+ and supporters: “Hands off our children”
Polish ruling politician Jarosław Kaczyński confirmed during a meeting of his party Law & Justice (PiS) that LGBTQI (in)tolerance will become the main election campaign theme. “It’s all about election strategy”, according to political scientist Rémy Bonny. (This article has a copyright disclaimer – see below) “The vice-president of Warsaw has made it clear –…
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Russian MP Responsible For Family, Women & Children: ‘Gays are sick’
In an interview with the public broadcaster Russia 1, Tamara Pletneva said homosexuality is a disease. According to Political scientist Rémy Bonny: “This interview is a good example of Russia’s homophobic discourse”. The head of the State Duma (the Russian Parliament) Committee on Family, Women and Children Tamara Pletneva believes that homosexuals “should be treated.”…
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