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Gay-lesbian group overcomes opposition at U.N.

Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations on Monday accredited a major gay and lesbian organization that Egypt, Russia and others had tried to keep out as a group permitted to lobby at the world body. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a U.S.-based advocacy group, had applied for “consultative status” at [...]

20Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender men seek end to Guyana dress code laws

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country’s Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers. Police in the tiny South American country, where both homosexuality and transgender dress have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held [...]

23Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued