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Italy: Engaged lesbians face abuse, discrimination on college campus

Posted on 20/04/2019 | 1 comment

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Two lesbians engaged to be married have said they are the victims of ongoing abuse and discrimination.

Known only as GB, 27, and LS, 21, the pair said they have no respite from ongoing taunts about their sexuality. They even face from some of their friends in group chats they belong to.

The pair study psychology and cultural mediation (the study using data to analyse the cultural difference between people) respectively. They are students at the University of Padua in the northern Italian region of Veneto. Both women live on campus in the Copernicus Residence.

‘When they came to tell us that our displays of affection were too noice, we laughed, then it degenerated and we realized that this was an attack on us, because we are lesbians,’ the pair told media.

Continue reading: https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/
engaged-lesbians-face-abuse-discrimination-on-college-campus-in-italy/#gs.68c6gs (source)

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Ireland: Lyra McKee, talented young, lesbian journalist killed at riot

Posted on 20/04/2019 | 2 comments

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Lyra McKee was killed on Thursday (local time) by a gunman shooting in the direction of police officers, shortly after she tweeted a photo of a police vehicle being pelted by petrol bombs, with the caption: “Derry tonight. Absolute madness.”

A year after moving to Londonderry, the celebrated young journalist had written about how she looked forward to “better times ahead and saying goodbye to bombs and bullets once and for all”.

But just three months later she was killed during a riot that underscored the challenges still faced by Northern Ireland, 21 years after the Good Friday Agreement largely ended decades of deadly sectarian bloodshed.

Continue reading: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-20/lyra-mckee-remembered-at-vigil-in-northern-ireland/11032882 (source)

Update: https://listening2lesbians.com/2021/09/19/update-men-charged-in-murder-of-lesbian-journalist-lyra-mckee/

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China: Weibo is removing content with the #les hashtag

Posted on 15/04/2019 | 2 comments

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The Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo has reportedly been removing posts and comments with the hashtag #les.

The ban on the term, which is short for lesbian, was discovered by users who use the site’s “super topic” feature, where people can create online communities using a hashtag.

Continue reading: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019
/04/15/weibo-bans-lesbian-hashtag/ (source)

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Ukraine: Lesbian conference targeted by lesbophobic protesters

Posted on 12/04/2019 | 2 comments

Editorial note: Listening2Lesbians is watching the harassment and demonstrations against the European Lesbian Conference as shown in this story, and the conference’s twitter feed and Facebook timeline. We will keep our readers updated.

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About 350 lesbian activists to meet in Kyiv on April 11-14 to discuss their rights and challenges at the second European and Central Asian Lesbian Conference or EL*C.
Olena Shevchenko fears the conference, which will be held in hotel Tourist on Kyiv’s left bank, can be attacked by ultra-right groups.
“Someone broke the windows last night in a hotel and wrote: “LGBT out!” Shevchenko said. The police and National Guard promised to secure the event, she added.

Continue reading: https://www.kyivpost.com/lifestyle/
people/journalism-of-tolerance/hundreds-of-lesbian-activists-to-meet-in-kyiv-on-april-11-14.html?cn-reloaded=1 (source)

 

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U.S: Lesbian Parents Of Toddler With Cancer Receive Lesbophobic Message

Posted on 11/04/2019 | 1 comment

Tiffany and Albree Shaffer with their children (via Facebook)

The parents of a one-year-old girl diagnosed with advanced cancer were shocked to receive a hateful message on social media from a stranger.

“My prayers for Callie. I was going to donate $7600.00 to her fund, but I found out her parents are lesbian. I’ve chosen to donate to St. Jude due to that fact. Sorry. I’ll still pray for her though, but maybe it’s God’s way of getting your attention that she needs a mommy and a daddy, not two mommies.”

Continue reading: https://instinctmagazine.com/
post/parents-of-toddler-with-cancer-receive-hateful-message/ (source)

Callie’s GoFundMe Page:  https://au.gofundme.com/
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Australia: Lesbian women forced to pay fees to Royal Brunei Airlines after cancellation

Posted on 06/04/2019 | 1 comment

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Two lesbian women have hit out at travel group Flight Centre for asking them to pay hundreds in cancellation fees to Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA).
Shannon, 26, and Jaqueline, 28, from Australia booked the flights with RBA with a stopover in Brunei last month through Flight Centre. However, after learning about the implementation of Sharia Law – which would see gay and bisexual men stoned to death and queer women face public lashing – they cancelled.
Flight Centre agreed to waive the cancellation fees. The group informed the pair they still needed to pay a $300AUS ($213.42/€190.08) to Royal Brunei Airlines.

Continue reading: https://lgbt.10ztalk.com/2019/04/05/
lesbian-women-forced-to-pay-fees-to-royal-brunei-airlines-after-cancellation/ (source)

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Older lesbians deserve recognition as feminist pioneers and sisters

Posted on 04/04/2019 | 1 comment

by Claire Heuchan
AfterEllen.com

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Older lesbians have given so much to feminist and gay organizing that their erasure as the pioneers of both communities feels nothing short of criminal. And yet, much like mainstream society, so much of queer culture centers youth and masculinity that it is fundamentally unequipped to acknowledge the significance of older lesbians within the community.

Continue reading: Older lesbians deserve recognition as feminist pioneers and sisters

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Update: Chicago Elects Lori Lightfoot as Its First Lesbian Mayor

Posted on 03/04/2019 | 2 comments

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In a runoff election, Lori Lightfoot has been elected the mayor of Chicago today. Announced by Associated Press on Tuesday night, this makes Lightfoot not only the first Black female mayor in the city’s 182-year history, but also the first lesbian.

Continue reading: https://www.out.com/politics/2019
/4/02/chicago-elects-lori-lightfoot-first-lesbian-mayor (source)

Original Article:  U.S: Lesbian mayoral candidate targeted by lesbophobic flyers

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U.S: Brooklyn lesbian attacked by Uber driver

Posted on 03/04/2019 | 1 comment

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[Taylor] De Souza had to get stitches on her head after she said her Uber ride ended with her being physically assaulted by the driver.
“He said ‘you f—ing lesbian, get out my car,'” De Souza said. “He told me he’ll chop me up and throw me in the river.”
De Souza told PIX11 she did not get out of the vehicle because she said she didn’t feel safe. According to De Souza, that’s when the driver started smoking, despite her telling him she has asthma.

Continue reading: https://pix11.com/2019/04/02/
exclusive-brooklyn-woman-says-uber-driver-attacked-her/ (source)

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The 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Be America’s First Lesbian President

Posted on 31/03/2019 | 1 comment

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Ella Briggs, an 11-year-old Connecticut resident, became her state’s first openly gay “kid governor” in January ― and she’s aiming to one day have national and even global impact.

She’s already so invested in public service, she said she would love to become America’s “first lesbian president”.

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Still, the road to living authentically hasn’t been easy. Ella has said she was harassed at the public school she attended in East Hampton, Connecticut, after she first identified as a lesbian. In third and fourth grade, she said her classmates ostracized her and refused to sit next to her in class.

“I think they were just scared of me,” she told the Post. “They were afraid to touch me.”

When she told a substitute teacher that she identified as gay, Ella said, the teacher told her that subject wasn’t “school appropriate.”

“It really hurt my feelings,” she told the Courant. “I cried in the bathroom and I don’t want kids to feel like that because like I already didn’t feel like I fit in at that school.”

Continue reading: https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au
/entry/connecticut-ella-briggs-kid-governor-lesbian-president_n_5c950965e4b0a6329e15f504 (source)

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Indonesian university shuts down student news site over lesbian love story

Posted on 26/03/2019 | 1 comment

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University officials in Indonesia this month ordered a student news website shut down its entire operation after it published a fictional same-sex short story.
They could also face up to 12 years in prison under Indonesia’s draconian pornography law, which forbids anything with ‘salacious content or sexual exploitation that violate the moral values of society’.
The 18 student journalists at North Sumatra University (USU) were given just 48 hours to close the site and vacate the news room.
Publisher and author Yael Stefany Sinaga wrote the 1,000-word story about a woman expressing her love for another young woman.
Titled Everyone Refuses My Presence Near Her, it was published on March 12. The journalists also shared it on social media.

Continue reading: https://lgbt.10ztalk.com/2019/03/26
/indonesian-university-shuts-down-student-news-site-over-lesbian-love-story/ (source)

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U.S: Lesbian mayoral candidate targeted by lesbophobic flyers

Posted on 20/03/2019 | 2 comments

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Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot denounced homophobic campaign flyers targeting her that surfaced around the South Side over the weekend, saying “hate has no place in Chicago.”
Lightfoot, who is openly gay, made the comments at a City Hall news conference Monday morning where she accepted endorsements from several labor unions, including the organization that supports CTA workers.

Continue reading: https://www.chicagotribune.com/
news/politics/elections/ct-met-chicago-mayors-race-lightfoot-responds-fliers-20190318-story.html (source)

Update: Update: Chicago Elects Lori Lightfoot as Its First Lesbian Mayor

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U.S: Man arrested for the murder of lesbian DJ Salina “Salamander” Rivera

Posted on 20/03/2019 | 1 comment

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A 21-year-old man was being held without bond this week after being charged on March 15 with the murder of lesbian DJ Salina “Salamander” Rivera, 27, who was found shot to death three days earlier outside her residence in Hyattsville.

Fox 5 News interviewed a woman who identified herself as Rivera’s girlfriend who asked not to be identified or have her face shown on camera.
“She was beautiful and soft and kind hearted and strong and just and fair and understanding and all she ever wanted was peace,” the girlfriend told Fox 5 News in describing Rivera.

Continue reading: https://lgbt.10ztalk.com/2019/03/19/
md-man-arrested-for-murder-of-lesbian-dj/ (source)

Fundraiser for Salina Rivera’s funeral costs:  https://www.gofundme.com/funeral-arrangements-for-salina-rivera

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China: Lesbian families struggle under patriarchal legal framework

Posted on 19/03/2019 | 1 comment

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Same-sex marriage is neither legal nor widely accepted in Chinese culture. Even though Shenzhen is seen as a liberal part of China, Xiao Chen and Winky face plenty of intolerance.
They want to send Phoebe and Sarah to day care, but they haven’t been able to obtain a “hukou” — household registration certificate — for the twins. The certificate, widely seen as outdated, determines a child’s access to education, healthcare and social benefits.
Without hukou, Phoebe and Sarah don’t legally exist in China.

 

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U.S: Lesbian couple turned away from dance class

Posted on 19/03/2019 | 1 comment

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Michelle King and Amanda Shelton are engaged and they wanted to learn how to dance for their upcoming wedding.
Shelton bought a Groupon for dance lessons at Dave Thompson’s Prestige Ballroom in Des Peres, Missouri.
But when they tried to redeem the Groupon, Thompson said that they couldn’t take lessons there because they’re a same-sex couple.
“We don’t have accommodations for same-sex couples to dance,” the women said Thompson said, adding that the straight people in the room would feel “awkward.”

Continue reading: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019
/03/lesbian-couple-turned-away-dance-class-make-lessons-awkward/ (source)

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U.S: Lesbian couple alleges discrimination at St. Vincent housing facility

Posted on 18/03/2019 | 1 comment

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A lesbian couple filed a fair housing complaint with the city of Newark against St. Vincent de Paul Housing Facilities, alleging discrimination at The Gardens on Sixth, a transitional housing facility.

Melanie Dingess and Leslie Conners stated in their complaint, filed Monday with the city’s Department of Development, that they were forced to leave because the management did not want gay couples living together in one of the apartments.

Continue reading at: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/
news/2019/03/14/gay-couple-st-vincent-de-paul-housing-facility-discriminated/3143554002/ (source)

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AfterEllen’s Response to NBC OUT (Full Statement)

Posted on 11/03/2019 | 1 comment

by Memoree Joelle
AfterEllen.com

“Lesbians should absolutely be “allowed” to have a mainstream publication. We should absolutely be allowed to discuss issues (documented and evidence-based realities) that lesbians are currently facing, as they specifically pertain to and affect lesbians.

Being an ally should not require lesbians to deny their own reality. It should not require lesbians to relinquish all autonomy, to believe exactly as others do, or fall silent.

This goes much deeper than a simple statement. There’s been an ongoing campaign of homophobia directed exclusively at lesbians, and when our writers try to cover these issues, as they specifically pertain to and affect lesbians, we’re shouted down by non-lesbians with slurs and anti-lesbian sentiment. Enough is enough.”

Continue reading: AfterEllen’s Response to NBC OUT (Full Statement) (source)

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U.K: Lesbian couple sent hateful letter telling them to move

Posted on 24/02/2019 | 1 comment

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Vikki Parkey, 36, and her wife Stephanie, 29, were left shocked after the anonymous note posted through their letter box stated they should move from their Hull home to “a more appropriate area of the city”.

The letter, which was anonymously addressed to Vikki’s property, read:

“We, the residents, are not happy with same-sex couples living our area.
Especially not when bringing up a child.
It is immoral and wrong.

We suggest you move to a more appropriate area of the city.”

Continue reading at: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/same-sex-couple-sent-hateful-2573400 (source)

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U.S: Tax preparer refuses to serve lesbian couple

Posted on 24/02/2019 | 1 comment

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For four years, Bailey Brazzel says, she had employed the same tax preparer, Nancy Fivecoate of Carter Tax Service in Russiaville, Ind. Fivecoate prepared the taxes without issue each time — until this year, when Brazzel brought her new wife, Samantha.
Fivecoate declined to serve the couple, citing her religious beliefs.
This was the first year the Brazzels, who wed in July, were filing jointly as a married couple. According to Samantha, Fivecoate explained that she believed marriage was between a man and a woman and that she would therefore not be able to prepare their taxes.

Continue reading at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation
/2019/02/21/christian-accountant-refuses-prepare-lesbian-couples-taxes-religious-grounds/?utm_term=.d2cf241c915b (source)

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Bulgaria: Man punches lesbian in the face after calling her a homophobic slur

Posted on 14/02/2019 | 2 comments
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A woman in Bulgaria is in a ‘stupor’ after homophobic attack where a man punched her in the face in the capital Sofia.
Galya Petkova was walking her dog on Sunday afternoon (10 February) and trying to enjoy the rare sunny day.
A man in his 40s approached her and called her a ‘dirty faggot’.
Petkova, 45, tried to ignore him and kept walking through the park. But she then heard the man coming up behind her and before she knew it, he had allegedly punched her in the face. The blow was so hard it knocked two of her teeth out and cracked a third.
‘I don’t want to see you in this area again,’ he told her.

Continue reading at: https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/man-punches-lesbian-in-the-face-calls-her-a-dirty-fat-in-bulgaria/#gs.yGC59INO (source)

Cached version of the article: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AXzpXwDQR1xQJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaystarnews.com
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