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A criminal investigation in Russia has been opened under the charge of “sexual assault” after a video in which children ask a gay man questions about his life and sexuality was posted online

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-50508431/russians-under-threat-over-gay-qa-video

Poland has been witnessing another wave of right-wing campaigning - this time against  “LGBT ideology”

https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/actuel/actualites/petition-poland-from-anti-gender-to-anti-lgbt/

Israel: Gay dads told by government one must register as their child’s mother as ‘there is always one who is more dominant’

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/19/gay-dads-parenting-same-sex-families-israel-ministry-labour-social-services/

Ugandan police charge 67 people with ‘causing a nuisance’ after harrowing raid on gay-friendly bar

The legalisation of same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands has been reversed

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/08/cayman-islands-legalisation-same-sex-overturned-legal-illegal-court-appeals-lesbian-couple-british-territory/

United Nations expert slams Australian media over treatment and ‘betrayal’ of trans people

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/11/united-nations-expert-victor-madrigal-borloz-australia-transgender-rights-transphobia/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/06/great-news-federal-court-voids-trump-administrations-discriminatory-conscience-rule

Prize for research work on gender identity and sexual orientation issues with practical relevance to combat discrimination

The University of Padova (Italy) has published the call: Prize for
research work on gender identity and sexual orientation issues with
practical relevance to combat discrimination.

The prize is awarded to young researchers (Ph.D candidates, Post-Doc Fellows, scholars who gained their doctorates no more than 7 years ago) carrying out or having carried out research activities on the subject of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia in  European Universities or Research Institutes. Assessment should focus on scientific articles on gender identity and sexual orientation issues with practical relevance tocombate discrimination, published in 2018-2019 in peer-reviewed international scientific journals or in press, in vehicular language.

Click to access Bando%20CUG_ENG.pdf

The jugdment, in Italian, is available here: EIUS – Corte costituzionale, sentenza 23 ottobre 2019, n. 221

It basically argues that Parliament is entitled to limit access to reproductive medicine according to the idea that the concept of family should IMITATE NATURE (imitatio naturae). The Court also said that as a lesbian couple cannot reproduce themselves, so even in case they are not fertile individually their possible pathologies do not really matter. Furthermore, granting them access in this case only would represent a problem in comparison to healthy lesbian couples, so the most appropriate solution is to exclude them as well.