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‘The reporting process was more traumatising than the assault itself’: LGBTQ+ survivors on accessing support after sexual violence

Our new research found most participants experienced sexual violence at multiple points across their lives. And many reported negative experiences when trying to access support.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino speaks during a news conference on the government’s plan to enable expungements for convictions under the Criminal Code for bawdy house, indecency-based and abortion-related offences in Ottawa in March 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Sex workers are left out in the cold by Ottawa’s unjust conviction amendments

Experts on the history of sexuality in Canada say recent changes to the Expungement Act don’t go far enough, and they urge Canadians to reject attempts to divide marginalized communities.
South Africa is the only African nation to formally extend refugee protection to LGBTI+ people. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images

LGBTIQ+ migrants and asylum seekers in South Africa: major new study identifies a diverse, wide-spread community

The absence of reliable quantitative data makes it difficult – if not impossible – to hold Home Affairs, the police and other state entities to account.
A pride flag flies in front of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City during a 2015 protest against church policy toward same-sex couples. George Frey/Getty Images

What’s going on with the wave of GOP bills about trans teens? Utah provides clues

The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
The rights of transgender people are often in dispute, including in schools. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Rights of transgender students and their parents are a challenge for schools, courts

Parents have a general right to know about their children’s activities in school, but that can be limited by students’ rights to privacy and personal safety.
In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick A. Burns/New York Times Co./Getty Images

Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble

Bayard Rustin led a long and complicated life dedicated to the fight for equal rights. Targeted by the FBI, Rustin became a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

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