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LGBTQ+ year in review: 42 examples of good news in 2020

LGBTQ+ year in review: 42 examples of good news in 2020

This past year has been tough for everyone, gay and straight, but it had some bright spots too. Below is a list of 42 encouraging developments for LGBTQ+ people in countries with anti-gay laws.

To read more about any topic, follow the link to the original article in Erasing 76 Crimes or, in one case, a link to ILGA’s December 2020 update of its State-Sponsored Homophobia report. Also available: “LGBTQ+ year in review: 47 troubling events of 2020”.

Shaciba St Louis, right, and her girlfriend, Lisa Melville, hold their daughter, Miracle, who was born at 6:03 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2020, at the Mt. Hope Women’s Hospital in Trinidad. (Ishmael Sanandy photo courtesy of the Trinidad Express)

JANUARY

 

FEBRUARY

 

MARCH

Food distribution to LGBTQI refugees at Kakuma Camp, Kenya. (Photos courtesy of AHRC)

MAY

Maha al-Mutairi is a Kuwaiti trans woman who was imprisoned for her gender identity and abused by the police. International outrage secured her release. (Photo courtesy of Change.org)
International pressure helped secure the release of Maha al-Mutairi, a Kuwaiti trans woman. She had been imprisoned for her gender identity and abused by the police. (Photo courtesy of Change.org)

JUNE

  • In June 2020, the Supreme Court of Mauritius authorized four young activists to challenge the constitutionality of Section 250(1) of the penal code, which provides for up to five years in prison for homosexual activity. (State Sponsored Homophobia, ILGA, December 2020 update)

 

JULY

 

AUGUST

 

SEPTEMBER

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OCTOBER

 

NOVEMBER

Day 1 of online “Intimate Conviction 2” conference on churches and anti-gay laws included (clockwise from lower left) organizer Maurice Tomlinson; the Rev. Clifford Hall, moderator; the Rev. Ian Rock; and Victor Madrigal-Borloz, U.N. Independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity.

NOV. 25-27

The online “Intimate Conviction 2” conference focused on what needs to be done, especially by Christian churches, to put an end to dozens of countries’ laws against same-sex intimacy.

 

DECEMBER

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