October 2020

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INTERNATIONAL COMING OUT DAY: A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE

11th October is celebrated globally within the LGBTI community as International Coming Out Day. The day is an annual LGBT awareness day observed annually to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons to “come out of the closet”.
Today, we look back at some of the individuals we’ve profiled over the years and share their coming out stories.

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CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY: LGBTI RIGHTS ADVOCATE KASHA JACQUELINE ON PURSUIT FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

8th October is International Lesbian Day, a celebration that initially started in New Zealand and Australia in 1990 and has now been adopted by the global LGBTI movement. The day is intended to celebrate lesbian culture, resilience, beliefs, struggles as well as their contribution to the movement as a whole.

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COMMERCIAL COALITION RELEASES REPORT STRESSING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN THE SDGS AND LGBT+ INCLUSION

While LGBT+ people are not explicitly identified as a marginalized population in Agenda 2030, several SDG targets provide entry points that can be utilized by advocates of inclusive societies to ensure that LGBT+ people are not left behind and the purpose of the report is to highlight the linkages and build bridges between SDG action and commitments to LGBT+ inclusion.