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LGBT organization Rainbow Railroad says that it has received hundreds of requests for help, mainly from Afghan gay men. Exiled Afghan LGBT activist Nemat Sadat warned last week that under the Taliban, homosexual men will be hunted down. Sadat says that he alone has received over 250 requests from Afghan gay men requesting help in order to leave the country.
2021-08-28

The Trump administration through the United States Department of Health and Human Services plans to include a legal definition of gender in the federal civil rights Title IX law. The proposed alteration to the law would define gender as an unchangeable anatomical and genetic condition determined at birth. Members of the LGBT community plan to contest the move, which they state would largely end protections for transgender Americans.
2018-10-22

In the Philippine general election, the Liberal Party emerges as the party with a plurality of seats in the Philippine Senate election, 2016 and Philippine House of Representatives elections, 2016.
2016-05-19

Philippine president Benigno Aquino III says that the Abu Sayyaf militants plan to kidnap his sister actress Kris Aquino and boxer Manny Pacquiao.
2016-04-27

Walden Bello, a socialist candidate for the Philippine Senate, files a petition that may disqualify boxer Manny Pacquiao for violating election rules regarding publicity. Based on the commission's rules, Pacquiao's wife, Jinkee Pacquiao, may substitute.
2016-02-22

Filipino Senate candidate and boxer Manny Pacquiao calls LGBT people "less than animals" when asked about his opposition to same-sex marriage, prompting condemnation from prominent Filipino LGBT figures such as Aiza Seguerra, John Lapus and Vice Ganda. Pacquiao later apologizes.
2016-02-16

Nike agrees to pay a combined $2.4 million to consumers of Nike+ FuelBand over false advertising.
2015-07-26

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs a bill discriminating against the LGBT community.
2014-02-24

LGBT sportspeople, such as tennis player Billie Jean King and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, are to represent the United States in Sochi as a protest against the treatment of LGBT people in Russia.
2013-12-18

U.S. sportswear company Nike, Inc. controversially gives its new Saint Patrick's Day runner the name "The Black and Tan", prompting comparisons from concerned netizens with the controversial British paramilitary unit, which was known as the Black and Tans.
2012-03-16