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According to a legal settlement, gender identity and sexual orientation may be addressed in Florida classrooms as long as it’s not part of formal instruction. Announced on Monday, the settlement clarifies the boundaries of a contentious state education law, leaving it intact.

The Guardian says AMAZON has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT-related products such as books and rainbow-coloured flags on its website in the country.

The Guardian says about 50 Tory MPs could force the government to toughen up its ban on conversion practices by backing a move to extend the protections to transgender people.

The Metro says the Government has been forced to cancel a landmark international LGBT+ conference after it was revealed transgender people will be excluded from a conversion therapy ban, it is understood.

The Independent says LGBTQ charity Stonewall and 80 other organisations have pulled out of a UK government conference over its transgender conversion therapy U-turn.

The Independent says millions of people from the LGBT community have been “betrayed” and “thrown under the bus” by Boris Johnson.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson has reportedly performed a hasty retreat after sparking a furious backlash after an announcement that ministers were abandoning plans to ban conversion practices.

Sky News says the government has backtracked just hours after making a U-turn on plans to introduce a new law to ban conversion therapy.

The Guardian says Any conviction that was imposed on someone purely due to consensual homosexual activity under now-abolished laws will be included in a scheme aimed at “righting the wrongs of the past”,

France24 says nearly two-thirds of Swiss voters backed the introduction of same-sex marriage in a referendum held Sunday.

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Contemplate who your true allies may be in your fight for equality and dignity and respect.

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Yelena Grigotyeva, a prominent LGBT rights activist has been found dead with multiple stab wounds and signs of strangulation near her home in St Petersburg.…

Army chiefs pledge to uphold military standards puts spotlight on Brunei deployment as row over scandal of gay stoning escalates

Thanks to a common-sense intervention the school has stepped off its high horse