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Johannesburg, South Africa: Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world’s first openly gay imam, was shot dead Saturday near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police said. The imam, who ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims, was in a car with another person when a vehicle stopped in…
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At least seven people were fined in Russia for “looking too gay” after a police raid on a nightclub in Tula in February, an analysis of court records by an independent Russian media outlet showed. They were reportedly hit with charges of ‘trying to arouse interest in non-traditional sexual relations’, which has been outlawed in…
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