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Our 33rd Annual Global Convention in Cape Town, South Africa, will include our third annual appointment-based Buyer/Supplier Marketplace, the only global LGBT business-to-business tourism event of its kind. Approved buyers receive complimentary convention registration and a room upgrade at our host hotel, the Belmond Mount Nelson (airfare/hotel expenses not included). The marketplace will be held on the first day of the convention, 14 April 2016. Click here to apply today!
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Please consider donating a travel package, tour, or hotel stay from your business for an online raffle scheduled for October to benefit the IGLTA Foundation. Your generous contribution will help improve the LGBT travel industry by supporting the next generation of LGBT tourism professionals, small businesses in emerging destinations, and global research to assist our members with strategic planning. For more information, email Toni.Reckley@iglta.org.
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Please support the small business members of IGLTA, such as Cyprus Villages, which has its own wellness spa and provides picturesque stays in Tochni approximately 4.3 miles (7km) from a local beach in Cyprus; and Sojourn Active Vacations, an award-winning tour company with offerings in the U.S. and Canada, including private LGBT itineraries (company motto: "The Good Life, By Bike").
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If you're an IGLTA member and you're not including the IGLTA logo in your LGBT marketing and outreach, you're not making the most of your association membership. Show the world that you're part of a respected LGBT-welcoming business network that spans nearly 90 countries. Simply log in to iglta.org with your user name and password and download the logo in the format that best suits your needs from the "Network and Advertise" page. If you need assistance or you'd like an IGLTA member sticker for your storefront or desk, please contact membership@iglta.org.
Passport Magazine
Thailand just introduced its first law designed to protect LGBT people.
"Unfair discrimination among the sexes," as defined by actions that "segregate, obstruct, or limit" the rights of LGBT people, is now punishable by up to six months in jail and fines of up to $20,000. The 2015 Gender Equality Act originally set aside exemptions regarding education and religion, but those provisions were promptly removed from an earlier draft.
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San Diego LGBT Weekly
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who last month refused to allow a vote for marriage equality in the Parliament, was ousted from his position and replaced by Malcolm Turnbull through a leadership ballot.
Liberal Party members voted 54 to 44 to replace Abbott with former party leader and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who had called for the leadership ballot just hours earlier amid flagging opinion polls for the 2-year-old conservative coalition government, reports ABC News.
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Pink News
The European Parliament has voted to condemn the oppression of LGBT people in Azerbaijan.
The Parliament passed a motion condemning the "intimidation and repression" of LGBTI people, and those defending their rights. Homosexuality has been legal in Azerbaijan since 2000, but LGBT people and activists in the country still face routine and systematic oppression.
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The Guardian
With homosexuality illegal in Kenya, its capital Nairobi is an unlikely — and potentially dangerous — place to openly host an LGBT film festival celebrating gay culture.
But recently, a young crowd packed into an auditorium in the city center to attend the Out festival, an event hailed as a key step towards encouraging public discourse on LGBT issues in the country.
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The Independent
Ukraine's revolution kindled hopes of a brave and free society. But some old hatreds die hard, gay pride marches came under attack this Summer and sexual minorities continue to live under the shadow of prejudice and discrimination.
Sir Elton John had held concerts in the Maidan in Kiev, the centre of the protests which swept through the country.
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Vice
When he was three years old, Daniel Timofeev started draping himself in his mother's scarves and dancing around his bedroom in the Latvian village of Balvi, about 20 miles from the Russian border. His parents were horrified and screamed at him to stop. Though they didn't discuss it openly, they saw his behavior as the first signs of homosexuality, which they regarded as a disease.
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Malay Mail
The Federal Constitution accords equal protection to all citizens under the law but Malaysia's lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) will never be able to lead the life they want, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has said.
The former de facto law minister claimed that this was because the "lifestyles" the LGBT community ostensibly leads goes against the teachings of Islam, adding that Islamic principles supersedes the the rights protected even by the country's highest law.
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The Moscow Times
Russian drag artist Yulianna Prosvirnina was revelling in the success of the buzzing gay and lesbian party she had organized in Moscow when a hooded mob burst into the venue.
"They stopped the party and shouted 'Who wants to be first?'," the 26-year-old lesbian performer said.
"Then tables started flying, glasses were breaking everywhere and girls were kicked in the stomach. Many people hid and most were so scared, too scared to stand together and defend one another," she said.
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