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• LGBT+ (Bangladesh)

  Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community

  21 November 2019, by AHMED Ibtisam

  The current state of queer rights in Bangladesh is extremely precarious. We have lost activists to Islamist violence, which the government shrugged off with a bout of victim-blaming. Others have had to go into hiding. Trans and non-binary recognition has been achieved, but at the cost of (…)

• LGBT+ (Bangladesh)

  Xulhaz Mannan: Murder of LGBTQ+ editor highlights danger facing all rational voices in Bangladesh

  23 April 2017, by AHMED Ibtisam

  The murder of Xulhaz Mannan , the founder and editor of Bangladesh’s first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world’s attention to the violence directed against the country’s outspoken supporters of equal rights . His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through (…)

• LGBT+ (Bangladesh)

  Bangladesh: Xulhaz Mannan, LGBT editor killed – Media Reports and Statements

  25 April 2016, by Amnesty International, BBC, GANI Aisha, HAMMADI Saad, PEN International, The Daily Star

  Following the killing of Xulhaz Mannan on 25 April 2016 in Dkaka, Media Reports and Statements by PEN and Amnesty are posted below.
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  LGBT magazine editor stabbed dead at Dhaka home
  Star Online Report
  The Daily Star, April 25, 2016
  • Assailants posed as courier (…)

• LGBT+ (Bangladesh)

  Bangladesh eunuchs to vote in first elections

  27 December 2008, by AFP

  DHAKA (AFP) — Among the millions of new voters in Monday’s Bangladeshi elections will be some 100,000 hijras — cross-dressing, pre- and post-operative transsexuals — allowed to cast ballots for the first time.
  The male-to-female transsexuals are among 32 percent of the impoverished nation’s 81 (…)