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Compare LGBT Rights Between Any Country With Equaldex’s New FeatureEqualdex just launched a new tool that lets you compare LGBT rights and public opinion data between countries, states, and provinces. The new tool lets you compare the legal status of...

Compare LGBT Rights Between Any Country With Equaldex’s New Feature

Equaldex just launched a new tool that lets you compare LGBT rights and public opinion data between countries, states, and provinces.

The new tool lets you compare the legal status of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, adoption by same-sex couples, right to change legal gender, discrimination protections, ability for LGBT people to serve in the military, age of consent, blood donation, and conversion therapy. Many major countries include public opinion data as well.

Popular comparisons are now available on the sidebar of region pages, letting you easily compare a region with a similar region.

Try it now!

Compare LGBT Rights

Or, try one of these comparisons:

(Source: blog.equaldex.com)

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 5:28pm
July 2, 2015
Participate in a Test Program: Daily Curated LGBT News in Your InboxWant to participate in Equaldex’s two-week email test program?You’ll receive hand-picked LGBT news stories once a day (or less) for about two weeks. After the test, you’ll be sent a...

Participate in a Test Program: Daily Curated LGBT News in Your Inbox

Want to participate in Equaldex’s two-week email test program?

You’ll receive hand-picked LGBT news stories once a day (or less) for about two weeks. After the test, you’ll be sent a short survey asking your opinion about the experience.

Sign Up Here

You may unsubscribe at any time.

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 6:58pm
February 6, 2015
equaldex: “ Today Is The Transgender Day of Remembrance Take a moment to honor and celebrate those lives that were lost due to anti-transgender hate. Above is a list of the individuals who lost their lives this year. This is just a fraction of the...

equaldex:

Today Is The Transgender Day of Remembrance

Take a moment to honor and celebrate those lives that were lost due to anti-transgender hate. Above is a list of the individuals who lost their lives this year. This is just a fraction of the trans people who were murdered this year — many more were documented but were unidentified in the media.

View the full list
Learn more on transgenderdor.org

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Join us: Equaldex is a crowdsourced knowledge base for the LGBT movement.

November 20th, 2014: The Transgender Day of Remembrance.

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 2:54pm reblogged from equaldex  
November 20, 2014
Korean University: No Jobs for HomosexualsKorea Nazarene University, a Christian university in Cheonan, South Korea, is telling its job applicants that “drinking, smoking, and homosexuality are not allowed.” The listing was published on Tuesday and...

Korean University: No Jobs for Homosexuals

Korea Nazarene University, a Christian university in Cheonan, South Korea, is telling its job applicants that “drinking, smoking, and homosexuality are not allowed.”

The listing was published on Tuesday and spotted by The Korea Observer, who contacted the university:

Ahn Kwang-jin, a senior official at Korea Nazarene University, told The Korea Observer that his university has a strict policy against drinking, smoking and homosexuality.

“We are letting you know that even if you make an application, you wouldn’t get the job unless you meet the stated requirements,” he said.“

A clipping of the job listing for the Korea Nazarene University:

Korea Nazarene University Job Application on Homosexuality

Further, the full job application includes a "self health check list” that requires applicants to disclose if they are HIV positive or have had a “transsexual operation.”

Learn more: LGBT rights in South Korea or LGBT rights by country

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 5:32pm
November 5, 2014
Equaldex Country Pages Receive UpliftEqualdex’s country pages received a facelift! Check it out: LGBT Rights in Canada (or visit any country page on Equaldex). The summary section of each country is a little more visual, highlighting homosexuality...

Equaldex Country Pages Receive Uplift

Equaldex’s country pages received a facelift! Check it out: LGBT Rights in Canada (or visit any country page on Equaldex).

The summary section of each country is a little more visual, highlighting homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The country’s shape animates as you scroll, and the visual design of the “history” and “subregions” sections were slightly cleaned up. The bottom of each page displays other countries in the same continent.

More examples:

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 3:46am
September 7, 2014
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Posted by Dan Leveille at 2:56pm
May 29, 2014
Show Your Support for the Global LGBT Rights Movement, Donate a Social Post Equaldex just started a Thunderclap campaign to promote the global LGBT rights movement. To support the campaign, all you need to do is donate a tweet, Tumblr post, or...

Show Your Support for the Global LGBT Rights Movement, Donate a Social Post

Equaldex just started a Thunderclap campaign to promote the global LGBT rights movement. To support the campaign, all you need to do is donate a tweet, Tumblr post, or Facebook post.

If the campaign reaches 100 supporters by June 3rd, everyone will post at once at 12pm PDT.

In some countries, coming out as gay can mean losing your friends, in other countries, it can mean losing your life.

Not many people realize that there are over 75 countries where homosexual activity is illegal and in quite a few of those countries, the consequence can be life in prison, or even the death penalty.

In some of the most homophobic countries in the world, people can be killed for just being themselves. In South Africa and several other countries, lesbians have been “corrective raped" in an effort to "turn them heterosexual.”

The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) movement is a global one and it’s time to think global and show our support to those in need. Let’s urge our governments and people around us to recognize us as who we are; humans.

Equaldex is a new collaborative website aimed at crowdsourcing information about LGBT rights around the globe. Using data contributed by users, Equaldex will shine light on LGBT rights in a visual and compelling way.

Equaldex provides users comprehensive global view of LGBT rights, with the use of maps, LGBT rights timelines, public opinion surveys, statistics, and historical data in each country and region.
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Posted by Dan Leveille at 5:15pm
May 12, 2014

Sona Avedyan, Transgender Woman, Shares Inspirational Transition Video

Sona Avedyan, a transgender woman from Detroit, Michigan, documented her male-to-female transition. In the video, she shares the feelings and hardships she went through as she began to discover herself.

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Equaldex is a collaborative LGBT knowledge base visualizing LGBT rights by country.

(via Reddit)

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 3:51am
April 3, 2014
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Posted by Dan Leveille at 12:42pm
November 20, 2013

“Gender Edit" Facebook Campaign Gets Retracted, Public Apology Issued

Late last week, I reported about Gender Edit, a campaign to create the largest "gender change” in history by using Facebook. After the campaign received a lot of criticism, it was shut down by its organizers and a public apology was issued.

Many readers had concerns against how the campaign used the word “sex” and “trivialized” the concept of being transgender. Another major concern was that the campaign was scheduled for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of transphobia.

The campaign organizers told Equaldex that their "intentions in creating this were entirely pure” and that they were working to revise the campaign. The campaign video was soon after taken down.

A few days later, the campaign was completely retracted and a video apology was published.

“I really do hope this helps. The stir this project has caused was never our intention. We screwed up, and we’re sorry.

Regardless of gay, straight, cis, or trans, we are all human, and mistakes are part of the human experience. Please reach out to me, I want to hear from you.”

Please share your thoughts about Michael’s apology video.

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 6:43pm
November 18, 2013