• Discrimination and Equality

    Despite more and more victories for equality, legalized homophobia and transphobia still thrive in every corner of the world. While a handful of countries provide specific legal rights and protections to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) citizens, many more do not. In fact, nearly 80 countries still criminalize sex between LGBTI people, and some even impose the death sentence for same-​sex sexual activity. Cross-​dressing, same-​sex marriage, and even advocating for LGBTI human rights are also illegal in many places. It is also legal to discriminate against LGBTI people in employment, education, housing, healthcare, and public spaces in most parts of the world.

ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

Ugandans flee as Kill the Gays gains momentum across Africa

Gay Ugandans are fleeing the country as the government’s Anti-Homosexuality Act moves closer to becoming law. “The government and the people of Uganda are against our existence,” said Mbajjwe Nimiro Wilson, a…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

Bolshoi pulls Nureyev ballet citing ban on LGBT ‘propaganda’

Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBT rights, its director…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

Gay marriage brought equality to France while giving rise to homophobia

A decade after France legalised same-sex marriage, it remains the law of the land – providing equal rights to thousands of people. But the debates and demonstrations surrounding the law's passage brought…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

For Transgender Kids, It’s a Rush to Get Treatment as Bans Roll Out

As a third grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools the following year and hoped…

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ADDED ON: 04/23/2023

Goa trust speaks up for rights of state’s 10,000-strong LGBT community

With more than 10,000 persons from the LGBT community living in Goa, they are struggling for their right of ‘Same Sex Marriage since the last two decades to do away with the…

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ADDED ON: 04/23/2023

LGBT rights increasingly targeted by reactionary GOP

About eight years ago, the United States Supreme Court changed my life. By their majority ruling that there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it meant I could finally avail of…

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ADDED ON: 04/22/2023

How Putin Inadvertently Boosted Support for LGBT Rights in Ukraine

When Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, he framed the move in part as a means of defending traditional values from Western attitudes “that are directly…

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ADDED ON: 04/22/2023

Japan LGBTQ groups urge government to guarantee equality

Japanese LGBTQ activist groups delivered a statement to the government on Friday urging that Japan enact an anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriages ahead of a summit of the Group of Seven…

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ADDED ON: 04/22/2023

Minnesota Senate passes transgender protections, abortion ‘refuge’ bills

The Minnesota Senate Friday passed a trio of proposals aimed at legally safeguarding people who come to Minnesota for abortion and gender-affirming care and outlawing what’s called conversion therapy for minors. The…

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ADDED ON: 04/21/2023

Uganda’s president sends anti-LGBTQ bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for "strengthening", the ruling party's chief whip said. A group…

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ADDED ON: 04/21/2023

Hungary’s Christian LGBT community hopes Pope visit will heal social wounds

Hungary's Christian LGBT community hopes a visit by Pope Francis to Budapest next week can help heal wounds in a deeply divided society amid an intensifying anti-LGBT campaign by the country's deeply…

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ADDED ON: 04/21/2023

Peru Ruling a Victory for LGBT Equality

In a landmark unanimous ruling published last week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Peru responsible for violating Crissthian Olivera Fuentes’ rights to equality before the law and to judicial protection,…

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