Progress and setbacks in 2023
There have been gains and setbacks on LGBTQIA+ rights in Asia this year, ranging from the first same-sex marriages in Nepal to South Korea’s decision…
There have been gains and setbacks on LGBTQIA+ rights in Asia this year, ranging from the first same-sex marriages in Nepal to South Korea’s decision…
LGBTQIA+ rights campaigners demanding legal recognition for same-sex couples in Poland have hailed a European court ruling on Tuesday that increased pressure on Donald Tusk’s…
Christmas can be a fraught time for LGBTQIA+ people, some of whom might be estranged from their families while others dread festive gatherings with intolerant…
Across Africa, while court verdicts ensured rights for LGBTQIA+ people in Kenya and Namibia, countries such as Uganda and Ghana doubled down on anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation.…
Melvin Muranaka long wanted to open a bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ni-chome LGBTQIA+ district, where he first felt free to be himself as a gay…
When 12-year-old Daniel transitioned gender in middle school, his Mexican teachers had no clue what to call him, how he should dress or what on…
In the 20 years since U.S. President George W. Bush launched the world’s biggest investment to fight HIV/AIDS, the fund has had a “dramatic and…
The election of right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as Argentina’s president has put LGBTQIA+ campaigners on alert in the country, long one of the most progressive…
Britain’s first report into the lives of asexual people has triggered a national conversation about the difficulties they have in coming out at work and…
Once one of the world’s most progressive countries, the Netherlands could soon see a far-right party in government after an unexpected surge in the polls,…
Namibia’s High Court is set to deliver a judgment in May in a case that could see the decriminalisation of gay sex in the southern…
Nigerian authorities are using a 2014 anti-LGBTQIA+ law that bans same-sex weddings to raid parties and publicly parade those arrested as a form of deterrence,…
Yosef Phelan for GAY TIMES A transgender woman on hunger strike in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in protest against a recent clampdown on trans rights,…
No cabinet members in the newly reshuffled UK government openly identify as being members of the LGBTQIA+ community. As highlighted by ITV’s Paul Brand, the…
LGBTQIA+ activists in Ukraine, Bosnia and Moldova – the countries next in line to start talks on joining the EU – say the membership process…
Namibia’s High Court will rule next May in a case that could see the southern African country overturn a colonial-era ban on same-sex relations. Friedel…
It’s hard to style hair, pluck brows and do makeovers when armed troops are on the streets suppressing months of deadly clashes. Harder still if…
For the first time in its 40-year history, the Gay Games will take place across two cities — Hong Kong and Guadalajara in Mexico —…
US Representative Mike Johnson was elected last week by his fellow Republicans to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, after three weeks of…
An unprecedented ruling by a Japanese court this month is buoying hopes in the transgender community that a national law requiring sterilisation for official gender…