On April 25, a US Embassy worker, employee of USAID, and editor of Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine was one of two men hacked to death in Dhaka. Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar were in a flat when five or six men,...
Africans are more tolerant of differences in ethnicity, religion and nationality than many familiar narratives would indicate, yet nearly eight out of ten do not want LGBT neighbors, according to a new report from Afrobarometer, a public opinion research organization...
The UN Stamp Collection just got a little bit more progressive. At UN headquarters yesterday, the United Nations Postal Administration launched the UN’s first series of postage stamps to promote and celebrate LGBT equality around the world. This is a...
Earlier this week the UN Security Council did something it’s never done before: it held a meeting specifically focusing on violence directed against LGBT people. The council called two witnesses, both of whom are gay men caught up in the...
Is Jamaica about to become a more friendly place for gays and lesbians? In an attempt to establish a more human rights centered presence in Jamaican government, a new Human Rights Institute is being built with the support of the...
“Adnan” is a gay Iraqi. He’s suffered beatings and humiliation throughout his adult life. But when ISIS swept through his town, he was marked for death. Today, Adnan (a pseudonym) told his story to the United Nations Security Council, in...
On July 31st the city of Almaty, in eastern Kazakhstan, quietly mourned. Across the border in China, Beijing celebrated: earlier that day the International Olympics Committee announced that Beijing, a city without snow, will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. In...
Is anal sex a human right? On the day of South Korea’s LGBT pride parade on June 28, Evangelical protesters chanted and prayed from the other side of the police barricade. Tears streamed down the faces of some protesters,...
LGBT rights secured a major bureaucratic victory at the United Nations today when member states overwhelmingly voted down a Russian-backed proposal to curtail benefits afforded to the same-sex spouses of UN staff. The vote failed by a margin of nearly...
