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A Texas woman filed the first in what legal advocates anticipate will be a wave of litigation testing workplace protections for transgender people.

Three panels and several keynote speakers highlighted the Dallas LGBTQ+ Global Symposium hosted by Southern Methodist University. SMU President Gerald Turner welcomed attendees on behalf of himself and eight campus LGBT groups. Fabrice Houdart, managing director for global equality initiatives at Out Leadership, said homophobia costs countries up to $100 billion a year. When people …

Under a government regulation, teachers at some international schools face intrusive questions aimed at identifying those with “abnormal” sexual orientations.

The Hong Kong government said today (Sept. 18) that it would grant dependent visas to legally recognized gay couples the same way it does for married heterosexual couples.

Lawyers, a radio host and a hotelier are among those who fought a ban on same-sex relations, which India's Supreme Court is due to rule on within weeks.

Last week, Poland’s Supreme Court ruled that an employee of a print shop could not refuse to print a banner for an LGBT organization because he did not want, in his eyes, to “promote” the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people.

The city’s LGBT community has notched small victories in recent years, but new developments have made them angry and discouraged.

Eastern part of continent in avant-garde when it comes to struggle for sexual minority rights, either limited or nonexistent in most African countries

Anchorage voters defeated a bill that would have banned transgender people from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. In just six years, Anchorage voters flipped on LGBT issues.

“Led by youth, a steadfast belief in legal justice, and their right to exist fully and wholly in a country whose mainstream rhetoric remains staunchly anti-gay, NGLHRC refuses to shy away fro…

Hörður Torfason is a musician and an activist. He was the first public figures to come out of the closet in Iceland back in the ‘70s and was the founder of The National Queer Organisation, Samtökin 78. Arguably no one is a better authority on the history of LGBTQ rights in Iceland, and few if any have done more to stand up and be accounted for.

After years of trying to extend civil rights protections to LGBTQ Michigan residents, a new coalition is prepared to go to voters this fall to amend the state's anti-discrimination law if lawmakers don't act.Some top Michigan business executives have joined the coalition pursuing a voter-initiated…

Xavier Bettel said Mexico was more advanced than other countries on LGBT+ and women's rights

Yaisah Val recently came out publicly as a transgender woman on YouTube, a potentially risky move in a country like Haiti where LGBT residents face pervasive hostility in most spheres of public life. Two proposed anti-LGBT laws are pending in Parliament. The major churches are firm in their condemnation of homosexuality. Gay Haitians are frequent targets of attacks and harassment, and police are often unsympathetic to victims of anti-gay violence.

She’d walk out to her car and the tires would be slashed. She’d go to her locker and it would be broken open. She’d be called to the principal’s office and sit there for the entire school day because someone had called in a threat.

The Philippine city of Mandaluyong has approved an ordinance to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination, the latest in a slew of local laws passed across the country.

In 2010, Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage, largely due to the work of LGBT activists like Esteban Paulon. Paulon, who didn’t have a partner at the time, saw this movement as a political struggle, rather than a personal one. “I fought for the law without knowing if

On gay, equal rights, Orlando has come a long way, while Florida still fights

The groundbreaking program is already driving positive change for hundreds of thousands of workers in Mexico

Over the past decade, the enhancement of gay rights in Colombia has meant that the once underground LGBT scene is now openly visited and advertised.

LGBT rights and his country's peace agreement are among the issues about which Pedro Santos talked during a Sept. 28 interview in Bogotá.

Haiti’s LGBT community has long been marginalized, but in recent years it has come under an unprecedented wave of assault. In an email interview, Amber Lynn Munger explains what this new environment looks like, including new laws to restrict LGBT rights, and how activists are finding ways to fight back.