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The first-ever global conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is to be hosted in the UK next year, as the government races to fulfil its pledges to the international 42-country Equal Rights Coalition. The “Safe To Be Me” event is expected to be the largest of its kind and will invite elected officials, activists and policymakers from across the world to participate in London over two days in June 2022, coinciding wit

Paying women for unpaid work at home. Delivering food to transgender people. Building day care centers. Bit by bit, these women, appointed by the president to high-ranking positions, are restructuring society.

On April 1, Sulaimani security forces (Asayish) rounded up a group of men in Sarchinar, a neighborhood in the city where people of any sexual orientation can pick up sex workers.The night of the arrests, operation supervisor Pshtiwan Bahadin told loca

Many LGBT Indonesians find solace in Thailand after experiencing discrimination and harassment in their homeland. The Jakarta Post speaks exclusively with a couple who were recently on the receiving end of an unprovoked online bullying spree by Indonesians.

Attacks on gay people continue unchecked as activists step up their 25-year battle to win LGBT rights

Leather, glitter, stilettos and a strut -- voguing, the underground dance phenomenon, has seized Beijing and given China's LGBT community a "playground" to celebrate their identities.

"Finally, we looked at each other and we started kissing. That’s how I realised he was gay."

Tashnuva broke down in tears, but only after her word-perfect debut as a news anchor on International Women’s Day.

A Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization launched a smartphone app on Thursday to issue digital partnership certificates for same-sex couples that will be accepted by a network of cooperating firms.

Student protests have intensified at Turkey's top university after four people were arrested over LGBTQ-themed artwork depicting Islam's holiest site.

Far from the administrative glare of Beijing, the cosmopolitan southwestern city, dubbed "Gaydu" by Chinese millennials, has long cherished its reputation as a safe haven for a community that faces stigma and widespread harassment elsewhere in the country.

Zak Kostopoulos’s family say murder charges must be brought in a case that has exposed deep homophobia

When Toshitsune Tamashiro was young and closeted in 1980s Japan, Tokyo's Shinjuku Ni-chome gay district was a haven. Now he runs a bar there, and has fought to keep the district going during the coronavirus pandemic. Ni-chome, believed the most dense concentration of gay bars globally, fulfills a vital role…

Chileans to elect 155-strong assembly made up of equivalent men and women to set out new framework and enshrine equal rights... 

In Chile, feminist constitutional candidates stress that parity in the new constitution does not only benefit women, but any minority group that has been excluded from political spaces, including the country’s indigenous communities, LGBT groups and gender non-conforming people.

The arrest, abuse and detention of one of Tunisia’s most prominent LGBTQ activists has shone a light on the challenges facing the community.

Outraged by a long-ignored slaying in Honduras, lawyers are urging a human rights court in Central America to force governments to better protect transgender people in a region where they are targets.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has put a ban on same-sex marriage and transgender adoptions, in a huge blow for LGBTQ+ rights. Putin officially changed the country’s constitution on a number of issues earlier this week, following a national referendum in which 77% of people in Russia voted in favour of the ban in July 2020. …

The EU has been declared an LGBTIQ 'Freedom Zone'. Sadly, however, the reality on the ground in places like Poland and Hungary involves a very differen

LGBTQ and other human rights activists say the momentum for the law is rising as Japan gets attention over its handling of gender equality, diversity and other human rights issues.

Since the country’s first LGBT safe space was closed down by police, queer Ghanaians are "not safe".

In its ruling, Malaysia's top court sided with the man who brought the case, saying Selangor state was not empowered to make such a law.

'Picnic for Pinnacle' is an adorable picnic fundraiser that encourages friends, family and workplaces to raise much-needed funds for young LGTBIQ+ Australians who have been disadvantaged because of their identity.

Journalist Mariusz Kowalewski quit his job at Poland's national public broadcaster TVP after editors asked him to follow an outspoken critic of the country's ruling party with a drone. "This was an intimidation method straight out of communism," he says.

"We are fed up, we are tired of the social debt, of the State debt, of the commodification of the struggle of trans people."

The couple celebrated a historic legal win to have their union recognised, and vowed to push on to change the country's marriage laws