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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.

The once-in-a-decade population survey has enabled same-sex couples to register their status

Between the ages of five and six, Aldo Peña began to realize that something was “not right.” “I did not carry out the role assigned to a woman,” the 36-year-old Salvadoran transgender man says when asked about his story, marked by much discrimination and struggle. “I did …

As China attempts to capture demographic shifts, some LGBTQ advocates hope to gain visibility in the eyes of their neighbors and the government alike.

A fatal explosion, a pandemic, and an economic collapse leaves Lebanon's queer community at risk of disappearing.

Bulgarian activist Martin Karadzhov has been appointed as one of the 2020 Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals initiative. A move which signifies that th

Spain is a great place to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and all of the LGBTQIA+ community. Gay means happy and they are in Spain.

The relatively progressive districts of Mar Mikhael and Gemmayzeh were torn apart when the explosion rocked Lebanon’s capital city Aug. 4.

Some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are leaving Poland following the anti-LGBT campaign rhetoric the country's president used during his successful reelection campaign and other leaders promoted before that...

Hundreds of Thai LGBT activists and allies raised rainbow flags on Saturday evening as they called for democracy and equal rights, the latest in a series of youth protests calling for the government to step down.

Former Youth Pastor, who is now a Nigerian LGBTQ activist, Dan Yomi, has stressed that no one can pray away the gay spirit in anyone.

Members of Poland's LGBT community say they are angry and afraid after President Andrzej Duda won re-election in a divisive campaign that cast their movement for equal rights as a dangerous “ideology” that threatens families in the deeply Roman Catholic country. Some activists say the homophobic rhetoric that emerged echoes policies in Russia under President Vladimir Putin, who signed a law in 2013 banning gay...

In India, the LGBTQ+ community has faced a long history of violence. But since the country's coronavirus lockdown, the number of people inflicting self-harm or having suicidal thoughts are on the rise, activists say.

Under mounting pressure, Russia's parliament withdrew a bill that would have ended the legal recognition of transgender people

Student tells how he and others were arrested on Covid-related charges, publicly humiliated and left without a place to stay

The EU’s executive will promise legal protection against discrimination at work and hate crime and help cross-border recognition of rainbow families. What remains to be seen is how this strategy will apply to the LGBT-free zones of Poland or how Hungary can be swayed to change its discriminating laws against same-sex couples.

Thai feminists and LGBTQ activists marched to one of Bangkok's nightlife districts on Saturday, insisting the fight for equality goes hand-in-hand with a broader push for greater democracy.

Homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997, but gay marriage remains illegal. The picture on trans and other queer rights is mixed.

Hong Kong's High Court ruled in favour of a gay homeowner seeking equal inheritance rights for his partner, but rejected a bid to recognise foreign same-sex marriages in a bittersweet day involving two important judgments on the rights of sexual minorities in the city. Mr Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming ruled on two separate cases on Friday, a year after he concluded the government had no positive obligation to provide an alternativ

Today, queer folk are part of the social fabric of urban life in Vietnam. But progress still needs to be made.

Russia’s queer underground is undergoing a revival

Saudi judges have convicted people for "immorality", having sexual relations outside of marriage, and homosexual sex.

For 15 years, Marco and his boyfriend had lived together fairly peacefully in a town outside Rome. Then, in early June, a neighbour started harassing them. “It began quite lightly, with him being provocative whenever we met in the street,” the 38-year-old said. “Then he came to our home and forced his way in, calling us ‘dirty faggots’. My boyfriend managed to get rid of him but he returned with a baton and threw himself against th

Homophobia widespread across Italy, says politician pushing drive for legislative change

After an Arab tahini magnate donated to an Israeli gay rights group, her company faced a boycott. But gay activists say the controversy has an upside.