As LGBTQ+ rights continue to be a global struggle, there’s a widening gap between countries making strides towards equality and those experiencing regression due to political, cultural, and religious opposition.
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With Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party and the Catholic Church using gay rights to stir up a culture war, the country’s LGBTQ community is feeling the effects. Depression and suicide are rising dramatically, and many now feel they have no choice but to leave.
Perception (and treatment) of gays and lesbians may be different from transgender people — but in different ways, depending where in the world you are.
BOGOTA — The LGBTI community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual/Transgender and Intersexual) in Colombia has suffered disappearances, forced migrations, mutilations, humiliation and abuse. The phrase “damaged bodies, silent crimes’ has come to be used by this community to describe their suffering often made even worse by the civil war that has torn Colombia apart over the […]