Advocates warn that proposed laws will deepen discrimination against sexual minorities, as Parliament considers wider controls over digital platforms, surveillance, and online speech.
Tag: homophobia
The Canary island of Fuerteventura is a popular seaside tourist destination, but further inland are the remains of Spain’s dark past of LGBTQ+ persecution during the regime of dictator Francisco Franco.
With increased aggression from clients, police repression and a sudden decrease in their livelihoods, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is impacting this already-vulnerable group of women.
After the killing of Georgia’s best-known trans woman Kesaria Abramidze, and a harsh new anti-LGBTQ law, Holod spoke with another well-known Georgia-based trans woman, Sofi Beridze, about homophobia in the country, as well as her birthplace, Moscow.
Once defined the most homophobic country in the Balkans, Kosovo’s queer community is now calling for more recognition and consideration from the authorities. But numerous obstacles remain.
Updated June 12, 2024 at 11:45 a.m. The Orlando nightclub shooting took place in the early morning hours on this day in 2016, carried out by an Islamic terrorist targeting LGBTQ+ people. Who carried out the Orlando attack? The shooting occurred at the Pulse nightclub, a popular LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. The […]
“The gospel that is being preached on the pulpit these days is just meant to insult and belittle us,” says a Ugandan churchgoer.
At the end of October in western Senegal, a mob exhumed the body of a man, Cheikh Fall, then burnt it in a public square, on the grounds that he was homosexual. Since then, his relatives have been fleeing death threats.
On Jan. 29, Armenia granted asylum to Salman Mukaev, a Chechen who was tortured in his homeland due to suspicions of being gay. In an interview inVazhnyye istorii, Mukaev recounts his four-year ordeal, and reveals the depth of anti-LGBTQ hatred in the Russian republic.
Members of the LGBTQ+ community escape discrimination, heal emotional wounds, and find family under the neon lights of the region’s voguing scene.
There are obvious and not-so-obvious reasons that adult men tend to do a bad job in taking care of their health and well-being.
Disowned by their families, evicted by their landlords, and persecuted by the state, LGBTQ Ugandans have fewer and fewer places to turn.
A scandal of the secret gay life of a senior Tehran official set off ricocheting accusations in the regime. Now compromising photos have emerged of a top state broadcasting manager with a female employee, who nonetheless kept her hair covered. The piousness of the Islamic Republic is ever more called into question.
Uganda has signed a harsh anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law. It’s part of a wider push back against “Western” values that’s partly being funded by a global coalition.
When the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, fears were widespread that an already hostile environment for the LGBTQ+ community could get much worse. A new survey finds those fears were more than justified.
Uganda’s new law that calls for life imprisonment for gay sex is part of a wider crackdown against LGBTQ+ rights that is particularly harsh on the African continent.
Milan will now only allow the registration of biological parents. The city had been one of the few in Italy to recognize same-sex parents, but it was overruled by the country’s conservative government.
The father of a four-year-old boy thought the idea of colors and toys for boys and girls was a thing of the past. Turns out he was wrong.
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As the populist leaders face sinking poll numbers and the nearby war in Ukraine, they turn to the tactics of racism and transphobia, which ultimately adds up to fascist tactics.
The confinement experience could turn brutal for those forced to live with relatives who would not tolerate a member of the family living their sexual orientation openly as a young adult. Here are stories from urban and rural India.
Police raided a gay sauna. The police’s actions — and the following media storm – were violent in more ways than one.
Hatred cannot be cured.
Proposed Italian legislation to punish public acts of homophobia continues to be blocked by both the Catholic Church and right-wing politicians. But the country’s most popular rapper has entered the debate.
-OpEd- TAIPEI — It was back on May 24, 2017 that Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled that the constitutional right to equality and freedom of marriage also takes into account same-sex couples. Yet it took two years until the moment earlier this month — after layers of difficulties, including three homophobic referenda led by conservative and […]
‘Alternative’ sexuality is despised in the traditionalist, native or Afro-Caribbean communities of northern Colombia. The choices for gays and lesbians tend to be harsh: face down your family and neighbors, or leave.
From shock therapy treatment to nausea pills to fake marriages, Chinese gays, lesbian and transgender are targeted by clinics and family trying to turn them straight.
Chased from their homes and communities, many transgender women in Colombia seek refuge in a four-block area in Santa Fe, in downtown Bogotá.
Though homophobia is not itself a mental illness, a new study finds that people who are prejudiced against gays and lesbians often do have mental disorders. But it’s unclear what we’re supposed to do with this insight.
KIEV – The way his dad found out was not good. On the other hand it was his own fault. He’d left his laptop open, and when his father came to visit him at his student apartment he started clicking around on it and found pictures of him kissing his boyfriend Petja. First reaction – […]
Some provocative studies are cited as the debate heats up in France over a law to legalize gay marriage.