ADDED ON: 01/12/2023
The leader of a Hindu group that is the parent organisation of India's ruling party has come out in support of the gay and transgender community, days before the government is due to…
ADDED ON: 01/12/2023
JAKARTA: Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity. She saw some of…
ADDED ON: 01/12/2023
A group of about 10 hijras (traditional third-gender individuals) reportedly abducted and tortured two trans women last month in western Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh protested, expressing deep concern over the…
ADDED ON: 01/11/2023
An independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity from the United Nations will spend 10 days in Cambodia to evaluate LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights in Cambodia. Hailing from…
ADDED ON: 01/11/2023
Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity. She saw some of her…
ADDED ON: 01/10/2023
Israel has made a name for itself as the most gay-friendly country in the Middle East - but the new government has members of the community worrying. Israel’s new Knesset (parliament) Speaker…
ADDED ON: 01/09/2023
NEW DELHI -- More than 2,000 members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters returned to New Delhi streets on Sunday after a three-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to press…
ADDED ON: 01/07/2023
Four gay couples asked India’s Supreme Court on Friday to legally recognise same-sex marriages, in a sign of shifting values and a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which has opposed…
ADDED ON: 01/04/2023
The mayor of Medan has attracted criticism for describing the Indonesian city as “LGBT-free” and spewing a homophobic diatribe at men who spent New Year’s Eve cosying up to each other. Bobby…
ADDED ON: 01/02/2023
Sanjana Tiwari, who was forced into the sex trade because of poverty, is now an autorickshaw driver and economically independent. As a volunteer activist, she is now educating trans people about AIDS…
ADDED ON: 01/01/2023
The Indian Supreme Court in 2014 issued a landmark ruling that recognized transgender people as a third gender, and not as a medical or social issue but a human rights issue. This…
ADDED ON: 12/31/2022
Protests by Western activists at the FIFA World Cup may have backfired and sparked a backlash against gay. lesbian and queer communities in Qatar, critics say. Early in December, the US fast…
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