Added on: 07/02/2019
07/01/2019
When the Storybook Pride Prom for LGBT teens in Jacksonville, Fla., was canceled after online conservative backlash, a local church made sure the story had a happy…
Added on: 07/01/2019
07/01/2019
On a muggy July afternoon in 1999, 15 people gathered at Park Circus Maidan in the heart of Kolkata dressed in bright yellow T-shirts that said Friendship…
Added on: 07/01/2019
07/01/2019
The transgender community in Pakistan are leading protests after a 19-year-old transgender woman was found “riddled with bullets” beside a river bank. The teenager’s father has been…
Added on: 07/01/2019
06/30/2019
Police in Turkey used tear gas to break up a banned Pride rally calling for rights for gay and transgender people. Several hundred activists had gathered in…
Added on: 07/01/2019
06/30/2019
Over the last decade, several openly queer musicians have emerged in Latin America. They use their music to combat hate. As the region has seen a rise…
Added on: 07/01/2019
06/29/2019
Glaad almost died in 2014. After years of fighting homophobic news coverage and working to bring about inclusion in the entertainment industry, the L.G.B.T. advocacy organization found…
Added on: 06/30/2019
06/29/2019
In collaboration with the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE), Human Rights Watch released a video, Monday, June 24. The footage, published on the Human Rights…
Added on: 06/30/2019
06/28/2019
For LGBTQ+ people growing up in Nigeria, the dangers of being out and visible are instilled in all of us. When I ask Logan February, a 20-year-old…
Added on: 06/30/2019
06/29/2019
Activists in Bermuda and St. Lucia are planning those nations’ first Pride celebrations, while a fund drive is under way for Uganda’s seventh Pride, which is held…
Added on: 06/30/2019
06/28/2019
Franco’s Spain dismissed queer people as a “danger to society.” Then, they staged an unprecedented protest in Barcelona. Pride is back in Barcelona this weekend as the…
Added on: 06/30/2019
06/29/2019
For better or worse, iconic “gayborhoods” are getting way more expensive, pricing out LGBT people in the process. Neighborhoods such as San Francisco’s Castro district or New…
Added on: 06/30/2019
06/30/2019
The Mexican LGBT community showed this Saturday how much it has advanced in demanding its rights with a huge march in the capital of a country where…