World
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British man arrested after threatening to stab gay people returning from Pride
Man said that gay people "need to all be killed" and told passengers he had a knife
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Someone sprayed a swastika on Toronto’s rainbow crosswalk
Toronto Police's LGBTQ liaison unit called the act a "despicable hate crime"
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Ireland’s gay Prime Minister will discuss LGBTQ rights with Pope Francis
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will discuss same-sex parent families with the Pope ahead of a Catholic event
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British teen banned from doing drag in school talent show invited to perform with Drag Race queens
Lewis Bailey's debut performance was cut because the school felt drag culture had too much "sexual innuendo"
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Elton John blames “bigotry and hatred” against LGBTQ people for hampering HIV/AIDS research
Elton John made the comments at the International AIDS conference in Amsterdam
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TEDx speaker argues that pedophilia should be accepted as “an unchangeable sexual orientation”
TEDx was forced to remove the video after a medical student said accepting pedophiles will help decrease their "suffering"
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Appeals court in Lebanon rules consensual same-sex relations are not unlawful
Earlier this month, a district court of appeals in Lebanon issued a groundbreaking ruling finding that consensual sex between people of the same sex is...
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Over 100,000 Israelis protest after Netanyahu caves to right-wingers on LGBTQ rights
More than 100,000 Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday night to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backtracking on a provision within...
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Lesbian activists claim Stonewall is erasing them in favor of “trans agenda”
The Lesbian Rights Alliance's anti-transgender stance was called "divisive, hateful and misguided"
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British doctor angry after being fired for refusing to use trans patients’ preferred pronouns
Doctor cited his religious beliefs as reason for using to use correct pronouns, in violation of British law
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HRC projects Chechnya’s anti-LGBTQ actions on Trump-Putin summit location in Helsinki
The slides on Finland's Presidential Palace called Chechnya's treatment of LGBTQ people "crimes against humanity"
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Survivor of Chechnya’s anti-gay purge is kidnapped by his own father
Zelimkhan Akhmadov's family has reportedly been encouraged -- or threatened -- to murder him as part of an "honor killing"
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Gay couple is publicly caned 86 times in Indonesia’s Aceh province
Victims were punished for violating Sharia law prohibitions on homosexuality
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‘Canadian Trump’ removes LGBTQ-inclusive sex education from Ontario schools
Doug Ford is replacing the pro-LGBTQ curriculm with an outdated one from 1998
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Over 200,000 sign petition to ban “abominable” Queer Festival in South Korea
Religious groups are saying the LGBTQ festival should not be held in the Seoul Plaza because it belongs "to all citizens"
