global LGBTQ+ community

The amendment follows a July ruling in the country’s highest court, which determined that Slovenia’s law defining marriage as a union between a man and woman was discriminatory against same-sex individuals.

Lenny Emson speaks to GO about his team trapped inside Kyiv as Russian forces close in on the city.

The country will resettle “an unspecified number” of LGBTQ+ Afghan refugees sometime in the new year, Reuters reports.

“It is a historic day for the LGBTQ struggle in Israel and for Israeli society as a whole,” said Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.

LGBT Rights Advocacy China announced on WeChat that it was closing indefinitely, and has shut down its social media accounts.

Switzerland is one of the last countries in Western Europe to legalize same-sex marriage.

“I am really moved,” said activist Bart Staszewski. 

“[T]he country said we can’t sign our yes on paper, so we tattooed it on our skin,” wrote Amara on social media.

If the amendment is approved, Cuba would join the ranks of other Latin American countries, including Costa Rica and Colombia, that have legalized same-sex marriage. 

“With the Taliban’s takeover of the country, LGBTQ+ Afghans face the prospect of violent death,” the letter states.

After listening to the message, a smiling Boari told reporters, “This is Sanne, my girlfriend.” 

“Conversion practices have no place in modern New Zealand,” said Justice Minister Kris Faafoi. “They are based on the false belief that any person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is broken and in need of fixing.” 

“LGBT people in Japan, including athletes, are entitled to equal protection under the law, but currently there are a very limited number of openly out professional athletes in the country, and many remain in the closet from fear and stigma,” said J-ALL director Yuri Igarashi.

Rest In Peace Lesko Lashkarava.

“They censored us without warning. All of us have been wiped out.” 

“War was declared against civil society and democratic values.”

“Vicky’s case is emblematic of the broader violence that the LGBT population in Honduras suffer, and have suffered, for more than a decade.”

“Rainbow is not a crime — discrimination is.”

The Special Envoy “will play a vital role in leading implementation of the Presidential Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World.”

“We cannot condone a situation where people attend a workshop on rights only to be arrested and have those very human rights they were learning about be trampled upon.”

“We acknowledge the limitations and barriers but we know it’s going to get better, that is what fuels our fight.”

Equal Ground is Sri Lanka’s oldest non profit LGBTQ+ advocacy group, raising awareness of rights and visibility in a country that officially offers no protections for queer and gender non-conforming people.

“There are thousands of ‘Shishir’ waiting for an opportunity to shine. I hope that this will make their journey easier.”

According to a 2019 Social Perception Survey on LGBT+ Rights in Nigeria by TIERS, 60% of Nigerians will not accept a family member who is LGBT.