Africa

OutRight Action International’s Rashima Kwatra reviews the record of human rights work by Vitit Muntarbhorn, who has been tapped to fill a historic role created by the UN Human Rights Council this…

The anti-equality World Congress of Families has regional conferences scheduled in Belgrade, Serbia on September 16-18 and Nairobi, Kenya on September 23-25 each featuring an array of speakers from…

Tuesday, May 17 was commemorated as International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, or IDAHOT. Among the many projects undertaken: The Bedayaa Organization for LGBTQI in the Nile…

… and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap.

Plus, reports from Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, and more in this week’s Global LGBT Recap.

International Activism and Advocacy The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released “ Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human…

International Human Rights Day is Thursday, December 10. On Saturday, December 12, OutRight International (formerly IGLHRC) is holding a global activist gathering in New York, OutSummit: Pushing the…

Today, Pope Francis arrives in Nairobi, Kenya. After two days in Kenya, he will travel to Uganda, and then to the Central African Republic. The Pope’s message of care for those on the margins and his…

Mormon Church: Policies Targeting Same-Sex Couples, Children Spark Mass Exodus We wrote in the last recap about the Mormon Church’s new policy declaring married same-sex couples apostates and banning…

Novelist Marlon James became the first Jamaican author to be awarded the Man Booker Prize. “However,” writes Joe Williams at Pink News, “a number of Jamaican commentators have highlighted that while…