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Photographer Robin Hammond has launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #WhereLoveIsIllegal to document through captioned portraits the stories of LGBT people from around the world who are…

Africa: Religious leaders criticize Obama comments on LGBT human rights A story from the Catholic News Agency rounds up critical commentary from members of the church hierarchy in response to U.S…

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

A new survey from Catholics for Choice on the opinions of Catholic millennials as regards doctrinal issues might make the church’s traditionalists want to brace themselves. But its findings are also…

Last Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn remaining state laws banning same-sex couples from getting married generated apocalyptic responses from America’s Religious Right and their…

Mexico: Catholic bishops perform anti-marriage-equality exorcism At conservative journal First Things, intern Matthew Young contrasts the “weak” opposition from Irish church leaders to the marriage…

Vatican: Pope will meet married gay activist; warns against “secularism and relativism” A Paraguayan LGBT organization announced that it has received and accepted an invitation to meet with Pope…

Ireland is the most beautiful paradox. We have a centuries-long tradition of hospitality to the stranger, yet we have been pretty terrible at resolving our differences with each other. (Until, that is…

On the first day of June, celebrated as Pride month in many places, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for all countries to provide legal protections for same-sex…

The big news of the week was Irish voters’ overwhelming “yes” vote on a proposal to add marriage equality to the country’s constitution. The lopsided nature of the vote in heavily Catholic Ireland –…