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Social conservatives from around the world gathered in Brussels last week to ask each other, “How far can we get?” The meeting was convened by the Political Network for Values, which provides a…

Christian LGBT bloggers David and Constantino Khalaf (Modern Kinship on Patheos) have published what they call “ The Ultimate Resource Guide for LGBTQ Christian and Allies.” OutRight Action…

In conjunction with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference, the University of California Press blog republished “ Why Do Some Countries Disapprove of Homosexuality? Money, Democracy and…

As the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) got underway last Monday (it runs from March 13-24), the US State Department announced that joining the official US delegation would be…

Politico reported this week that the Trump administration is considering pulling the USA out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council last year created the UN’s first…

Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN independent expert charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers…

February 6 was International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. US-based anti-LGBT activist Brian Brown traveled to Russia to build support for his new International Organization for…

Many LGBT advocates protested U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order barring refugees from entering the country as well as immigrants from seven Muslim majority countries, an order some…

As the Donald Trump administration took power in Washington, D.C., amid some uncertainty about the stance it will take toward LGBT people, Human Rights First published a video about the importance of…

Human Rights Watch released its 2017 World Report, in which the group reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries, which a focus on the “dangerous rise of populism” and global attacks on…