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At People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog this week, I posted highlights of how the U.S. Religious Right made life more difficult and dangerous for the world’s LGBT people in 2016…

LGBT news from around the world

“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders—some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves—will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”

The International Organization for the Family rolled out its “Cape Town Declaration” in South Africa Friday, reaffirming the “critical role” of traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilization.

APCOM produced an animated video about the Yogyakarta Principles, which have provided a foundation for the promotion of LGTBTI human rights for 10 years. World AIDS Day was commemorated on December 1…

Cuba’s long-time dictator Fidel Castro’s death was both celebrated and mourned.

Backlash At UN & Elsewhere; Religious Leaders Rally Against Marriage Equality in Taiwan & El Salvador.

A Trump administration could hold serious consequences for the entire global human rights framework.

Indonesia: Arrests Reflect Impact of Ongoing Anti-LGBT Panic Two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested after people complained after they posted a photo of them kissing on Facebook. Religious and…

Mexico: Anti-marriage marches stir clash between church officials and proponents of secular state A march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of…