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Russia: Anti-Gay persecution in Chechnya generates international protest International attention and protest continued to be focused on reports of anti-gay detentions, torture and violence in Muslim…

The Global Alliance for LGBT Education has protested the selection of Saudi Arabia as the site for a forum on youth engagement in social change: The forum, “Youth and their Social Impact”, is supposed…

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…

Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag design that has become a symbol of the LGBT movement worldwide, died on March 31 in New York City. March 31 was also International Transgender Day of…

ILGA notes that some women in more than 50 countries went on strike on Wednesday’s International Women’s Day: “We demand that our lives and labour be treated with dignity for they form the basis of…

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…

For all his talk of protecting religious freedom, one of the First Amendment’s five sacred rights, it’s taken President Donald Trump less than one week to start kicking the legs out from under each of…

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…

“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 CIA has now concluded that Russian intervention was designed not just to undermine faith in American democratic processes, but also to tip the election specifically in Trump’s favor.