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HIV advocates pile up hundred of mock coffins in front of the U.S. State Department. (Photo courtesy of Pink News / AFP / Getty)

Activists stack 200 coffins at U.S. state dept. to protest deadly AIDS relief cuts

The message: People will die without the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief .

YouTube ‘humorist’ Greg Toussaint convicted of incitement to homophobia
Martinique armed robbery verdict ignores homophobia

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Revealing the background of the Erasing 76 Crimes news site and its editor

Africa

YouTube ‘humorist’ Greg Toussaint convicted of incitement to homophobia
Murder of trans woman shakes Ivory Coast
Queer Place Madagascar is one of a handful of organizations working to promote acceptance of LGBT people in the African island nation
Madagascar: Activism remains difficult due to sex and gender taboos
About 50 refugees seeking asylum in Europe died last year when this rickety boat capsized during their northward journey across the Mediterranean Sea. They were a few of at least 25,500 deaths and disappearances during such refugee crossings since 2014 according to the UN.(Photo courtesy of AP and AfricaNews)
Queer Cameroon asylum seeker dies in Mediterranean crossing

Caribbean

Martinique armed robbery verdict ignores homophobia

Queers and racialized people ‘don’t have the privilege of hiding’, artist says

French Caribbean influencer pursues an anti-LGBT career on YouTube

Europe

YouTube ‘humorist’ Greg Toussaint convicted of incitement to homophobia
About 50 refugees seeking asylum in Europe died last year when this rickety boat capsized during their northward journey across the Mediterranean Sea. They were a few of at least 25,500 deaths and disappearances during such refugee crossings since 2014 according to the UN.(Photo courtesy of AP and AfricaNews)
Queer Cameroon asylum seeker dies in Mediterranean crossing
Queers and racialized people ‘don’t have the privilege of hiding’, artist says
Anti-LGBTQ+ activists clash with police as they try to interfere with a gathering of the LGBTQ+ community for the Tbilisi Pride Festival in Tbilisi in July 2023. (Photo courtesy of AFP via Getty Images)
Bill in Georgia’s parliament would ban Pride marches and rainbow flags

Asia

Anti-LGBTQ+ activists clash with police as they try to interfere with a gathering of the LGBTQ+ community for the Tbilisi Pride Festival in Tbilisi in July 2023. (Photo courtesy of AFP via Getty Images)
Bill in Georgia’s parliament would ban Pride marches and rainbow flags
Bangladesh activists demand justice after two queer men are attacked
District Judge Amir H. Ali
Prospects for reviving U.S. foreign aid grow even darker
Leaders of new National Citizen Party appear on stage at the party's launch. (Photo courtesy of the Daily Star)
Bangladesh: New political party seeks reform but ousts member for being gay

Middle East/North Africa

Influencer says ‘detransition’ made her straight, male and anti-gay
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts (Photo courtesy of AP and the Los Angeles Times)
Update: Delay of court rejection of Trump on foreign aid; possible appeal of refugee ruling
District Judge Amir H. Ali
Two courts reject Trump’s foreign aid freeze and refugee ban
Scene lasf month at famine relief program in Gaza (Hatem Khaled photo courtesy of Reuters)
Millions learn that U.S. promise to continue life-saving foreign aid was false

Americas

HIV advocates pile up hundred of mock coffins in front of the U.S. State Department. (Photo courtesy of Pink News / AFP / Getty)

Activists stack 200 coffins at U.S. state dept. to protest deadly AIDS relief cuts

The message: People will die without the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief .

Martinique armed robbery verdict ignores homophobia
How Trinidad lost the right to gay sex
Supporters of LGBT rights demonstrated in 2018 outside Trinidad's Hall of Justice. Jason Jones, who filed the original suit to overturn Trinidad's anti-gay laws, is in the center.
Tally of nations with anti-gay laws edges back up to 66

Oceania

Metroweekly used this photo to illustrate its article about the Feb. 1 police raid in Indonesia (Zeferli photo courtesy of 123rf and Metroweekly)

Indonesia police arrest 56 men at Jakarta ‘gay sex party’

Map of LGBT Rights in Oceania — BLUE: Same-sex marriage legal and sexual orientation/gender identity discrimination prohibited; PURPLE: Foreign same-sex marriages recognized, no discrimination protections;GREEN: Sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; YELLOW: Sodomy illegal; YELLOW with GREEN outline: Sodomy illegal, but some sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; RED: Constitution bans same-sex marriage, but homosexuality is legal, no discrimination protections; GREY: Sodomy legal, same-sex marriage not permitted, no discrimination protections

2024 LGBTQ rights global update: Progress and reversals in Oceania and Australia

In a tradition that's unique to Vanuatu, women in the South Pacific island nation make music in the water. (Photo courtesy of RitmosGlobales.com)

Anti-gay moves in South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu