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LGBTQ activists march in a Pride parade despite a ban by local authorities in Ankara on June 20, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Japan Times / Reuters)
Turkiye outsources its anti-LGBTQ censorship
Anti-LGBT countries get to guard human rights for the U.N.
Ho Chi Minh Islam (Photo courtesy of X/Twitter)
Bangladesh think tank excludes trans activist from diversity panel amid pressure
Trans woman Daniela Fuentes, deported to the Central African Republic, where she has no connection and doesn't speak the language. (Photo courtesy of AP)
Trump deports trans woman to African nation where she’s at risk
These are some of the accounts blocked as "promoters of LGBT" by Turkey, according to the Turkish Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD)
Turkiye blocks news outlets and social media in widening anti-LGBT crackdown
Edwin Bolaji Deen (left) and his partner, George Reginald Freeman Browne, in happier times. (Photo courtesy of Daybreak Newspaper)
Sierra Leone activists reach Spain, fleeing arrest and death threats
Woman in Mozambique (Steve Evans photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Caught between silence and visibility: LGBTQ+ life in Mozambique
In October 2025, Indonesian police arrested 34 men for allegedly holding a "gay sex party" at a hotel in Surabaya, the country's second largest city. (Juni Kriswanto photo courtesy of LGBTQ Nation / AFP /Getty Images)
Indonesia’s top Muslim body wants to replace ‘LGBT’ with term that includes sexual abuse
Publiity photo for "Living in Colors" (Photo courtesy of Prism House Studio)
Gay Nigerian web series returns to YouTube despite government threats
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Courtesy of the institution's Facebook page)
Proposed Ukraine law would expand ban on anti-LGBTQ discrimination
Bangladesh activists launch petition to end anti-LGBTQ discrimination
Flag of Cameroon
Online and on the street, Cameroon observers cheer anti-gay attack
Cameroon police arrest No. 1 suspect in murder of popular gay man
Memorial image for Paul Gérard. The French text states "Rest in Peace. A unique personality. Your memory will live in us forever."
Mourning and mockery are Cameroon’s response to murder of gay man
Alesi Diana Denise, left, and Wendy Faith were arrested in February with their social media pictures like this one, above, cited as evidence against them (Photo courtesy of The Guardian, which noted that the photo was supplied to them and may have been digitally enhanced at source)
Ugandans Wendy and Denise speak out after imprisonment for kissing
Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH) (Photo courtesy of custech.edu.ng)
Nigerian college expels two students for homosexual activity