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This illustration of Algernon and Mo was created with the help of ChatGPT and PhotoShop.
Double your donation to help end 7-month homophobic imprisonment without trial
AIDS clinic in Mozambique (Photo courtesy of the UN)
Mozambique could see thousands dead from HIV due to USAID funding cuts
Tunisian LGBTQ rights protest.
Tunisia and Malaysia arrest dozens of queer people in escalating crackdowns
Flag of Bangladesh
Banker and professor charged with the murdering gay Bangladeshi electrician
The Oloffson Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before it was destroyed earlier this month (Christopher Miller photos courtesy of The New York TImes)
LGBTQ+ Haitians mourn the loss of Hotel Oloffson, an inclusive refuge
Senegal demands cancellation of LGBTQ event
In mid-June, Kyiv saw the first Equality March since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022. More than 1,500 people joined. (Anastasiia Shepielieva photo courtesy of DW)
LGBTQ+ soldiers fight for Ukraine and for respect
Winnie Byanyima, a Ugandan national and the global executive director of UNAIDS, is urging the United States to continue its support of Pepfar's fight against HIV / AIDS. (Photo courtesy of Eagle News)
UNAIDS chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by U.S. cuts that will mean millions more deaths
Employee of the LGBT bar Pace in custody in Russia. (Alexander Klimov photo courtesy of Ural56.ru)
Toll of Russia’s LGBT ‘extremism’ prosecutions: 101 convictions
Bangladesh third-gender person suffers arson attack
Queer couple’s ‘love-bomb’ campaign sparks backlash in Ghana
‘We don’t rent to people like you’: A trans woman’s search for a home in Nigeria
A vial of lenacapavir (Photo courtesy of Gilead Sciences)
U.S. aid cuts eliminate the prospect of defeating H.I.V. / AIDS soon
Article 230 of the Tunisian penal code provides for up to three years in prison for same-sex intimacy. (Illustration courtesy of HRW)
Queer people suffer double punishment in Tunisian prisons
The Southwest Asia and Northern Africa (SWANA) region
LGBTQ advocacy group creates online safety guide for Middle East and North Africa
Illustration of Bob was created with ChatGPT and PhotoShop.
Will you help Bob, whose gay love affair ended with betrayal and prison?