Americas

Iran, captained by Alireza Jahanbakhsh (pictured), is scheduled to face Egypt in what's set to be a pride match in Seattle at the FIFA World Cup. (Etsuo Hara photo courtesy of ABC / Getty)
Iran and Egypt protest World Cup match scheduled amid Pride celebrations
Saint Lucia carnival scene (Photo courtesy of Saint Lucia Tourist Authority)
St. Lucia election mirrors an increasing acceptance of island’s LGBTQ community
Word cloud showing the names (pseudonyms) of the 56 prisoners for whom Project Not Alone has won early release.
Readers’ donations have freed a total of 56 victims of African homophobia
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Imprisoned gay Nigerian goes free, thanks to readers’ donations
Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of X)
Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.
The new U.S. global health plan calls for assigning staff in each U.S. foreign mission whose job would be watching for disease outbreaks and responding to them within 72 hours so they would not reach the United States.
HIV services cut back in America’s new global health strategy
Photographer recording the World Health Summit.
Lawmakers from across the globe meet to fight HIV/AIDS
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Kenyan LGBTQ+ safe houses ‘overwhelmed’ as cuts hit refugee camps
Non-binary and transgender young people, expelled from the Dominican Republic and welcomed at the premises of the Heritage for the Protection of Human Rights (HPDH) association in Ouanaminthe (Photo by @merlinjean)
Queer Haitian migrants need support amid mass deportations
As Europe’s AIDS rate climbs, LGBT+ immigrant advocates seek to boost use of PrEP
Archbishop Sarah Mullally (Alberto Pezzali photo courtesy of AP)
Archbishop of Uganda protests appointment of LGBTQ+ ally to lead Anglican Church
NYC mayoral front runner under fire over backing from Uganda homophobe
Graham Linehan (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Transgender victims of hate speech deserve protection, not more hate
Pastor Martin Ssempa (Photo courtesy of the Monitor)
Ugandan anti-LGBTQ pastor uses Charlie Kirk murder to sell books
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