Asia

Rafiqul Islam (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Human rights activists protest killing of gay Bangladesh man
Tunisian LGBTQ rights protest.
Tunisia and Malaysia arrest dozens of queer people in escalating crackdowns
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Banker and professor charged with the murdering gay Bangladeshi electrician
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
Lesbian couple in India can form a family, judge rules
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In Bangladesh, third-gender citizen hospitalized after armed attack
Evan Anzoo, age 5, who died of HIV in South Sudan. (Nicholas Kristof photo courtesy of The New York TImes.)
Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m lying about the kids dying under Trump?
WorldPride is happening in Washington, D.C., from May 17 to June 8. (Photo courtesy of CBS and Getty)
Whose Pride is it, anyway?
Sarjis Alam of the National Citizens Party (Photo courtesy of The Report)
Bangladesh politician labels LGBTQ+ people ‘mentally ill,’ ‘cancer to society’
Report: Attacks on queer Bangladeshis have skyrocketed
Activists demand Malaysian city remove anti‑LGBT billboards
Nepali lesbian couple, as illustrated in the Kathmandu Post.
Lesbian couple in Nepal tried to record their marriage. Police jailed them.
Xulhaz Mannan (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
U.S. dismantles USAID memorial honoring Bangladeshi LGBTQ rights activist