Asia

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
Kaleidoscope Trust photo accompanying article about Botswana.
USAID cuts have dire impact on LGBTQ services in Nepal and Botswana
Lesbian teenagers Arohi and Ritu (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Bangladesh lesbian couple taken to police by their families
Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2016 (David Becker photo courtesy of Reuters)
Try to grasp it: 6.3 million deaths from AIDS because of U.S. cuts
Scene of Khulna, Bangladesh. (Photo courtesy of the World Health Organization)
Lesbian ‘Lady Biker’ arrested and imprisoned in Bangladesh
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
Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5 protest against the shutdown of the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID. (Demetrius Freeman photo courtesy of The Washington Post)
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s foreign aid freeze, but the freeze continues
Participants at the ILGA-Asia 2025 conference in Nepal.
US aid cuts loom heavily over ILGA-Asia conference
A patient and the medical machinery keeping him alive. (Blake Farmer photo courtesy of WPLN News / Oregon Live)
Commentary: Cutting off USAID is like unplugging life support
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