Transgender protection bill advances in Pakistan
Pakistan’s National Assembly this week approved a bill to provide sweeping protections for trans people against harassment and…
India: Supreme Court moves toward action on anti-LGBT law
India’s Supreme Court has challenged the country’s ministries of health and justice to defend Section 377, the colonial-era…
Good news for No. 1 victim of Malaysia’s sodomy law
Four years of politically motivated manipulation of Malaysia’s anti-gay law seems to be nearing an end. The country’s…
Homophobe of the Week: whipping advocate Irwandi Yusuf
Indonesian politician Irwandi Yusuf is the recipient of the Homophobe of the Week Award for deciding to continue…
Indonesia puts anti-gay bill on hold
Indonesian legislators have put on hold a bill to make both consensual gay sex and extramarital sex a…
Protest over Bangladeshi failure to solve 2016 murders
Bangladeshi gay community members gathered in London yesterday to protest the police failure to make any arrests or…
India project aims for trans visibility
In India, the Aravani Art Project is employing trans women to paint murals in public spaces across the country in…
Pessimism: LGBT communities fear criminalization in Indonesia
Indonesians’ increasingly anti-LGBT attitudes have many activists worried that the country will soon pass a law criminalizing both…
A more-tolerant India in the news and on film
India is showing signs of growing tolerance as its Supreme Court deliberates over whether to overturn Section 377,…
U.N. official to Indonesia: Don’t outlaw gay sex
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein spoke out against “hateful” anti-LGBT rhetoric and…