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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
District Judge Amir H. Ali
Two courts reject Trump’s foreign aid freeze and refugee ban
Cross-dressed attendees on the red carpet at the AJP music competition received harsh online criticism for their attire. (Photos courtesy of TRP)
Malaysian fashion influencers inflame critics by cross-dressing at music competition
U.S. President Donald Trump reversed a decade and a half of support for advancing the safety, equality, and inclusion of LGBTIQ people.
Report: LGBTIQ people are particularly vulnerable to U.S. aid cuts
Bouquet at the door of the USAID foreign aid agency, which the Trump administration is shutting down. (Photo courtesy of AP)
Judge orders resumption of U.S. foreign aid
Man displays a PrEP pill (Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins)
U.S. halts anti-HIV drugs for LGBTQ people abroad, risking deadly AIDS rebound
Transgender activist Shila (Photo courtesy of The Chittagong Hill Tracts)
Bangladesh trans activist brutally murdered
Dancers in Virginia take part in CWS's 2023 celebration of refugees' contributions. (Daniel Lin photo courtesy of the Daily News-Record)
Refugee aid groups sue to unfreeze Trump’s pause on refugee admissions
Metroweekly used this photo to illustrate its article about the Feb. 1 police raid in Indonesia (Zeferli photo courtesy of 123rf and Metroweekly)
Indonesia police arrest 56 men at Jakarta ‘gay sex party’
Anti-HIV program in Malawi teaches patients how to protect themselves with antiretroviral medications. (Robbie Flick photo courtesy of Creative Commons license.)
American-made catastrophe: Growing toll of losses and deaths from USAID demolition
Asst. Professor Hafizul Islam
Bangladesh group condemns anti-gay discrimination at Islamic University, Kushtia
Gay tourists pictured on the GoThaiBeFree website, which promotes gay tourism in Thailand.
Uganda’s anti-gay law has huge costs; Thailand’s equal marriage pays dividends
Protesters outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., demand a reversal of Trump administration moves to eliminate foreign aid and the agency that oversees it. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
A catastrophe made in the U.S.A. — the deadly foreign aid cutoff