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Chris Martin of Coldplay (Photo courtesy of Pride.com)
Indonesia: Anti-Coldplay protesters accuse band of ‘LGBT propaganda’
Initiative for Equality and Non-Discrimination Executive Director Essy Adhiambo. (Courtesy photo)
Global LGBT activists gather for Human Rights Campaign summit in DC
Transgender drummer Babul Mridha (Photo courtesy of shahanur.blogspot.com)
JusticeMakers Bangladesh calls for justice after transgender person murdered
31 Commonwealth nations still have laws against gay sex
Map of the 67 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known efforts to remove them. 
Number of nations with laws against gay sex falls to 66
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (Photo courtesy of Bloomberg/Getty)
Malaysia bans rainbow watches; prime minister warns against harassment
Abul Asad, the editor of the Daily Sangram, was arrested in 2019 for an article declaring that an executed Islamist killer was a martyr. (Mahmud Hossain Opu photo courtesy of Al Jazeera)
Human rights activists denounce homophobic Bangladeshi newspaper
International legal advocates urge Bangladesh to protect human rights lawyer
Golam Kibria, a gay school teacher, was allegedly murdered by Islamic extremists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 20.
Activists call for justice after gay man murdered in Bangladesh
LGBTQ fears grow in Malaysia as Islamists shatter reform hopes
LGBT Afghans fled from the homphobic brutality of the Taliban, but now are stuck in Pakistan, seeking asylum elsewhere. (Illustration courtesy of HRW / Outright International)
LGBTQ Afghans who fled from the Taliban are stuck in Pakistan
Bangladesh: Appeal for change after trans woman’s murder
The 1975 (Photo courtesy of AlJazeerah/Reuters)
Malaysia: LGBTQ advocates hope to limit backlash from British band’s pro-gay stunt
Same-sex kiss cancels Malaysia festival, days after cancellation of Indonesia conference
Protesters hold up signs prior to passage of a new Indonesian criminal code that will ban sex outside marriage, cohabitation between unmarried couples, insulting the president, and expressing views counter to the national ideology, outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 5, 2022. (Willy Kurniawan photo courtesy of Reuters)
Asian LGBT activists cancel Indonesia conference after threats
Anti-gay Bangladesh group seeks ban on LGBT rights activist