Middle East / North Africa

Tunisian LBGT activists help Bouhdid Belhedi (C), the director of Shams Radio, the first LGBT radio in the Arab region, after a scuffle with police who came to disperse the protest in Tunis on Jan. 27, 2018. (Fethi Belaid photo courtesy of AFP)
Tunisian police block protest of anti-LGBT law
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
As LGBTI arrests mount, Egypt’s allies remain mute
Poster for the Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
Tunisia gets its first queer film festival
Scene from alleged Saudi "gay wedding" video (Photo courtesy of Twitter via the BBC)
Saudi Arabia police arrest men over ‘gay wedding’ video
Tunisia: LGBT online radio undaunted by 5,000 threats
The happiest and saddest stories of 2017
Iran: “It’s a great honor to violate homosexuals’ rights”
In their report “The Trap: Punishing Sexual Difference in Egypt,” activists call for an immediate end to the entrapment and persecution of gay and trans individuals and those perceived as such. (Click image to read the report.)
Egyptian activists: Anti-LGBT repression is getting worse
Egypt's Parliament (Photo courtesy fo the Alliance of Queer Egyptian Organizations.)
Boycott, video and more seek to block Egypt's anti-gay bill
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
'Wipe-Out-the-Queers' Bill would expand Egypt's crackdown
A religious appeal for an end to Egypt's anti-LGBT crackdown.
TweetStorm seeks end to Egypt's anti-LGBT arrests
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
Anti-LGBT arrests: 50+ groups blast Egypt repression
Tunisia drops anal tests, but not its anti-gay law
Rainbow flag displayed at the Sept. 22 Mashrou’ Leila concert in Cairo. (Photo courtesy of youm7.com)
Egypt outrage: 7 arrests for rainbow flag; but 274 others?
United Arab Emirates
Emirates, stop arresting people for their appearance
Salih, who was murdered in Kef, Tunisia (Photo courtesy of Kapitalis.com)
Protest over Tunisia's 20th homophobia-fueled murder