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Increasingly desperate, Haiti and its LGBTQ+ citizens face U.S. aid cuts

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Map of the 65 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 legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them. 
In a reversal, homosexuality is now illegal in 65 nations
21 varieties of traditional African homosexuality
Death penalty, ex-gay therapy, 100s of prisoners, the Commonwealth, more

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Revealing the background of the Erasing 76 Crimes news site and its editor
Word cloud showing the names of the 46 prisoners for whom Project Not Alone has won early release.
Readers’ donations have freed a total of 46 victims of African homophobia
After their release, Yane and Hage pose for photos but hide their faces in order to avoid anti-lesbian violence. (Photo by Steeves Winner)
Readers’ donations set free two imprisoned lesbians in Cameroon

Africa

Anti-LGBT arrests rising in Uganda, new report finds
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
Children helped by World Vision (Photo from the World Vision website)
Pro- and anti-LGBTQ Christian charities are gutted as Trump slashes funds
Flavia Zalwango, programs director at HRAPF
Uganda NGOs denounce impact of USAID cuts on human rights

Caribbean

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Increasingly desperate, Haiti and its LGBTQ+ citizens face U.S. aid cuts

Trans rights protest IN Washington, D.C., in 2023. (Photo courtesy of the ACLU)

Transphobia in the U.S.: ‘What used to be whispered is now said out loud.’

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a newly signed executive order on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)

Trump’s reactionary orders harm trans and intersex people worldwide, says ILGA World

Europe

Clubgoers detained by Russian security forces (Photo courtesy of LGBTQ Nation)
Russia is creating a database of LGBTQ+ citizens, report says
Andrei Kotov in custody in Moscow (Photo courtesy of X @Mediazzzona via The Advocate)
Russian man accused of ‘LGBT extremism’ dies in custody
U.S. President Donald Trump displays a newly signed executive order on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
Trump’s reactionary orders harm trans and intersex people worldwide, says ILGA World
Hungary's homophobic Prime Minister Viktor Orban: losing support? ( Elekes Andor photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
2024 LGBTQ rights global update: Some progress, some setbacks in Europe

Asia

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

Middle East/North Africa

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
‘An alarming setback for human rights in Tunisia’
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
Website tracks legal rights for trans people in Middle East and North Africa

Americas

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Increasingly desperate, Haiti and its LGBTQ+ citizens face U.S. aid cuts

Trump’s cuts feel ‘more profound, more brutal and a purely ideological decision’

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
Children helped by World Vision (Photo from the World Vision website)
Pro- and anti-LGBTQ Christian charities are gutted as Trump slashes funds
Flavia Zalwango, programs director at HRAPF
Uganda NGOs denounce impact of USAID cuts on human rights

Oceania

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’

Map of LGBT Rights in Oceania — BLUE: Same-sex marriage legal and sexual orientation/gender identity discrimination prohibited; PURPLE: Foreign same-sex marriages recognized, no discrimination protections;GREEN: Sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; YELLOW: Sodomy illegal; YELLOW with GREEN outline: Sodomy illegal, but some sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; RED: Constitution bans same-sex marriage, but homosexuality is legal, no discrimination protections; GREY: Sodomy legal, same-sex marriage not permitted, no discrimination protections

2024 LGBTQ rights global update: Progress and reversals in Oceania and Australia

In a tradition that's unique to Vanuatu, women in the South Pacific island nation make music in the water. (Photo courtesy of RitmosGlobales.com)

Anti-gay moves in South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu