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Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.
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Ukraine moves closer to enacting a law against anti-LGBTI bias

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Africa

Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of X)
Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.
Ghana president pledges to sign repressive anti-LGBTQ bill
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The new U.S. global health plan calls for assigning staff in each U.S. foreign mission whose job would be watching for disease outbreaks and responding to them within 72 hours so they would not reach the United States.
HIV services cut back in America’s new global health strategy

Caribbean

Non-binary and transgender young people, expelled from the Dominican Republic and welcomed at the premises of the Heritage for the Protection of Human Rights (HPDH) association in Ouanaminthe (Photo by @merlinjean)

Queer Haitian migrants need support amid mass deportations

Lovonova’s unique Pride products are a Guadeloupean dream come true

Self-portrait by Adeline Rapon (Instagram: @adelinerapon).

Martinique: Photographer Adeline Rapon celebrates Afro-Caribbean queer visibility

Europe

Costume party in Tomsk, Siberia. (Photo courtesy of Novaya Gazeta Europe)
Russia’s police hunt for gays, but find clowns
Photographer recording the World Health Summit.
Lawmakers from across the globe meet to fight HIV/AIDS
As Europe’s AIDS rate climbs, LGBT+ immigrant advocates seek to boost use of PrEP
Archbishop Sarah Mullally (Alberto Pezzali photo courtesy of AP)
Archbishop of Uganda protests appointment of LGBTQ+ ally to lead Anglican Church

Asia

Ershad Halim (Photo courtesy of the University of Dhaka)
Gay teacher at Dhaka University pleads innocent after arrest on sex harassment charges
Costume party in Tomsk, Siberia. (Photo courtesy of Novaya Gazeta Europe)
Russia’s police hunt for gays, but find clowns
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Kazakhstan parliament passes ‘Anti-LGBT Propaganda’ law
Hijras crying after being physically assaulted by an organised group while returning from the Boalkhali Police Station in Chittagong, after submitting a complaint against the same group for demanding extortion money. (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Bangladesh police arrest dozens of third-gender people

Middle East/North Africa

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More than 70 arrested in Tunisia’s anti-LGBT crackdown
Ibtissame (Betty) Lachgar (Photo courtesy of Chnge.org)
Morocco upholds 30-month sentence for activist’s blasphemous T-shirt
Image from Mawaleh in 2012
Supporters of LGBTQ Syrians aim to revive Mawaleh, ‘a defiant glitterbomb of resistance’
Map of Middle East and North Africa
Trans people face violence across Middle East and North Africa, new report finds

Americas

Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of X)

Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.

U.S.-based Family Watch fosters the homophobic climate where anti-gay legislation thrives.

The new U.S. global health plan calls for assigning staff in each U.S. foreign mission whose job would be watching for disease outbreaks and responding to them within 72 hours so they would not reach the United States.
HIV services cut back in America’s new global health strategy
Photographer recording the World Health Summit.
Lawmakers from across the globe meet to fight HIV/AIDS
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Kenyan LGBTQ+ safe houses ‘overwhelmed’ as cuts hit refugee camps

Oceania

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Outright launches important reports on LGBTQ rights in every country

Pride marcher in New Zealand poses with the flag of the tiny island nation Niue. (Claire-Eastham-Farrelly photo courtesy of NZTV)

Niue: Tally of nations with anti-homosexuality laws drops to 65

WorldPride is happening in Washington, D.C., from May 17 to June 8. (Photo courtesy of CBS and Getty)

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