Either 69 or 73 countries have anti-gay laws
Human Rights Watch has published a valuable new resource focusing on 69 countries with anti-gay laws.
Appeal to Lebanon: Stop blockng LGBTI events
The U.N. should push Lebanon to rein in its security forces and end their repeated interference and crackdowns…
Gay arrests in Malawi: More mixed signals on gay rights
The southeast African country of Malawi remains torn about homosexuality — unwilling to repeal its anti-homosexuality law, but…
Cutting aid to Tanzania: It worked (somewhat)
Cutting off foreign aid to homophobic countries can work, but only as a weapon that’s used with discretion.…
Another Indonesian city outlaws gay sex
Indonesia has continued to cement its reputation as a hostile place to LGBTI+ people as the city of…
Russia: Threats, attacks disrupt gay family conference
Anti-gay threats and attacks forced the cancellation of most of a gay-friendly conference about inclusive families in Moscow…
Tunisia, stop searching phones and anuses; abolish anti-gay law
Tunisian authorities are confiscating and searching the phones of men they suspect of being gay and pressuring them…
Indonesia plunges deeper into anti-gay panic
A new wave of arrests demonstrates the rising influence of Indonesia’s anti-gay politicians and religious leaders.
Tanzania’s anti-gay purge vanished into thin air?
Many signs suggest that this week’s threatened roundup of gay Tanzanians was a nightmare that had vanished with…
Bomb threats in Russia, raid in Beirut; activists carry on
In Russia, anti-gay bomb threats failed to halt St. Petersburg’s QueerFest. In Lebanon, security officers raided an LGBT…