Activists urge U.S. to accept 500 LGBT Syrian refugees
The U.S.-based LGBTI asylum and refugee organization ORAM is pleading for the United States to reserve spaces for…
Nigerian activists protest harmful, flawed N.Y. Times coverage
Nigerian LGBTI rights activists have challenged the accuracy of the Dec. 20 New York Times article titled “U.S.…
U.N. session on LGBTI killings by ISIS — ‘historic’ or mistake?
The U.N. Security Council today held “a historic meeting” — “the first Security Council meeting on LGBT rights,”…
Anti-gay Kenyans fear upcoming Obama visit
Kenya was already in a tizzy about LGBTI rights even before people’s attention turned to the upcoming visit…
LGBTI news briefs: Russia, Jamaica, Egypt, Nigeria, India, more
News briefs about countries with anti-gay laws, excerpted from the Equal Eyes recap of the world’s LGBTI-related news:…
Jamaica: What I want from Obama on my birthday
I am thrilled that President Obama is visiting Jamaica on April 9, which by a very happy coincidence…
United States takes action against Gambia, South Sudan
BuzzFeed’s J. Lester Feder reported late today that the United States has dropped The Gambia from the African…
Seeking African dialogue on behalf of LGBT Zambians
Chalwe Charles Mwansa, a human rights defender and LGBT activist from Zambia, says that his country, and other…
Why smile? Death by stoning for gay men in Mauritania
Romney and the religious right’s anti-LGBT foreign policy
This is an except from commentary by the Rev. Canon Albert Ogle that appeared in the San Diego…