LGBT in the Persian Gulf: Hiding is crucial
Arbitrary detention of LGBT people, laws against same-sex intimacy, social prejudice and hate speech in the media are…
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.
Tunisia: Engineer loses job, faces trial for old videos on his phone
A Tunisian man who worked in Dubai for the past five years lost his job and now faces…
Emirates, stop arresting people for their appearance
The United Arab Emirates should stop arbitrarily arresting transgender, gay, and gender non-conforming people on the grounds of…
Egypt, ‘one of the world’s biggest jailers of gay men’
Widespread official persecution of LGBTI people continues in Egypt, as described in this excerpt from a Public Radio…
Arab LGBTQ activists in U.S., Canada aim to rally diaspora
A group of Independent Arab LGBTQ activists need your support. Located in the United States & Canada, the…
Death penalty for gay sex in 10 to 14 nations (update)
By Colin Stewart Ten nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex…
LGBTI rights activism: Mostly hidden in Middle East, N. Africa
Public recognition of the human rights of LGBTI people remains rare in the many Middle Eastern and North…
Four murders of gay men in Yemen
The gay community in the Yemeni port city Aden has reported four murders of gay men there since…
For 1 million people, blog unmasks anti-LGBTI violence
More than a million people have visited the Erasing 76 Crimes blog since its launch in March 2012.…