Category: Around the World
The UK government has reduced funding for a significant HIV prevention fund helping to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria around the world. The move to slash funding follows last year’s pledge of £1.4 billion to The Global Fund, which has now been reduced to £1 billion. All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on HIV and AIDS has […]
Yulia Alyoshina – Russia’s first trans politician, has announced that she will be stepping down from politics, explaining her “difficult decision” to retire was due to the nation’s expansion of its “LGBT propaganda” law. Alyoshina, who is a member of the Civic Initiative party made the announcement at her party’s head office in the Altai […]
LGBTQ+ bars in the hometown of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer have banned costumes depicting the serial killer. Dahmer, who murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, has come back into the public spotlight, recently following the release of the Netflix drama series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – leaving many concerned […]
The anti LGBTQ+ incumbent lost to socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made a stunning return to the Brazilians Presidency just three years after being released from jail. With 100% of precidents reporting, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has beaten incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro 50.9% to 49.1% The President […]
Same-sex marriage in Mexico has officially been legalised, with the legislation being voted into law by all of the nation’s state parliaments. Tamaulipas became the final state to vote in favour of the law following the states of Durango, Guerrero, the State of Mexico, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Yucatán moving to allow equal marriage earlier in […]
A group of LGBTQ+ climbers have conquered Vladimir Putin Peak while planting both a rainbow flag and a Ukraine flag to protest against Putin’s anti-LGBTQ+ and pro-war regime. The recent protest by the group known as ‘Gay Climbers’ follows two other Russian climbers’ protest in response to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, where the […]
LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was arrested in Qatar while staging a one-man protest against Qatar’s criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people – just 26 days before the start of the football World Cup. Tatchell’s protest, which was the first-ever public LGBTQ+ protest in Qatar, took place outside the National Museum of Qatar in […]
Qatar continues to face global condemnation from LGBTQ+ rights groups for their treatment of LGBTQ+ people ahead of the nation hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. According to a new Human Rights Watch report, security police in Qatar has continued to arrest and harass individuals because of their sexuality and gender identity, with victims telling […]