Human rights groups have called for an urgent ban on “cruel” anal examinations used in homosexuality prosecutions in Uzbekistan. The country is one of two former Soviet Union states that still bans same-sex sexual activity, and authorities use the examinations…
Although bars across the country closed last year due to the impact of lockdowns, queer, and especially lesbian bars have been shuttering since their high point in the late 1980s (when an estimated 200 lesbian bars existed in the country)…
The two most popular TV channels in Russia have mocked LGBTQ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics, calling them “disgusting” and “perverts” and an “abomination,” the BBC reports. Especially singled out were gold medal diver Tom Daley, who is gay, and…
An anti-LGBTQ Republican who mocked COVID-19 vaccines and spread misinformation about the pandemic has died after contracting the virus. H. Scott Apley, a first-term council member in Dickinson, Tex., and member of Texas’ State Republican Executive Committee, died Wednesday morning…
The damning report finding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo violated the law by sexually harassing as many as 11 women on his staff has ensnared the president of the nation’s leading LGBTQ advocacy group, Alphonso David of the Human Rights Campaign…
Judicial nominations announced Thursday by President Joe Biden include two lesbians with long records of human rights work. Beth Robinson, the first out justice on the Vermont Supreme Court, is a nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team may have suffered a historic loss to Canada this week, but the team’s resolve proved to be unshaken. The four-time Olympic gold medalists will once again make their appearance on the podium, this time claiming…
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