LGBT social movements

A demonstrator holds a sign as people gather outside the European Union institutions to rally in solidarity with Poland's LGBT community, in Brussels, Aug. 19, 2020.

Polish activists fight against anti-LGBT movement

LGBTQ

Poland is considered the worst country in the European Union in terms of gay rights.

A neon sign saying "The Stonewall Inn" shines out a window.

Since Stonewall, LGBTQ advocates ‘don’t have to build everything from scratch’

LGBTQ
LaLa Zannell, a New York-based transgender rights activist, poses outside The Stonewall Inn in New York, U.S., May 30, 2019.

Forsaken transgender pioneers recognized 50 years after Stonewall

LGBTQ
Members of LGSM take part in the Pride ‘85 march.

‘Prejudice can’t survive proximity:’ The four words at the heart of ‘Pride’

Culture
Thousands of Jamaicans hold a demonstration against the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Half Way Tree, Kingston.

Jamaica’s anti-gay protesters are trying to duck the ‘homophobic’ label

Lifestyle & Belief
People sing the Russian national anthem while raising rainbow flags and a Russian flag  at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium

‘You’re gay, so it’s normal that you were attacked’

Lifestyle & Belief

Homophobia in Russia is growing more violent, in part because American evangelists have turned their attention to combating gay rights overseas, says Christopher Dickey, the Paris bureau chief for The Daily Beast.

The World

Why one Kenyan writer decided it was time to come out of the closet

Global Politics

This past week Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina published an essay that has sent his Twitter feed into overdrive. In the essay he shares that he is gay. Coming out as a gay man in a country where being gay is illegal could be dangerous but that, according to writer Wainaina, is precisely the point.

Vancouver’s openly gay deputy mayor is going to Sochi on a mission

Global Politics

Vancouver’s openly gay deputy mayor, Tim Stevenson, is heading to Sochi to meet with the IOC to lobby for gay rights to be added to the Olympic charter.

Gay rights activists wave flags and shout slogans as they attend a protest against a verdict by the Supreme Court in New Delhi December 11, 2013.

Growing up in India, I never met an openly gay person

Lifestyle & Belief

Deepak Singh never meeting an openly gay person when he was growing up in India. That, of course, has changed in the years since, with people of many different sexual orientations coming into his life. But the news out of India’s Supreme Court decision, makes his heart grieve.

Delhi’s LGBT Pride parade shows what a difference a decade can make in India

Lifestyle & Belief

Just a decade ago, the idea of a Pride parade in India would have been unthinkable. But this weekend, the sixth annual LGBT Pride parade was held in New Delhi — and hundreds turned out. It’s a sign that the LGBT community is gaining some acceptance in broader Indian culture.