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In an historic breakthrough, the leader of Nepal’s largest LGBT group, the Blue Diamond Society, has been named to a seat in…
Police raids on gay organizations in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and in Turkey have underscored the fragile position of LGBT…
The wave of repression and intimidation of human rights activists and dissidents in China in advance of the Beijing Olympics has also…
In the latest protest aimed at preventing the UK from deporting 19-year-old Iranian Mehdi Kazemi to his homeland where he faces probable…
Britain’s best-known gay activist, Peter Tatchell, confronted Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf this past weekend when the dictator arrived in London on the last…
Anyone who thinks that Mike Huckabee, the most dangerous presidential candidate for the LGBT community, is out of the running because of…
The Islamic Republic of Iran murdered Makwan Moloudzadeh, a lad of 21, on the cold morning of December 5. Makwan was dragged…
The harsh crackdown on dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia that accompanied Sunday’s parliamentary elections also targeted gays, as more than a dozen…
President George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may not agree on much, but tragically they may find common ground about the disposability…
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