Sixty-four countries still criminalize same-sex relations, and over a dozen criminalize transgender and gender diverse people. Places that actively target LGBTQ+ people often persecute other social groups as well.
The Death penalties for same sex activity are enforced in several...
LGBTQ people have played a role in multiple aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian War.
After Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent creation of two Russian puppet states in eastern Ukraine, the number of homophobic attacks...
The United States should offer to bring back and hear the asylum claims of approximately 200 third-country nationals, including children, who were wrongfully expelled to Costa Rica in February, says Human Rights Watch. Costa Rica should also refuse future...
LGBT life in Germany began to thrive in the early 20th century. Berlin was a liberal European city with a number of Queer spaces.
By the 1920s, Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code, which criminalized homosexual acts, was being...
Today the Queer God Squad is going to do some god stuff; that is, we’re going to pray. DON’T TOUCH THAT MOUSE OR REMOTE CONTROL. This will be good, I promise. We are invoking the queer saints. Some recognized...
We’re often asked by people of certain age cohorts and demographics when did "Queer" become an acceptable word. Of course, it happened organically and over time, but it has been used in a positive context for over half a...