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China: LGBTQ quietly gains acceptance in China's big cities

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Despite the difference in Pride Month celebrations between the two cities, Beijing's LGBTQ scene is in ascendance – helped by increasing openness to connection online from when the coronavirus pandemic was severe in China earlier this year.

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Global Pride 2020: Exist, Persist, Resist

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on Pride organisations worldwide with hundreds of marches and events cancelled or postponed. Global Pride provides an opportunity for the LGBTI+ community around the world to come together and celebrate diversity and equality during these challenging times.

What’s happening with every Pride in the world

Okay, maybe not every Pride, but a whole whack of them—with updates on what’s been cancelled, postponed or moved online

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Dykes Resistance Tactics Against Police Violence

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From Stonewall 1969 to Brussels 2020, from Kazakhstan to Serbia, how do lesbians resist police violence and which dyke tactics have been developed in different historical and geographical backgrounds? Please join our conversation and sharing of activist experiences

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Ghana: With blackmail list, gay men in Ghana fight conmen posing as lovers

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Alex Kofi Donkor, head of local activist group LGBT+ Rights Ghana, decided to fight back last year on Twitter and Facebook with the Ghana Gay Blackmail List, which exposes “notorious persons who steal, abuse & blackmail gay men”.

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Asylum for LGBTS in Italy and Europe

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Many people flee their countries because they don’t have the freedom to be who they feel they are. Trans, lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, asexual or intersex, run away from families and societies that discriminate against them because they are not compliant with the hetero-normative culture.

Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Tweets on Gender Identity

Daniel Radcliffe: “Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I. “

Australia: Characteristics of Gay and Bisexual Men Who Rarely Use HIV Risk Reduction Strategies During Condomless Anal Intercourse: Results From the FLUX National Online Cohort Study

To understand the characteristics of a minority of Australian gay and bisexual men (GBM) who, despite an increase in the number and availability of HIV risk reduction strategies, do not consistently use a strategy to protect themselves from HIV.

China: Self-reported Rates of Abuse, Neglect, and Bullying Experienced by Transgender and Gender-Nonbinary Adolescents

What are the rates of abuse, neglect, and bullying and their association with poor mental health experienced by Chinese transgender and gender nonbinary adolescents?