LGBT rights
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Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the c…
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‘Like a bridge that connects us’: Pride parade comes to Bangkok amid new hope for LGBT rights
Event returns for first time in many years on Sunday as city appoints governor vocal in supporting LGBT commun…
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Malaysian government’s ‘gay conversion’ app pulled by Google Play
App claimed that it could help LGBT+ people ‘return to nature’ but the tech company has now made it unavailabl…
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Greta stands with Sami and Navalny on trial again: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Mexico Continue readi…
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New Zealand bans conversion practices in vote hailed as ‘win for humanity’
Law makes it an offence to perform so-called ‘therapy’ on anyone under 18 and comes with sentence of up to thr…
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Flee review – fantastically moving story of a refugee’s life-saving secret
This extraordinary tale of the desperate lengths a gay Afghan man was forced to go to in order to escape perse…
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Gay kiss on live TV evades Singapore’s ban on LGBT content
Video clip of two men kissing in Beijing bar during Channel News Asia report hailed as ‘act of revolution’It w…
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Grindr disappears from app stores in China amid Olympics crackdown
Authorities are conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar ne…
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Lives of LGBTQ+ Afghans ‘dramatically worse’ under Taliban rule, finds survey
Human Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fea…
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‘Quiet fabulosity’: remote New Zealand church gets pink makeover to celebrate queer community
Sam Duckor-Jones has transformed an unused church into what he hopes will be a place for rural queerness to th…
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Same-sex couple become first in Taiwan to legally adopt child
Wang Chen-wei and Chen Chun-ju sign papers after ruling allows Chen to register as parent alongside WangA marr…
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Increased repression and violence a sign of weakness, says Human Rights Watch
Watchdog’s latest report argues autocrats around the world are getting desperate as opponents form coalitions …
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New Zealand passes law making it easier to change sex on birth certificates
Advocates welcome bill allowing for self-identification they say upholds rights for transgender and non-binary…
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First group of LGBT+ Afghans fleeing Taliban arrive in the UK
Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be ‘the first of many’ in coming mont…
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‘The Taliban will have no mercy’: LGBTQ+ Afghans go into hiding
Gay and trans people in Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a call from an unknown number sparks fe…