{"id":74167,"date":"2025-09-11T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/11\/politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:01:22","slug":"politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74167","title":{"rendered":"Politicians in at least 51 countries used anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric during elections, NGO finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights group also finds rise in openly gay, bisexual and transgender people running for office in 36 countries<\/p>\n<p>Politicians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a foreign threat to condemning \u201cgender ideology\u201d, according to a new study of 60 countries and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>However, there were also gains for LGBTQ+ representation in some countries. Openly gay, bisexual and transgender people ran for office in at least 36 countries, including for the first time in Botswana, Namibia and Romania \u2013 albeit unsuccessfully \u2013 according to the report by Outright International. The number of LGBTQ+ elected officials doubled to at least 233 in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/11\/politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights group also finds rise in openly gay, bisexual and transgender people running for office in 36 countriesPoliticians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,3391,246,3390,496,221,848,1166,533,1228,156,2729,1221,60,1168,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-alternative-fur-deutschland-afd","category-americas","category-botswana","category-el-salvador","category-europe","category-finland","category-georgia","category-germany","category-hungary","category-indonesia","category-lgbtq-rights","category-namibia","category-pakistan","category-romania","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74168,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74167\/revisions\/74168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}