A man was jailed for ‘deliberately’ infecting two former boyfriends with HIV. Antonio Reyes-Minana a 25-year-old from Nottingham, had unprotected sex with two other men separately in 2008 and 2012. He knew he was HIV positive in that time. He was jailed for seven years and told he would serve half behind bars and half(…)
The authorities of Chechnya have found a new way of persecuting Chechen homosexuals following they cannot leave Russia. Gay men are charged with terrorism and are wanted as supporters of the Islamic State (an organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation). Chechen security forces visit homosexuals’ relatives and demand to write statements about(…)
Lirio Da Fonseca / ReutersSame-sex relationships are not criminalized under East Timor’s laws but they also do not offer protection against discrimination. 160 Marching through the streets of East Timor’s capital Dili with a rainbow flag in his hand, Natalino Guterres was overwhelmed with emotion, reminding him of how he felt 15 years ago when(…)
Amnesty International is requesting Russia overturn a decision to deport a gay journalist to Uzbekistan. Khudoberdi Nurmatov, better known under his pen name, Ali Feruz, is a correspondent for independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta in Moscow. Feruz originally fled Uzbekistan in 2009 after facing detention and torture. The Uzbekistani National Security Service tried to force him to(…)
In Iran, being gay is punishable by death. This means the possibility of a large Pride march through the capital remains a long time away. But a burgeoning group of LGBTI people are not waiting for the perfect day, they are taking a stand now. In Amsterdam, Iranians will have its first boat in the(…)
A Russian LGBT advocacy group says it has evacuated 64 people from Chechnya over the last four months.A 31-page report the Russian LGBT Network released on Monday notes those it has helped leave the semi-autonomous Russian republic in the North Caucuses “were relocated” to shelters in central Russia. The Russian LGBT Network, which is based(…)
The Toronto Police Criminal Investigations Bureau (CIB) has set up a special taskforce to investigate men going missing from the vicinity of the city’s gay village. Toronto’s CIB task force will specifically be investigating whether two missing person cases are linked. It will investigate the missing case of Andrew Kinsman, missing for just over a month,(…)
The Washington Blade recently spoke with bisexual activists in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, France, Kenya, New Zealand, the Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Spain and the U.K. They all said they are fighting stereotypes while seeking more visibility.Here is what they said. Australia Connecting with the global bisexual movement is often difficult for Australian advocates(…)
The Islamic state militant group (ISIS) has been persecuting LGBTQ people for years. ISIS considers homosexuality to be a sin punishable by death, and has killed numerous gay and bisexual men, whom they have stoned and thrown off buildings. Now, for the first time, an LGBTQ fighting unit has been formed to battle back against(…)
When a 10-year-old transgender girl in Austria found out she would be able to attend her dream school, she was ecstatic. The Montessori school was within walking distance of the family’s home, had a large garden, and was based on a learning environment with more openness and attention to each child’s individual learning style. Hannah’s*(…)