The US is falling behind the global LGBTQ movement. Can the election change that?

An LGBTQ rights advocate looks back on the 2010s and ahead to a new decade

How a small church in Massachusetts became a destination for LGBTQ asylum-seekers from all over the world

Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Mississippi anti-LGBT ‘religious freedom’ law

Brazil is accused of stripping away LGBT rights

Think young Australians will ignore a nonbinding mail-in vote on marriage equality? Think again.

Russian foreign minister refuses to acknowledge ongoing harassment of Chechen LGBT community

Gay men in Chechnya rounded up, tortured, and killed: report

Many in Taiwan aim to make it the first Asian country with same-sex marriage

Looking back on the legacy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Trans people are risking their lives in Istanbul

Rio just elected a very conservative mayor. Activists are worried about LGBT rights.

Uganda gay rights activists try again to hold a pride event — again, police intervene

North Carolina’s governor says ‘basic etiquette’ is behind the state’s bathroom bill. Not so fast.

‘Mr. Manners’ has a new podcast. He wants to use it to make America kind again.

British schools may make their uniforms gender neutral

Updated: Suspect in ‘the worst mass shooting’ in modern US history ‘not a stable person’

Italy, in an historic vote, has approved same-sex civil unions

Russian-style anti-gay legislation has inspired homophobic attacks in Kyrgyzstan

Who just killed the man some called ‘the Harvey Milk of Bangladesh’?

She fled abuse in Mexico, and now this trans woman says she was abused in immigration detention too

This human rights activist wants to be the Dominican Republic’s first openly gay member of Congress

In Bangladesh, a same-sex marriage might see the couple sent to jail

Once a prisoner in Cuba, a transgender Cuban woman vows to never return

Soldiers don’t have to call this transgender officer ‘sir’ any more

Filipina beauty queens’ fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking at a ‘woman’s place’

A transgender woman in Aceh, Indonesia gathers strength as new anti-gay sex laws roll out

Some Syrians fleeing not just civil war, but LGBT persecution

How an award-winning photo made this couple the public face of LGBT rights in Russia

Why I’m joining 50,000 Latinos greeting Pope Francis in Washington, DC, this week

Why an anime character can be openly gay in Japan, but you can’t

Subhi Nahas never felt safe as a gay man in Syria — and then ISIS took over his hometown

These are the faces of gay pride in Uganda

These transgender students just want a place to go to the bathroom

President Obama talks gay rights ahead of Kenya visit

What it’s like to grow up a lesbian in Saudi Arabia

YouTube ‘stunt’ shows violent homophobia in Russia

New film takes a classic Hollywood narrative and applies it to transgender sex workers

Harvard welcomes NCAA’s first openly transgender swimmer

This clerk says online marriage license applications will solve religious dilemmas over same-sex marriage

Same-sex couples in Mexico win another victory against discrimination

How traditional couples changed the definition of marriage and opened the doors for same-sex weddings

Turkish LGBT activists remain defiant after police crackdown on pride rally

Which countries will follow America in legalizing gay marriage?

While gay people in America can marry, gay people in India face jail time

‘You are as good as anybody else.’ Same-sex couple who married in 1970 on Supreme Court move.

Will Caitlyn Jenner bring more attention to the issues still affecting the transgender community?

‘I thought the photograph looked fantastic. I mean her legs looked so great.’

Bangladesh wants ‘third gender’ to serve as traffic police

LGBT activists are excited for Ireland’s refendum, but still wary of popular votes

How can you make your city’s streets safer? Same-sex traffic lights, says Vienna

It took Obama for her triumph to be commemorated in Jamaica

Same-sex marriage divides Irish opinions, but looks set for approval

Indiana meets Ireland as a Belfast bakery refuses to make a gay-friendly cake

Meet the county clerk who launched the same-sex marriage revolution

Mexico’s marriage equality revolution is a quiet one so far

Why we can’t forget transgender people when talking about the pay gap

Images: When you are gay (and afraid) in Uganda

American groups back LGBT rights in Pakistan, but it’s a different story in Indiana

‘Prejudice can’t survive proximity:’ The four words at the heart of ‘Pride’