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Laramie (United States) (AFP) - Nearly 25 years ago, the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard -- a gay college student in Wyoming who was beaten, tied to a fence and left to die -- shocked America. 

After being stranded in Niger for almost two years, a group of LGBT+ asylum seekers in Niamey is growing ever more desperate in their hopes for resettlement. While navigating a country marked by intolerance towards LGBT people, they feel propelled to take more active action and demand the United Nations…

Advocates suspect the regime was riled by a BBC report last year on the repression of Iran’s LGBT+ community

India's Supreme Court recently ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to the same social benefits as traditional families. The breakthrough comes four years after the country decriminalised homosexuality. Yet members of the LGBT community often live in the shadows, rejected by their family or society at large. Activists are helping…

LGBTQ people worry stress on marriage as ‘between one man and one woman’ will allow discriminatory attitudes to persist.

LGBT campaigners marched on Holyrood calling on the Scottish Government to go further in reforms for transgender people

DUBAI: Two women have been sentenced to death in Iran on charges of "corruption on earth" and human trafficking over the last few days, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

Workers at a Hostess bakery in Chicago accused the snack dessert maker of firing a transgender employee for her gender identity and segregating LGBT employees onto a separate work line at the factory in the Galewood neighborhood on city's west side at a Wednesday news conference.

The research comes amid calls from charity Just Like Us for more LGBT+ role models in schools