Plus: Religious Nationalists Support Anti-Gay Push In Kyrgyzstan; Malaysian Religious Police Target Trans People; and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap.
The Global Philanthropy Project has published “The Perfect Storm: The closing space for LGBT civil society in Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Kenya, and Hungary.” The report notes that governments have…
The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaboration of more than a dozen NGOs, has launched a new web platform. The project’s purpose is “to monitor, analyze, and share information…
In the Guardian, Bisi Alimi writes, “If you say being gay is not African, you don’t know your history.” His story notes, “The idea that homosexuality is ‘western’ is based on another western import –…
Authorities in Bangladesh announced yesterday that three men suspected of the brutal machete murders of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das have been arrested. But the violence against secular…
A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA law school and NORC at the University of Chicago released last Friday found that residents in ninety percent of 52 surveyed countries have become more…
Americans Abroad The Human Rights Campaign has launched a social media campaign targeting American religious activists who promote anti-gay idea and legislation around the world. The campaign is…
