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Hundreds of people attended last weekend’s conference on global LGBT activism in New York. At Huffington Post, the Williams Institute’s Andrew Park discusses a shift in LGBT advocacy strategy at the U…

World AIDS Day will be observed on December 1. Also this week, ICASA, the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, is being held in Harare, Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has a…

Asia: UNESCO on religion, culture and anti-LGBT bullying and violence UNESCO released a report on school bullying, violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the…

On the 12th of October, amid growing violence in Israel/Palestine, stories and video began to circulate on social media of Israelis cursing at a critically wounded Palestinian boy. Excluded, or…

Islam: ‘Barbaric’ and Progressive The United Nations ambassadors from the US and Chile have invited members of the UN Security Council to an August 24 meeting to discuss the “barbaric treatment” of…

Photographer Robin Hammond has launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #WhereLoveIsIllegal to document through captioned portraits the stories of LGBT people from around the world who are…

Africa: Religious leaders criticize Obama comments on LGBT human rights A story from the Catholic News Agency rounds up critical commentary from members of the church hierarchy in response to U.S…

In the storerooms of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in Connecticut, there’s a glass jar that contains a steak. The grayish meat floats in a solution of alcohol and water, unable to rot…

Last week, Christianity Today ran a piece headlined, “Why Christian Education in Israel Could Vanish.” The reason? “Funding discrimination” by Israel’s Ministry of Education: The ministry provides 100…

Collect all the evidence that vaccines cause autism and endanger children, and you will have a very, very thin file. Collect all the evidence that there’s an appeal to believing that vaccines cause…