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Christian LGBT bloggers David and Constantino Khalaf (Modern Kinship on Patheos) have published what they call “ The Ultimate Resource Guide for LGBTQ Christian and Allies.” OutRight Action…

Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag design that has become a symbol of the LGBT movement worldwide, died on March 31 in New York City. March 31 was also International Transgender Day of…

ILGA notes that some women in more than 50 countries went on strike on Wednesday’s International Women’s Day: “We demand that our lives and labour be treated with dignity for they form the basis of…

Politico reported this week that the Trump administration is considering pulling the USA out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council last year created the UN’s first…

Durga Sengupta at CatchNews.com reported on progress and backlash on LGBT issues in India and around the world in 2016. The Family Research Council praised the Trump transition team for demanding…

At People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog this week, I posted highlights of how the U.S. Religious Right made life more difficult and dangerous for the world’s LGBT people in 2016…

LGBT news from around the world

“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders—some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves—will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”

The International Organization for the Family rolled out its “Cape Town Declaration” in South Africa Friday, reaffirming the “critical role” of traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilization.

Indonesia: Arrests Reflect Impact of Ongoing Anti-LGBT Panic Two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested after people complained after they posted a photo of them kissing on Facebook. Religious and…