LGBTQ Rights

LGBTQ Rights

Honey Maharjan and Mouni Maharjan are running for the post of mayor and ward chair positions of Kirtipur, a settlement on the outskirts of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, in Sunday's elections. Photo: AFP via BSS

Nepal's first transgender candidates run for local office

Nepal has some of South Asia's most progressive laws on LGBTQ rights

People attend a pride parade to celebrate after the passing of the marriage equality bill, which made Thailand Asia's third territory to legalise same-sex unions, in Bangkok, Thailand, June 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Patipat Janthong/ File Photo

Thailand's same-sex marriage bill gets royal endorsement

Pope Francis speaks during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, February 22, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

Pope Francis says priests can bless same-sex unions

FILE PHOTO: Women hold hands during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture in Tokyo, Japan, May 8, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

Japan's top court says sterilisation rule for gender change is unconstitutional

Carlos Santana. Photo: Collected

Carlos Santana apologetic for anti-transgender slur

A participant wears a mask as they march during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade, celebrating advances in LGBTQ rights and calling for marriage equality, in Tokyo, Japan April 23, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

Japan enacts watered-down LGBT understanding law

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a Reuters interview at his farm in Kisozi settlement of Gomba district, in the Central Region of Uganda, January 16, 2022. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

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Montana latest to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

A participant waves a flag during Queer Azadi Pride, an event promoting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, in Mumbai, India, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

India government calls same-sex marriage appeals 'urban elitist views'

The White House in Washington, US, August 29, 2021. Photo :Reuters

Uganda bill one of the world's most extreme anti-LGBTQ laws- White House

Ugandan legislators participate in the debate of the Anti-Homosexuality bill, which proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relations during a sitting at the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

Gay activist says Uganda LGBTQ community 'in shock' at new law

Hillsborough High School students protest a Republican-backed bill dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" that would prohibit classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity, a measure Democrats denounced as being anti-LGBTQ, in Tampa, Florida, U.S., March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo

Florida moves to expand ban on sexual orientation, gender identity teaching

Photo: Reuters

Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ