Trans travellers face 'invasive' airport security at Thanksgiving

Discrimination concerns are mounting with the growing use of technology by police, security and immigration services that fails to recognise trans and nonbinary people

Thai LGBT+ activists in legal bid to force marriage equality

Activists submitted a legal challenge to Thailand's Constitutional Court in a bid to change laws that limit marriage to between a man and a woman

Pressure mounts for El Salvador to investigate wave of LGBT+ killings

At least four LGBT+ people have been killed in El Salvador in the last month

Gay sex is banned - so Ghanaians dance against homophobia

Musicians are normalising different sexual expressions in their videos in hopes of seeing change on the ground in the West African country, where same-sex relations are illegal

Leading LGBT+ activist found dead in Haiti

The body of Jeudy Charlot, who was 46 and led one of the Caribbean's few LGBT+ rights organizations, was found on Monday

U.S. lawmakers weigh bans on trans youth treatments

Expert doctors said legislators should rely on medical evidence not opinions when considering banning trans children from treatments such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones

'Forbidden' LGBT+ art takes centre stage at Thai gallery

Patrick Sun, founder of Hong Kong-based Sunpride Foundation, said he picked Taipei and Bangkok as venues because of their more liberal attitudes toward homosexuality

Malawians conflicted over LGBT+ rights, tolerance, research finds

The study found 87 percent supported constitutional protection of LGBT+ rights but 90 percent said they could not accept a gay man or lesbian woman in their own family

Ten years on, India's biometric ID excludes homeless, transgender people

India's Aadhaar ID is the world's largest biometric identity system but an estimated 102 million people including many homeless and transgender people are being left out, a study found

U.N. awards Cyndi Lauper first social justice prize for LGBT+ work

Lauper will receive the United Nations inaugural High Note Global Prize for the work of her charity, True Colors United, which supports homeless LGBT+ youth

Tolerance towards LGBT+ people seen rising globally

Iceland was named as the most tolerant country towards LGBT+ people, while Tajikistan was in last place

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47 Nigerian men plead not guilty to homosexuality charge

The trial is a test case for a law banning gay marriage, punishable by a 14-year jail term, and same-sex "amorous relationships"

Indonesia attorney general's office condemned for barring LGBT recruits

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, has seen growing state and public hostility towards the LGBT community

Teenagers admit homophobic London bus attack on two women

One of the victims said the attackers had tried to force the couple to kiss each other

Former Wallaby Folau hikes unfair dismissal claim to A$14 million

The former Australian national rugby player had his contract terminated after posting on social media that hell awaited gay people

OPINION: Being an LGBT+ person of colour is a gift

Alexander Leon

Whoever you are – brown and gay, black and trans, Asian and bisexual – you are valid

OPINION: Fighting challenges on the journey to be yourself

Shoshi Winstanley-Brown

What matters is whether you believe in yourself, not how other people feel about what you’re doing

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