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Human rights group says Meta endangers queer Middle Easterners & urges big changes to keep them safe
Police in Middle Eastern and North African countries are using social media to entrap, extort, and torture LGBTQ+ users.
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Police are using Grindr & other apps to entrap & torture LGBTQ+ people
A new report says social media companies aren’t doing enough to protect LGBTQ+ users in Africa and the Middle East.
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These LGBTQ activists are leading the charge in some of the most LGBTQ hostile countries on Earth
As the LGBTQ landscape rapidly changes across Africa and the Middle East, new leaders continue to emerge. These leaders are helping to create a world where love is love, no matter where you live.
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Tunisia’s first same-sex marriage denounced as an “administrative error”
A Tunisian man got his marriage recognized momentarily in the country that punishes homosexuality with 3 years in prison.
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Tunisia becomes first Muslim-majority country to recognize same-sex marriage
Homosexuality is illegal in Tunisia and punishable with up to three years in prison.
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Tunisia pledges to stop forced anal examinations of gay and bi men
Judges can tell men suspected of being gay to undergo an anal examination, and refusing is considered an admission of guilt.
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8 countries force men to have anal exams to prove they are gay
The exams are rooted in discredited 19th century theories that homosexuals can be identified by characteristics of the anus.
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ISIS brutes repeatedly stab transgender man in Belgium
The 26-year-old man says the terrorists threatened to make an example of him, stabbed him and left him for dead.