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Human rights group will try to get tortured gay and bi men out of Chechnya
Wednesday, April 19, 2017After reports that gay and bi men are being rounded up and put in "concentration camps" in the country, one organization is stepping up in a big way. -
Bisexual man faces deportation because judge didn’t believe he’s bi
Tuesday, August 23, 2016Ray Fuller will be deported to one of the world's most homophobic countries because a judge didn't believe he's bisexual. -
Jamaica activist brings legal challenge to anti-sodomy laws
Wednesday, December 9, 2015Maurice Tomlinson has filed a claim in Jamaica's Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the rarely-used 1864 laws that ban anal sex. -
LGBT Jamaicans hold 1st gay pride celebrations on island
Tuesday, August 4, 2015The very idea used to be almost unthinkable in a country long considered one of the globe's most hostile places to homosexuals. -
Jamaica woman brings attention to rapes targeting lesbians
Tuesday, April 28, 2015When Angeline Jackson and a friend were ambushed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted on a wooded trail outside the Jamaican capital, police initially seemed less concerned about the attack than the fact she is a lesbian. -
Human rights group: LGBT Jamaicans targets of unchecked violence
Tuesday, October 21, 2014KINGSTON, Jamaica -- LGBT people are the targets of unchecked violence and discrimination in Jamaica, frequently refused housing or employment in the Caribbean country typically described as the region's most hostile to LGBT citizens, a leading… -
Jamaican activist ends legal challenge to anti-sodomy law amid fears for his safety
Friday, August 29, 2014KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A Jamaican gay rights activist who brought a legal challenge to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy law says he has withdrawn the case after growing fearful about his safety. Last year, Javed Jaghai made… -
U.S., British anti-gay activists spread homophobic messages at Jamaica conference
Monday, December 9, 2013KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Two prominent U.S. and British anti-gay activists attended a conference in Jamaica over the weekend to urge their counterparts and the Jamaican government to retain that country's colonial era law banning homosexual activity.… -
Jamaica: Mob murder of gay teen shows depth of hostility toward LGBT community
Sunday, August 11, 2013MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also… -
Cross-dressing gay teen hacked, stabbed to death by Jamaican mob
Tuesday, July 23, 2013ST. JAMES, Jamaica -- A 17-year-old gay teen was hacked and stabbed to death by a mob in Jamaica on Monday night.
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