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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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ISIS & militia members are raping gay men & transgender women because they’re “soft”
Militants “look at gestures. The way we sit and move our hands, body language. They target gay and trans people.”
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6 Pride events that went on in the face of violent threats
They wouldn’t let hate win.
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Lebanon may ban ‘Wonder Woman’ for the dumbest reason possible
Lebanon’s ministry of economy says it has asked the country’s security agency to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie.
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Threat of violence cancels party at Beirut Pride
A Salafist group threatened violence if a party happened at Beirut Pride.
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Here’s why we still need an international day against LGBTQ hate
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDHOT) is needed now as much as ever.
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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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27 men arrested in Lebanon for alleged ‘unnatural sex’ and ‘public indecency’
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Police in Beirut have arrested 27 men for allegedly engaging in “gay sex” during a raid on a Beirut bathhouse on Saturday. According to Colonel Tony Haddad of Hbeish police station, the 27 unnamed men, including the owner and employees, have been in police custody since police raided Agha Hammam in the area of Hamra-Concord, Beirut.
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Lebanon: Being gay is not a disease and needs no treatment
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Homosexuality is not a mental disorder and does not need to be treated, the Lebanese Psychiatric Society (LPS) said Thursday in a statement published by the Ministry of Information.
