Middle East

Aviña’s family and LGBTQ+ rights advocates around the world launched a campaign for him to return home, which was finally successful this week.

The bill would be “catastrophic” for Iraq’s relations with the West if it passed, one expert said.

We must not use the past to justify surrendering to the supposed impossibilities posed by seemingly irreconcilable and intractable differences.

The film has very little overtly queer content.

The film doesn’t have any overt queer content, but regional censors are upset anyway.

Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ policies are getting called out in the weeks before they host the World Cup.

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.

Pride celebrations in Istanbul have grown increasingly confrontational since the government has disallowed them, but thousands come anyway. We wanted to join them.

“They would rather carry out mass surgeries than executions because they know the world is watching them.”

Little America’s episode ‘The Son’ is focused on a gay Syrian immigrant. Now it’s being banned in 11 countries, and one of its actors can’t enter the United States.