Middle East

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.

The country that only approved 3 same-sex couples in the last 12 years has relied on outdated familial structures for processing paperwork.

Despite the local law that prevents LGBTQ events being struck down in court, the country is enforcing it anyway.

He’s one of the few conservative Christian leaders of late to break away and criticize Trump.

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Homosexuality is punishable by death in many Middle Eastern countries. The Orlando shooter took those laws seriously.

Hamas operatives thought Israel might have blackmailed him into ratting out a Hamas top dog.

A gay imam from Algeria is working with a local LGBT association to counsel and protect young gay Muslims who make their way to the ancient French port city of Marseille.

The hack exposes the names of users who live in places where homosexual is punishable by death.

Images from ISIS purport to show two men bThe Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq has published photographs that appear to show a man being thrown from the roof of a tall building apparently in Mosul, as punishment for being gay.

An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men arrested in a televised raid last month by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse, a ruling that set off deafening cheers and jubilation.

The judge in the trial of 26 men arrested in Egypt in a televised raid by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse says he’ll announce a verdict next week after only three hearings.

Defense lawyers for 26 men arrested in a televised raid by police looking for gays at an Egyptian bathhouse criticized the prosecution’s case when the trial resumed Sunday.

An Egyptian appeals court has upheld the conviction of eight men for “inciting debauchery” for appearing in an alleged same-sex wedding video, but reduced their sentences from three to one year in prison.

The handcuffed defendants, many of them crying, arrived in court with their heads bowed as police pushed them inside a metal cage.

Gays in Egypt are taking precautionary measures by avoiding public places where they used to gather and by staying away from Internet and dating applications, fearing police traps.