South Africa

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.

“I think it’s wrong to not accept other people because we don’t choose how we are born,” his sister said after her brother’s death.

Margaret Marshall said that people remember her historic 2003 decision that legalized marriage equality. And they’re grateful.

Worldwide, people generally liked lesbians more than gay men.

She came out on Instagram last month.

She says her ex-husband lied about being straight. She wants $600K for her “emotional pain” and “psychological trauma.”

South African LGBTQ people have had more civil rights than Americans for decades and their Pride parade shows it.

The International Association of Athletics Federations says the cisgender woman can only compete as a man because her natural testosterone levels are “too high.”

The Olympic committee has decided the cisgender athlete must lower the amount of testosterone that her body naturally creates.

“He took a huge stick and started beating me. He went on until I was helpless. I was numb and I was bleeding from head to toe.”

The U.S has been offering asylum to LGBTQ people from around the world since 1994. Is that about to change too?

Cosmopolitan South Africa has been given an LGBTQ makeover for a special “Say Yes To Love” issue.

“They always came to visit me at the shop. I also helped them with their horses.”

The country is notoriously anti-gay, but Steven Anderson is even worse.

The court was correct in their decision. It wouldn’t be in the child’s best interests.

Israel’s gay community is the latest target of a global push for a cultural boycott of Israel.

The tweet, which has since been deleted, joked about Africa being a disease-ridden place where he may catch Ebola.

The vaccine being tested is based on a previous trial where it was found to be 31.2 percent effective.

Botswana is not known for being accepting of LGBT people, but Baptist minister Steven Anderson proved to be too much for the African nation.

Botswana’s government said Anderson “has been declared a prohibited immigrant” but does not give details.