Sitting in his office overlooking San Francisco Bay, German Consul General of the Pacific Northwest Hans-Ulrich Suedbeck is casual and genuinely pleased to be in the city.
A Ugandan gay activist visited San Francisco last week, in part, to raise awareness of the plight of LGBT people in his country, and to raise funds for All Out, an international LGBT rights group.
A bipartisan immigration proposal failed in the Senate last week, as President Donald Trump's deadline to reform immigration, particularly the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, looms.
Ali Erol, an award-winning Turkish human rights activist and a founder of the Kaos GL Association, was arrested February 2 at his home in Ankara, and released February 6.
Jamaican officials are facing international pressure to either block or monitor an anti-gay American pastor who plans to visit the Caribbean island country later this month.
Hundreds of transgender Indians and their allies protested this week outside the Ministry of Social Justice against Parliament's reintroduction of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2016.