It took more than two decades, but San Francisco award-winning lesbian filmmaker Madeleine Lim's 1997 "Sambal Belacan in San Francisco" was shown at the Singapore International Film Festival (known as SGIFF) last weekend.

New Zealand's new parliament made history in a number of ways October 17 — it is majority woman-led and the most diverse in the country's history.

President Donald Trump's administration keeps throwing one obstacle after another at asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, but LGBTQ asylum seekers continue to dream of coming to the United States.

Belgium's new deputy prime minister is also now Europe's highest-ranking transgender official.

Global human rights experts were alarmed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo taking his re-envisioning of human rights to the 75th United Nations General Assembly.

LGBTQ Iranians face widespread violence, according to a new report critical of the Islamic country's human rights record that renew attention to its violence against gays, including executions of gay men.

In a continuing effort to receive support from readers, the Bay Area Reporter has launched its membership program.

Mexican authorities have made an arrest in the killing of a transgender woman.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's pardon of a former United States Marine convicted of the murder of a transgender Filipina was harshly criticized and denounced by family, human rights organizations, and critics of the U.S. military.

Two Ugandan officials summoned to Uganda's Chief Magistrates Court of Wakiso to face criminal charges for torturing and humiliating 20 LGBTQ youth did not appear in court.

President Donald Trump's administration packs a one-two punch to LGBTQ immigration and foreign aid under two different proposed policies.

International LGBTQ organizations and expat queer Lebanese people are raising thousands of dollars to help Beirut's queer community hard hit by the explosion at the city's port earlier this month.

Warsaw police clashed with — and arrested — Polish LGBTQ and ally demonstrators last weekend.

In a landmark case, three former San Salvador police officers were sentenced last month for the murder of a transgender woman.