San Francisco gay Jewish cafe owner Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel finds himself in an unimaginable situation following the surprise attack by Hamas in Israel October 7.

Protests erupted across Canada over gender identity policies in schools, bringing thousands of demonstrators out into the country's parks and in front of campuses.

It's time for Bay Area Reporter readers to cast their ballots for the LGBTQ newspaper's annual Best of the Bay contest.

Religious leaders and members of parliament are protesting a ruling by Kenya's Supreme Court that dismissed a challenge to its earlier decision this year upholding LGBTQ organizations' right to register with the government.

In December 1988, Steve Johnson received a phone call no one wanted to get.

Singaporean transgender activists claim they are fighting for their lives against the Southeast Asian country's Christian far-right movement.

In Toronto, family-owned restaurant Banu has served as a place of resistance and refuge for Iranians — including LGBTQ Iranians — fleeing the country's theocratic government that has been ruled by strict Sharia law for nearly 45 years.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni lashed out at the World Bank Group after it decided to halt any new funding proposals due to the African country's new anti-LGBTQ law.

Padua recently became Italy's first city to retroactively remove non-biological same-sex parents from children's birth certificates as other jurisdictions alter their processes.

Malaysian LGBTQ activists were not entertained by The 1975 frontman Matty Healy's criticism of the country's anti-LGBTQ laws and on-stage same-sex kiss at the recent Good Vibes Festival in capital city Kuala Lumpur.

Thousands of marchers recently took to the streets of Budapest, Hungary for the city's 28th annual Pride parade and festival.

Award-winning Russian investigative journalist Elena Milashina and civil rights lawyer Alexander Nemov were brutally attacked in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, earlier this month while on their way to the trial of a human rights activist.

While Pride Month in much of the U.S. results in jovial LGBTQ street celebrations throughout June, in many parts of the world Pride remains a protest — at times a dangerous demonstration where LGBTQ people demanding to live openly and freely are attacked.

Six months after the FIFA World Cup ended in Qatar, LGBTQ Qataris say the realities of their lives have not changed, and in some cases have gotten worse.