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Out in the World: 'Sheer Qorma's' Muslim Indian love story breaks barriers

Out in the World: 'Sheer Qorma's' Muslim Indian love story breaks barriers

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 24, 2021

Award-winning nonbinary Parsi Indian filmmaker Faraz Arif Ansari is breaking barriers once again with their new film, "Sheer Qorma."

Queer Reading: Novel tells gay man's traumatic journey to freedom

Queer Reading: Novel tells gay man's traumatic journey to freedom

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 23, 2021

Sitting in the Denver home that he shares with his husband, gay first-time novelist Luai Qubain is free, living his dream, and heading into his future. His freedom was not without a price, however, and it was painfully hard won.

Out in the World: Hungary's parliament OKs anti-LGBTQ propaganda law

Out in the World: Hungary's parliament OKs anti-LGBTQ propaganda law

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 16, 2021

Hungary's parliament voted 157-1 in favor of the anti-LGBTQ propaganda law June 15.

Out in the World: Judge denies bail for 21 Ghanaian LGBTQ activists

Out in the World: Judge denies bail for 21 Ghanaian LGBTQ activists

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 9, 2021

A judge in Ghana denied bail for 21 LGBTQ activists who were arrested during a police raid of a human rights conference in the West African country.

Out in the World: Key elections include record number of LGBTQ candidates

Out in the World: Key elections include record number of LGBTQ candidates

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 2, 2021

Several key elections with LGBTQ candidates on the ballots are playing out in Chile, Mexico, and Vietnam just in time for Pride Month.

Out in the World: Philippine human rights commission outraged by trans man's killing

Out in the World: Philippine human rights commission outraged by trans man's killing

  • by Heather Cassell
  • May 26, 2021

The Philippine Commission on Human Rights and the national police vow justice for the killing earlier this month of online personality Ebeng Mayor, a transgender man.

Out in the World: Lithuanians protest ahead of civil partnership bill

Out in the World: Lithuanians protest ahead of civil partnership bill

  • by Heather Cassell
  • May 19, 2021

Thousands of protesters turned out to demonstrate against a proposed same-sex civil partnerships bill that members of Lithuania's Parliament are anticipated to debate next month.

Out in the World: Ugandan LGBTQ activists respond to government attempts to further criminalize homosexuality

Out in the World: Ugandan LGBTQ activists respond to government attempts to further criminalize homosexuality

  • by Heather Cassell
  • May 12, 2021

LGBTQ Ugandan activists are mobilizing against the Sexual Offenses Bill 2019 before Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs it into law.

Out in the World: Czech Republic marriage equality bill moves forward

Out in the World: Czech Republic marriage equality bill moves forward

  • by Heather Cassell
  • May 5, 2021

Lawmakers passing the country's same-sex marriage bill's first vote in parliament's lower chamber April 29 thrilled LGBTQ Czechs.

Out in the World: Gay Kakuma refugee's death prompts study

Out in the World: Gay Kakuma refugee's death prompts study

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 28, 2021

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration recently launched an in-depth research project to examine the conditions of LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya.

Out in the World: US embassies to fly Pride flag again

Out in the World: US embassies to fly Pride flag again

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 28, 2021

In another reversal of the previous administration, U.S. embassies received a cable from Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week containing a "blanket authorization" to raise the Pride flag this year.

Out in the World: Peru elects first lesbian to Congress; COVID takes life of first trans politician

Out in the World: Peru elects first lesbian to Congress; COVID takes life of first trans politician

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 21, 2021

Peru elected its first lesbian to the South American country's Congress. Days earlier, the country's first elected openly transgender woman died from COVID-19.

Out in the World: Death of gay Kakuma refugee spurs LGBTQ Africans' calls for evacuation

Out in the World: Death of gay Kakuma refugee spurs LGBTQ Africans' calls for evacuation

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 14, 2021

LGBTQ African activists have called upon human rights and humanitarian organizations to expedite evacuation of queer refugees from Kenya's Camp Kakuma following the death of Ugandan refugee activist Chriton "Trinidad" Atuhwera.

New global LGBTQ group forms on anniversary of 1st same-sex weddings

New global LGBTQ group forms on anniversary of 1st same-sex weddings

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 8, 2021

Two decades ago, four same-sex couples said, "I do," in Amsterdam's city hall.