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Mumbai, June 18 (JEN):  Guatemalan movie 'Jose' won top honours at the 10th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival that concluded on June 12, 2019. more
Understanding of LGBT realities ‘non-existent’ in most countries, says UN expert

New York: Policymakers in most parts of the world are taking decisions in the dark when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity, an independent UN human rights expert said on W ...

Lesbian couple beaten in homophobic attack on London bus, fifth suspect arrested

London: The Metropolitan Police on Saturday said the fifth suspect in the  homophobic attack and robbery of two women in a London bus.

A major win for transgender rights: UN health agency drops ‘gender identity disorder’, as official diagnosis

New York, May 31 (JEN): “To reflect critical advances in science and medicine”, the World Health Organization, WHO, has removed so-called “gender identity disorder&rdquo ...

160 LGBTQ films from 43 countries to be screened at KASHISH MIQFF 2019

Mumbai: Around 160 LGBTQ films from 43 countries will be screened at the 10th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival from June 12-June 16, 2019. 

Taiwan creates history by legalising same-sex marriage

Taipei: After voting on Friday, Taiwan Parliament has legalised same-sex marriage in the nation. It is the first Asian nation's parliament to make such a move.  

UN agencies urge Brunei to repeal new ‘extreme and unjustified’ penal code

New York: New criminal laws in Brunei that impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, adultery and childbirth out of marriage, “breach international human rights norms&rdq ...

Brunei to impose death by stoning for gay sex and adultery, human rights body expresses concern

Bandar Seri Begawan: Brunei is all set to implement a stringent law from next week where people found guilty of practicing homosexual sex and adultery will be punished with death.

LGBT community in Chechnya faces ‘new wave of persecution’: UN human rights experts

New York: People in Chechnya who are suspected of being lesbian, gay or bisexual, are facing a “new wave of persecution” following a spate of killings involving torture, and o ...

Angola decriminalizes same-sex relationships

Luanda: Angola has finally shed the divisive “vices against nature” provision in its law, widely interpreted to be a ban on homosexual conduct, Human Rights Watch said.