Headlines- Despite a "ceasefire" mediated by the US, Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have escalated, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu has declared that Israel is "at war" with Hezbollah.
- The US president Donald Trump reiterated in a post on his Truth Social platform that Iran's enriched uranium should be sent to the US for destruction or destroyed in an acceptable location.
- Iran's Mehr news agency reported on Monday that there had been an explosion in Bandar Abbas City and that the cause was unknown.
- Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, issued an order for the reopening of international internet access.
- During his Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, US President Donald Trump paid tribute to the 13 service members who killed in the war in Iran.
Category: LGBTQ Rights
Malaysian Groups Condemn Caning Sentencing Against...
Mohd Asri Mohd Tahir, the Sharia judge who handed down the verdict, sentenced the four other defendants between the ages of 27 and 37 to six months in prison, and ordered them to pay fines of 4,800 ringgit ($1,161) and receive six lashes for the same offense, according to Malaysian media
Bosnian Capital Hosts First LGBT Parade...
Many marchers wore rainbow T-shirts, and beat drums and blew whistles. Others carried rainbow flags and signs that read “United In Differences” and chanted “Death to fascism, freedom to the people!”
End Systemic Discrimination Against Libanese Transgender...
Transgender women in Lebanon face systemic violence and discrimination, Human Rights Watch, Helem, and MOSAIC said in a report and video released today. Transgender women face discrimination in accessing basic services, including employment, healthcare, and housing, as well as violence from security forces and ordinary citizens
American-Georgian lawyer seeks prosecution of anti-gay...
The bullying of Georgia’s gay community has at times taken on a medieval air: A local “knight” and his loyal legion of thugs have for years sought to smite any attempt by LGBTQ Georgians to gather publicly in Tbilisi. Now, a U.S. lawyer-turned-Georgian citizen is bringing the struggle into the realm of contemporary law
Botswana De-Criminalized Homosexuality
Campaigners for same sex relationships in court in Gaborone, Botswana, where a judge decriminalized homosexuality.Some of the people who attended a court case in Gaborone, Botswana, where the court decriminalized same sex relationships.Happy campaiger
Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Tie The...
Marriage equality campaiganer Lu Hsin-chieh said that the law wasn’t exactly what they had campaigned for, but that it had been passed in order to comply with an interpretation of the constitution by Taiwan’s highest court two years earlier
Serbia’s Novi Sad Holds For First...
Gay parades have been held every year in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, since 2014 without serious incident but safeguarded by hundreds of police officers. Previous gay-pride marches were marred by violence
Mass Weddings Planned as Taiwan OKs...
Opinion surveys in 2012 and 2015 found that slight majorities of Taiwanese support same-sex marriage, but local media outlet The News Lens and PollcracyLab found in a March 2018 survey that people held “malleable” views based on how the term “legalization” was framed
Rainbow Rage: Kyrgyz Rail Against LGBT...
The peaceful march by some 400 people in central Bishkek on Women’s Day on March 8 promoting women’s rights and “equality for all” was fiercely criticized by socially conservative lawmakers in the predominantly Muslim country
Transgender Migrants Seek Asylum in the...
With the hope of being granted asylum, members of the LGBTQI community have been arriving at the United States border. They came along with various caravans of undocumented immigrants from Central America