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EQUALITY ACT 2010 AND LGBT+ RIGHTS

LGBT rights

Though there has been progress in the past 50 years or so for LGBT people around the world, it remains a divisive, religious, and political issue.

While some countries have decriminalised homosexuality, outlawed homophobic hate crimes and over 20 countries recognise same-sex marriage; others are becoming increasingly oppressive, and brutal, like Chechnya.

Having sex with someone of the same sex remains illegal in over 70 countries, and punishable by death in 10. We've pulled together a number of organisations working to promote equality, though it's worth remembering that LGBT human rights campaigners risk violence, discrimination, and arrest.

International HIV organisations

You may be interested in our section on International HIV organisations focusing on the health and well-being of gay men and men who have sex with men including HIV prevention, HIV treatment, advocacy, support services and promoting their health and human rights, and storytelling to fight the pandemic and the global stigma associated with it.

International HIV organisations | MEN R US

News

LGBTQ+ rights: What are the Labour and Tory UK election pledges? | Context | 14 Jun 2024
We may have equal marriage – but LGBTQ+ people are still locked out of equal parenthood | The Guardian | 27 Apr 2024
Poll shows US public support for LGBTQ+ protections falling for first time since 2015 | The Guardian | 12 Mar 2024
Gay marriage rights around the world | Openly | 22 Jun 2023
15 governments join EU lawsuit against Orbán’s anti-LGBT law | EURACTIVE | 7 Apr 2023
Liz Truss’ cabinet dominated by anti-LGBTQ+ ministers with appalling voting records | 2 Sep 2022
Gay Afghan forced to watch Taliban behead his father ‘learned how to feel proud’ after escaping | Pink News | 15 Aug 2022
Commonwealth Games: Tom Daley protests anti-LGBT laws at opening ceremony | BBC Sport | 29 Jul 2022
LGBT Church of Ireland members welcome same-sex marriage statement | BBC News | 28 Jul 2022
Fear and Survival: Being LGBTQ in Iraq | BBC World News | 15 May 2022
Trans rights are at risk now, but the failures of Britain’s equality watchdog imperil us all | The Guardian | 15 Feb 2022
Rights watchdog 'should lose status' over trans row | BBC | 12 Feb 2022
All historic gay sex convictions to be pardoned under new scheme: ‘The UK did so much wrong’ | Pink News | 4 Jan 2022
Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes surged after COVID lockdown lifted, figures show | Pink News | 3 Dec 2021
Recorded homophobic hate crimes soared in pandemic, figures show | The Guardian | 3 Dec 2021
'Filthy Pride': Marching for LGBTQ+ rights in Orbán's Hungary | The Guardian | 24 Aug 2021 | 9m 51s
Patrik and Zsolt are activists and YouTubers representing LGBTQ+ people in Hungary, where a new 'anti-paedophile' law means it is illegal to educate about or to promote LGBTQ+ issues to under-18s.
Discrimination against LGBTQ+ soldiers doesn’t stop just because a policy has been revoked | Canada | The Conversation | 22 Aug 2021
LGBT in Afghanistan: 'I could be killed on the spot' | BBC News | 20 Aug 2021
Ghana: anti-gay bill proposing 10-year prison sentences sparks outrage | The Guardian | 23 Jul 2021
Hungary fines bookshop chain over picture book depicting LGBT families | The Guardian | 8 Jul 2021
Outrage over shutdown of LGBTQ WeChat accounts in China | The Guardian | 8 Jul 2021
Hungary’s new anti-LGBTQ laws have spilled onto Europe’s soccer fields | LGBTQ Nation | 24 Jun 2021
Hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘LGBT ideology’ | The Guardian | 22 Jun 2021
Vatican urges Italy to stop proposed anti-homophobia law | The Guardian | 22 Jun 2021
Hungary’s LGBT protests and Juneteenth Day: human rights this fortnight – in pictures | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2021
Human rights body leaves Stonewall diversity scheme | BBC News | 23 May 2021
UK queer rights groups protest over anti-transgender, gay “charity” | Queerty* | 1 May 2021
There’s a gay wage gap – and it’s linked to discrimination | The Conversation | 29 Apr 2021
Hate group Family Research Council reminds followers that Bible says to kill the “immoral” gays | USA | LGBTQ Nation | 19 Mar 2021
LGBT rights: New threat for Poland's 'rainbow families' | BBC News | 17 Mar 2021
School calls transgender book “inappropriate” and offers counseling to kids who heard it | USA | LGBTQ Nation | 15 Mar 2021
The Real List of Trump’s “Unprecedented Steps” for the LGBTQ Community | Human Rights Campaign | 11 Jun 2020
Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights | BBC News | 25 Mar 2021
LGBTQ+ zines from places where being gay is condemned | Huck | 3 Mar 2021
From Russia to India and Hong Kong, we take a look at the zines which are carving out vital spaces of self-expression for queer people in countries where same-sex relationships still remain taboo.
Men caned 77 times in Indonesia after 'being caught having sex' | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2021
Two men receive 77 lashes in public as punishment for having sex with each other | LGBTQ Nation | 28 Jan 2021
Inside Nigeria’s queer OnlyFans scene | Huck | 28 Jan 2021
2020 was the worst year for LGBTQ rights in Europe. But activists are ready to fight back | LGBTQ Nation | 29 Dec 2020
LGBT Rights: Uganda, Russia And Saudi Arabia Show Why The Fight For Equality Continues | Huff Post | 26 Dec 2020
The dangerous and oppressive countries where same-sex love is still a crime, mapped | Pink News | 16 Dec 2020
‘Don’t come back, they’ll kill you for being gay’ | BBC News | 28 Jul 2020
For years Mohamed's family tried to make him more like other boys - tougher, more "masculine". They even sent him to have a female spirit driven out with hallucinogenic drugs. Eventually, writes Layla Mahmood, they decided to kill him.
Polish Jews plead with politicians to learn from the horrors of the Holocaust and stop ‘dehumanising’ LGBT+ people | Pink News | 17 Jun 2020
How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian | 16 Jun 2020
LGBT+ rights movements are strongest when they support other progressive causes and are supported in return | Openly | 12 Jun 2020
Thugs push gay man into the road and beat him senseless – twice – in ‘vicious homophobic attack’ in central London | Pink News | 22 May 2020
Coronavirus: 'I was attacked for hanging my rainbow flag' | BBC News | 22 May 2020
LGBT travel index puts Sweden top, and warns against some popular destinations | The Guardian | 22 Nov 2019

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