Homophobia

Daria Kasatkina slams Russian stance to homosexuality in coming-out video

Broadcasting homosexual "propaganda" to youngsters has been banned in Russia since 2013.

Kerala HC allows lesbian couple Adhila Nassrin and Fathima Noora to live together 

Adhila alleged that her partner Fathima was allegedly abducted by her relatives last week. She also filed a police complaint earlier regarding this

'An attempt to strangulate an artiste's voice': Onir opens up on Defence Ministry's objection to his true-life story of a gay Major

"You’re humiliating the queer community by saying that the queer community is not ‘fit enough’ to serve the nation because you’re being judged not by your skillset, but by something that is nobody’s business, which is your sexuality," says Onir.

LGBTQ community finds homophobia has a free run on Instagram, and pleas for help don't really work

A live video aimed to provide a safe space for the LGBTQIA+ community to express freely soon turned into a homophobic nightmare but Instagram did little to secure their space

Graham Norton's novel Home Stretch is an intimate story of a gay man's return to his once-homophobic home, Ireland

The book, which HarperVia is releasing in the United States on Tuesday, is about how the tendrils of pain from a single incident can extend far into the future, but it’s also about fleeing your home because you don’t feel you belong there, as Norton did when he left Ireland in the early 1980s.

Amid backlash against LGBTQ rights, Warsaw holds gay pride parade after a two-year gap

The joyful and colourful celebration was tinged with fear of what the future holds for the rights of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people after setbacks first in Russia and now in Hungary.

'We are here': Thousands reject Hungarian conservative lawmakers' anti-LGBTQ+ legislation

The Hungarian amendments would outlaw any depiction or discussion of different gender identity and sexual orientation in public, including in schools and the media.

Olga Tokarczuk, Antoni Porowski among board members of organisation countering Polish govt's homophobia

Catholic Church leaders have also used the term “rainbow plague” to describe the movement for greater rights for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people.

Read an excerpt from The Anger of Saintly Men: Anubha Yadav's debut novel examines how society informs ideologies of masculinity

The award-winning author and filmmaker writes a compelling prose which forces us to examine the way boys are raised in our country, in the tight grip of a patriarchal mould that shapes their understanding of themselves and of what it means to be a man.

In a first, Brazil twins undergo gender confirmation surgery together, say they 'never identified as boys'

Dr Jose Carlos Martins of Transgender Center Brazil, a clinic in the southeastern city of Blumenau, performed the five-hour surgery on the twins one day apart