Sentenced for a selfie: Middle East police target LGBTQ+ phones
BEIRUT/LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Before Omar leaves home in the morning, he carefully uninstalls the apps…
Iran’s Khamenei says homosexuality example of West’s immorality
DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei described homosexuality as part of the “moral deprivation”…
NY man pleads guilty to mailing threats to LGBTQ groups
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A retired teacher who threatened violence against the New York City LGBTQ pride…
Federal investigation of LGBTQ dating ban at BYU dismissed
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ…
Arizona Senate passes anti-trans sports ban
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to bar transgender girls and women from competing on the…
Mississippi mayor withholds library funds over LGBTQ books
RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from…
LGBT+ fans tackle homophobic chanting in English football
LONDON, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – England’s decision to classify a soccer chant as anti-gay shows a…
Support your children if they are gay, pope tells parents
VATICAN CITY, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Wednesday that parents of gay children should not…
Christian MP goes on trial in Finland for calling homosexuality a disorder
HELSINKI (Reuters) – A Finnish Christian democrat MP and former minister of the interior went on trial on…
LGBTQ dating ban at BYU probed in federal investigation
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ…