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Pakistan: Transgender man and his wife imprisoned in Pakistan
Background and details of the case of Shamial Raj and Shahzina Tariq. What you can do to help.
Palestine: LGBTQ group Aswat celebrates five years of activism
On the 28th of March 2007, Aswat celebrates five fruitful years of engaging in social change and raising awareness in the Palestinian community at their conference in Haifa, "Home and Exile in Queer Identity".
UK: Multi-faith Conference investigates faith, homophobia and human rights
Delegates deplore religious prejudice - Call for a united response across the whole community against discrimination and to promote human rights.
UK: Telling our stories
The Safra Project has begun an online collection of personal stories of lesbian, bisexual and trans women to break the isolation of women around the world who are accessing their website.
WSF: Attacks against lesbian, gay and bisexual people: Warning signs of fundamentalism?
International: War, religion, and gay rights
When gay people openly assert their identities as such, whether through parades or through the demand for full and equal social recognition, reactionaries cannot stand it. Why? Two answers, one personal and one political.
انقسام الكنيسة الأمريكية بسبب قضية مثليي الجنس
Iraq: Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target
The country is seeing a sudden escalation of brutal attacks on what are being called the 'immorals' - homosexual men and children as young as 11 who have been forced into same-sex prostitution.
UK: Open letter to the gay press on EuroPride 2006
EuroPride 2006 was billed as a Pride of diversity. Watching the morning march, with its float of gay Muslim groups Safra & Imaan, and Beit Klal Yisrael, Black Lesbians UK, as well as trans, BDSM, & many other groups, the diversity motto seemed convincing.
International: Threats and survival: the religious right and LGBT strategies in Muslim contexts
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Europeans referred to same-sex relationships as the “Persian disease,” the “Turkish disease,” or the “Egyptian vice.”
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