The “Whose Beloved Community? Black Civil and LGBT Rights” conference brings together LGBT and Civil Rights scholars, activists and other stakeholders to advance a more comprehensive vision of justice ...

Around the world, governments are scapegoating LGBT people to build popular support for their erosion of individual rights—often under the guise of protecting children. Participants cross the ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Internationally, the struggle for LGBT rights remains daunting in much of the world. Stonewall helped inspire successful activist movements in Western Europe (a major British LGBT-rights group is ...

The LGBT movement is currently being consumed by the antisemitic “pro-Palestine” movement, to the point that even the biggest champions of the former now find themselves as targets of their left-wing ...

Participants of Vietnam's first gay-pride parade ride bicycles in Hanoi on Aug. 5, 2012Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters “Oppressive.” “Brutal.” “Terrible and worsening.” These were some of the fierce ...

(Berlin, May 28, 2026) – Russian authorities have banned nine groups that provide support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as “extremist,” Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

Last week, a St. Petersburg court in a closed door hearing, designated a leading Russian LGBT rights group, Coming Out, as an “extremist organization.” The ruling delivers another severe blow to a ...

Days after Turkish authorities launched a sweeping crackdown on LGBT organizations, activists, and support groups, Erdogan stood before the United Nations General Assembly and denounced what he called ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...