Lgbt Rights

President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday (January 21) and got a sermon he may not have been expecting: an appeal to protect immigrants and respect gay rights. A day after declaring in his inauguration speech that there were only two genders in America and signing executive orders to crack down on immigrants, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde pleaded with Trump, from the pulpit, to show mercy on people. Watch here for more details -

Love is Love in Prime Video’s life-affirming and hopeful Rainbow Rishta

After the low of being asked to appeal to the next booth for the right to marry, Rainbow Rishta serves as a calming, defiant and maybe necessary epilogue in LGBTQ+ rights in India.

India-Canada diplomatic strain; gang warfare; school protests; Punjab gangster killing

Multiple videos are doing rounds on social media in which protestors can be seen chanting 'No more silence' against the Canadian government

Pride Month: 3 Indian queer couples on Netflix’s ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’

To marry or move? The show stirs up the gay marriage argument that members of the LGBTQIA+ community have petitioned for in the Supreme Court.

LGBT rights: Is there a right age for people to decide their gender?

The American Medical Association is recommending that the US stop the practice of including a “male” or “female” designation on public portions of birth certificates, saying the marker can cause more harm than good for transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans.

Italy adopts new LGBT strategy just before right-wing takeover

The 30-page "National LGBT+ Strategy 2022-2025," formally approved on October 6, aims to fight discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in schools, universities, hospitals, prisons, sports clubs, and the workplace in general.

Pride Month 2022: Reading from an Indian glossary of LGBTQIA terms

“Let’s Talk Gender”, a Tinder x Gaysi initiative, aims to advance conversations on gender identities beyond the binary.

Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist, dies at 90

Winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Desmond Tutu was an activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, and a retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.

She founded India’s only homegrown matchmaking app for the LGBTQ+ community

Ex-cofounder of Mobikwik, UX designer Sunali Aggarwal has recently launched a homegrown dating app for the LGBTQ+ community.

HC orders reinstatement of home guard sacked for being gay

The court has held that the sexual orientation of the person is his individual choice and any act of treating it as an offence would be interference in the right of the privacy of the person concerned.

Happy Pride Month 2019: 'Love is love', all about equality and inclusiveness for LGBT community

Happy Pride Month everyone. Let us all come together in solidarity to encourage a holistic acceptance towards the LGBT community and help solve the contentious altercations over their rights.

Japan ruling party under fire after MP calls LGBT 'unproductive'

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) politician Mio Sugita, an ally of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, sparked protests over an article she wrote in July questioning spending taxpayers' money on LGBT couples

Section 377 persecutes sexual minorities in India: Humsafar Trust

The study suggests that sexual minorities are vulnerable to multiple forms of interpersonal violence committed against them by family members, neighbours and even intimate partners

Cannot wait for majoritarian governments to strike down Section 377: Supreme Court

Justice Nariman pointed out how Alan Turing, the popular English Mathematician and computer scientist, committed suicide after he was chemically castrated

Pride of identity and inclusivity: How the rainbow flag came to represent the LGBTQ community

The next time the rainbow flag unfurls at a Pride parade, you'll know exactly what it means

Will Right to Privacy judgment influence SC verdict on Section 377?

The bench had emphasized that the LGBTQ community should not be denied their rights and be discriminated against because their “views, beliefs or way of life does not accord with the mainstream”

Homosexual behaviour not an aberration, but a variation, says SC while hearing Sec 377 pleas

Justice Indu Malhotra made an observation that members of the LGBTQ community are discriminated against and hence are hesitant to even seek healthcare

SC hearing on Section 377: What happened in court today

A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Deepak Misra is hearing curative pleas to quash Section 377 of the IPC

Explained: How the plea to quash Section 377 made its way to the Supreme Court again

In January 2018, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court decided to revisit the 2013 judgment “because of the constitutional issues involved” and concurred that it was “appropriate to send this to a larger bench”

Instagram apologises for 'mistakenly' taking down photo of two men kissing

After her picture was taken down, the photographer said she went through each and every postulate and “couldn’t find anything applicable to the image – there was no unblurred nipples, no sex, no close-ups of fully-nude buttocks”

India blocks visits by US officials despite warmer ties

Washington has been seeking to send Susan Coppedge, its newly appointed anti-people trafficking ambassador, and Randy Berry, its special envoy for LGBT rights, to New Delhi this month.