World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap
The Human Dignity Trust has released a report, Breaking the Silence: Criminalisation of Lesbians and…
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US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings
Plus: Religious Nationalists Support Anti-Gay Push In Kyrgyzstan; Malaysian Religious Police Target Trans People; and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap.
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LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap
The Global Philanthropy Project has published “The Perfect Storm: The closing space for LGBT civil…
Read MoreIntolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap
The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaboration of more than a dozen…
Read MoreChallenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap
In the Guardian, Bisi Alimi writes, “If you say being gay is not African, you…
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Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic
Authorities in Bangladesh announced yesterday that three men suspected of the brutal machete murders of…
Read MoreChurch=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap
A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA law school and NORC at the University…
Read More‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap
Americans Abroad The Human Rights Campaign has launched a social media campaign targeting American religious…
Read MoreNoble Prize-Winner Yunus Under Fire For “Un-Islamic” Gay Rights Stance
Only, Bangladeshi Muslims don’t seem to actually care.
Read MoreMurder of Bangladeshi Girl Not Example of Shari’ah
Case already being spun as shari’ah gone wild.
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