J. Lester Feder
Emails Show "Pro-Family" Activists Feeding Contacts To Russian Nationalists
"The empire strikes back :)" Emails posted online by mysterious leak publishers suggest a concerted effort to "push the pro-family worldwide movement."
J. Lester Feder
Egyptian Police Arrest Men At Cairo Bathhouse "Group Sex Party"
A news team told police that the bathhouse was used for "group perversions," and plans to air a program on Wednesday on "the dens for spreading AIDS in Egypt."
J. Lester Feder
U.S. Ignored Human Rights Abuses Until LGBT People Were Under Assault, Say Gambian Activists
"All of sudden they arrest these 15 gays and lesbians, and we're seeing really what seems to be a firestorm."
J. Lester Feder
Latvian Ruling Party Official Resigns After Praising Nazi Extermination Of Gays On Twitter
"Thank God — at one time, the Germans shot them. It improves fertility," Unity Party official Inga Priede tweeted.
J. Lester Feder
EU Countries Banned From Requiring LGBT Asylum Seekers To "Prove" Their Sexuality
EU's top court issued a ruling that protects the rights of asylum seekers on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
J. Lester Feder
How The Father Of Soviet Pornography Became A Crusader Against “Gay Propaganda”
“I was the father of the sexual revolution, and now I'm becoming the father of the sexual counterrevolution,” Vladimir Linderman told BuzzFeed News in the Latvian capital, Riga.
J. Lester Feder
South African Court Sentences Man To 30 Years In Prison For Rape And Murder Of Black Lesbian
The brutal murder of Duduzile Zozo forced the South African government to get serious about an epidemic of violence targeting black lesbians.
J. Lester Feder
“They’re Going To Kill Us”: LGBT Gambians Fear They’re Next In Police Raids
BuzzFeed News spoke to the people who fear that the West African nation's president plans to make good on his promise to exterminate LGBT people the "same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes."
J. Lester Feder
LGBT Rights Group Wins Landmark Case In Botswana
This is the second ruling from an African court this year upholding the right to form LGBT organizations.
J. Lester Feder
Catholic Archbishop Compares LGBT People To Undocumented Americans: "Love The Sinner"
"We have to help people to realize that they should not demonize the undocumented; nobody should be demonized because of their sexual orientation," said Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski to BuzzFeed News.
J. Lester Feder
The LGBT Kids Who Flee Their Countries — And Their Families — For The U.S.
Some of the thousands of Central American children trying to get to the United States are seeking a love and acceptance they can't get at home.
J. Lester Feder
New Anti-LGBT Legislation Drafted In Uganda
And it's even more draconian than the Anti-Homosexuality Act, struck down earlier this year.
J. Lester Feder
Victory For Transgender Activists Over Sharia Law
"As long as section 66 is in force the appellants will continue to live in uncertainty, misery, and indignity. Therefore, section 66 is unconstitutional and void."
J. Lester Feder
Latvian Foreign Minister Confirms He Is Gay
The announcement made waves in the former Soviet republic and across its border with Russia.
J. Lester Feder
Egyptian Court Sentences Eight Men In "Wedding Video" To Three Years In Jail
This is the most high-profile prosecution of people alleged to be gay in Egypt in more than a decade.
J. Lester Feder
Armenian Activists Lose Suit Against Newspaper That Named "Homosexual Lobbyists"
"Hate speech and homophobia [are] highly sponsored by high level officials of Armenia," said activists denouncing the decision.
J. Lester Feder
Indian Man Arrested For Homosexuality After Being Filmed On Wife's Spy Cameras
"My husband is a homosexual performing acts against nature," the wife said in her complaint to Bangalore police.
J. Lester Feder
Singapore's Highest Court Upholds Sodomy Law
"Whilst we understand the deeply-held personal feelings of the appellants, there is nothing that this court can do to assist them. Their remedy lies, if at all, in the legislative sphere," the court rules.
J. Lester Feder
Ugandan Court Dismisses High-Profile Case Against Ugandan LGBT Activist
Sam Ganafa was arrested in November 2013 in the run-up to passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act.
J. Lester Feder
Kazakh Music Students Win Lawsuit Claiming Moral Damages From Poster Showing Same-Sex Kiss
A court awarded them $188,000 because of a poster of 19th-century Kazakh composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly kissing Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
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