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Costa Rica allows same-sex marriages in a first for Central America

Costa Rica becomes the 28th U.N. member state to recognise same-sex marriage and the first in Central America

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Malaysian wins landmark right to challenge Muslim gay sex ban

Test case for gay rights as LGBT+ groups fear rising intolerance in mostly Muslim Malaysia


Philip Normal, the UK's first openly HIV+ mayor, teams fashion with politics

The newly elected mayor of London's Lambeth borough hopes his victory will 'smash the stigma around HIV'


LGBT+ visibility builds acceptance, research finds

The research found that LGBT+ representation in the media makes people more receptive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people


FACTBOX-Gay marriage rights around the world

As Daritza Araya and Alexandra Quiros make history as the first same-sex couple to marry in Costa Rica, here are key facts about gay marriage around the world


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Larry Kramer, author known for his AIDS activism, dead at age 84

Activist Larry Kramer co-founded ACT UP, which made AIDS a national issue in the United States


Defying pandemic, gay couples hold first marriages in Costa Rica

As thousands of viewers watched on Facebook, gay couples married in Costa Rica after it became the first Central American country to introduce same-sex marriage


Zambian president pardons gay couple jailed for 15 years

The sentencing of Japhet Chataba and Steven Sambo last year sparked a row with the United States


China's same-sex couples heartened by property protection rights in new civil code

China's new civil code gives a property owner the power to grant another individual the right to live on the property for life


Morocco to try opposition editor accused of sexual assault

The editor of a newspaper regarded as the most critical of Morocco's government has denied sexually assaulting a man two years ago



Opinion

Larry Kramer: playwright, AIDS activist and writer (1935-2020)

Ash Kotak

In plays and novels, Larry Kramer detailed the LGBT+ experience in 1980s and '90s America. Through his AIDS activism, he helped save thousands of lives


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Zambia's president has pardoned a gay couple imprisoned for 15 years under colonial-era sodomy laws

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