Queer K-pop: chorus grows for gay rights in Asia

A growing network of LGBT+ choirs across Asia are using song to fight discrimination

Indonesian city orders LGBT+ raids after UK convicts serial rapist

The mayor said LGBT+ behaviours were condemned both by society and by religious teachings in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country

British veteran vows to fight on for LGBT+ rights after regaining medal

Ousalice, who served in the Falklands and the Middle East, had his medal removed after being found guilty of 'conduct prejudicial to good order and naval discipline'

Ecuador's LGBT+ community seen suffering deadliest year in a decade

Attacks against LGBT+ people are common across Latin America, where conservative religious values and widespread violence can be a deadly mix

INTERVIEW - Now China's top transgender star eyes politics

'If you have the power and the guts and will and thinking to do something for society, why not?'

U.S. Democrats seek release of transgender migrants in detention

LGBT+ people in ICE custody are nearly 100 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than are other people in detention

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'I will continue to fight': S.Korea's first transgender soldier vows to oppose dismissal

Byun Hui-su holds the rank of staff sergeant and had expressed hope of continuing to serve in the female corps

French Senate approves bill allowing IVF for single women, lesbians

Under existing law in France, IVF is available only to opposite-sex couples

Indonesia rights body condemns LGBT raids ordered by mayor after UK rape case

The mayor of Depok plans to enlist public order officers to raid residences of members of the LGBT community, according to a statement posted on the city's official website

Utah bans LGBTQ conversion therapy for children

The Republican-dominated state is the 19th U.S. state ban conversion therapy for children

Spain's new government spars with right on region's sex education veto

The ultra-conservative Vox party has long argued that such classes encourage pupils' interest in homosexuality and transgender identity

Israeli education minister implies homosexuality unnatural

Education Minister Rafael Peretz last year spoke favourably about gay "conversion therapy", a widely discredited method

OPINION: The LGBT+ community needs to question chemsex culture in light of the Sinaga trial

Ash Kotak

The trial of Reynhard Sinaga has thrown up uncomfortable questions for the LGBT community about just how common sexual abuse is at gay chemsex parties

OPINION: Japan’s transgender law needs to change

Honourable Michael Kirby

Mandatory sterilisation should be removed immediately

OPINION: Why emerging markets businesses should support LGBT+ rights

Parmesh Shahani

Companies are worried that open support for LGBT+ inclusion could trigger a backlash from emerging markets consumers - but evidence shows otherwise

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