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LGBTQ+ stories from around the world

Published: June 05, 2024

Every year Pride Month is recognised in June as a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ communities and raise awareness of the challenges they face in gaining equal rights. These stand-out stories demonstrate some of the key obstacles LGBTQ+ people are confronting around the world, such as climate risk, state censorship, election access and criminalisation.

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A nurse prepares a hormone blocker for transgender teenager in Madrid, Spain, December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Susana Vera
Socioeconomic InclusionWhat are puberty blockers and how are they used in trans care?
A Gay couple speak with Reuters as the signing of Ghana's anti-LGBT bill into law delays, in Accra, Ghana March 17, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
Socioeconomic InclusionWhat are the legal challenges to Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill?
A person enters a polling station in Rickmansworth, Britain, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
Socioeconomic InclusionLGBTQ+ rights: What are the Labour and Tory UK election pledges?
Demonstrators take part in the Equality March in support of the LGBT community, in Lodz, Poland June 26, 2021. Marcin Stepien/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
Money, Power & PeopleLGBTQ+ Poles push for swift action to combat rise of homophobia
People gather outside the building of Russia’s Supreme Court following a hearing to consider a request by the Ministry of Justice to recognize the LGBTQ movement as extremist in Moscow, Russia, November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Digital RightsDuolingo to vlogs: Russia's crackdown on LGBTQ+ content online
An election official marks the finger of a Kashmiri migrant with indelible ink at a special polling booth set up for Kashmiri migrants during the fourth phase of the general election in New Delhi, India, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
Socioeconomic InclusionStigma, paperwork: Hurdles hit transgender vote in India election
Drag artist known as Latiza Bombe hides on the terrace of a bar after they were attacked by a group of conservative Christians who identify as 'the Soldiers of God', in Beirut, Lebanon August 23, 2023. REUTERS/Emilie Madi
Socioeconomic InclusionNo place for queer people
A medical clinic officer holds a package of medicine at his working station that supports HIV/AIDS programmes in Kampala, Uganda June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa
Socioeconomic InclusionUganda anti-LGBTQ+ law threatens HIV gains as patients fear arrest
Equal Namibia participants marching at the Namibian Pride Parade, where the call for the decriminalisation of the Apartheid-era sodomy law was a focal point at the march in Windhoek
Socioeconomic InclusionLGBTQ+ Namibians await landmark court ruling on gay sex law
A woman looks at a damaged building at Punta Diamante beach a month after Hurricane Otis hit Acapulco, Mexico November 25, 2023. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
Climate RisksWhy are LGBTQ+ people more at risk from climate change?
For more than a decade, LGBTQ+ Nigerians have been targeted by criminals who entrap victims via dating apps. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Karif Wat
Digital Rights'I had been set up': LGBTQ+ Nigerians battle dating app traps
Nuke Herawati, 43, a trans woman who wears a recycled material dress to bring awareness to LGBT rights and environmental protection, looks in the mirror before a Trans Super Heroes fashion show at a traditional market in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 17, 2023. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
Climate RisksRain check: Climate change hits vulnerable Indonesian trans women

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