Lucy Middleton

As U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to officially become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, more than 1,100 prominent LGBTQ+ advocates threw their weight behind her this week in an open letter of support.

Advocacy groups, including the Human Rights Campaign and the National LGBTQ Task Force, have praised the former senator's track record of progressing rights for the community.

Donald Trump's decision to name J.D. Vance as his running mate for November's U.S. election has been criticised by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, who say the Ohio senator has a history of working against the progression of gay and transgender rights.

Vance, a best-selling author who was elected to the Senate in 2022, was announced as the Republican Party's nominee for vice president on Monday.

Britain's new Labour government has said it will uphold a ban that stops trans and gender-diverse children from accessing puberty-blocking drugs, a contested treatment for children who wish to transition.

As more adolescents seek to medically transition around the world, parents, doctors and authorities are grappling with what treatment should be made available to them and at what age.

A transgender non-binary runner is heading to the Paris Olympics this month after qualifying for the U.S. team by winning the women's 1,500-metre race in trials.

Nikki Hiltz, who was assigned female at birth but uses they/them pronouns, set a U.S. trials record during the meet in Eugene, Oregon on June 30.

Courts in Ghana are considering multiple legal challenges to the West African country's anti-LGBTQ+ bill with its top court due to deliver its first decision on July 27.

The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values bill, passed unanimously by parliament in February, will further criminalise same-sex relations and ban the "promotion" of LGBTQ+ activities.

As Britain prepares to go to the polls on July 4, the nation's two main parties have released their manifestos, with LGBTQ+ issues and policies featuring in both.

Key topics - such as gender-affirming care, conversion therapy and single-sex spaces - have been major points of discussion since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an election would take place.

Anjali Siroya has spent years fighting for transgender rights in India, but among the hundreds of millions of votes cast in the giant election that ended last week, her ballot was missing.

Like thousands of other trans Indians, the 26-year-old decided not to vote because she did not want to register with her Aadhaar national ID, which lists her male birth gender.

Europe is increasingly polarised over gay and transgender rights, as reports of hate crime and harassment reach record levels across the continent, new research showed this week.

The annual ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map and Index, which ranks 49 countries on their rights protections, praised Germany, Iceland, Bulgaria and Slovenia for passing laws to tackle LGBTQ+ hate crime during the last year.

A new study has highlighted the extent to which LGBTQ+ people can be uniquely affected by climate change, underlining the particular and underreported vulnerabilities of a community that also often suffers from poverty and discrimination.

The report by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that same-sex couples in the United States run a greater risk of being negatively affected by climate change than their heterosexual peers.

LGBTQ+ rights groups are concerned that gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees could face discrimination and abuse if they are sent to Rwanda under Britain's policy to deport asylum seekers to the East African nation.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the contentious plan.