On Friday, the authorities in Istanbul banned – yet again – the LGBT Pride Parade in the city. The fight for equality will continue, says Turkish LGBT activist Efe Songun.
The first ever LGBT Pride march takes place in eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) on Saturday. ‘This will be the day the government starts paying attention to us,’ its organizer says.
One of the best known human rights groups in Swaziland, which has changed its name to eSwatini, has snubbed the kingdom’s first LGBT Pride festival saying it is against biblical teaching, putting it at odds with a major funder, Swazimedia.blogspot reported.
Fernandez added that the organisation hopes that the registration will help them overcome their financial difficulties, which has limited them from assisting more people living with HIV/AIDS.
The very existence of LGBTI people in the Chechen Republic has been denied by Chechen and Russian public officials. To date, no substantive investigation has been conducted. More than 114 LGBTI people and members of their families have fled the Chechen Republic.
Among men who have sex with men, the use of long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to prevent HIV infection has the potential to reduce HIV transmission more than oral PrEP, according to the results of a modelling simulation published in The Lancet HIV.
According to a new United Nations study, high levels of LGBTI people in China, Thailand, and Philippines are harassed, bullied or discriminated against by others while at work because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC)
