Request for an advisory opinion under Protocol No. 16 to the Convention On 16 October 2018 the Court received a request for an advisory opinion on the question of surrogacy from the French Court of Cassation. The Panel of the Grand Chamber having accepted the request on 3 December 2018, a Grand Chamber was constituted in order to consider it.
Turkey: Organisation filed criminal complaint against Turkish Islamist newspaper
Japan: 10 same-sex couples to sue government over marriage equality
Facebook needs to take responsibility for the horrifying impact it’s had on the global strikedown of LGBT+ rights
Thailand: Partnership bill may still not pass NLA
Notes On "Camp" by Susan Sontag, Published in 1964.
Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character." . . . Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as "a camp," they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.
Meet Solongo Batsukh, Mongolia’s transgender beauty queen who refuses to stay hidden despite backlash on social media
She is among the few LGBT people who have dared to come out in Mongolia, where some 80 per cent of the community remain in the closet, according to a UN survey
Batsukh wants to dispel the image that transgender women can only be sex workers or strippers living on the fringes of society, instead becoming a celebrity in her home country
China: Notes From My Time Surveying China’s Gay Community in 1993
US warns on Tanzania travel due to 'crime and terror'
Malaysian Activists Call for Justice After Video Shows Two Gay Men Being Attacked by Vigilante Mob
The Global HIV Community is Getting a Divorce
The breaking point has been reached. After months of activism that has failed to convince the International AIDS Society (IAS) to withdraw their “AIDS2020” conference from San Francisco, activists have now announced an alternative conference, “HIV2020,” to be held in Mexico City at the same time as AIDS2020.