Sweden: Mandatory Sterilization of Transgender People Officially Ends
January 15 2013 5:59 PM ET

Sweden: Mandatory Sterilization of Transgender People Officially Ends

Michelle Garcia

Sweden ends its 41-year-old law mandating sterilization for transgender people.

WATCH Ugandan LGBT Group Gets Its Day in US Court
January 09 2013 8:00 AM ET

WATCH: Ugandan LGBT Group Gets Its Day in U.S. Court

Sunnivie Brydum

A federal judge in Springfield, Mass., heard opening arguments Monday in Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Scott Lively, the first case of its kind, which seeks to hold an American evangelical responsible for conspiring with religious and government officials to persecute LGBT people in Uganda.

Cameroon Gay Men Released From 5 Year Sentence
January 08 2013 3:45 PM ET

Cameroon: Gay Men Released From 5-Year Sentence

Michelle Garcia

An appeals court in Cameroon Monday overturned a five-year sentence for two men found guilty of homosexuality.

LGBT Ugandans File Suit Against Antigay American Pastor Scott Lively
January 04 2013 8:32 PM ET

LGBT Ugandans File Suit Against Antigay American Pastor

Sunnivie Brydum

The first case of its kind, Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Scott Lively seeks to hold the antigay American pastor responsible for his persecution of LGBT people in Uganda.

January 04 2013 12:48 PM ET

Archbishop Nixes Gay-Friendly London Masses

PHOTOS: We Are Here LGBT in Uganda
January 02 2013 5:00 AM ET

We Are Here: LGBTI in Uganda

Sunnivie Brydum

American-born gay photographer D. David Robinson collected portraits and first-person accounts from lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex Ugandans, then turned to The Advocate to offer these brave activists a forum to tell their stories in their own words.

Paintings With Muslim Clerics in Gay Settings Cause Uproar in Pakistan
December 29 2012 4:35 PM ET

Paintings With Muslim Clerics in Gay Settings Cause Uproar in Pakistan

Sunnivie Brydum

School officials at the National College of the Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, received threats of violence after publishing a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics with homoerotic undertones.

WATCH Ugandan Trans Man Calls Antigay Reverend Ssempa Hooligan
December 18 2012 4:49 PM ET

WATCH: Ugandan Trans Man Confronts Antigay Rev. Ssempa

Sunnivie Brydum

A transgender man appeared on Ugandan television's Morning Breeze to talk about homosexuality, but he could barely get a word in edgewise with antigay Reverend Martin Ssempa's vitriolic hate speech and constant interruptions.

Tiny Caribbean Island Becomes Same Sex Marriage Refuge
December 14 2012 7:40 PM ET

Tiny Caribbean Island Becomes Same-Sex Marriage Refuge

Neal Broverman

Saba, a tiny island in the Dutch Caribbean, is becoming a travel destination for same-sex couples looking to get married in paradise.

Ugandan Parliament Breaks For Holiday Without Vote on Kill The Gays Bill
December 14 2012 6:51 PM ET

Ugandan Parliament Takes a Break But Could Soon Be Back At It

Sunnivie Brydum

The Parliament will resume in January, when it could once again consider the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill"

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