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Read the latest updates about LGBT issues around the world. The Advocate is an international source for developments pertaining to gay world news, politics, Prides, politicians, and rights that affect the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Learn about antigay laws, human rights violations, landmark victories, and failures of governments to protect the rights of its citizens. From Asia, to North America, to South America, to Europe, to Africa, The Advocate provides transcontinental coverage of the issues that matter to our readers.
Andry Hernandez Romero with his parents
News

Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: 'They told us we would die there'

“I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.

​People protesting ICE in New York City
News

Gay Jamaican asylum seeker  'suffering' in ICE custody, lawyer says

Rickardo Anthony Kelly was arrested by ICE at an immigration courthouse while waiting for his hearing.
packages of birth control pills with an IUD
News

Trump administration will incinerate $10 million worth of birth control for poor women

The Trump administration is literally torching nearly $10 million worth of birth control.

United Nations building
News

U.N. draft report uses pseudoscience to claim gender dysphoria is 'socially contagious'

The UN's preliminary report on sex-based violence incorrectly claims trans acceptance "erase[s] the legal category of women.”

June 2018 Giant Chess board and players at the Hirschgarten Park Munich Upper Bavaria Germany
News

Trans teen’s chess win in Germany prompts backlash

Chess "is diverse and inclusive," the German Chess Federation said in rejecting calls for a ban on trans competitors.

Brussels Belgium protest sign showing Russian President Vladimir Putin in drag makeup against a rainbow another says gay rights human rights during protest against the detention of gay men in concentration camps in Chechnya
Politics

Bipartisan bill looks to sanction foreign officials who attack LGBTQ+ human rights

The Global Respect Act would allow sanctions against those who commit human rights violations against LGBTQ+ people.

Former Australian police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon is facing murder charges.
Crime

Ex-police officer pleads not guilty in killing of gay TV reporter and his boyfriend

Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty for the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
sugar cane grown in Aceh Indonesia and sharia court
News

Men caught kissing in Indonesia sentenced to public caning

The college students were seen entering a park restroom together and now must endure public lashings in the only Indonesian province under fundamentalist religious law.

Gaya International Airport entrance
World

Gaya International Airport will keep 'GAY' code, despite conservative push to change it

The airport in Gaya, India will keep its "GAY" three-letter code despite numerous requests to change it.

Family of gay man killed in Air India disaster received the wrong remains to bury beside his husband
News

Family of gay man killed in Air India disaster mistakenly received wrong remains

The mother of Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek was told in India her DNA matched remains found at the crash site, but a coroner in the U.K. said that isn't true.
Evin House of Detention prison in Tehran Iran
World

100 transgender inmates presumed dead after Israeli missiles struck Iranian prison last month

Israel targeted the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran on June 23.

person sitting on the bed reading from a tablet alongside 2020 Riot police stop and search pedestrian during a protest in Hong Kong China
World

Chinese police arrest dozens of gay erotica writers in pornography crackdown

Attorneys in China claim between 30 and 50 writers have been arrested this year for writing gay erotica.

Budapest Hungary LGBTQIA Pride March across the Széchenyi Chain Bridge June 2021
News

Budapest Pride to proceed despite Hungary's LGBTQ+ event ban

A Pride parade protesting Hungary's LGBTQ+ crack down has been backed by over 30 foreign embassies – but not the United States.

Two gay men publicly caned in Indonesia after being caught kissing
World

Two gay men publicly caned in Indonesia after being caught kissing

Two men were caned under Aceh's law prohibiting same-sex sexual relations even though they weren't caught having sex.

US President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office
Voices

If it means saving Ukraine and not caving to Putin, European leaders think the answer is kissing Trump’s a**

Opinion: Putting flattery at the feet of an habitual loser risks putting the world in an unenviable position, writes John Casey.

transgender rights protest London UK
World

Which country is about to implement a nationwide transgender bathroom ban?

The U.K. is set to ban trans people from single-sex facilities — even some that match their biological sex.

Noa Lynn van Leuven of the Netherlands throws during 2025 Betfred World Matchplay Blackpool England
News

Trans darts champion laments ban against trans women as 'loss for the trans community'

Noa-Lynn van Leuven said the World Darts Federation's new gender eligibility policy "does affect me personally."

Venezuelan stylist Andry Hernandez Romero greets family members after returning home
News

Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador

He called it "an encounter with torture and death."

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andry hernandez romero alongside prison officer guarding gang members in a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center aka CECOT in Tecoluca San Vicente El Salvador April 2025
News

Gay asylum seeker Andry Hernández Romero remains in danger, advocates warn

After months in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, the gay makeup artist has been freed, but not returned to safety.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer
World

U.K. Prime Minister pushes to ban trans people from single-sex bathrooms, sports, and beyond

Keir Starmer said the ruling that trans women are not considered women under the nation's Equality Act must be applied "as soon as possible."