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President John Mahama says he wants to open dialogue on the law, while one legislator said he would rather be dead than live in a country that affirmed LGBTQ+ rights.
There are more than 60 places in the world where it’s illegal to be gay.
Forty-four-year-old Manuel Guerrero Aviña was detained in February after being entrapped by law enforcement through a fake Grindr profile, his family says.
The Stop Pedophilia bill claims to protect children, but critics and educators say it's a dangerous attack on LGBTQ rights.
Trump has yet to condemn brutal antigay laws greenlit by the Sultan of Brunei, who also owns The Beverly Hills Hotel -- a popular site for the president's sordid past.
The raid continues a series of anti-LGBTQ+ actions by Indonesian authorities.
The vote was postponed ahead of a same-day visit by the country’s Prime Minister with Pres. Joe Biden in the Oval Office earlier this week.
"Our society has moral principles," Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Sarif said at a press conference, earning international condemnation.
Sharia law goes into effect next week, mandating a grisly death for LGBTQ people and adulterers.
A Ugandan official says the abhorrent legislation is needed because of "recruitment by gay people."
Amnesty International calls a proposed change to the human rights act a "shameful step backwards."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's official Web site and Iran's state news agency have cut out any reference to gays -- including his comment that there are none in Iran -- in their Farsi-language transcripts of his controversial appearance this week at Columbia University.
"This kind of reporting is simply unacceptable," the IOC said.
Two trans women and one gay man were killed in separate attacks. Human Rights Watch is concerned about the safety of LGBTQ+ folks there.
