A day of commemoration will be held in South Africa in honor of all LGBT individuals murdered due to their sexual orientation today (24 April).

The day is being organized by Amnesty International and the local LGBT rights organisation Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee (EPOC).

It will involve a short memorial service, after which participants will be given the opportunity to write messages of hope and condolence that will remain at the site as a memorial.

LGBT rights groups in Hong Kong have announced they will pull out of a government run Sexual Minorities Forum after the government included so-called ‘ex-gay’ groups in it and failed to even schedule a meeting of the group in over two years.

The Sexual Minorities Forum was set up by the Hong Kong Government’s Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau in 2004 to explore how government could improve LGBT rights in the territory.

A musical that shows the 'negative lifestyle' of LGBT people, who end-up being struck by lightening and turning straight, is touring Malaysia. 

Director Rahman Adam was asked by the government to stage the musical to tackle the 'worsening social issue' of LGBT people in Malaysia, Malaysian Digest reports.

Amnesty International supporters in the UK have sent 15,000 messages in just 24 hours to Uganda urging it to drop plans to further criminalize homosexuality.

Danmei, gay fiction graphic novels, are huge in China right now. Girls in high school are reading them. Girls in college are reading them. Girls working in office are reading them.

Often featuring explicit sexual encounters between men, Danmei has an enormous fangirl readership.

A gay rights group in Nepal has blasted a TV channel for a 'despicable' news report which accused the LGBT campaigners of fraud and corruption.

Sagarmatha TV’s Khoj Khabar program, which bills itself as 'investigative journalism', claimed the Blue Diamond Society's leadership had been pocketing money meant to be used for activism and community work.

The 30-minute bulletin also accused the group, which spearheaded a successful campaign to have third gender people recognized as 'other' on citizenship identification cards, of neglecting Nepal's LGBT population.

In theory, all European citizens and residents should be able to safely travel and live throughout the EU.

Several economic and political policies of the European Union, such as the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, safeguard the free movement of people between the 27 member states.

In practice, however, regional laws and agreements sometimes fall short of ensuring for LGBT people the same rights enjoyed by all other European citizens and residents in the EU.

South Africa has been lauded for its all-inclusive constitution, which entrenches full equality for all, making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

But a group of empowered traditionalists have launched an attack on these rights through a parliamentary constitutional review process, exacerbating and honing the homophobic reality that has escaped the South African Constitution’s quest since its inception.

Protesters in Brussels called for the Ukranian parliament to reject a bill which bans 'homosexual propaganda' today (2 July).

Campaigners from ILGA-Europe picketed the country's Ukrainian Mission to the European Union after lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations in the Ukraine appealed to the international community to put pressure on politicians to stop the homophobic proposals.

The bill, similar to the one passed in St Petersburg, is due to enter its third and final reading in parliament this week.

Activists around the world have condemned a raid by Ugandan police on a gay rights workshop in Kampala, warning harrassment of LGBT people by authorities is becoming worryingly common.

Police interrupted the meeting at the Esella Country Hotel on the outskirts of the African capital on Monday (18 June) and questioned people in attendance who included activists from Canada, Kenya and Rwanda.

Two men arrested for having sex aboard a cruise ship that had docked on the Caribbean island of Dominica pleaded guilty Thursday (22 March) to indecent exposure.

John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, both of Palm Springs, CA, were on a Celebrity Summit cruise ship when they were arrested by an officer on board after people on the dock saw them having intimate relations. Sex between two men is illegal on the island.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has responded in anger to the blocking of their website in Indonesia. ‘Oppressive governments cannot stop the tide of LGBT voices - whether they be on the internet, in the media or on the streets,’ said Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the IGLHRC in a statement this week.