Bangladesh Opens First Islamic School For Transgender Students
In Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, a first of its kind madrassa – or Islamic school – for transgender students opened last week, welcoming 40 students through …
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The truth about Australia’s marriage equality campaign
Despite their pivotal roles in Australia’s marriage equality campaign, figures such as RODNEY CROOME AM, SHELLEY ARGENT OAM, IVAN HINTON-TEOH OAM and others have been …
Britain refuses thousands of LGBTIQ asylum claims
The UK Home Office has refused at least 3,100 asylum claims from people identifying as LGBTIQ, from countries where same-sex acts are criminalised, it has …
Police arrest 27 men in Bangladesh for being gay
Activists say the men were arrested to send a message to the LGBTI community that they are being monitored by the government.
Man arrested for murder of Bangladeshi gay activists
The man is an alleged leader of a local Islamic extremist group.
Gay rights activists hacked to death
AN editor for Bangladesh’s only LGBTI magazine and a gay activist have been ‘hacked’ to death by a group of men using machetes. Roopbaan senior …
Bangladesh rejects UN calls to decriminalise homosexuality
LGBTI activists in Bangladesh have spoken out against the Bangladeshi government for refusing to implement a United Nations recommendation to decriminalise homosexuality in the country. …