1+ week, 5+ day ago   (703+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 2 — Indonesian doctor “Pierre” says he is always on edge. He is gay, but hides it, with anti-LGBTQ sentiment on the rise in the Southeast Asian country. Not even his parents know. Indonesia has witnessed a spate of very…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (703+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 2 — Indonesian doctor “Pierre” says he is always on edge. He is gay, but hides it, with anti-LGBTQ sentiment on the rise in the Southeast Asian country. Not even his parents know. Indonesia has witnessed a spate of very…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (462+ words) The human rights situation for LGBTQ+ people in Indonesia is deteriorating rapidly, warn activists, in part fuelled by a 2025 national defence policy that lists the “spread of LGBTQ+ culture” among the country’s threats. Indonesia does not have a national criminal…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1794+ words) You won’t see the war straight away as one big picture. Rather, it’s a series of small changes in everyday life: in cafés, you sit next to veterans with prosthetic limbs; parties start as early as the afternoon because of…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (190+ words) The Member of Parliament for Ho West, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, has suggested that homosexuality could be corrected through medicine, arguing that hormonal changes have been identified as the underlying factor that influences a person’s sexual behaviour. Please wait, loading captcha…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (424+ words) Slovakia is defying a European Union court ruling that all member states must recognise same-sex marriages performed in other EU countries even if they don’t perform them themselves. The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) set the European Union-wide…...