LGBTQ Rights

The new administration has committed to far-reaching human rights goals that could easily backfire.

Literature’s power to illuminate otherness makes it critical to leadership.

Yeliz Guzel’s pride choir brought LGBTQ Turks together—but left her ostracized.

Divided government or not, the incoming administration has several options for fixing the United States’ human rights record.

The so-called gender critical movement is illogical, anti-feminist, and cruel.

Female and LGBTQ soldiers may face more danger from their colleagues than their enemies. Here’s what the president-elect can do.

Central Europe’s battles over rights are dangerous, and Europe can’t risk handing Russia a victory.

The U.S. administration exports anti-abortion policies abroad and strips international agreements of references to “sexual orientation” and “gender identities.”

Skyrocketing housing prices threaten South Korea, the plight of LGBTQ people in Kashmir, and rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in Argentina. 

New Delhi claims that Kashmir used its semi-autonomous status to discriminate against sexual and gender minorities, but its own moves are doing more harm than good.

The U.S. secretary of state’s commission cherry picks the issues that suit its agenda while undermining international law and threatening LGBT and women’s rights.

This week’s Supreme Court decision ends one legal battle, but reveals why the country’s record is so poor.

Washington gives the country $500 million in support a year, he says, but has little to show for it in terms of cooperation and human rights.

The party is likely to win the vote, but it may eventually lose the broader cultural fight.

Judges declined to overturn colonial-era laws criminalizing same-sex relationships. Human Rights Watch’s Neela Ghoshal says it’s a setback with regional repercussions.

Gay employees were hounded from office in a dark episode of State Department history from the 1950s and ’60s, and many committed suicide.

Pakistan’s military boom is an economic bust, and looking back on the Christchurch attack.

Eastern Europe has long resisted same-sex marriage. Prague might be about to change that.