Fear and Loathing

Uganda's other refugee crisis: Discrimination forces many LGBT Ugandans to seek asylum

"LGBT persons face so many challenges in Uganda, from social exclusion — that is, being denied employment, education ... discrimination while accessing services that include health services — to worse: being arrested, disowned by family and friends and verbal and physically violent attacks,” said Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda.

US: The troubling politics of the Texas Supreme Court's reversal on same-sex benefits

Last month, the Texas Supreme Court voted unanimously to overturn a lower court ruling guaranteeing benefits to the spouses of gay and lesbian public employees.

Brazil as World LGBT Murder Capital and Rio’s Place in the Data

All of these political changes also share center stage with a growing crisis of racist, sexist, and homophobic violence taking place in the country. I