Fear and Loathing

Indonesia: FPI and authorities in Pekanbaru raid office of HIV prevention group on suspicion of LGBT activity

An organization that promotes in HIV/AIDS prevention and sex worker rights may be the latest casualty in Indonesia’s ongoing LGBT moral panic after a raid on one of their offices, by a local hardline Islamic organization, in Riau’s capital city of Pekanbaru.

US: Faith-based shelter fights to keep out transgender women

A conservative Christian law firm that has pushed religious issues in multiple states urged a U.S. judge on Friday to block Alaska's largest city from requiring a faith-based women's shelter to accept transgender women.