Just a few days after Canada Montreal Pride 2017 made a statement calling a Montreal police intervention “excessive,” police chief Philippe Pichet said sorry to the LGBTQ community.
Plans for an annual festival in Singapore supporting LGBT rights came under threat last year when the government denied sponsorship requests from multinational companies. In the end, however, the Pink Dot festival went ahead with the backing of more than 100 Singaporean companies.
The annual march of the members of LGBTIQ community in Kerala, under the auspices of Queer Pride Keralam, was held in Kochi on August 12. This time, the march was flooded with participants with more than 1,000 individuals coming under the sexual minority group taking part in various programmes.
'Trans people have historically been the victims of stigma, discrimination and violence... which has made it difficult to exercise their human rights.'
Members of Nepal’s LGBT community were once openly derided as “social pollutants,” but now enjoy social and political rights—including legal recognition of a third gender—that put the country leagues ahead of much of the rest of the world.
In small-town India, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender people are still grappling with violence from family, society and pervasive bias because of section 377 that criminalises homosexuality
