Fear and Loathing

Roberts slams Australian sports for failing to curb homophobia

Ian Roberts, the first elite rugby league player to come out as gay, said Australian sport had not done enough to stop homophobia, as studies on Wednesday highlighted the level of discrimination faced by young lesbian, gay and bisexual athletes.

Hungary: Another constitutional amendment proposal could come to curb LGBTQ propaganda

The proposal to amend the Basic Law was announced by Tamás Gaudi-Nagy, head of the National Rights Protection Service. The aim of the initiators is for the Russian model, the parliament, to ban propaganda activities against traditional sexual relations and the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations.

Pakistan: Transgender rights defender Nayyab Ali physically assaulted

Nayyab Ali is a transgender rights defender and Chairperson of the All Pakistan Transgender Election Network. She also manages the ‘Khawaja Sira Community Centre’ in Okara, which offers a basic literacy and numeracy programme, vocational training, life skills education and driving classes for the transgender community.

Murdered, Suffocated And Burned Alive: 350 Transgender People Killed In 2020

The violence and horror of the murders, where transgender people were burned alive, suffocated and murdered, are catalogued by the project which also has the full list of all those killed this year.

TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2020

350 trans and gender-diverse people reported murdered in the last year

Turkey: Police detained 18 trans women, citing “corona measures”!

Police detained 18 trans women in İstanbul, citing "corona measures". Trans women were kept at the police station overnight. “They detained 18 trans women in the middle of the night, who were not even suspects and kept them in tiny rooms for hours during the pandemic” says Att. Hatice Demir.

Brazil: Invisible violence: the exclusion of LGBTI blacks

The dossier “ What is the color of the invisible? - The human rights situation of the black LGBTI population in Brazil “, prepared by the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, denounces the invisibility of the black LGBTI population from a social, political and economic point of view.

US: HRC Mourns Angel Unique, Black Trans Woman Killed in Memphis, Tenn.

Sadly, 2020 has already seen at least 34 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent means, the majority of which were Black and Latinx transgender women. We say at least because too often these stories go unreported -- or misreported.