U.S. high court turns away dispute over gay worker protections
Workplace protections are a major source of concern for advocates of rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
Cake fights stir up gay rights debate in US and N.Ireland
"If the civil rights laws can be evaded that easily, then they really become meaningless in many circumstances and that takes us down a very dangerous and hurtful path"
New vaccine, long-acting drug trials buoy hopes in HIV fight
Latest studies to enrol thousands of African women
"Terrorized at home", Central America's LGBT people to flee for their lives - report
El Salvador and Honduras have some of the world's highest murder rates, and LGBT people are particularly vulnerable to macho, powerful gangs who control entire neighbourhoods
Istanbul district bans LGBT event planned for Saturday
Gay pride parades have been banned in Istanbul for the last two years
Colombia's war-time rape victims silenced and without justice - report
Armed groups used sexual violence, including gang rape, to instill fear in communities, as a way of imposing social and military control in an area, and as a form of punishment
Second U.S. judge halts Trump ban on transgender troops
Trump announced in July that he would ban transgender people from the military
LGBT hate crimes double in Russia after ban on 'gay propaganda'
Homosexuality in Russia was a criminal offence until 1993
Turkish capital bans LGBT cinema, exhibitions
Authorities in Ankara had already banned a German gay film festival on Wednesday
Transgender woman sues Massachusetts for housing her in men's prison
The suit, which advocates believe is the first of its kind filed in the state, asks the prisons system to transfer the woman to a women's prison