Ashanti Carmon was about 16 years old when she first stood out on K Street in the nation’s capital to look for sex work. Rejected by her family for her identity as a transgender woman, she was homeless and desperate.

Christina Dideriksen

April 8, 2019

Fear and Loathing

Malaysia's LGBTQI+ community say government is failing on human rights

Christina Dideriksen

April 8, 2019

Fear and Loathing

For Malaysia’s embattled LGBTQI+ community, the promise of a new era with the change of government last year is yet to materialise.

Christina Dideriksen

April 8, 2019

World of Politics

Israel: Netanyahu meets with LGBT leaders for first time in 10 years

Christina Dideriksen

April 8, 2019

World of Politics

Activists slam PM after sit-down, say he refused to make promises to advance equal rights due to coalition pressures

Christina Dideriksen

April 8, 2019

HIV Health and Wellness

US: PrEP Is Not Cost-Effective at Current Price, Health Economists Find

Christina Dideriksen

April 8, 2019

HIV Health and Wellness

Sticker-shock

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

ILGA World Joins Historic Vatican Meeting, Calls for Deeper Dialogue

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

In a historic meeting that took place today in the Vatican City, global LGBTI leaders and the Roman Catholic Church have met as an unequivocal call was made to take action in the face of violence, discrimination and criminalisation against LGBTI people.

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Fear and Loathing, World of Politics

Paraguay's LGBT community feels outcast amid conservative shift: 'We are forgotten'

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Fear and Loathing, World of Politics

Paraguay’s LGBT communities are feeling increasingly isolated amid a conservative shift in the Latin American country, even after they celebrated the global success of local lesbian drama film “Las Herederas” last year.

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

Mormon Church Changes L.G.B.T. Policy, but Those Who Left Say This Isn’t Enough

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

Times readers who described themselves as Mormon or were raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reflected on the news that it would allow children of same-sex couples to be baptized.

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

In Major Shift, LDS Church Rolls Back Controversial Policies Toward LGBT Members

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Thursday that it was reversing its controversial 2015 policy that classified people in same-sex marriages as "apostates."

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

Vatican: ‘As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West’: An interview with Cardinal Sarah

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Regarding Religion

The Vatican cardinal discusses his hard-hitting new book in this exclusive interview with La Nef

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Winds of Change

Namibia: The Time is Now

Christina Dideriksen

April 7, 2019

Winds of Change

Namibian Civil Society Organisations, including various women and LGBT organisations, held their second convention on the Equality and Justice Project in Windhoek this week.