Chechnya: Victims tortured and killed in gay ‘concentration camps’
News about the abuse of LGBT people in Chechnya continues to shock, with reports of camps being opened in the Russian republic to detain gay men. According to the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, facilities or “secret prisons” have been identified where more than 100 gay men were detained and tortured, with at least three killed. To bolster allegations […]
Court ends last US gay adoption ban – compares it to racism
The Nebraska Supreme Court has struck down a decades-old prohibition on gay and lesbian foster and adoptive parents; the last such ban in the US. The 1995 provision, known as Memo 1-95, barred homosexual individuals and same-sex couples in Nebraska from fostering children, which also meant, as a result, that they could not go on […]
Indonesia must release gay couple who face being tortured
Two men who were kidnapped by religious fanatics face receiving 100 lashes for being gay in Indonesia. The men, both in their twenties, were at home in the Aceh province on 28 March when a group of vigilantes forced their way in to detain them for allegedly having sex. Cell phone video footage of the raid, […]