Two Republican congressmen are urging other countries — including, potentially, some where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death — to vote against an American-led effort in the U.N. to ...

A Virginia Beach Human Rights commissioner has officially resigned after coming under fire last week for social media posts in which he said homosexuality is an abomination and transgender people have ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to submit views on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2023 to the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs. A list of recommendations to this committee ...

Courts in India and in Trinidad and Tobago have recently struck down laws from the British colonial era criminalizing homosexuality, in which the law’s language describes the prohibition of “carnal ...

VATICAN CITY — Human rights lawyers and gay rights advocates urged the Vatican on Friday to issue a clear and unequivocal statement against the criminalization of homosexuality. The request was made ...

Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — which psychiatrists use to diagnose patients — until 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association ...

Americans on average now believe that one in four people — 25% — are gay or lesbian, and a large number, 35%, of Americans believe that more than one in four people are gay or lesbian. Additionally, a ...

Human rights lawyers and gay rights advocates urged the Vatican on Friday to issue a clear and unequivocal statement against the criminalization of homosexuality. The request was made at a Vatican ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A rights group is calling on the Indonesian government to immediately investigate a raid by police and village leaders that forced 12 women described as lesbians out of their ...

(Rabat) – Two men accused of consensual homosexual activity are serving prison terms after a trial that seems to have been unfair, Human Rights Watch and the Aswat Group for Sexual Minorities, a ...