Fear and Loathing

US: What does the scholarly research say about the effects of discrimination on the health of LGBT people?

We conducted a systematic literature review of all peer-reviewed articles published in English before October 2018 that assessed the effects of discrimination on the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the United States.

Russia: Feminist activist fined for “gay propaganda” and facing criminal “pornography” charges

Yulia is the latest target of a long-running discriminatory and intensely homophobic campaign. She has suffered one blow after another, having been arbitrarily detained, interrogated and intimidated on multiple occasion

ILGA World Updates State-sponsored Homophobia Report: “a Decade of Progress and Backtracking”

The decade indeed ends with mixed signals: while more countries are enacting robust protections for our communities, others are passing and enforcing laws that further restrict our human rights

Russia: Feminist Activist Faces Six Years In Prison On Pornography Charge

Yulia Tsvetkova, a feminist activist in the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, has been placed under house arrest for two months, ordered to wear an ankle bracelet, and barred from communicating with anyone except her mother and her lawyer.