TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Rights activists in harshly repressive Belarus say police recently subjected at least 20 LGBTQ+ people to questioning, during which some were beaten and were charged with ...

The ruling Georgian Dream party's campaign ahead of Georgia's parliamentary elections in October has been marred by ...

Local leaders have sparked nationwide efforts to fight hate crimes at the grassroots level amid low prosecution rates.

"Such attacks are heartbreaking and despicable, and are badly out of step with American support of LGBTQ people," one ...

The press conference will focus on ways to report hate crimes and support victims following those gel pellet gun shootings ...

State-level laws restricting or threatening transgender rights can have significant adverse effects on trans and nonbinary ...

Dozens of Georgians stood in tearful silence in a central square near parliament last week to mourn Kesaria Abramidze, a ...

Following sharp spike in 2022, bias-motivated hate crimes against LGBTQ people continue to increase, even as crime overall is ...

Banned Books Week, which library activist Judith Krug founded in 1982, will culminate in “Let Freedom Read Day” on Saturday, on which organizers urge people to take at least one action to defend the ...

LGBTQ advocates have linked the increase in violence to a rise in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation. The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ people in the U.S. in June 2023 ...

The judge said it was "clearly anti-religion" to ban Catholic employers from discriminating against employees seeking IVF, ...