LGBT rights

The law, which goes into effect on July 1, requires girls and young women to state their biological sex through their birth certificate in order to compete in a team.

The airline drops "ladies and gentlemen" in addressing its passengers in-flight as well as in airports across the world.

The former marine who has served more than half of his sentence will be free to return to the United States following the pardon.

The developers say the change was prompted by users who called for racial equality.

Iranian government forces homosexual people to choose between unwanted gender reassignment surgeries or public execution

The Kingswood School chaplain resigned after outcry over his belief that LGBT people should remain single and celibate.

Between 1989 and 2012, 7,491 civil unions were formed. And in 2010 same-sex couples were granted the right to adopt.

The controversial therapy will be banned in the western US state, the tenth to do so in America.

Malaysian newspaper Sinar Harian sparks outrage after publishing checklist how to recognise LGBT people. Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia and carries a 20-year prison sentence.

Bermuda becomes first country to introduce and repeal a gay marriage law as it struggles to balance public attitudes with civil rights.

Pressure groups call for foreign secretary to intervene and prevent Caribbean island reversing gay marriage ruling.

Two policemen in South Africa are accused of homophobic attack on a gay couple found having sex in a car.

European Court of Justice rules psychological sexuality tests illegal after Nigerian asylum seeker appeals against Hungarian legal decision.

Mumbai newspaper accused of trying to exploit gay men and women for article on LGBT rights in India.

Gay couple Ethan and Elad Dvash-Banks sue US after one twin son born via surrogate denied citizenship as he has Israeli DNA.

A lesbian couple who had been married for three years have been kidnapped, raped and murdered by a group of eight people.

A controversy erupted in Banks, Oregon, after high school teachers erected LGBT rainbow flags in their classrooms. Parents accused them of taking down the Stars and Stripes

Miss Trans America founder Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien stabbed and beaten to death with hammer by husband Mark Steele-Knudslien who 'snapped' in Massachusetts.

Is it a prank or a challenge to conservative values in Gulf kingdom? Authorities open investigation into gay wedding ceremony.

LGBT groups hailed a federal court decision denying a stay on an injuction for Trump's transgender military ban, meaning the US military will allow transgender recruits from 2018.

Bermuda set to become first country in the world to abolish marriage equality, just six months after gay couple Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche won Supreme Court ruling to marry.

Will donation from the late Golden Golden girls actress has helped to fund a new centre for homeless LGBT children in New York.

Russian footballer Alexei Smertin says rainbow flags will be tolerated at World Cup despite gay propaganda law that bans promotion of homosexuality to under-18s.

Developers urged to build more gender-neutral loos to 'reflect diversity of the city'. Guidelines form part of the so-called 'London Plan'.

Justin Trudeau to deliver formal apology in Canadian parliament to LGBT soldiers and police officers who lost their jobs because of anti-gay discrimination.

Egypt sentences at least 13 gay men to 3 years in prison in worst crackdown against LGBT people in almost 2 decades. Crackdown started at Mashrou' Leila concert in Cairo.

Craig Campbell had spent three years teaching when he was suddenly let go by the school in Western Australia.

Activists fear that an anti-LGBT law could be passed as homophobia starts gaining traction in the country.

Australia overwhelming showed its support to legalise same-sex marriage on Wednesday (15 November) in a historic national postal survey.

A good night for the Democrats included one success in Virginia that was celebrated on social media.