The Emerald Warriors, Ireland’s first LGBT rugby team, aims to be inclusive by welcoming players regardless of their sexuality. It is one way of disproving the chauvinistic and homophobic clichés surrounding rugby.Read the full article
Although homosexuality is not illegal in Burkina Faso, members of the LGBTI community, and trans people in particular, struggle to find places where they feel safe.Read the full article
Nyanzi’s prosecution is seen as just one of the ways in which dissenting views are being silenced in Uganda.Read the full article
For many years, the LGBTI community ignored its own elders. Today, the first generations that fought for equal rights are reaching retirement age and the issue has been forced on the community.Read the full article
Who can justify denying women the right to work together for safety and to organise in a union?Read the full article
A Dutch initiative which allows transgender people to take their medical care and needs into own hands marks a major milestone in the struggle for transgender rights.Read the full article
The debut feature film by Marcelo Martinessi gives centre stage to a sexagenarian female couple who face up to the loss of their social status and their relationship in Paraguay, a country where the LGTBI population live in the [...]Read the full article
Activists from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, amongst others, are calling for an end to educating schoolchildren with texts that portray women as subordinate and LGBTI people as abnormal.Read the full article
The LGBTQI community in Tunisia, although still facing imprisonment, beatings and insults, is organising and slowly making headway with the cause of sexual minorities.Read the full article
“Of all the forms of resistance seen over the last few weeks, one in particular seems the most capable of confronting the fascist menace threatening Brazil: the active and on-going resistance of women, particularly of black women.”Read the full article
“It is hard for people to understand that freedom of expression is a right for all; we have to be able to consent to what we do not like.”Read the full article
What lessons can these new grassroots movements teach us? Can local or individual struggles have global resonance? One thing they do demonstrate is how uniting and fighting together can have a real impact.Read the full article
