
We were forced to employ cloak and dagger techniques during each scene we captured, writes reporter Shaunagh Connaire on Dateline about the use of electric shock treatment for gay people in China.
The US has called for United Nations to do more to support LGBT people in the wake of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting.
LONDON (Reuters) - International gay rights campaigners are using branded clothing inspired by the Olympic movement's own values to show their opposition to Russian laws on homosexuality ahead of the Sochi Games.
Gay rights activists have welcomed a move by the Victorian government to make a formal apology for historic laws that criminalised homosexuality.
"The total number of Europeans arrested for being LGBTQ under fascism is impossible to know because of the lack of reliable records. But a conservative estimate is that there were many tens of thousands to one hundred thousand arrests during the war period alone."
Prior to his first Australian visit, former US congressman Barney Frank discusses the US presidential race, Wall Street reform and his legacy on gay rights.
Australian tennis legend Margaret Court has told a Christian radio station her sport is "full of lesbians" and likened gay-rights activists to Hitler.
While homosexuality is widely accepted in parts of Johannesburg and Cape Town, it remains taboo in many rural areas and in working-class townships.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Tennis star Martina Navratilova and U.S. basketball player Jason Collins said on Tuesday the International Olympic Committee has not done enough to defend the rights of gay athletes ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Homosexuality is still subject to the death penalty in many countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, while others allow gay marriage and adoption.
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