The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, openly gay hedge fund manager Scott Bessent. Overcoming opposition from some economically progressive Senate ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday directed State Department personnel to stop nearly all U.S. foreign aid spending for ...

A law that extends marriage rights to same-sex couples in Thailand took effect on Thursday. Media reports indicate hundreds of same-sex couples tied the knot across the country once the law took ...

We have to admit that, in a week like this one, writing about movies – or, even more so, movie awards – feels a little bit irrelevant. Even so, the Blade would be remiss if we didn’t report that the ...

As mpox cases continue to surge in Uganda, LGBTQ+ rights organizations have raised concerns over its “troubling increase” among the queer community and have advised it to be on high alert. The Uganda ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated. A sweeping executive order that President Donald Trump issued on Monday bans the State Department from issuing passports with “X” gender markers. Former ...

A transgender woman with HIV who participated in an anti-government protest in Cuba in 2021 has been released from prison.

A prominent LGBTQ+ activist in Cameroon is facing terrorism charges. Alice Nkom, a human rights lawyer and board president of Réseau des Défenseurs des Droits Humains en Afrique Centrale, a group ...

A law that extends marriage rights to same-sex couples in Liechtenstein took effect on Wednesday. Lawmakers in the small European country that borders Switzerland and Austria approved a marriage ...