Colin Stewart

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Xulhaz Mannan was one of 99 USAID workers killed in the line of dutyIn addition to shutting down the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID, the Trump administration has now dismantled that agency’s memorial wall honoring 99 of its workers who died in the line of duty. The USAID honorees are a mix of famine relief workers, public health officers and advisors promoting American-style democracy in countries where the U.S. was at war, including most prominently Vietnam and Afghanistan.

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Pope was accepting and expressed compassion for LGBTQ people, but considered them disordered. Several LGBTQ+ rights activists praised Pope Francis after he passed away Sunday night at age 88. As the leader of the Catholic Church, he broke from church traditions by being compassionate and accepting of LGBTQ+ people, but did not renounce Catholic doctrine that categorized gay sex and trans identities as disorders. He famously said “Who am I to judge?” when asked about gays in the church.

2 months ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Russian homophobes are role models for Georgia’s ruling party. The increasingly Russia-imitating government of the nation of Georgia has introduced a bill to ban LGBT Pride marches and symbols. The proposal comes in the wake of draconian anti-LGBT “propaganda” legislation that passed last year. In recent years, the ruling party in the nation at the edge of Eastern Europe and Western Asia has adopted policies that are modeled after those of Russia, the nation’s huge northern neighbor.

2 months ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Attacks fit a pattern of ongoing violence against queer peopleLGBTQI+ Bangladeshis face the threat of ongoing violence and extortion, simply for being who they are in this deeply conservative Muslim country. Two recent violent assaults against queer men in different cities illustrate this danger. One was in Rangpur in northern Bangladesh. The other was in Narayanganj, outside the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka.

2 months ago | 76crimesfr.com | Colin Stewart

La lente progression, au fil des ans, vers une dépénalisation de l’homosexualité, a connu un nouveau revers avec la décision, le 25 mars, de la Cour d’appel de Trinité-et-Tobago de rétablir les lois anti-gays de ce pays des Caraïbes. Ce dernier rebondissement a amené à une saisine de l’activiste trinidadien Jason Jones auprès du Conseil privé de Londres (Royaume-Uni) qui est la plus haute juridiction du pays.