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  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
    Sydney’s HIV success shows way for others

    Experts say joint effort by clinicians, activists and politicians to deploy preventive tools shows how effective they can be

    An elderly patient sits on her bed at the community hospital
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    InterviewMusic
    Actor Billy Porter: ‘I wanted to be the male Whitney Houston!’

    The singer, writer and star of ‘Pose’ is about to release a new album celebrating 1990s gay culture

    Billy Porter stands wearing a black silk robe or coat, his hair in cornrows and his chest bared
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Target Corp.
    Target sales hit by Pride backlash and consumer caution

    Profits top forecast but retailer reports first year-on-year decline in revenue in six years

    Protesters react to Pride Month merchandise outside a Target store in Miami, Florida
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Middle East countries move to ban ‘Barbie’ movie over LGBT+ content

    Kuwait refuses to show blockbuster film that has broken studio records around the world

    Filmgoers queue to have their pictures taken at a Barbie photo booth at a cinema in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Uganda
    World Bank freezes new lending to Uganda over LGBT+ crackdown

    Move by Washington-based lender could spur other institutions and western nations to follow suit, say analysts

    A person draped in a flag with hands clasped in prayer
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak apologises for past ban on LGBT+ people serving in military

    PM says sorry for ‘appalling failure of the British state’ after independent review

  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Russian Duma bans gender transition

    Anti-trans legislation is part of the Kremlin’s effort to cast LGBT+ community as an existential threat

    Russian police officers detain a gay rights activist during an attempt to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Italian leader Meloni ‘cancelling lives’ in crackdown on same-sex parenting

    Lesbian couples no longer recognised as legal parents on birth certificates

    Members of the protest group dressed in pink watch as infant dolls are placed on the ground
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    OutlookJosh Spero
    Uganda shows LGBT+ people face growing danger globally

    The legislation is not an outlier but is echoed by anti-gay measures and rhetoric in the US and Turkey

    A man putting clothes into a suitcase
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    ‘When the morphine wore off, I realised I had outed myself’: senior executives share their stories for Pride

    Business leaders tell of their positive and more challenging experiences coming out at work

    Robyn Grew, with short hair and glasses, wearing a blue checked shirt, stands in front of a Pride flag
  • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
    Vienna
    Terror attack on Vienna pride parade thwarted by Austria’s intelligence agency

    Three suspects arrested after allegedly planning to harm attendees using air guns and swords

    Participants in Vienna’s pride parade
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    David Pilling
    When homophobia comes with a convenient anti-colonial veneer

    Uganda is presenting punitive new legislation as a defence of sovereign rights

    An LGBT+ person hides their face behind a rainbow coloured fan
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Culture wars test corporate America’s commitment to Pride month

    Advocates urge continued support of LGBT+ rights despite boycotts of brands such as Target and Bud Light

    A FT montage of Dylan Mulvaney, the logos of Bud Light, Target and Disney with the pride colours in the background
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    InterviewSport
    Jakub Jankto: ‘Football is homophobic but it’s going to get better’

    Czech midfielder, the first active international player to come out, puts spotlight on attitudes within the men’s game

  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    Steven Paulikas
    The Church of England can learn from Episcopalians on same-sex marriage

    Divisions currently roiling the global Anglican church may fade in the face of lived reality

    FT montage of a church and two hands with rainbow wristbands holding each other
  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    ReviewArts
    Memories from the Dancefloor podcast is a deep dive into queer history

    The new series hears from the people at the centre of Britain’s gay club scene

    A group of men in a nightclub dance in a conga line
  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Why the world can benefit from contact theory

    A fear of the ‘other’ can usually be cured by actual contact with them

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Kenya
    Kenyan killing exposes prejudices faced by LGBT+ Africans

    Activists say response to Edwin Chiloba’s death highlights struggle in many countries to achieve equal rights

    Funeral procession of Edwin Chiloba
  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Sunak set to block Scottish transgender bill using constitutional ‘nuclear option’

    Move likely to anger Holyrood though London set to bring forward long-delayed plans to ban conversion therapy

    A protest for transgender rights and against conversion therapy outside Downing Street last year
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    UK politics
    Former LGBT+ adviser warns Sunak against blocking Scottish gender bill

    Iain Anderson says move being considered by UK prime minister would hit country’s global reputation

    Members of the Scottish Family Party protest alongside supporters of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    US politics & policy
    US House passes bill protecting same-sex and interracial marriages

    Democrats pushed for legislation after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade in June

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, centre, and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, left
  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Supreme Court US
    US Supreme Court weighs protections for designer opposing same-sex marriage

    Conservative majority seems to favour free speech argument advanced by Colorado website company

    Demonstrations outside the US Supreme Court
  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    Walt Disney Co
    Florida prepares U-turn on Disney’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ punishment

    Lawmakers seek compromise preserving theme park operator’s right to run private government

    Walt Disney World
  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
    Gay marriage
    US Senate passes bill protecting same-sex marriages

    Legislation which also enshrines recognition for interracial marriages wins support from some Republicans

    Chuck Schumer
  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    Technology sector
    Gay dating app Grindr soars on stock market debut

    Price rise supercharged by widespread share redemptions before Spac merger

    Grindr logo displayed outside New York Stock Exchange
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