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Lawmakers in Nigeria passed a bill Thursday banning gay marriage and outlawing anyone from forming organizations supporting gay rights, setting prison terms of up to 14 years for offenders.

Getting away on your dream cruise could be a nightmare if your port of call is homophobic. A recent case of two American men arrested for "buggery" while still aboard their ship in Dominica raises awareness of this issue.

A court in Gambia has dropped charges against 18 men and two women who had been arrested in April and charged with "unnatural offenses" and felony for organizing a dance ceremony for gays.

The conservative Southeast Asian nation of Burma is starting slowly starting to accept its LGBT community as gay bars and media become more common.

Guyana is launching a national debate on whether to eliminate its death penalty and overhaul laws that discriminate against gays, lesbians and transgender people.

Two men were arrested and sentenced to six months in prison after a witness claimed he saw them kissing on the streets of the United Arab Emirate Abu Dhabi.

Albania’s prime minister rebuked a Cabinet member Monday for saying that people planning to join the country’s first-ever gay pride celebration "should be beaten with batons."

British Prime Minister David Cameron has given warning: Anti-gay nations that persist in persecuting sexual minorities may see some of the aid money they receive from the UK dry up.

Three gay Ghanaian were placed under arrest after appearing on a "Jerry Springer" style TV talk show in which two of the men became embroiled in a accusations of boyfriend-stealing.

Gay Serbs publicly denounced what they felt to be the government’s blind eye to their concerns, including an incident of anti-gay violence in which a lesbian was attacked by a knife-wielding youth who police promptly let go.