Niv Zonis and Dan Slyper established LGBT faction to advance community's rights, bring LGBT voters back into the fold, and field a candidate for Knesset. >>>

After decades of neglect and persecution, Pakistan's transgender minority has been offered new hope following a court decision to give the long-oppressed community the right to vote. >>>

Victoria could soon have its first intersex Mayor with Hobsons Bay City Councillor Tony Briffa looking likely to win the top job in the city’s west. >>>

One government consultant says he is in full support of gay rights in Dominica. Government Productivity Consultant and Former Government’s Press Secretary Parry Bellot was speaking on the heels of an article published on Dominica News Online where a gay called on government to put measures in place to make homosexuality in Dominica non discriminatory. >>>

In the eyes of the law, in the minds and hearts of people as it is in God’s everyone must be equal. This is the truth and this is what is right. This is Ladlad’s (The LGBT Party List) vision and struggle at the same time. I have committed to be part of this movement that simply asks that LGBT people be given the right to be people. >>>

Brazil’s 2nd National LGBT Conference will be held in the country’s capital, Brasília, between December 15th and 18th 2011. The Conference was officially convened by President Dilma Rousseff on May 18th (Presidential Decree below). >>>

Taiga Ishikawa, the first openly gay politician in Japan to win an election, Tuesday hailed the result as a victory for the rights of sexual minorities. >>>

The 30,000-strong transgender community, mostly living in the fringes of society in Tamil Nadu, wants political space in the state to voice their plight. >>>

LADLAD Partylist headed by its Chairperson, Ms. Bemz Benedito was warmly welcomed by the Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines when the group paid a courtesy visit on March 14. >>>

Prior to the third LGBT Pride festival, ILGA-Europe wrote a latter to Bulgarian authorities >>>

The coalition of LGBTTTI organizations from 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries working within the Organization of American States (OAS) supports the approval of the third resolution on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. >>>

"Ang Ladlad," an LGBT party-list group will participate in the May 2010 Philippine elections. This is the first time that Ang Ladlad or any LGBT political party was allowed to participate in the elections in the conservative and only majority-Christian country in Asia. Ang Ladlad was finally allowed to be included in the ballot after years of struggle against the local hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church and orther conservative sectors. >>>

"Ang Ladlad," an LGBT party-list group will participate in the May 2010 Philippine elections. This is the first time that Ang Ladlad or any LGBT political party was allowed to participate in the elections in the conservative and only majority-Christian country in Asia. Ang Ladlad was finally allowed to be included in the ballot after years of struggle against the local hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church and other conservative sectors. >>>

The Government of Bolivia announced this morning that it had sent a letter to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual an Transgender Federation of Spain (FALGBT) in which they wished to "ratify" the respect towards sexual liberty as established in the Bolivian constitution ("Government of Evo Morales: We respect gays" RPP/EFE, April 26, 2010). >>>

Simon Cazal of SOMOSGAY and Camilo Soares the Minister of National Emergency Secretariat welcomed the inclusion of the first gay person and first person with trans identity in public. It is hoped that this fact standing at other levels of government in its three branches, generate equal opportunities for inclusion of people who have been historically discriminated against. >>>

These coming days, we are going to try to share our excitement about the 5th conference of ILGA LAC, ILGA ‘s Latin American and Caribbean region. >>>