Chechnya: The Gay Purge

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to May 24, 2022. World Wide Wave aims to... LEARN MORE The post World Wide Wrap: LGBTIQ+ News for the Week to May 24, 2022 appeared first on World Wide Wave. 

32 years ago – on May 17, 1990 – the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. IDAHOBIT Day – the International Day... LEARN MORE The post Celebrating IDAHOBIT Day appeared first on World Wide Wave. 

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to May 17, 2022. World Wide Wave aims to... LEARN MORE The post World Wide Wrap: LGBTIQ+ News for the Week to May 17, 2022 appeared first on World Wide Wave. 

Activists in the country have called it a “dark day”. We speak to one LGBT activist about how the community will be affected. Also on the programme: Russia launches a daytime attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv; and Turkey wakes up to five more years of Erdogan. (File photo shows pr ... Show More

For Iraq’s LGBTIQ+ community, life is difficult and dangerous. When the I-S group controlled part of the country, it released horrific videos showing gay men being thrown from the top of high buildings. But even though that threat has passed, many hazards and dangers still remain ... Show More

Violences, arrestations, thérapies de conversion, rejets des membres de leur famille… En Ouganda, déjà considéré comme l’un des pays les plus répressifs envers la communauté LGBT, le Parlement a validé le 2 mai 2023 une proposition de loi anti-homosexualité, allant jusqu’à la pei ... Show More

25 июля правозащитный проект «СК SOS» сообщил, что пропавший в 2017 году в Чечне певец Зелимхан Бакаев был (вероятнее всего) убит по приказу главы республики Рамзана Кадырова. По данным проекта, слежка за Бакаевым началась из-за подозрений в его гомосексуальности. Силовики допраш ... Show More

Hour 1 of Monday's A&G: The sickening details coming from Ukraine as Russia pulls back from Kyiv.Joe Getty laments the political leaders who spoke out after the latest mass killing, this time in Sacramento. Is Chris Rock in the wrong? A mailbag full of fantastic phrases, and more ... Show More

Chicago votes for a new mayor today. Either way it will become the largest American city run by an African-American woman, but it may also get another openly gay mayor. We examine America’s proliferation of LGBT candidates. Mark Zuckerberg’s open letter calling for more regulatio ... Show More

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already taken an immense human toll. CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance offers an inside look into the devastation and his conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Chance reflects on how this conflict is different than ... Show More

The final show in our Chechen trilogy focuses on the republic's current gangster-in-chief, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his rise to become one of the world's most fearsome—but also bumbling—despots. Kadyrov has cozied up to Vladimir Putin, dispatched hired killers to quell dissent, empowe ... Show More