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Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new additions to Downing Street (2m00s), Hadley Freeman interviews Hollywood actor Will ... Show More

Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris Johnson (1m38s), Edward Helmore charts the ... Show More

Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking well-known guests to lift the lid on the food they turn to when they’re at home alone – and what comfort foods have seen them through their liv ... Show More

The murder last month of a transgender woman in Iraqi Kurdistan by her brother in a so-called honor killing underlines the impunity faced by the LGBT community in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and beyond. Community activists say the government does nothing to protect them and that secu ... Show More

In June 2009, transgender sex worker and activist Vicky Hernandez was murdered in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.The killers were never identified or punished, but in 2021 the Inter-American Human Rights Court found the Honduran state responsible for the crime. It ordered th ... 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

New laws are being passed across Poland taking aim at the LGBT community. They’ve been called “LGBT free zones” as a shorthand. While they don’t necessarily mean that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are being thrown into prison, they are having a chilling effect on ... Show More

Le Honduras est l’un des pays d’Amérique latine les plus violents avec plus de 3 000 homicides depuis le début de l’année pour une population de 9 millions d’habitants. Dans ce contexte, les femmes et les hommes LGBT (lesbiennes, gay, bi ou transsexuels) sont particulièrement cib ... Show More

Voters in Taiwan delivered a crushing blow to the country’s ruling party and the island’s gay rights movement in local elections last Sunday, despite a 2017 court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. Host Imtiaz Tyab talks with Al Jazeera correspondent Adrian Brown and Victoria H ... Show More

The LGBT community in Mombasa, Kenya has suffered from violent mob attacks in recent years - often fuelled by influential preachers spreading messages of hate. But one group decided to tackle this in a remarkable way: they have directly engaged with faith leaders. In carefully co ... Show More

In this LGBT special we look at rights in Britain, following reports that the government is planning to scrap plans to allow trans people to self identify.Dominic Arnall, CEO of LGBT+ young charity Just Like Us, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Sebastian Salek he's ... Show More