LGBTQ+ news, rights, politics and culture from Brazil.
Explore reporting from this country and its place in the wider world.
LONDON, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - England’s decision to classify a soccer chant as anti-gay shows a game in transition, LGBT+ fans say, as authorities confront homophobia and racism in the home of modern foo…
(Reuters) - Drag Queens and a Drag King took over a San Francisco skating rink for the 12th annual "Drag Queens on Ice" show, dazzling spectators with their loud costumes, hilarious moves and some surprising skills. Per…
LOSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes moved a bit closer to reclaiming control of the Formula One championship race by quickly figuring out the newest circuit on the calendar. Hamilton overcame a nagging stom…
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British plans to ban so-called conversion therapy for under-18s do not go far enough, LGBT+ rights campaigners said on Friday, urging the government to scrap an exemption that would…
SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Having made history as the first trans person in Brazil to be elected as a state representative, Erica Malunguinho is used to criticism and abuse from the public and even other p…
LONDON, Sept 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Switzerland voted overwhelmingly to allow same-sex couples to wed and adopt children in a referendum on Sunday, making it one of the last countries in Western Europe to leg…
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Doctors once prescribed long, hard bike rides and testicular transplants to cure gay men of their “sexual abnormality”. More than a century on, fear and controversy still dog the se…
(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, AUG 23 - Pope Francis on Monday removed a Spanish bishop who stirred controversy by saying homosexuality was linked to "an absent paternal figure". The move follows Francis' removal last week of a…
TOKYO (AP) — The “Incredible Hulk” mask should not fool anybody. Raven Saunders has nothing to hide. The face, and the voice, of the Tokyo Olympics, and all they’re about, could very well be found in a 25-year-old Ameri…
TOKYO (AP) — When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and “couldn’t be happier,” his coming out was an act of courage that, with its rarity, also exposed how the top echelons of sport were…
CARACAS, June 28 (Reuters) - Activists in Venezuela say there is little to celebrate this LGBTI Pride month, which they say is behind in South America on legislation protecting members of the LGBTI community. Venezuela…
