San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

Around the world, efforts are being made to decriminalize homosexuality and eliminate discrimination against LGBT people. Paul Canning rounds up the progress that has been made in 2011.

From the U.S. to the UK, from Africa to Europe and Asia, LGBT projects begin taking off internationally.

This was the year of same-sex marriage, as the issue went global. What gains were made and where? Check out Paul Canning's report.

In moment described as "historic" by activists, the Jamaican opposition leader Portia Simpson-Miller has come out for LGBT rights during an election debate.

The lies and junk science of the so-called "Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy" have found an audience in places like Jamaica, Trinidad and Ecuador.

A Kenyan gay magazine has exposed male sex trafficking between Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

"There have been a number of concerns about human rights in the northern part of Cyprus. By agreeing to decriminalise homosexuality Eroglu is taking concrete measures to ensure those living in the north part of Cyprus may enjoy the same human rights as their fellow Europeans."

"My clan is going to kill me. Gays and lesbians cannot live openly in Iraq," says "Azad," a Kurd who has lived in Norway for 10 years and has a Norwegian partner.

Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, tells activists that she will question Putin about the discriminatory laws at the EU-Russia summit.

The suit is against the federal government, local government and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and charges that they failed to protect Tanya Guzman-Martinez from sexual violence, assault and other mistreatment.