Tunisian Activists Are Fighting for Greater LGBT Rights
TUNIS, TUNISIA — Abdelbraki Mezin asked me over coffee last week if homophobia was dead in the United States. “I mean, you’ve had marriage equality...
May 26th, 2016 
Erin KilbrideSouth Asia’s Transgender Hijra Community Speaks Its Own Language
In South Asia, there is a hidden language known only to the region’s hijra community. Found in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, the hijra are an old and...
March 30th, 2016 Being Queer, Arab, & Everything in Between: Interviewing Saleem Haddad, the Author of “Guapa”
Publishing on March 8, Guapa, a debut novel from Saleem Haddad, dives into the life of Rasa, a twenty-something-year-old gay man living in an unnamed Arab...
March 7th, 2016 
Saleem HaddadThe “O Campaign” in Azerbaijan Is a Symbol of Progress on LGBTQ Rights, Though More Still Needs to Be Done
“We don't look at gender in our language, so why do we look at it in life?” So runs the opening query from the "O" Campaign launched by the Azeri...
June 24th, 2015 
Evelyn CrundenAfter the Revolution, Tunisia’s LGBTQ Community Faces Fits & Starts
Tunisia is, by many standards, the most progressive and inclusive country in North Africa. The 2011 Arab Spring uprisings began in that country, and have seen...
May 13th, 2015 