Sex and Relationships

The United Nations humanitarian chief has released 25 million US dollars from its emergency fund to support women-led organisations that prevent and respond to gender-based violence. The funding has gone to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UN Women that have been asked to channel at least 30 per […]

A teenage trafficking survivor in India has won Rs 9 lakh ($12,165) in a rare payout that lawyers said was “unprecedented” in size under the country’s compensation schemes for victims. The survivor was 13 when she was trafficked from eastern Odisha state and sold to a brothel in Sonagachi, India’s […]

Standing on the stairway of Tbilisi’s iconic circus, about 20 people listened through headphones on Sunday as a voice explained how a building normally associated with fun and joy was to some a place of misery and sex work. The group was taking part in an audio tour of the Georgian […]

As the Royal Palace geared up for celebrations to mark Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s 73rd wedding anniversary, it was the innocence of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s children – Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis that won the Internet over. The Duchess of Cambridge shared a picture of the […]

A divided federal appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional two south Florida laws that banned therapists from offering conversion therapy to children struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity. In a 2-1 decision, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with two therapists who said the laws in […]

Lesbian, gay and bisexual — or LGB people are more vulnerable to one of the fastest-growing health concerns in the country: dementia, according to new research from Michigan State University. “Our study speaks to the unaddressed questions about whether members the LGB community are more likely to develop cognitive impairment at older ages […]

Almost half of LGBT+ pupils in England do not feel safe at school, with more than a third saying homophobic and transphobic bullying is common, a study showed on Wednesday, raising concerns about the possible impact on students’ mental health. Gay, bisexual and transgender secondary school students were twice as likely (42%) to […]

A new study from Lund University has suggested that men perceive themselves as having less power in their private lives as opposed to their public lives. Furthermore, both men and women agree: power in your private life matters more than that in public life. Power is often associated with men who possess […]

The European Union’s executive Commission launched its first strategy to protect the rights of LGBT people on Thursday, a challenge to right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary that have become increasingly homophobic in the past year. The Commission said LGBT people were facing growing discrimination in Europe, even as most people in the […]

People with low aerobic and muscular fitness are nearly twice as likely to experience depression, according to a study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. Low fitness levels also predicted a 60 per cent greater chance of anxiety, over a seven-year follow-up, according to the findings published in BMC […]

Children and young people with obsessive thoughts and compulsions may experience their OCD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms worsen during a crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study. While previous research had shown that trauma and stress can trigger or worsen obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, the current study, […]

A good start at kindergarten can lead to better achievement over the long-term, for a child, suggest the findings of a new study. “We’ve known for years that getting off to a good start in kindergarten leads to better achievement over the long-term,” said lead author Caroline Fitzpatrick, an assistant […]

A new first-of-its-kind Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study paints a more precise picture by looking at LGB+ identities separately and over time, finding that bisexuality is the identity most associated with smoking, especially around the time of coming out. Published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, the nationally-representative cohort study […]

The wedding of Hungarian transgender couple Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal looked just like any other, with the nervous pair dressing up and heading off to the rural Hungarian court room where their marriage would be sealed. But in the world of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, this was special as Orban, […]

Two New Yorkers this week became the first gay men of colour elected to the U.S. Congress, making strides for LGBT+ rights while the U.S. presidential candidates were locked in a close national contest. Democrats Ritchie Torres, a openly gay Black and Latino man from New York City’s Bronx borough, […]