Global Backlash Against LGBTQ+ Rights and Progress in 2025

Global Backlash Against LGBTQ+ Rights

• 🌍 The UN Secretary General warns of a growing backlash against LGBTQ+ people worldwide, with violence and discrimination persisting.
• 🇬🇭 In Africa, several nations are enacting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, including Ghana potentially criminalizing identifying as LGBTQ+ and Liberia debating a similar bill.
• 🇰🇪 Kenya has a proposed law that could impose life sentences for same-sex relationships, driven by conservative religious groups.
• 🇺🇸 The US is seeing renewed backlash, with President Trump vowing to roll back LGBTQ+ rights and the Supreme Court set to rule on a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for trans youth.
• 🇷🇺 Russia is enforcing its hardline stance, with recent arrests and a widening crackdown under harsh censorship laws.

Progress and Legal Advancements

• 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein and 🇨🇭 Switzerland have legalized same-sex marriage in 2025.
• 🇧🇷 In Brazil, lawmakers are advancing a marriage equality bill that could soon become law.

International Day Against Homophobia, Bifobia, and Transphobia

• 🗓️ This day marks the World Health Organization's 1990 decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder.
• 🏳️‍🌈 Protests and pride events are planned globally to commemorate the day.