It’s Pride Month. Here’s how LGBTQ rights fared around the world this year. [washingtonpost.com]

Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff) 6/2/2312:00 PM

^{LGBT supporters in Cuba, Uganda, the United States and South Korea gather to fight for their rights as they celebrate and protest their countries' laws. (Video: Reuters)}

By Victoria Bisset and Ellen Francis, The Washington Post, June 1, 2023

Communities across the globe are marking Pride Month in June, after a year in which several countries have passed legislation affecting the rights of LGBTQ+ people.

“The past year has witnessed an ever-increasing sense of othering, exclusion, and discrimination faced by LGBTI people from the USA to Uganda,” Nadia Rahman, Amnesty International’s researcher and adviser on sexual orientation and gender identity, said in an email. “There is a roll back of their human rights.”

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