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Born in Mendoza in 1944, Ana Lupez danced through Argentina's revue theatres, left the country under the dictatorship, and became the star and then co-owner of one of Barcelona's most famous cabarets. She died on October 14 in the city where she was born.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who founded Childline in 1986, has died aged 86. Beyond That's Life and her assisted dying campaign, she put coming out and trans lives on daytime TV long before it was easy, and built a helpline that still answers young LGBTQ+ people today.
Mozambique dropped its colonial-era ban on same-sex relations in 2015, a rare step in the region. A decade on, LGBTQ+ activists say exclusion now works through silence instead: in schools, jobs, clinics and online. And the country's main LGBTI group still can't get registered.
A preliminary injunction from a federal magistrate in Oregon directly conflicts with Trump's Day One executive order on prison housing — and could become a blueprint for state-level challenges.
A federal judge in Oregon permanently blocked the December 2025 HHS declaration that shut down gender-affirming care programs nationwide, ruling that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had no authority to unilaterally rewrite medical standards of care.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel vacated the injunction that had kept incarcerated trans women in women's facilities, handing the Trump administration a significant win on one of its first-day executive orders.
