(LA Blade) Advocacy groups on Wednesday renewed calls for the U.S. and other countries to do more to help LGBT Afghans who remain inside Afghanistan after the Taliban regained control of it.

(LA Blade) The Canadian government on Dec. 31 once again said it will resettle LGBT Afghans in the country.

(WB) Some of the 50 human rights activists that a Columbia University researcher has helped evacuate from Afghanistan since the Taliban regained control of the country are LGBT.

(WB) Advocacy groups have urged the U.S. and other countries to offer refuge to LGBT Afghans after the Taliban regained control of the country.

This week read about the United Kingdom accepting LGBT Afghan refugees, and anti-LGBT laws in Ghana causing a rift with the Anglican Church.

This week read about homophobic locals attacking activists in Africa, and LGBT people fearing the Taliban in Afghanistan.

(WB) A gay man who fled Afghanistan with his family in 1990 out of fear of persecution and death from the Taliban was among several protesters arrested on Feb. 10 for attempting to block U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from entering a D.C. middle school.

(WB) More than 10,000 people have signed a petition that urges the Biden administration to do more to help LGBT Afghans who remain in Afghanistan after the Taliban regained control of the country.

(WB) Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday expressed concern over the fate of LGBT Afghans who remain in the country after the Taliban regained control of it.

An unclassified study from a military research unit in southern Afghanistan, released earlier this year, details how homosexual behavior is unusually common among men in the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns—though they seem to be in complete denial about it.

The study, obtained by Fox News, found that Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and shun women both socially and sexually—yet they completely reject the label of “homosexual.”

The research was conducted as part of a longstanding effort to better understand Afghan culture and improve Western interaction with the local people. The report reveals some stunning other information as well.

(CNN) -- One of the six people killed in Monday's suicide bombing in Afghanistan was an airman who reportedly told his family he had deployed to Saudi Arabia. Apparently he didn't want them to worry about his safety.