Malaysia cannot pretend anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination does not exist

Failure to ensure equal rights likely to be criticized by U.N. council

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The 2023 Women's Day march in Kuala Lumpur: LGBTQ+ Malaysians simply want to be free from discrimination. © Getty Images

Benjamin Loh is a senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at Taylor's University in Selangor, Malaysia and an associate fellow of the Asia Center in Bangkok. Lyana Khairuddin is a political and human rights adviser to the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia now has a reformist government led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, but for members of the country's LGBTQ+ community, the environment is as precarious as ever.

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