The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia on May 17 highlights the places in the world where members of the LGBT community still face persecution. The date was chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization's 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from its disease classification list. The day also celebrates the progress made by gay, lesbian, and transgender people in recent decades. Here's a look back at the LGBT movement in pictures.
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LGBT activists take part in a rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 17, 2013.
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Ukrainian police arrest a protester during a gay-pride parade in Kyiv on June 12, 2016.
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Anzor, a gay Chechen man, told an AP reporter in April 2017 that he feared for his safety and that of his family. Human rights groups received harrowing accounts of torture and killings in Chechnya's anti-gay purge.
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LGBT activists in Kosovo march during the country's first gay-pride parade in Pristina on October 10, 2017.