For the first time, Poland's lower house has passed a law recognizing same-sex couples. The catch: it still has to survive the Senate and a president who has already promised to kill it.
At May's accession conference the EU turned a long-standing 'to-do' into a closing benchmark: no partnership recognition and gender-recognition law, no finishing Cluster 1. For Albania's LGBTQ+ community — and for us, here in Tirana — that changes the math.
More than 10,000 athletes from dozens of countries wrap up the world's largest inclusive sporting event on July 4. After a hard week for LGBTQ+ news, Valencia is the reminder that the movement is also joy.
Europe's youngest country has one of the region's strongest anti-discrimination laws on paper — and a decade of Pride marches to prove it. So why do trans recognition and civil unions still not exist?
In a 6–3 ruling on June 30, the Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho's bans on transgender girls in school sports. Kavanaugh wrote the majority. The reasoning matters as much as the result.
A Supreme Court ruling recognized a same-sex couple as a de facto family. Months earlier, a new Civil Code wrote them out of the definition entirely. Ukraine is now moving in two directions at once.
Pride season across the Balkans is ending for another summer. The parades were the easy part — the harder question is what protection looks like on the other 360 days.
At May's accession conference the EU turned a long-standing 'to-do' into a closing benchmark: no partnership recognition and gender-recognition law, no finishing Cluster 1. For Albania's LGBTQ+ community — and for us, here in Tirana — that changes the math.
Europe's youngest country has one of the region's strongest anti-discrimination laws on paper — and a decade of Pride marches to prove it. So why do trans recognition and civil unions still not exist?
In a 6–3 ruling on June 30, the Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho's bans on transgender girls in school sports. Kavanaugh wrote the majority. The reasoning matters as much as the result.
More than 10,000 athletes from dozens of countries wrap up the world's largest inclusive sporting event on July 4. After a hard week for LGBTQ+ news, Valencia is the reminder that the movement is also joy.
With a street festival July 3–5 and a parade of hundreds of floats on July 5, ColognePride returns under the motto 'For Queer Rights — Many. Together. Strong.'
MADO kicks off June 25 in Chueca and builds toward Europe's largest Pride march on July 4 — staged in the country that just topped the Rainbow Map, and just as Spain reckons with a surge in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime.
At a surprise Grindr-hosted Pride concert in Times Square, Madonna previewed her upcoming album Confessions II — and gave fans a collective heart attack by swinging a leg over the stage barrier.
The Tatiana Maslany–led dark comedy from David J. Rosen drops its first two episodes on Apple TV today, May 20. Two openly queer leading men — Murray Bartlett and Brandon Flynn — are doing some of the most interesting work in their careers, and the show is treating sex work like a job rather than a punchline.
Dara's 'Bangaranga' gave Bulgaria its first-ever Eurovision win on Saturday in Vienna. The 2027 contest will head to Sofia — a city in a country ranked 40th of 49 on Europe's Rainbow Map and where an anti-LGBT 'propaganda' law is still on the books.
