Turkish police have detained more than 250 people since September 13 in raids on LGBTQ+ organizations, clubs, and homes under an operation the government calls 'My Family Is Safe.' Here's what's happening and why it matters.
Two Balkan elections land within three weeks of each other this fall. Neither is being fought on LGBTQ+ rights directly, but the outcomes will shape whether EU-driven progress on partnership laws and gender recognition continues or stalls.
President Seguro sent Portugal's ban on 'ideological' flags back to parliament in June. Now the CDS has rewritten it to spell out exactly which flags are allowed — and the LGBT rainbow flag still isn't one of them.
A coordinated day of action brought protesters to Turkish embassies from London to Belgrade to Washington. Human Rights Watch called the crackdown an attack on the rule of law. Brussels, so far, has managed a spokesperson's statement.
We've been here seven days. That's not enough to tell you where to eat, but it is enough to lay out the practical scaffolding — visas, currency, connectivity, cost — and to be honest about what we don't know yet.
Three Trump-appointed judges vacated a class-wide injunction and ordered the class decertified. The opinion's opening line defines transgender women as 'male inmates who claim to be female.'
After a Senate inquiry, the federal government has committed to a formal apology and Certificates of Honourable Service for personnel punished under decades of discriminatory defence policy. The Senate again declined financial redress.
Two Balkan elections land within three weeks of each other this fall. Neither is being fought on LGBTQ+ rights directly, but the outcomes will shape whether EU-driven progress on partnership laws and gender recognition continues or stalls.
President Seguro sent Portugal's ban on 'ideological' flags back to parliament in June. Now the CDS has rewritten it to spell out exactly which flags are allowed — and the LGBT rainbow flag still isn't one of them.
A coordinated day of action brought protesters to Turkish embassies from London to Belgrade to Washington. Human Rights Watch called the crackdown an attack on the rule of law. Brussels, so far, has managed a spokesperson's statement.
We've been here seven days. That's not enough to tell you where to eat, but it is enough to lay out the practical scaffolding — visas, currency, connectivity, cost — and to be honest about what we don't know yet.
Podgorica's march is expected in October, as in recent years. Five years after the Life Partnership Act passed, the European Commission says it is still awaiting full implementation, and the self-determination law has never reached a vote.
Eighty-five days in Portugal used up our Schengen allowance, and Albanian friends have spent years telling us to come here. Today we landed in Pristina, and immediately discovered our phone plan doesn't work.
Balkan Pride season ran from June to Belgrade's march on 5 September. Here is what to read now that the sound systems have been packed away — six ex-Yugoslav queer books you can actually get hold of in translation.
Portugal's only LGBTQ+ film festival returns to Cinema São Jorge from September 19 to 27, opening with Carmen Emmi's erotic thriller Plainclothes. Tickets go on sale today.
Tom Thailand 2026 gives masculine-presenting lesbians and trans men a national stage that pageant culture has never made room for — judged on character and conduct, not just appearance.
