Europe's number-one country for LGBTQ+ rights is fighting a two-front battle in 2026: a constitutional challenge to the Ley Trans from the right, and a landmark vote to make conversion therapy a crime.
While Japan's courts wrestle with marriage equality, the cabinet has quietly adopted the country's first nationwide framework for LGBTQ+ awareness in schools, universities, and workplaces.
Seven applicants have taken Zimbabwe to court over decades of exclusion and nonconsensual surgery on intersex children. It's a landmark case in a part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum that rarely makes headlines.
Latin America holds one of the great paradoxes in global queer life: some of the world's most advanced legal protections sitting alongside some of its deadliest violence. Here's how both stay true at once in 2026.
Belgrade is the undisputed center of queer life in Serbia — a city of underground history surfacing into the open, real nightlife, and a safety picture that rewards a little situational awareness. Here's how to approach it.
Portugal spent two decades as one of Europe's quiet success stories on LGBTQ+ rights. In 2026 that reputation is being tested by three bills that would unwind its self-ID law — here's where the country actually stands.
A UNESCO-listed lake, 365 churches, and prices that feel like a decade ago. Our honest guide to Ohrid, North Macedonia, for LGBTQ+ travellers looking for something slower than a Pride weekend.
While Japan's courts wrestle with marriage equality, the cabinet has quietly adopted the country's first nationwide framework for LGBTQ+ awareness in schools, universities, and workplaces.
Seven applicants have taken Zimbabwe to court over decades of exclusion and nonconsensual surgery on intersex children. It's a landmark case in a part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum that rarely makes headlines.
Latin America holds one of the great paradoxes in global queer life: some of the world's most advanced legal protections sitting alongside some of its deadliest violence. Here's how both stay true at once in 2026.
Belgrade is the undisputed center of queer life in Serbia — a city of underground history surfacing into the open, real nightlife, and a safety picture that rewards a little situational awareness. Here's how to approach it.
A UNESCO-listed lake, 365 churches, and prices that feel like a decade ago. Our honest guide to Ohrid, North Macedonia, for LGBTQ+ travellers looking for something slower than a Pride weekend.
The official WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 agenda is locked in — 25 July to 8 August, 300+ events, from the Pride Walk to the Canal Parade to a Human Rights Conference. Here's how to plan two weeks of it.
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.
