Romania and Bulgaria sit dead last on the EU's Rainbow Map, yet roughly 30,000 marched in Bucharest and thousands more in Sofia this weekend — a louder answer than the Orthodox Church and the nationalist counter-marchers expected.
Greece's biggest Pride drew an estimated 40,000-plus to Syntagma Square on Saturday under the theme 'It's About You' — the first parade in a full year of legal same-sex marriage, and a reminder that joy is its own kind of politics.
Central and Eastern Europe's largest Pride march hit its 25th anniversary this weekend, and for the first time in years the Parada Równości moved through Warsaw with the politics tilting, however unevenly, in its favor.
While Bangkok's Pride grabs the headlines, a city in Thailand's rural northeast is quietly building one of the country's most ambitious Pride projects, complete with rainbow crosswalks and a 'Rainbow School' competition.
Kosovo's capital held its tenth Pride parade under the slogan 'Equality or Revolt.' Hundreds marched and diplomats showed up, but this year a telling group stayed away: the country's own politicians.
Riga Pride 2026 took to the streets on June 13 under the banner 'March for Freedom,' capping a week of debate, film and culture in a Baltic capital that has quietly become one of Northern Europe's more hopeful LGBTQ+ stories.
Law 13/2025 updates a decade-old statute with fines up to €500,000, mandatory workplace protocols for larger companies, and LGBTI clauses written into public contracts.
Law 13/2025 updates a decade-old statute with fines up to €500,000, mandatory workplace protocols for larger companies, and LGBTI clauses written into public contracts.
Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has limited the Reichstag's rainbow flag to a single day a year and withdrawn the parliament's administration from Berlin's CSD. As Germany's Pride season opens, the fight has shifted from winning rights to defending them.
Nepal was the first country in South Asia to recognize same-sex marriage. Two years on, only a few dozen couples have registered, and the legal benefits of marriage remain out of reach. The Supreme Court heard arguments this spring on whether to finally close the gap.
Greece's biggest Pride drew an estimated 40,000-plus to Syntagma Square on Saturday under the theme 'It's About You' — the first parade in a full year of legal same-sex marriage, and a reminder that joy is its own kind of politics.
Central and Eastern Europe's largest Pride march hit its 25th anniversary this weekend, and for the first time in years the Parada Równości moved through Warsaw with the politics tilting, however unevenly, in its favor.
While Bangkok's Pride grabs the headlines, a city in Thailand's rural northeast is quietly building one of the country's most ambitious Pride projects, complete with rainbow crosswalks and a 'Rainbow School' competition.
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.
