While the fatal Berlin Pride car-ramming made international headlines, a steady drip of smaller incidents — stolen flags in Mönchengladbach, torn-down banners in Prenzlauer Berg — tells its own story about the current climate for LGBTQ+ Germans.
Copenhagen is putting 24 million kroner behind a 2026–2029 plan to address discrimination and mental health distress. Denmark ranks 5th on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map — but a promised conversion therapy ban from 2021 still hasn't happened.
Skopje has never had a dedicated government strategy on LGBTIQA+ rights. ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map 2026 confirms one is now being drafted, against a backdrop of stalled EU accession chapters and a country stuck at 29%.
Prosecutors say a 17-year-old used a fake dating profile to lure Georgi Kuzev, 31, to a park where a group of teens beat him to death. Bulgarian authorities are investigating a hate crime motive.
A Slovak couple married in Austria in 2020 just got a rejection letter for their marriage registration — despite a CJEU ruling ordering every EU country to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the bloc.
A new CMS rule bars federal Medicaid and CHIP matching funds for gender-affirming care for anyone under 18, effective October 13. States can still cover it — just not with federal money.
Ireland gets real credit for self-determined gender recognition. But the 2026 Trans Rights Index and Map shows the country scoring zero on healthcare and family rights — and advocates say the gap is no longer easy to ignore.
Copenhagen is putting 24 million kroner behind a 2026–2029 plan to address discrimination and mental health distress. Denmark ranks 5th on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map — but a promised conversion therapy ban from 2021 still hasn't happened.
Skopje has never had a dedicated government strategy on LGBTIQA+ rights. ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map 2026 confirms one is now being drafted, against a backdrop of stalled EU accession chapters and a country stuck at 29%.
Prosecutors say a 17-year-old used a fake dating profile to lure Georgi Kuzev, 31, to a park where a group of teens beat him to death. Bulgarian authorities are investigating a hate crime motive.
We spent nearly three months living just outside Copenhagen. As the city's Pride Week fills the streets this week, here's what we'd want a queer nomad to know before landing.
We've lived in and around Athens three separate times since 2015. Here's what we actually know about being queer, working remotely, and building a life in a city that's easy to underestimate.
Two weeks of WorldPride Amsterdam closed Saturday with a march from Martin Luther King Park to Museumplein, where marchers carried flags from Afghanistan and Pakistan alongside signs demanding the right to simply exist.
The Grammy-winning singer confirmed the engagement to The New York Times, three years into a relationship that's already inspired a Met Gala look and an entire album.
For the first time in 52 years, women are playing professional baseball in the US. Nearly a third of the inaugural roster is openly LGBTQ+, and that's not a footnote — it's the culture of the sport.
GLAAD's newly rebranded 'Where We Are in Film' study finds queer representation in major studio releases falling for the third straight year, dropping to 20.4% of films. The trans erasure is total.
