Queer Montenegro's 14th Pride runs September 28 to October 3 in Podgorica, closing the Balkan Pride season with a march that puts trans sterilization requirements and missing family rights at the front of the line.
At least a dozen transgender service members discharged under Trump's military ban say they're still waiting for separation pay, in one case more than $300,000. Seven House Democrats want the Pentagon's numbers.
At the UN LGBTI Core Group's General Assembly event, Volker Türk said persecution is escalating 'at an alarming rate.' The Netherlands and UK pledged new money to fill the hole left by US aid cuts. Washington sent no official representative.
Albania's 2021–2027 National Action Plan for LGBTI people runs out next year. An inclusive gender equality law and a hormone therapy guideline got done. Partnership recognition, legal gender recognition and stronger hate crime law did not.
At Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's final Provincial Synod, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa rejected a motion to pray for members in committed same-sex unions by 78 votes to 71. Queer Anglicans say the door is closed for now, but closer to opening than ever.
In the same week, the FPÖ asked Austria's parliament to ban rainbow pedestrian crossings and mocked Vienna's queer history centre Qwien for installing armoured glass near a far-right venue. Every other party pushed back.
Croatia's Supreme Court has rejected conservative group Vigilare's bid to overturn a discrimination ruling over its 2020 campaign against a TV documentary about a lesbian-led family. Rainbow Families says the ruling shows where debate ends and discrimination begins.
At least a dozen transgender service members discharged under Trump's military ban say they're still waiting for separation pay, in one case more than $300,000. Seven House Democrats want the Pentagon's numbers.
At the UN LGBTI Core Group's General Assembly event, Volker Türk said persecution is escalating 'at an alarming rate.' The Netherlands and UK pledged new money to fill the hole left by US aid cuts. Washington sent no official representative.
Albania's 2021–2027 National Action Plan for LGBTI people runs out next year. An inclusive gender equality law and a hormone therapy guideline got done. Partnership recognition, legal gender recognition and stronger hate crime law did not.
Munich's Oktoberfest opened this weekend with its traditional Rosa Wiesn keg tapping and Gay Sunday. New this year is a Pink Monday that includes the festival's first event for lesbians and FLINTA people. Here's the full queer calendar through October 4.
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.
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.
