Washington's Department of Health ordered the Seattle LGBTQ+ Center to switch HIV and STI testing to a LabCorp-owned lab in San Antonio, just as Texas escalates its hunt for queer medical records.
Four months into Albania's biggest protest movement since the fall of communism, organizers are facing Instagram takedowns and AI-generated disinformation. Queer activists who joined the coalition are watching the crackdown closely.
A new EU Asylum Agency report tracking 18 months of case law finds real progress for queer and trans asylum seekers in Europe, and a persistent gap for intersex applicants that only a handful of countries address directly.
In New York for the UN General Assembly, the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister paid tribute at the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. His message to Dutch reporters was less celebratory: acceptance among young people in the Netherlands is falling fast.
N1, Nova S, Danas and Radar changed hands this summer, and journalists say they are waiting to see what it means for their independence. With Serbia voting on October 25, the outcome matters for a community that pro-government tabloids have repeatedly targeted.
City of Sydney councillors backed the first-term Labor councillor for the city's second-highest civic office. Arkins is putting housing, nightlife and public services at the top of her agenda.
Two months after a deadly attack on Berlin's Pride, voters in the capital made Die Linke the largest party for the first time. On the same day in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the far-right AfD took nearly two in five votes.
Four months into Albania's biggest protest movement since the fall of communism, organizers are facing Instagram takedowns and AI-generated disinformation. Queer activists who joined the coalition are watching the crackdown closely.
A new EU Asylum Agency report tracking 18 months of case law finds real progress for queer and trans asylum seekers in Europe, and a persistent gap for intersex applicants that only a handful of countries address directly.
In New York for the UN General Assembly, the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister paid tribute at the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. His message to Dutch reporters was less celebratory: acceptance among young people in the Netherlands is falling fast.
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.
