A new Human Rights Watch report finds harassment of LGBT university students surged during Pride Month 2026 — with at least 10 public universities adopting discriminatory rules and a new criminal code deepening the danger.
As France debates a bill to restrict medical care for trans youth, its own Defender of Rights is pushing the opposite way — and a promised reform to let minors change their gender marker remains stuck. Here's where things stand.
Serbia's laid-back second city hosts the final Novi Sad edition of EXIT Festival this July. Here's an honest, researched guide to visiting Novi Sad as a queer traveler — the vibe, the venues, and the street smarts.
The draft ban is trans-inclusive, carries up to five years in prison, and reaches practices arranged abroad. It's a genuine milestone — and it still has to survive consultation and a Commons vote.
Within days of each other, Missouri enacted a law forcing incarcerated trans people off their medication and Illinois signed three bills shielding gender-affirming care. The American map keeps splitting.
On June 29, Senegal's National Assembly amended the constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. It passed unanimously, and it caps a brutal year for the country's LGBTQ+ people.
A push to force schools to notify parents — and to bar teachers from using a student's chosen name or pronouns without consent — has moved from a handful of statehouses to the center of national politics in 2026.
As France debates a bill to restrict medical care for trans youth, its own Defender of Rights is pushing the opposite way — and a promised reform to let minors change their gender marker remains stuck. Here's where things stand.
The draft ban is trans-inclusive, carries up to five years in prison, and reaches practices arranged abroad. It's a genuine milestone — and it still has to survive consultation and a Commons vote.
Within days of each other, Missouri enacted a law forcing incarcerated trans people off their medication and Illinois signed three bills shielding gender-affirming care. The American map keeps splitting.
Serbia's laid-back second city hosts the final Novi Sad edition of EXIT Festival this July. Here's an honest, researched guide to visiting Novi Sad as a queer traveler — the vibe, the venues, and the street smarts.
We've spent a big chunk of the last few years based in Tirana. Here's our honest, lived-in guide to working remotely as a gay couple in Albania's fast-changing capital — the wifi, the cafés, the costs, and the parts nobody puts in the brochure.
WorldPride Amsterdam opens July 25 under the theme UNITY, marking 25 years since the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. Here's what's confirmed for opening day — and why a celebration this big lands differently in a summer of bans and detentions.
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.
