On the same June Saturday, North Macedonia's eighth Skopje Pride and Bosnia's seventh Sarajevo march took to the streets — smaller than the mega-parades to the west, and arguably braver for it.
Governor Matt Meyer signed SB 250, modernizing Delaware's parentage law around IVF and surrogacy — a quiet, concrete win for LGBTQ+ families at a moment when federal protections are going the other way.
More than 300,000 people marched past the Colosseum on June 20, turning the Italian Republic's 80th anniversary into a constitutional argument aimed squarely at the Meloni government.
Croatia climbed a spot on Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map after administrative tweaks to legal gender recognition. Look closer, though, and the same medicalised, pathologising hurdles that trans Croatians have fought for years are still firmly in place.
Around 5,000 people marched through central Kyiv on June 21 for Ukraine's largest Pride since Russia's full-scale invasion — a defiant, joyful, and unmistakably wartime demonstration that ended with the crowd dispersing under an air raid alert.
In a landmark ruling, the Philippine Supreme Court held that same-sex partners who build a life and a home together have legal co-ownership of what they paid for — and pointedly told Congress it's long past time to legislate recognition.
While Japan's same-sex marriage cases head to the Supreme Court, a quieter revolution has happened city by city: partnership registries now cover the vast majority of the population, even without a single national law.
Governor Matt Meyer signed SB 250, modernizing Delaware's parentage law around IVF and surrogacy — a quiet, concrete win for LGBTQ+ families at a moment when federal protections are going the other way.
Croatia climbed a spot on Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map after administrative tweaks to legal gender recognition. Look closer, though, and the same medicalised, pathologising hurdles that trans Croatians have fought for years are still firmly in place.
In a landmark ruling, the Philippine Supreme Court held that same-sex partners who build a life and a home together have legal co-ownership of what they paid for — and pointedly told Congress it's long past time to legislate recognition.
More than 300,000 people marched past the Colosseum on June 20, turning the Italian Republic's 80th anniversary into a constitutional argument aimed squarely at the Meloni government.
Around 5,000 people marched through central Kyiv on June 21 for Ukraine's largest Pride since Russia's full-scale invasion — a defiant, joyful, and unmistakably wartime demonstration that ended with the crowd dispersing under an air raid alert.
North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina hold their Pride parades on the very same day this year. The shared date is a coincidence of calendars — but the message it sends across the region is anything but accidental.
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.
