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From a Sarajevo assembly member's Facebook post to Milorad Dodik's public remarks, Bosnian courts have issued a string of rulings this year finding anti-LGBTQ speech illegal. It's slow, but it's building something rare in the region: precedent.
Catalonia has overhauled its decade-old LGBTI protections with a tougher law that reaches into workplaces and public contracts, adds real teeth for trans and intersex people, and sets penalties running into the hundreds of thousands of euros. It comes into force in 2026.
Law 13/2025 updates a decade-old statute with fines up to €500,000, mandatory workplace protocols for larger companies, and LGBTI clauses written into public contracts.
Five years after parliament rebuilt the body that's supposed to protect LGBTQ+ people, religious minorities, and the disabled, new appointments are raising old fears that politics is about to gut it from the inside.
