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Election night in the US delivered a string of LGBTQ+ firsts: Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire, Sarah McBride is re-elected, Georgia elects its first out trans and nonbinary lawmaker, and Virginia voters strip the same-sex marriage ban from their constitution. In Texas, Democrats won after a flood of anti-trans ads.
East Asia's biggest Pride marched under the theme “Our Voices, Our Journey”. President Lai said the fight for equality “must not be reversed”, and Taipei's mayor was met with chants of “don't raid gay bars”.
An AP analysis of AdImpact data counts about 217,000 trans-focused GOP spots through October 25, more than at the same point in 2024. Meanwhile, 12% of voters call trans issues a top priority, against 85% for the economy. Here's where the money went and what it means for trans Americans.
Exit polls show neither Netanyahu's bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot's reaching the 61 seats needed to govern, after record turnout. The three parties that promised recognition for same-sex couples did well, but the maths decides what happens next.
Brochures and texts made to look like they came from trans advocates reached Texans ahead of early voting. The group they borrowed from says it had nothing to do with them, a DA has opened a forgery probe, and nobody yet knows who paid.
Lula came back from second place to beat Flávio Bolsonaro 51.79% to 48.21% on October 25, with travesti congresswoman Erika Hilton celebrating at his side. Bolsonaro is contesting the result. Here's what the win means, and doesn't, for queer and trans Brazilians.
The Student List won an outright majority in Serbia's October 25 election, ending 14 years of Progressive Party rule. Its 11-point program promises equal law for everyone, but never mentions LGBTQ+ people. Here's what's on the table for queer Serbians, and the questions worth asking now.
Three parties promise to write LGBTQ+ equality and recognition for same-sex couples into law. Likud has no stated policy, and the Aguda's new report tracks budget cuts and stalled bills under the outgoing government.
Two weeks out, voters in seven states will decide eight measures on trans students, youth healthcare, marriage and equal protection. Here's what each one does, which way is which, and what's still unclear.
Brazil's first round on October 4 gave a travesti congresswoman the biggest vote any woman has ever won for the Chamber of Deputies, while the presidential race goes to an October 25 runoff that is almost too close to call.
Same-sex couples have married in Virginia since 2014, but the 2006 ban is still written into the state constitution. On November 3, voters can delete it. Here's the wording, the arguments and the dates.
Postponed from June by a heat wave, the Marche des Fiertés crossed Paris on October 3 with tens of thousands of people and one clear message ahead of next year's presidential election: the far right is not welcome.
Aleksandar Vučić resigned on September 27 to run for prime minister, and parliament speaker Ana Brnabić took over presidential duties the next day. It's a real first for the Balkans. It is also a stopgap, and her record on LGBTQ+ rights is complicated.
Serbia's human rights minister says a Law on Same-Sex Unions is being prepared and could move 'in spring', with a public roundtable promised. Then snap elections were called for October 25. Here's where the law really stands, and why couples have heard this before.
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.
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.
Two Balkan elections land within three weeks of each other this fall. Neither is being fought on LGBTQ+ rights directly, but the outcomes will shape whether EU-driven progress on partnership laws and gender recognition continues or stalls.
A presidential and parliamentary vote is set for 13 December, the country's first in a decade. Organisers say elections have always been when homophobia spikes, and that this one arrives with gangs holding most of the capital.
The PAC is attacking five Democratic Senate candidates over trans rights — including several who had already moved to the right on the issue. AdImpact says trans content is unusually dominant in this spend.
The Belfast-born, openly lesbian Labour politician defeated Reform UK's Sian Astley to succeed Andy Burnham, who left the role after becoming UK Prime Minister.
With the suspect in Saturday's deadly Christopher Street Day attack dead and Berlin in mourning, queer Berliners and activists say their next fight is stopping the AfD from using the tragedy to win votes.
Two newly elected French mayors removed rainbow flags and shut down planned Pride celebrations, including one set for April 25 in a Lille suburb. Organizers call it 'an attack on a symbol of unity.'
Péter Magyar's landslide victory ends 16 years of Fidesz rule and Europe's most aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ government. But the new prime minister's record on queer rights is cautious at best.
Prime Minister Kurti pledged to legalize same-sex civil unions by May 2024. The deadline passed, an election came and went, and Kosovo's LGBTQ+ community is still waiting.
Led by INEND and GALCK+, Kenyan queer rights organizations are registering voters and building political power ahead of the August 2027 general elections, insisting their rights are 'fundamentally Kenyan issues.'
