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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.
A coordinated day of action brought protesters to Turkish embassies from London to Belgrade to Washington. Human Rights Watch called the crackdown an attack on the rule of law. Brussels, so far, has managed a spokesperson's statement.
TGEU's tenth European and Central Asian Trans Council opened in Slovenia under a theme that insists on joy — held against a backdrop of asylum failures, litigation battles and a continent-wide political backlash.
Munich doesn't get the queer travel spotlight that Berlin does, but between the Glockenbachviertel scene and the city's genuinely welcoming everyday feel, it deserves more attention than it gets.
The Sappho Women's Festival returns to Eresos, on the island of Lesvos, from September 9 to 19 — ten days of concerts, workshops, and beach community that have drawn queer women here for decades.
The Supreme Court of Cassation ruled trans people can change their name and gender marker on official documents, closing a nearly ten-year legal battle and putting Bulgaria in line with an EU court ruling from March.
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.
The Swiss Federal Council says conversion practices cause 'considerable harm' and wants a uniform federal law to replace a patchwork of cantonal bans — though parliament still has to act.
A five-day gathering centering Black LGBTQI+ life lands in France next week, with a human rights conference, a Trans Excellence gala, and a march through Château Rouge to République.
Before Barcelona, before Madrid — Málaga was our introduction to queer Spain. A guide to the city's low-key gay scene, from the Plaza de la Merced bars to La Malagueta beach.
Benidorm's Pride Week runs through September 6, with Saturday's parade expected to draw its biggest crowd yet. Here's why this unglamorous Costa Blanca resort has quietly become one of Europe's most reliable LGBTQ+ gatherings.
Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig is pushing to add sexual identity to Germany's Basic Law as a protected category. The renewed push comes weeks after a deadly attack on Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade — and still faces a steep two-thirds hurdle in the Bundestag.
Two years into civil unions, Latvia has moved further than its Baltic neighbors on paper but stopped short of marriage — a constitutional wall that's shaping the next phase of the country's LGBTQ+ rights fight.
Pierre Picavet, head of the French police LGBTQ+ rights association FLAG!, was struck with a bottle and hit with slurs outside a bar in Paris's historic gay district — even after identifying himself as an officer.
A statement from Denmark's civil registration authority reopens a years-long fight to extend legal gender recognition to trans people under 18 — but changing the law still requires Parliament to act.
A family reunification law passed by the Dutch House of Representatives requires asylum seekers' partners to be legally married. Same-sex couples fleeing countries where marriage isn't an option are left relying on human-rights law instead.
We kept promising a proper Nicosia guide after our Larnaca writeup — here's our honest take on Cyprus's divided capital, its small but real gay nightlife, and what to know before you visit.
Queer Wave 2026 runs September 18-27 at NiMAC, bringing ten days of queer cinema, performance and community events to a country still building out its LGBTQ+ rights framework.
A new HSE-commissioned survey on gender-affirming healthcare experiences closed August 21, part of an effort to design a new model of care. It's a small but real shift after years of trans patients being left out of the conversation.
Lambda has run counseling lines, safe spaces, and youth groups across Germany since 1990. A federal budget decision this summer eliminated its funding entirely, and the fallout is still unfolding.
Starting August 23, Polish registry offices will transcribe same-sex marriages performed abroad for the first time ever. The government is moving ahead anyway, even after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled the plan unconstitutional.
Rob Jetten pointed to organized extremist groups and the far right instead of naming any one religion as the driver of rising anti-LGBTQ+ hostility in the Netherlands. Conservative critics say he's dodging an uncomfortable truth.
Three bills that would restrict trans healthcare, documentation, and school speech cleared a first vote in March with far-right and governing-party support. Since then: silence from committee, and a drop in Portugal's rights ranking.
Copenhagen is putting 24 million kroner behind a 2026–2029 plan to address discrimination and mental health distress. Denmark ranks 5th on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map — but a promised conversion therapy ban from 2021 still hasn't happened.
While the fatal Berlin Pride car-ramming made international headlines, a steady drip of smaller incidents — stolen flags in Mönchengladbach, torn-down banners in Prenzlauer Berg — tells its own story about the current climate for LGBTQ+ Germans.
Ireland gets real credit for self-determined gender recognition. But the 2026 Trans Rights Index and Map shows the country scoring zero on healthcare and family rights — and advocates say the gap is no longer easy to ignore.
As WorldPride Amsterdam wrapped up, Dutch State Secretary Judith Tielen delivered an unusually candid message: 25 years after pioneering marriage equality, the Netherlands isn't moving forward anymore — and standing still means falling behind.
We've lived in and around Athens three separate times since 2015. Here's what we actually know about being queer, working remotely, and building a life in a city that's easy to underestimate.
Two weeks of WorldPride Amsterdam closed Saturday with a march from Martin Luther King Park to Museumplein, where marchers carried flags from Afghanistan and Pakistan alongside signs demanding the right to simply exist.
Two weeks of WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 come to an end tonight with a free closing concert headlined by Olly Alexander, Lion Babe and The Blessed Madonna after a march from Martin Luther King Park.
Antwerp's five-day Pride festival opens this week under the theme 'Fearless,' a direct response to rising anti-LGBTQ+ pressure both abroad and, increasingly, at home in Belgium.
Prime Minister Rob Jetten joined the boats on Amsterdam's canals this weekend, a first for a sitting Dutch head of government, and used the moment to announce concrete follow-through on the country's Rainbow Ballot Agreement.
At a Ljubljana conference hosted with ILGA-Europe, a state secretary at Slovenia's Ministry of Labour pledged to draft the country's first dedicated national strategy for LGBTIQ+ equality — a document advocates have wanted for years.
We spent time working out of Florence during our European rotation. Here's what it's actually like to live and work there as a queer couple — the good, the slow, and the quietly conservative.
Vienna gave us one of our easiest stretches of nomad life — good trains, real gay nightlife, and a visa reality we want other nomads to know about before they book anything.
President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed the bill that would have given same-sex couples legal recognition for the first time in Polish history, calling it a threat to marriage. An override is nearly impossible.
A new mid-year report from Nash Svit LGBT Human Rights Center tallies court victories, 26 documented hate incidents, thousands of Pride marchers across the country, and a civil partnership bill still stuck after 20,000 amendments.
A two-year government-commissioned review found gender-affirming treatment for trans youth aligns with Dutch health law and that withholding it carries real, documented harms.
Greece's second city has a smaller, quieter queer scene than Athens — but a genuinely welcoming one, with its own Pride, its own nightlife strip, and a waterfront made for wandering.
Prizren is Kosovo's most beautiful city and one of the least-visited by queer travelers. Here's an honest, researched look at the scene, the safety picture, and why August is the month to go.
WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 begins today with Queen Máxima opening the celebration in the Vondelpark under the theme Unity. Here's what's happening on the ground and why this edition carries so much weight.
Spain just claimed the top spot on Europe's Rainbow Map for the first time. But in Valencia, a regional rollback of trans protections is now before the Constitutional Court — a reminder that national wins and local realities don't always match.
After months of countdowns, WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 finally kicks off Saturday. From the Vondelpark opening to the Canal Parade to a human-rights conference, here's how the next fortnight unfolds.
Cheaper than Lisbon, endlessly walkable, and quietly one of the most comfortable places we've based ourselves as a gay couple — here's how Porto actually works for queer nomads in 2026.
As WorldPride fills Amsterdam this summer, the Netherlands is marking a quarter-century of marriage equality with an openly gay head of government for the first time. Here's what the moment actually means — and where the work still is.
Larnaca was one of our first landing spots as full-time nomads. Here's our honest, firsthand guide to the Cypriot seaside city — the vibe, the practicalities, and what queer travelers should actually know before they go.
In six days Amsterdam becomes the center of the global queer world for fifteen days of parades, protest, and a human rights conference. Here's what's happening, and why WorldPride 2026 matters more than a party.
From 14 July, Spain's National Police will let trans foreigners correct their name and gender on residency documents — ending a policy that stamped newly arrived migrants with their deadname.
Seven days from the opening of WorldPride Amsterdam 2026. Here's your final-week checklist — what's confirmed, what to book before you land, and how to survive fifteen days of the biggest queer gathering Europe will see this year.
Fresh off topping Europe's Rainbow Map, Spain's Council of Ministers approved a first-of-its-kind State Strategy for the Social Inclusion of Trans People — a four-year roadmap that turns the 2023 Ley Trans into concrete policy.
The Sejm and Senate have passed the 'Closest Person' act, giving same-sex couples legal recognition for the first time in Polish history. Now it all comes down to whether President Nawrocki signs or vetoes.
As WorldPride Amsterdam marks a quarter-century of Dutch marriage equality, it's worth remembering how radical the 2001 vote really was — and tracing the map it set in motion around the world.
With WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 opening on 25 July, the final ten-day countdown is on. Here's what's locked in, what to book now, and how to pace two weeks of the biggest queer gathering Europe will see this year.
The parade rolls out from Plaça Universitat on July 18, capping weeks of Pride in the country that just topped Europe's Rainbow Map. Here's how to do it right.
Three bills that would gut one of Europe's most progressive gender-identity laws cleared their first vote in March. Months later, they're still alive in committee, and trans Portugal is watching closely.
Luxembourg Pride's Equality March filled the capital's streets on July 11 for the first time in 16 years, capping a Pride Week that ran July 2–12 in one of Europe's most quietly progressive countries.
Europe's number-one country for LGBTQ+ rights is fighting a two-front battle in 2026: a constitutional challenge to the Ley Trans from the right, and a landmark vote to make conversion therapy a crime.
Portugal spent two decades as one of Europe's quiet success stories on LGBTQ+ rights. In 2026 that reputation is being tested by three bills that would unwind its self-ID law — here's where the country actually stands.
The official WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 agenda is locked in — 25 July to 8 August, 300+ events, from the Pride Walk to the Canal Parade to a Human Rights Conference. Here's how to plan two weeks of it.
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.
Strong legal protections, a landmark self-determination law now in force, and a well-funded Pride season — set against the steady pressure of a far-right party polling near the top. Where Germany actually stands this summer.
For the eleventh year running, authorities banned Istanbul Pride and locked down Taksim. Marchers turned out regardless. At least 50 people were detained on June 29, among them a journalist with a valid press card and six lawyers.
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.
MADO 2026 reaches its climax on July 4 with the huge Atocha-to-Colón march — a mix of protest and party that anchors Europe's largest Pride celebration.
More than 10,000 athletes from dozens of countries wrap up the world's largest inclusive sporting event on July 4. After a hard week for LGBTQ+ news, Valencia is the reminder that the movement is also joy.
A gay Roma teacher faced a year in prison for organizing a banned Pride march. In June, prosecutors dropped the case — and the reason they gave matters as much as the outcome.
For the first time, Poland's lower house has passed a law recognizing same-sex couples. The catch: it still has to survive the Senate and a president who has already promised to kill it.
A Supreme Court ruling recognized a same-sex couple as a de facto family. Months earlier, a new Civil Code wrote them out of the definition entirely. Ukraine is now moving in two directions at once.
A year after 200,000 defied a government ban, Budapest Pride returned on June 27 — this time legal, police-protected, and marching in 38°C heat through a country whose politics have shifted underneath it.
With a street festival July 3–5 and a parade of hundreds of floats on July 5, ColognePride returns under the motto 'For Queer Rights — Many. Together. Strong.'
MADO kicks off June 25 in Chueca and builds toward Europe's largest Pride march on July 4 — staged in the country that just topped the Rainbow Map, and just as Spain reckons with a surge in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime.
Ireland's capital closes out a five-day festival with its 52nd Pride parade on June 27, led by author and activist Philippa Ryder. The theme insists on a community held together by difference, not despite it.
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.
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.
June 20 marks World Refugee Day and the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention. For LGBTQ+ people who flee, the journey to safety in Europe rarely ends at the border — and the Balkan route runs straight through countries still debating whether queer people deserve protection at all.
France was an early mover on marriage equality and has solid legal protections on paper. But trans recognition still runs through the courts, hate crimes are rising, and a resurgent far right has made LGBTQ+ rights a live political target.
A quarter-century after the first rainbow flags poured out of the metro at Porta Venezia, Milano Pride expects 350,000 people for its 2026 parade — a defiant celebration under Giorgia Meloni's government.
As Sofia Pride struggles with collapsing corporate funding, Bulgaria's governing party has thrown its weight behind a competing 'March of the Family' on the same day — a state-aligned counter-mobilization that says a lot about where the country is heading.
Twenty-six diplomatic missions have urged Cyprus to finally adopt a national LGBT strategy while it holds the EU Council presidency. The island ranks near the bottom of Europe's Rainbow Map — and the timing is pointed.
Spain just topped Europe's LGBTQ+ rights ranking. Here's our practical take on living and working in Barcelona as a queer couple — neighborhoods, logistics, and what daily life actually feels like.
Spain just broke Malta's decade-long hold on the top of ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map. Here's what actually changed — and why the law on paper isn't the whole story.
After 17 straight years of US Embassy support, Sofia Pride 2026 went ahead with a slashed budget, fleeing corporate donors, and a 'March of the Family' blessed by the ruling party. The story of one Balkan Pride is a preview of what happens when American soft power exits the field.
Greece's biggest Pride drew an estimated 40,000-plus to Syntagma Square on Saturday under the theme 'It's About You' — the first parade in a full year of legal same-sex marriage, and a reminder that joy is its own kind of politics.
Romania and Bulgaria sit dead last on the EU's Rainbow Map, yet roughly 30,000 marched in Bucharest and thousands more in Sofia this weekend — a louder answer than the Orthodox Church and the nationalist counter-marchers expected.
Central and Eastern Europe's largest Pride march hit its 25th anniversary this weekend, and for the first time in years the Parada Równości moved through Warsaw with the politics tilting, however unevenly, in its favor.
Riga Pride 2026 took to the streets on June 13 under the banner 'March for Freedom,' capping a week of debate, film and culture in a Baltic capital that has quietly become one of Northern Europe's more hopeful LGBTQ+ stories.
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.
Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has limited the Reichstag's rainbow flag to a single day a year and withdrawn the parliament's administration from Berlin's CSD. As Germany's Pride season opens, the fight has shifted from winning rights to defending them.
Bosnia's seventh Pride Week runs June 13–21 with film, drag, workshops and a citywide invitation to hang rainbow colors from your balcony — a quiet act of solidarity in a region facing rising extremism.
Across Western Europe, the fight over LGBTQ+ rights has moved into schools. From cancelled diversity programmes in Italy to challenged equality curricula in France and Germany, a once-stable region is quietly importing an American culture-war playbook.
France is often assumed to be a Western European leader on LGBTQ+ rights. The 2026 picture is more complicated: real legal protections alongside a documented surge in anti-LGBTQ+ offences.
KyivPride has set its 2026 dates — Pride Park on June 14, the Equality March on June 21 — as the LGBTQ+ movement in wartime Ukraine becomes a statement of resilience as much as rights.
Hungarian prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organising the banned 2025 Pride march, citing April's EU court ruling. The man who said freedom can't be banned in Budapest just won.
A year after Orbán's government banned it and 200,000 people marched anyway, Hungarian police have formally approved the 31st Budapest Pride — and pushed the counter-protests away from the route.
Slovenia was the first post-communist country in Europe to win full marriage and adoption equality — and its capital wears that confidence lightly. Here's an honest, researched guide to queer Ljubljana, from two travelers who haven't made it there yet.
The court struck down part of a 1939 fascist-era pension law, ruling that INPS cannot refuse a widow's pension to the surviving spouse of a same-sex couple married in another country before Italy's 2016 civil unions law took effect.
On May 13, ACCEPT and dozens of Romanian same-sex couples married elsewhere in the EU filed a formal administrative request demanding their marriages be recognized in Romanian civil registers. It is the first organized test of the EU's November 2025 Cupriak-Trojan ruling on Romanian soil.
Dresden CSD opens Saturday May 30 in a city and a state where the far-right AfD is the largest political force. The Saxon capital's Pride march has become one of the most heavily protected — and most closely watched — in Germany.
Vienna Pride opened Thursday with a daylong policy conference at City Hall and a sixteen-day program ahead of it. The slogan is VISIBLE Since 1996. The political climate makes the framing land differently than it did even a year ago.
Baltic Pride rotates between Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. In 2026 it lands in Estonia — the only Baltic country with marriage equality, the only one with a national LGBTQ+ action plan, and the host this year of a programme built around Estonian resilience.
Bucharest Pride runs June 3–13 under the theme 'All of Us,' with the march expected to bring more than 30,000 people down Calea Victoriei. The edition doubles as the 30th anniversary of ACCEPT, the organisation that helped decriminalise homosexuality in Romania.
Iceland scored 30 out of 32 on TGEU's annual ranking of trans rights in Europe and Central Asia. There's no dramatic recent reform driving it — just a decade of small, undramatic changes that quietly compound.
Italy's largest Pride parade has barred two Jewish LGBTQ+ groups from marching with a float unless they meet a political litmus test on Gaza. The move has fractured the Italian queer community a month before June 20.
Roma Pride on June 20 and Milano Pride on June 27 lead a long Italian summer of marches. They will run in the only Western European country still without same-sex marriage, two years into a government that has spent both of them rolling rights backwards.
One of Europe's largest Pride marches caps a week of events on June 27, running from the Palais-Royal to Place de la Nation. Here is what to know before it sets off.
Ahead of Christopher Street Day season, German LGBTQ+ groups and extremism monitors warn that the far-right counter-marches that shadowed dozens of Pride events last year are organising earlier — and younger.
Berlin's Christopher Street Day returns in July under the slogan 'Haltung ist hot,' framing visibility itself as the political act. A look at the theme, the date, and the German backdrop.
EU institutions launched a synchronized pro-LGBTQ+ campaign ahead of Pride Month, promoting the new 2026-2030 Equality Strategy. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: it is unusually coordinated.
Vienna Pride opens May 29 with a Conference at the Rathaus and runs through the 30th Regenbogenparade on June 13. Three hundred thousand people are expected on the Ringstrasse. Here is what the program looks like and why the anniversary framing matters.
The Bari Court of Appeal, in a ruling now final, has given a four-year-old boy three legal parents — two fathers and a co-mother. It is the first time an Italian court has done this, and it lands in the middle of Giorgia Meloni's war on rainbow families.
Two months after Portugal's parliament voted 151-79 to advance three sweeping anti-trans bills, the legislation is still in the Committee on Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees. The delay is not an accident — and it is not a win, either.
TGEU's annual trans rights ranking arrived this week alongside ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map. The headline: when European governments stand still or roll back protections, courts and movements are the ones moving the needle.
ILGA-Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map went live on May 12. Spain takes the top spot for the first time, ending Malta's decade-long reign — but the more telling story is how much of Europe slid backward this year.
The 2026 Rainbow Map calls Turkey the country where conditions for LGBTI people deteriorated most visibly in the past year — dissolved organisations, blocked healthcare, and prosecutions targeting activists by name.
MADO 2026 runs June 25 to July 5 in Chueca, with two million expected and the largest Pride parade on the continent. Spain has used the year to expand workplace protections and trans healthcare. The festival arrives at a confident moment.
Greece's second-largest Pride returns June 15-20 with the parade on Saturday, June 20, walking from the city center to the White Tower. The 14th edition leans into gender diversity and expression in a year when EU and Greek courts continue to expand recognition for queer and trans people.
We've been twice — once in 2015, again as nomads in 2022 — and Bucharest has changed faster than the headlines suggest. Romania's capital is an underrated long stay for queer travelers who want a real city, real food, and breathing room from the usual European circuit.
ILGA-Europe's annual ranking of 49 countries on LGBTQ+ rights goes live in less than a week. With Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law just struck down, Czechia's enhanced partnerships completing their first year, and Albania's EU accession heating up, the 2026 edition will land in a different Europe than 2025's.
Montenegro has the most progressive LGBTQ+ legal framework in the Western Balkans — civil partnerships since 2020, comprehensive anti-discrimination law, and an annual Pride march. Its sleepy capital, Podgorica, is the strange, low-key place where all of that lives.
On May 23, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Romania had violated the rights of 21 same-sex couples by refusing to give their relationships any legal status. Three years on, Romania still has no civil partnership law — and the Council of Europe is running out of patience.
Brussels Pride marches on May 16 with around 200,000 people expected and a 30th-anniversary slogan written for a moment of backlash. The capital of the European Union is not pretending things are fine — but it is showing up anyway.
A man accused of two violent attacks on gay men at a Mallorca beach faces attempted-homicide and grievous-bodily-harm charges with a discrimination-based aggravator. The case is one of the most serious tests of Spain's hate-crime framework this year.
Athens isn't on the typical gay travel circuit, but it's one of our favorite Mediterranean cities to land in. Here's our honest, firsthand guide to the city's LGBTQ+ scene, neighborhoods, and what to expect as a queer visitor in 2026.
Maspalomas Pride opens Spain's pride season May 1–10 in Gran Canaria — a ten-day, beach-anchored celebration that has quietly become one of Europe's biggest LGBTQ+ events.
Péter Magyar has named education researcher Judit Lannert to run a ministry that, under Fidesz, was the primary engine of Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ school policies. The right-wing press is already calling her appointment a scandal.
A draft decree from Madrid would force every autonomous community to fund gender-affirming surgery, voice therapy, and mental-health support — closing the patchwork that has long forced trans Spaniards to travel for care.
Athens Pride returns June 12-14 with marriage equality now firmly anchored in Greek constitutional law — and a parade that's quietly become one of the largest in the eastern Mediterranean.
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.'
Slovakia's 2025 constitutional amendment locking in two-sex recognition and banning same-sex adoption is now exposed in a way it wasn't a week ago. The EU's Hungary ruling didn't just hit Budapest.
We're back in Porto for our third stint in Portugal. The anti-trans bills that passed their first parliamentary reading last month are the background hum of every conversation right now.
Two of the most established LGBTQ+ organizations still operating inside Russia were declared extremist on April 23, 2026 — a move that effectively criminalizes nearly two decades of community work and sexual health outreach.
Hungary's incoming prime minister campaigned on vague promises of tolerance and almost no direct commitments on queer rights. The European Court of Justice has just forced the question onto his agenda.
The Court of Justice of the European Union found that Hungary's 2021 'propaganda' law violates core EU values — the first time the bloc has ruled a member state breached Article 2 of its founding treaty.
A new FELGTB+ report shows hate crimes, harassment, and physical assaults against LGBTQ+ people in Spain have more than doubled since 2024 — with transgender people bearing the worst of it.
On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice delivers its judgment in Commission v. Hungary, the first infringement case to rely on Article 2 TEU as a standalone basis. Here's what's at stake.
Pristina is one of the youngest capital cities in Europe — and one of the most overlooked by queer travelers. Here's what to know about scene, safety, and the political context you'll be walking into.
A regional Russian outlet was hit with an 'LGBT propaganda' fine over a review of the hockey drama Heated Rivalry — the clearest sign yet that Russia is policing cultural criticism, not just content.
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.
Just two years after legalizing same-sex marriage, Greece is moving to restrict surrogacy access exclusively to women — a rollback that legal experts say likely violates European human rights law.
The 2026 report documents a continent-wide rollback: 'propaganda' laws, Pride bans, forced closures of NGOs, and constitutional amendments designed to erase trans people from public life.
Spain's new workplace equality rules require companies to actively protect LGBTQ+ employees — and businesses say implementation has been surprisingly easy.
In a 340-to-141 vote, the European Parliament adopted a recommendation calling for 'the full recognition of trans women as women' — a striking statement amid a global wave of anti-trans legislation.
The Belarusian parliament approved a sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ bill this week, copying Russia's playbook. Advocates say it criminalizes existence — not just expression.
More than 7,000 LGBTQ+ athletes and allies from 65 countries will descend on Valencia, Spain, for the world's largest inclusive sporting event. Gay Games XII runs June 27 to July 4, 2026.
The European Commission has launched its second LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy, a five-year roadmap targeting hate speech, conversion practices, employment discrimination, and legal gender recognition across all 27 member states.
After a landmark constitutional court ruling and one couple's fight through the courts, Lithuania is now debating a civil partnership bill — but its passage is far from certain.
Three bills that would dismantle Portugal's pioneering trans rights protections passed a first parliamentary reading in March 2026, backed by the ruling coalition and far-right Chega party.
The Balkans are changing fast — but unevenly. Montenegro has legal civil unions. Serbia blocks progress despite 80% public support. Kosovo's PM is pushing for change. Bosnia's Ministry of Health is actively obstructing a partnership bill. Here's the full picture.
The biggest LGBTQ+ event in the world is coming to the city that invented same-sex marriage. Here's the full guide to WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 — dates, theme, events, how to plan your trip, and what else is happening across Europe this summer.
We tested it in 2014, did a full year in 2015, got married, bought a house, ran vacation rentals through COVID, sold everything, and left in January 2022. Four years later, here's the honest accounting.
