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The Russian LGBT Network, founded in 2006 and best known for rescuing gay men from Chechnya's purges, is dissolving after a court branded it an extremist organization — one of nine such rulings against LGBTQ+ groups this year alone.
Weeks after a gay man was beaten to death on Plovdiv's Youth Hill, police and security services detained 18 people linked to an alleged cell of the international neo-Nazi group Blood & Honour — as protesters demand tougher penalties for juvenile offenders.
Singapore's Internal Security Department disrupted three separate plots, including a planned knife attack on LGBTQ+ classmates, after peers and teachers recognized the warning signs and spoke up.
A Russian schoolboy showed classmates a video. Three years after the Kremlin declared the 'international LGBT movement' extremist, that was enough to put him on a juvenile offender registry and threaten his removal from school.
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.
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.
