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In the same week, the FPÖ asked Austria's parliament to ban rainbow pedestrian crossings and mocked Vienna's queer history centre Qwien for installing armoured glass near a far-right venue. Every other party pushed back.
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.
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.
Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has limited the Reichstag's rainbow flag to a single day a year and withdrawn the parliament's administration from Berlin's CSD.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.
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.
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.
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 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.'
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.
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.
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.
