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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.
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.
The killing of a well-known young gay man in Cameroon's largest city has renewed alarm over the safety of LGBTQ+ people in a country where community leadership is already stretched thin.
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.
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.
Ahead of Belgrade Pride's 25th anniversary march, a caravan of activists touring smaller Serbian cities has been met with death threats, banned assemblies, and attacks on journalists — a sign of how uneven progress in Serbia really is.
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.
Prosecutors say a 17-year-old used a fake dating profile to lure Georgi Kuzev, 31, to a park where a group of teens beat him to death. Bulgarian authorities are investigating a hate crime motive.
Two married couples say casino security filmed rather than intervened as a man beat them with anti-gay slurs outside MGM Grand Detroit. More than a year later, they're suing the casino as their attacker serves probation.
A man in his 30s died after reportedly being lured to a meeting via a dating app and beaten near a tourist landmark in Bulgaria's second city. Police are investigating whether the attack was motivated by homophobia.
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 van rammed into crowds at Berlin's Christopher Street Day festivities Saturday night, followed by a bladed-weapon attack. German authorities are treating it as Islamist terrorism.
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.
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.
A 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after fire tore through one of England's longest-running queer venues in the early hours of Sunday.
