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The High Court has begun sorting who gets to argue in the case that could make Botswana only the second African country with marriage equality. The constitutional showdown is now scheduled for late October.
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.
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.
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.
Split is the Dalmatian coast's biggest draw — a Roman palace you can live inside, ferries to the islands, and a queer scene that's quieter than the crowds suggest. Here's what LGBTQ+ travelers should know before going.
Montenegro is the only non-EU Balkan country with same-sex partnership rights — and its Adriatic coast is one of the most beautiful stretches in Europe. Here's what queer travelers should know before visiting Kotor, Budva, and the bay this year.
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.
Strong anti-discrimination law on paper, no marriage or partnership in practice, and a gender-equality bill that became a national fight. A clear-eyed look at where Albania — our home base — actually stands this year.
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.
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.
Nepal was the first country in South Asia to recognize same-sex marriage. Two years on, only a few dozen couples have registered, and the legal benefits of marriage remain out of reach. The Supreme Court heard arguments this spring on whether to finally close the gap.
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.
As Sarajevo Pride Week opens, Bosnia's queer community is marking real legal firsts and absorbing real setbacks in the same year. A look at where rights actually stand across the country's divided institutions — the progress, the rollbacks, and the gap between Sarajevo and Banja Luka.
GLAAD's sixth annual scorecard rates the major social platforms on LGBTQ+ safety. With one exception, every platform got worse this year. Meta's policy changes from 2025 are now baked in, and the report says the consequences are showing up in users' inboxes.
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.
