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Marriage equality is now the law in all 32 states, and Mexico is a genuine regional leader on paper. On the ground, trans women still face some of the highest violence rates anywhere in the world. Here's the real picture.
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.
At the WorldPride Human Rights Conference in Amsterdam, Senator Pornchai Witayalerdpan reflected on what a year and a half of marriage equality has done for Thailand's global standing — and what's still unfinished at home.
A Slovak couple married in Austria in 2020 just got a rejection letter for their marriage registration — despite a CJEU ruling ordering every EU country to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the bloc.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that a same-sex couple formed a legally protectable domestic partnership, ordering a third party to pay damages for breaking it up. It's the latest step in a pattern: South Korean courts keep expanding protections for same-sex couples while marriage equality itself stays just out of reach.
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.
After a string of high court rulings that the same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, Japan's Supreme Court has sent the question to its Grand Bench. Here's where things stand and why it matters far beyond Japan.
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.
Eighteen months after same-sex marriage took effect, a long-stalled Gender Recognition Bill is back in play as Thailand's parliament reconvenes — the reform trans Thais have been waiting years for.
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.
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.
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.
From Nepal's landmark marriage ruling to Japan's pending Supreme Court cases, LGBTQ+ progress across Asia is increasingly being written by judges — while legislatures stall.
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.
Two years after a provisional order opened the door, Nepal's Supreme Court has issued a binding directive requiring the government to fully recognize same-sex marriage. It is now a constitutional requirement, not a favor — and Nepal stands as the 40th country in the world to get there.
While Japan's same-sex marriage cases head to the Supreme Court, a quieter revolution has happened city by city: partnership registries now cover the vast majority of the population, even without a single national law.
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.
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.
While Bangkok's Pride grabs the headlines, a city in Thailand's rural northeast is quietly building one of the country's most ambitious Pride projects, complete with rainbow crosswalks and a 'Rainbow School' competition.
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.
A new Taiwan Equality Campaign survey shows support for same-sex marriage steady at 54.3 percent, with adoption and trans-national marriage gaining ground. So why are Taiwan's activists worried?
A year and a half after Southeast Asia's first marriage equality law, Thailand's queer and trans movement is turning to the next frontier: legal gender recognition. And Pride season is in full swing while they push.
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.
Bangkok Pride Festival 2026 runs May 28 to June 1 under the theme 'Patch the World with Pride.' It's the first Bangkok Pride since the Marriage Equality Act took effect on January 1, and the first to host a regional policy forum aimed squarely at the rest of Asia.
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.
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.
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.
Weeks after Botswana formally deleted colonial-era anti-gay provisions from its Penal Code, a same-sex couple's challenge to the Marriage Act heads to a full bench of the High Court in July.
Japan's Supreme Court has consolidated six same-sex marriage appeals before its full Grand Bench. The decision, expected in 2027, will determine whether the last G7 holdout's marriage ban is constitutional.
Warsaw's civil registry transcribed a same-sex marriage certificate on May 14, the first time in Polish history. Wrocław became the second city to do so days later. Both implement court orders that the Tusk government had, until recently, signaled it might ignore.
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.
Croatia is now the most legally protective country in the Western Balkans for LGBTQ+ people — but the road from constitutional ban to court-ordered adoption rights ran through 25 years of Pride marches, not parliamentary good will.
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.
Rob Jetten, 38, became the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister in February — a milestone that felt less like a revolution and more like an inevitability.
Poland's Supreme Administrative Court ruled that civil registries must record same-sex marriages from other EU states — a landmark shift for a country where marriage equality remains constitutionally banned.
One year after becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, Thailand has seen over 26,000 couples tie the knot — roughly 10% of all marriages registered nationwide.
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.
