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President Seguro sent Portugal's ban on 'ideological' flags back to parliament in June. Now parliament has passed a rewrite that spells out exactly which flags are allowed — with a PSD carve-out that may or may not leave room for the rainbow flag.
Eighty-five days in Portugal used up our Schengen allowance, and Albanian friends have spent years telling us to come here. Today we landed in Pristina, and immediately discovered our phone plan doesn't work.
Portugal's longest-running LGBTQ+ film festival returns to Cinema São Jorge from September 18 to 26, opening with Ira Sachs' The Man I Love. Tickets go on sale today.
The Prishtina Queer Festival opens September 6 for its second edition, pairing Kosovar queer film, music, and book launches with a curated slate of Portuguese short films — a small but pointed act of cross-border solidarity.
Three bills that would restrict trans healthcare, documentation, and school speech cleared a first vote in March with far-right and governing-party support. Since then: silence from committee, and a drop in Portugal's rights ranking.
Cheaper than Lisbon, endlessly walkable, and quietly one of the most comfortable places we've based ourselves as a gay couple — here's how Porto actually works for queer nomads in 2026.
Three bills that would gut one of Europe's most progressive gender-identity laws cleared their first vote in March. Months later, they're still alive in committee, and trans Portugal is watching closely.
Portugal spent two decades as one of Europe's quiet success stories on LGBTQ+ rights. In 2026 that reputation is being tested by three bills that would unwind its self-ID law — here's where the country actually stands.
Two months after Portugal's parliament voted 151-79 to advance three sweeping anti-trans bills, the legislation is still in the Committee on Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees. The delay is not an accident — and it is not a win, either.
Released May 5, the Holy See's synod study group report is the first official Vatican document to feature testimony from civilly married gay men and to describe reparative therapies as causing 'profound suffering.' It does not change doctrine — and that's the point.
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.
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.
