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A new Aleanca LGBTI study found that 86% of discrimination incidents against LGBTQI students went unreported, and the Council of Europe's ECRI says the school climate for LGBTI young people in Albania appears to have worsened. Here's what the research shows, and what would change it.
Only 12% of LGBTIQ people in Albania, 21% in North Macedonia and 29% in Serbia say they're fairly or very open, against 51% across the EU. On National Coming Out Day, here's what the numbers mean, and why coming out is yours to time.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who founded Childline in 1986, has died aged 86. Beyond That's Life and her assisted dying campaign, she put coming out and trans lives on daytime TV long before it was easy, and built a helpline that still answers young LGBTQ+ people today.
A statement from Denmark's civil registration authority reopens a years-long fight to extend legal gender recognition to trans people under 18 — but changing the law still requires Parliament to act.
James Dale lost at the Supreme Court in 2000 so Boy Scouts of America could keep him out for being gay. Twenty-six years later, he's using that same ruling to fight the Pentagon's pressure campaign against Scouting America's trans-inclusive policies.
A memo obtained by a longtime gay-rights plaintiff shows Scouting America agreed to eliminate LGBTQ+, women's, and scouts-of-color programming after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to pull Pentagon support.
A push to force schools to notify parents — and to bar teachers from using a student's chosen name or pronouns without consent — has moved from a handful of statehouses to the center of national politics in 2026.
After a federal grand jury subpoena ordered NYU Langone to hand over the names and health records of trans youth, families and civil rights groups went to court — and bought time until June 24.
