A group of 19 Ugandan LGBT+ people have been released from prison after being arrested for "violating corona rules." The group, all living in the same shelter, was allowed to leave prison after charge...

As a replacement for the cancelled Eurovision Song Contest, the special broadcast “Europe Shine A Light” will be shown this Saturday. This year's performers and other special guests will fill the gap,...

A new report from ILGA-Europe shows that there has been no improvement in equality for LGBTQ+ rights in 49% of the counted countries. Another disappointing result is that several countries seem to dec...

The coronavirus still holds the world in its grip. And even now, there are religious leaders who cannot resist the temptation to designate LGBT+ people as the culprits. This time, among others: a rabb...

An arrested group of 19 homeless LGBT+ people must be released, Human Rights Watch writes in a letter to the Ugandan Public Prosecution Service. The group was arrested in a shelter for homeless young ...

Over the Easter weekend, a video went viral in which a gay couple was verbally abused and spat on by a group of youngsters. Now Sébas Diekstra, the couple's lawyer, says on Twitter that the two men we...

The Spanish right-wing populist party VOX has made a striking statement in the Spanish parliament during a debate about the coronavirus. Foreman Santiago Abascal launched an attack on the Spanish prim...

As a result of the coronacrisis, the discriminatory regulations regarding blood donations by gay and bisexual men are altered or completely scrapped in more and more countries. The ban on gay and bi m...

An initiative by the Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul to get children to draw rainbows has been criticized by the Turkish Ministry of Education. The action would be part of a conspiracy to "turn child...

The Ankara Prosecutor’s office has launched a criminal investigation against an association of lawyers who filed a complaint against Ali Erbas, the highest Turkish imam. He claimed that homosexuality ...

At the beginning of this week, a Tunisian LGBT organization claimed that two men married in France were registered as partners in Tunisia. But the Tunisian Minister of Local Affairs
now calls that cla...

A trans person was assaulted by three boys in an Amsterdam metro line last Saturday. According to an eyewitness, the woman feared that the boys were going to kill her, as reported by Dutch newspaper D...

The United Nations instructs countries not to use COVID-19 as an excuse to avoid or circumvent LGBT+ rights issues. Countries must also be aware that LGBT people can be particularly vulnerable in this...

In Japan, health authorities have started tracing contacts of corona patients to identify the source of infection and to prevent the virus from spreading. A study finds that Japanese LGBT+ people are ...