During a debate on LGBT+ discrimination in the European Parliament, several MEPs strongly criticized Poland. In the Eastern European country, various municipalities and regions have declared themselve…

Hungary has pulled out of next year's Eurovision Song Contest, because of its association with the LGBT+-community, the Guardian reports. According to the newspaper, the music competition would be “to…

Few people had ever heard of him: Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, a medium-sized city in Indiana. The 37-year-old mayor does not have a lot of experience, certainly in comparison with the oth…

Sweden is the 9th most safe travel destination for LGBT+ persons, according to a new list made by travel website Asher & Lyric. Norway holds the first place, followed by Portugal and Belgium. Denmark …

Multiple institutions in the Indonesian government are being accused of systematically banning LGBT+ job seekers. Multiple human rights organisations are raising concerns about the new criteria. A spo…

A gay man in Palo Alto, California has settled with local authorities for 572.500 dollars, after police officers used excessive violence against him during his arrest. A video of the event shows offic…

Four homosexual men have been caned because they attempted ‘sexual intercourse against the order of nature’. They will also be imprisoned for six months, and will receive a fine. Seven other men are s…

The European Gay Ski Week welcomes more than 1,000 LGBTIQ + snow enthusiasts from over 49 different countries each year and offers the unique opportunity to enjoy all winter sport activities together …

The Human Rights Campain Foundation (HRC) warns for what they call an "epidemic of anti-transgender violence" in a new report. This year, 22 trans people, most of whom are black women, have reportedly…

A former employee of an event company in New York claims to have been fired because of his sexual orientation. His employer allegedly halved his salary, because he made a lot more than “the other fema…

The right-wing populist party Vox is the big winner of the Spanish general elections last Sunday. The party managed to double their amount of seats: they went from 24 to 52 out of the 350. Vox is know…

Since Grindr has been sold to the Chinese company Kunlun for almost a hundred million dollars, the company is being widely criticized for its privacy policy. A couple of former employees decided to op…

The Czech president Miloš Zeman strictly opposes same-sex marriage, but his daughter, Kateřina, has a different opinion. In an interview with the Czech tabloid ‘Blesk’, she publicly defends two of her…

Anti-LGBT sentiment appears to be increasingly present in Eastern Europe. In countries such as Poland and Hungary, homosexual, bisexual and transgender people are in the middle of a political battlefi…