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Video shows Russian police raiding gay bar amid national anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown
Activists worry that things will only get worse as Russian President Vladimir Putin centers anti-queer persecution in his re-election campaign.
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Russia issues arrest warrant for trans non-binary journalist over reporting on Ukraine
Masha Gessen fled the country in 2013 in the face of anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda laws.
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Russia outlaws all LGBTQ+ groups & people as “extremist” threats
The order is the latest attack in Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
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Russia moves to outlaw LGBTQ+ rights movement
The country’s Justice Ministry described the “international LGBT public movement” as “extremist.”
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Putin’s adviser says U.S. is using brainwashing to make gay Ukrainian super-soldiers
The Ukraine’s Armed Forces will become “zombified and unified through gay sex, along with cult members ready to sacrifice themselves,” he said.
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Russia steps up attacks on LGBTQ+ people amid a climate of fear
New legislation would ban gender-affirming care and ID changes, while Putin explores reinstating conversion therapy.
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Estonia’s parliament approves same-sex marriage
It’s a win for gay Estonians and a rebuke to Vladimir Putin.
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Ukraine soldier calls for marriage equality as war with Russia rages
“We could die tomorrow,” 30 year-old Anna Zyablikova lamented.
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Lesbian couple who fled Ukraine marries in Ireland
“We never dreamed it would be real for us!”
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The Chicago Blackhawks cancel a Pride-themed warm-up citing Vladimir Putin
Russia’s gay propaganda law creeps into the National Hockey League.