Ukraine

David Pressman arrived in Budapest two months ago with his husband and their two children and made a point of sharing the event on social.

With a mix of observation, interviews, and striking photographs, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo reported dozens of stories for LGBTQ Nation from Ukraine’s front line.

The Biden administration has proposed a prisoner swap and is waiting for Russia to either accept or negotiate.

Thousands are fleeing the country following President Vladimir Putin’s draft order.

President Biden imagined a future “where the LGBTQ+ community individuals live and love freely without being targeted with violence.”

Homosexuality is legal in Poland, but the nation has been consistently ranked as the most homophobic country in the European Union.

Her marginalized intersectional identities in America -race, class, gender, and sexuality- have highlighted the reason why she’s over there in the first place.

“The reason I am not dead now is sheer luck. Nothing else, because they want to kill every single one of us. Just because we are Ukrainians.”

A gay son. A queer daughter married to a transgender partner. And the father who loves them all? He’s a 63-year-old white man from a small town in Georgia. 

Prosecutors wanted her to get 9.5 years for carrying less than a gram of hashish oil in her luggage.

“Tens of thousands of queer Ukrainians defending our country during this genocide made this possible. Centuries of our anti-colonial struggle against Russian patriarchal and homophobic tyranny made this possible.”

“I believe in approaching things that scare you, and part of why I ended up here was because I took a direction that scared me, and that’s important.”

David Dodson had no doubts about the actor’s abilities both on-screen and off – and he wasn’t wrong.

While draconian acts were expected from Russian government entities, an event in Ukraine caused significantly greater consternation among local activists.

Russian forces are hunting down gay men, raping and castrating them. We spoke with a war crimes investigator to find out what’s happening and what’s being done to get justice for the victims.

Russia calls the members of the Azov Battalion anti-LGBTQ neo-Nazis. But Ukraine’s queer community is calling them heroes.

The Putin regime’s focus on humiliating the LGBTQ community inside Russia is being utilized as a part of their war efforts against the Ukrainian populace as well.

Agatha Williams, a metal fabricator from Denver, Colorado turned front-line aid worker aiding civilians amid the Russian invasion, joined the relief effort. Here is what they’re doing every day now to help the Ukrainian people.

Josh Duggar had a reality show and led rallies against LGBTQ equality a decade ago. Now he’s getting locked up for possessing porn depicting children as young as 18-months-old.

“I’m pretty sure those Nazis have the same opinion of that flag as you do.”