Tag: gay rights

A Russian court has overturned a guilty verdict that jailed a transgender woman for three years in 2019 for sharing…

Thousands of Poles have marched through the city of Plock in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, which…

In Warsaw, over 1,000 people have protesters against violence targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community that took place…

Polish government ministers have condemned violence against an LGBT rights march while other members of the populist Law and Justice…

Polish campaigners are conflating gay men with pedophiles and make threatening gestures during pride events in Poland.  Human rights activists…

A campaigner helping lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Chechens escape persecution has received death threats from a gang that broke…

Chechnya has launched a fresh crackdown on the gay community in which at least two have died and about 40…

Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured) says he is ready to resign and let the Kremlin choose his successor. Kadyrov, 41,…

Turkey has axed a German gay film festival the day before it was due to open, claiming to have responded…

Police in Azerbaijan have been arresting and torturing men suspected of being gay or bisexual, as well as transgender women,…

Canada has granted asylum to 22 gay men and women from Chechnya since the end of June, amid a government…

An openly gay journalist for Russia’s only independent newspaper has appealed to a court to grant him refugee status in…

A Chechen government spokesman has rejected a report by the only independent Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, that 27 Chechens had…

German chancellor Angela Merkel has paved the way for gay marriage to be legalised after she called for a free…

Turkish police have prevented lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists from holding a parade in Istanbul as protesters attempted…