Tag: homophobia

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

Thousands of far-right nationalists have marched to mark Poland’s independence day, burning red and white flares for the national flag…

Homophobic, nationalist protesters in Georgia have clashed with police as they attempted to stop the premiere of a well-reviewed movie…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised Russia for opening a criminal probe into the alleged sexual assault of children who…

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

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

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

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

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has again denied the existence of gay men in the largely Muslim republic.  “If there are…

Reports in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper that the security forces in Chechnya killed 27 people on January 26 must be…

Russia’s gay propaganda law increases “stigma and prejudice” and violates the right to freedom of expression, the European Court of…

Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson has rejected claims that she will break away from the national party. The Daily Telegraph…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will intervene over reports that men suspected of being gay are locked in…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has quizzed Russian President Vladimir Putin on gay rights during her visit to Sochi.  She said…

The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured with Vladimir Putin), plans to “eliminate” the country’s gay…