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Added on: 12/07/2024

Russian LGBTQ+ activists describe a climate of fear amid new laws, court rulings

12/06/2024

In the year since Russia’s Supreme Court effectively outlawed any promotion of LGBTQ+ rights, activists say they are experiencing a climate of fear and intimidation in the…

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Added on: 12/05/2024

Gay clubgoers found guilty of “hooliganism” following Moscow raids

12/04/2024

As many as a dozen individuals rounded up at gay clubs in Moscow this past weekend have been found guilty of “hooliganism” by a Russian court and…

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Added on: 12/04/2024

A dozen Moscow clubgoers found guilty after anti-LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ raids

12/03/2024

A dozen Moscow clubgoers were found guilty of “petty hooliganism” and detained following anti-LGBTQ “propaganda” raids by Russian security forces, according to Russian court documents and local…

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Added on: 12/01/2024

Moscow Police Raid Clubs Overnight Under “LGBT Propaganda” Law

11/30/2024

Police in Moscow raided multiple bars early Saturday and arrested the director of a travel agency serving LGBTQ+ customers under laws criminalizing “LGBT propaganda,” state media reported….

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Added on: 11/26/2024

Putin bans adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries permitting gender-affirming care

11/25/2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law separate bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community both in Russia and abroad. The new laws outlaw the promotion of…

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Added on: 11/22/2024

Survey finds 88% of trans Russians either want or plan to leave the country

11/21/2024

A study by Russian LGBT group Coming Out published Wednesday found that 88% of Russian trans people were either planning to or wanted to leave Russia. Some 65%…

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Added on: 11/15/2024

International Pride Awards honour five LGBTIQ+ equality heroes in Cape Town, South Africa

11/14/2024

Cape Town, South Africa – The first-ever International Pride Awards today honoured five remarkable advocates for LGBTIQ+ equality, celebrating them during a ceremony hosted by South African…

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Added on: 11/12/2024

Owner of Siberian gay club charged with ‘extremism’ and placed under house arrest

11/11/2024

An unnamed 22-year-old woman who owns a gay club that was raided by police in the Siberian city of Chita has been placed under house arrest after…

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Added on: 11/01/2024

Russia Stirs Up Anti-LGBTQ Prejudice In Moldova ‘Information War’

10/31/2024

When two false bomb alerts targeted an LGBTQ festival in Chisinau this month, organiser Angelica Frolov was left scrambling to find an alternative venue at the last…

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Added on: 10/29/2024

Owner of Siberian gay club charged with ‘extremism’ and placed under house arrest

10/28/2024

An unnamed 22-year-old woman who owns a gay club that was raided by police in the Siberian city of Chita has been placed under house arrest after…

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Added on: 10/26/2024

Denis Leontovich landed a government job in Russia, despite being openly gay. Then online harassment forced him to flee the country.

10/25/2024

Twenty-three-year-old Denis Leontovich lived openly as a gay man in Russia. After discovering a passion for environmental education in college, he took a position in youth policy…

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Added on: 10/25/2024

Nobody to each other

10/24/2024

When Alexey Bachinsky completed his journalism degree in 2011, he was already well aware that he could never work for Russian state television. Thankfully, at that time…

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Added on: 10/22/2024

LGBTQ+ Support Group in Russia’s Yekaterinburg Closes Amid ‘Anti-Queer Pressure’

10/21/2024

A non-profit organization providing mental health and legal support services to LGBTQ+ people in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg announced Monday that it would shut down after…

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Added on: 10/21/2024

Moscow police detained over 50 people in raid on LGBTQ+ venues

10/20/2024

Police in Moscow raided two gay clubs last weekend, detaining over 50 people, in what Novaya Gazeta Europe described as the continued escalation of the Russian government’s crackdown…

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Added on: 10/20/2024

Russian cash-for-votes flows into Moldova as nation heads to polls

10/19/2024

The sniffer dogs at Chisinau Airport have been working extra hard in recent months, searching for money that might be evidence of Russian meddling in Moldovan politics….

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Added on: 10/14/2024

Attacks on Gay Rights Push Russia’s LGBTQ Community Into the Shadows

10/13/2024

A decade ago, Russian publisher Leo Veles says, he could hang out in gay bars and clubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The scene wasn’t as vibrant…

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Added on: 10/08/2024

Moscow Arrests Man for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ and ‘Satanism’

10/07/2024

Russia on Monday arrested a medic for “Satanism” and “promoting same-sex relationships,” as Moscow intensifies a legal crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in defense of what it calls…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Russian-style laws on rise in former Eastern Bloc countries eager to follow Georgia’s lead

10/06/2024

With Georgia passing yet another controversial law, this time against LGBTQ rights, a growing number of post-socialist EU states, such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, appear eager…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Two Ukrainian women in love were torn apart by Putin’s war. They never stopped fighting to reunite.

10/06/2024

Polina Muzhychkova and Sofia Malina fell in love fast. At 17 and 19, respectively, they met in Mariupol, Ukraine, and began dating. But a month later, the…

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Added on: 10/06/2024

Russia Is Forcing Gay Chechen Men To Become Soldiers In Ukraine War, Says LGBT Group

10/05/2024

SK SOS, a human rights group in Chechnya, say that Russian authorities are “blackmailing” imprisoned gay Chechen men to become soldiers, and fight for Russia in the…

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Added on: 09/30/2024

Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ soldiers call for more rights – as Russia forces minorities into active service

09/29/2024

Russian authorities have been rounding up gay men and coercing them to fight in Ukraine, according to some recent reports. The Russian leader has long vilified the gay community…

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Added on: 09/30/2024

Why are HIV infections on the rise in Lithuania?

09/29/2024

Last year, 267 new cases of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) were registered in Lithuania. This is significantly more than in 2021 when 121 cases were diagnosed. Specialists…

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Added on: 09/29/2024

A U.S. activist allegedly accepted $300K from Russia to push anti-gay laws in Africa

09/28/2024

A wide-ranging investigation by the Wall Street Journal has uncovered evidence linking Russian cash to an anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. activist who helped promote “Kill the Gays” laws in…

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Added on: 09/27/2024

Russian parliament backs ban on adoptions from countries that allow gender change

09/25/2024

MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The Russian parliament on Wednesday gave its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change…

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Added on: 09/26/2024

Russian lawmakers back adoption ban on ‘sick’ countries allowing gender reassignment

09/25/2024

Russia’s parliament on Wednesday voted to back a bill banning the adoption of Russian children in countries that allow gender reassignment, the latest in a series of…

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Added on: 09/13/2024

Russian Streaming Website Kinopoisk Fined $110K for ‘LGBT Propaganda’

09/12/2024

A Moscow court fined the popular Russian movie streaming website Kinopoisk 10 million rubles ($110,000) on Tuesday for charges related to “propaganda” of LGBTQ+ lifestyles and pedophilia. The…

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Added on: 09/07/2024

Russia bans piracy websites from streaming Brokeback Mountain over ‘gay propaganda’

09/06/2024

Russia has blocked the streaming of Brokeback Mountain, a 2005 American film exploring a love affair between two men, from three piracy websites, Roskomsvoboda, a Russian nonprofit…

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Added on: 08/30/2024

Among other things, Georgia follows in Moscow’s footsteps on LGBT+ rights

08/29/2024

Georgia’s path to European Union membership seems to be going downhill: the country’s aspirations to finally free itself from Russian influence, and anchor itself to the West,…

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Added on: 08/15/2024

Ukraine’s Other Revolution: Embracing the Rights Russia Would Deny

08/14/2024

Putin’s Russia has become the poster child in the fight against the global LGBTQ movement, labeling any activists “extremists” and criminalizing any associated activities within its borders….

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Added on: 08/09/2024

Bulgaria’s parliament bans LGBT “propaganda” in schools

08/08/2024

The Bulgarian parliament banned on August 7 what it called propaganda of “untraditional sexual orientation” at schools by adopting amendments to the law on pre-school and school…