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A participant holds a banner with the inscription 'Stop propaganda of violence' during the Gay Pride demonstration in St. Petersburg, Russia

US
Jul 08 2025

Why are LGBTQ+ people being told to ‘go to Dagestan’?

Putin on a rainbow banner

World
Dec 04 2024

Moscow clubgoers found guilty of ‘hooliganism’ after LGBTQ+ bar raids

Exclusive
Sep 05 2025

Despite war, Pride persists in Kharkiv: ‘We stay here and continue our work’

LGBTQ people protesting in Russia

World
Oct 21 2024

More than 50 people detained after two gay clubs raided by armed police in Moscow

Health
Aug 19 2024

Russian officials have claimed that mpox isn’t a risk due to their ‘traditional values’

Queen I Want To Break Free

Europe
Feb 03

Russian man prosecuted for sharing ‘LGBT Propaganda’ pic of Queen in drag

News
Jun 05 2024

Duolingo removes LGBTQ+ references from app in Russia

On the left: Daria Kasatkina moments from hitting a tennis ball. On the right: Daria Kasatkina and her girlfriend, Natalia Zabiiako, pose for a selfie

Sport
Jun 12 2025

Tennis star gets engaged to girlfriend after switching allegiance from Russia

Law
May 20 2025

Apple fined by Russian court over ‘LGBT propaganda’

Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina on day eight of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 10, 2018 in London, England.

Sport
Mar 31 2025

Gay Russian tennis star Daria Kasatkina switches allegiance to Australia

Daria Kasatkina has confirmed she's switched allegiance from Russia to Australia because of her sexuality. (Robert Prange/Getty Images)

Sport
Apr 01 2025

Russian tennis star confirms she switched allegiance to Australia because she’s gay

TOPSHOT - Gay rights activists march in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg May 1, 2013, during their rally against a controversial law in the city that activists see as violating the rights of gays. AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVA (Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP) (Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

World
Mar 21 2024

Two bar workers arrested in Russia’s first LGBTQ ‘extremism’ case

US
Dec 06 2024

Candace Owens calls Zelensky a ‘homosexual actor’ and says she doesn’t want Ukraine to win the war

LGBT woman censored not able to speak

World
Nov 14 2024

Uzbekistan set to join growing list of countries with anti-LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ laws

A person holds up a sign with the face of Russia's president Vladimir Putin with an LGBTQ+ rainbow flag in the background and words 'stop homophobia' on it as Putin's government increasingly attacks queer people and labels LGBTQ+ rights groups as 'foreign agents'

World
Mar 25 2024

This is the full, shocking story of the decade-long destruction of LGBTQ+ rights in Putin’s Russia

Politics
May 07 2025

Reform UK to ban Pride flags being flown from council buildings it controls

TOPSHOT - A demonstrator holds a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin with make-up as he protests against homophobia and repression against gays in Russia, in front of the Russian Embassy in Madrid on August 23, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ GERARD JULIEN (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)

World
Apr 02 2024

Russia bar owner arrested under LGBTQ+ ‘extremism’ law

Science and Tech
Oct 24 2025

What – or who – is behind the troubling and sinister rise in fake LGBTQ+ news on Facebook?

US
Aug 14 2025

‘Deliberate erasure’: State Department removes anti-LGBTQ+ abuses from annual human rights report

Politics
Oct 10 2025

Green leader Zack Polanski labelled ‘breath of fresh air’ after electric Question Time performance