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Trans
Apr 02 2025

Trans Russian teen dies in Dutch refugee detention

Europe
Jun 17 2024

LGBTQ+ Ukrainian soldiers take part in Equality March organised by Kyiv Pride

Politics
Oct 10 2025

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

Heated Rivalry Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov facing off on the ice.

TV
Dec 22 2025

Heated Rivalry’s fifth episode becomes second best-rated TV episode of all time

Europe
Feb 10 2024

Russian media watchdog investigating Duolingo over ‘LGBT propaganda’

Side by side screenshots from a video from state-run media of police in Russia raiding an alleged 'anti-war LGBTQ+ party'

World
Feb 23 2024

Russian police raid alleged ‘anti-war LGBTQ+ party’, say state media

A 2022 voting scandal at the Eurovision Song Contest has damaged trust and reinforced stereotypes that it's all political. Here a graphic shows somebody putting a piece of paper into a voting box with colourful graphics.

Music
May 12 2025

Remembering the 2022 Eurovision vote-fixing scandal three years on, and how it shaped future events

A crowd holding Lesbian, LGBTQ+, and Ukrainian flags.

Europe
Sep 16 2024

LGBTQ+ Ukrainians stand in defiance at Kharkiv Pride close to the Russian border

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 31: Daria Kasatkina returns a shot against Sofia Kenin of the United States during their Women's Singles Second Round match on Day Four of the 2023 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 31, 2023 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Sport
Aug 26 2025

The gay tennis players smashing down barriers at the US Open 2025

Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov

TV
Jan 17

Six differences between the Heated Rivalry book and the hit show

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 20: Trans rights activists take part in a protest against the ban on hormone blockers on April 20, 2024 in London, England. After Dr Hilary Cass delivered her report on NHS gender identity services for children and young people, analysis found most research underpinning clinical guidelines, hormone treatments and puberty blockers to be low quality and the treatments for gender dysphoria have been suspended. The Trans community are protesting against this ban. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

World
Dec 24 2024

Countries that regressed on LGBTQ+ rights in 2024, from Iraq to the UK

Education
Aug 16 2024

Bulgaria’s president signs anti-LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ amendments into law

US
Sep 02 2025

Speculation grows over Trump’s mysterious announcement due today

Nikki Haley, who is the top rival to Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential nominee race, wears a white outfit as she speaks into a microphone attached to a podium

Politics
Feb 14 2024

Nikki Haley blasts Donald Trump’s threat to dump NATO allies behind on bills

World
Dec 07 2023

Russia declares My Little Pony 18+ in ongoing anti-LGBTQ crackdown

World
Oct 13 2023

‘You left Russia, but Russia never left you’: Queer couple scarred after fleeing anti-LGBTQ+ violence

A protestor holding up a modified picture of Vladimir Putin wearing makeup.

Europe
Nov 30 2023

Russia declares ‘international public LGBT movement’, which does not exist, an extremist group

LGBTQ+ protester in Sofia

Europe
Aug 09 2024

Bulgarians take to the streets to protest regressive ban on LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ in schools

Activists stand side-by-side during a protest holding up rainbow LGBTQ+ flags in Russia

World
Dec 13 2023

Russian riot police raid another gay bar under ongoing crackdown on ‘LGBT movement’

A rainbow toy army man next to a set of beige army men.

Explainers
Jan 02

Is ‘Homonationalism’ really on the rise, and what does the term mean?