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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

News
Jun 05 2024

Duolingo removes LGBTQ+ references from app in Russia

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

Europe
Apr 17

Belarus groups LGBTQ+ people with ‘paedophiles’ with new anti-propaganda law

Science and Tech
Oct 24 2025

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

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

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

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

Politics
May 07 2025

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

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

Trans
Apr 02 2025

Trans Russian teen dies in Dutch refugee detention

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

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

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

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

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

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?

US
Sep 02 2025

Speculation grows over Trump’s mysterious announcement due today