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Rainbow photo illustrating Moscow Times article about Yekaterinburg.
Russia’s anti-queer pressure forces LGBTQ+ support center to close
Salome Zourabichvili, president of Georgia, says she would veto anti-LGBT bill, but such a veto is likely to be overriden. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Russian-style anti-LGBTQ bill in nation of Georgia hits minor speed bump
Billionaire and former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
Europe: Georgian legislators unanimously adopt Russian-style bill to curb LGBT rights
Viktor Pylypenko, a combat medic and the first openly gay Ukrainian soldier, came out in 2018. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Both Russia and homophobia are in the crosshairs of Ukraine’s gay soldiers
Members of the LGBT community marched in Kyiv Pride on Sunday, June 16. (Photo courtesy of EPA-EFE)
Kyiv Pride returns for the first time since Russian invasion
Legislators in ex-Soviet Georgia push for anti-LGBT law like Russia’s
A protester holds a sign saying “Don’t scare everyone” during a rally for freedom of speech and freedom for political prisoners in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 2022. (Vyacheslav Oseledko photo courtesy of AFP/ Getty Images / HRW)
Russia-style NGO crackdowns spread as Europe dithers
2 Russian drag show arrests; the charge is ‘LGBT extremism’
Andrei Shved (Photo courtesy of prokuratura.gov.by)
Mimicking Russia, Belarus plans its own anti-‘gay propaganda’ law
Logo of For Equal Rights
Queer Ukrainian escaped as Russian invaders hunted for her
Salman Mukaev (Photo courtesy of Moscow Times)
Armenia refuses to extradite gay Chechen man wanted by Russia
A Russian woman was sentenced to five days in jail for wearing earrings much like these.
Rainbow images lead to ‘LGBT extremism’ convictions in Russia
Russia’s Supreme Court bans ‘International LGBT Movement’ as ‘extremist’
Ukrainian troops (Photo courtesy of LGBTQ Nation)
Russia fears gay ‘super-soldiers’ fighting for Ukraine
LGBTQ rights demonstration in Moscow. (Dmitri Lovetsky photo courtesy of AP/Tass/Moscow Times)
Russia outlaws gender-affirming procedures
Scene from the production of 'Nureyev' by the Bolshoi Ballet in 2017. (Mikhail Loginov photo courtesy of the Bolshoi Theater via The New York Times.)
Nureyev ballet falls victim to Russian ‘anti-gay propaganda’ law