Europe

A Georgian Orthodox clergyman attends last spring's Family Purity Day in the conservative nation, which just adopted a Russian-style anti-LGBTQ law. (Photo courtesy of AP)
Georgian parliament adopts anti-LGBTQ+ law that president refused to sign
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
Vladlen Semivolos, Russian ambassador to Uganda (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of RadioTamazuj)
In Africa, Moscow battles against LGBTQ rights, side by side with U.S. religious conservatives
Billionaire and former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
Europe: Georgian legislators unanimously adopt Russian-style bill to curb LGBT rights
Tonga scene
Anti-gay lawyers seek to oust Tonga’s openly gay chief justice
Tupou VI, King of Tonga
Homophobic South Pacific nation of Tonga gets a gay chief justice
At Amsterdam's Pride Walk in 2017, protesters wore "Erasing 76 Crimes" T-shirts and carried the flags of the then 73 countries they urged to repeal their anti-LGBT laws. (Photo courtesy of Pride Walk)
LGBTQ people in wealthy nations deserve to know how the other half suffers
Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette (Photo courtesy of Causeur)
Homophobia in France stains a would-be role model for equal rights
Anti-LGBT bias vs. medical advances against HIV: One nation’s story
Clare Byarugaba (left) and Pope Francis
Pope meets African activists, supports their struggle for LGBTIQ 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
Munich’s diverse Extra Pride gives a boost to African refugees and many more
Cedric Pulliam in Munich (@Fabian Vogl)
Black gay men remain at the forefront of the fight against HIV
Human rights march in Martinique in 2012, which was organized by the people who founded the LGBTQ+ rights organization Kap Caraïbe later that year.
Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events
Anti-LGBTQ+ activists clash with police as they try to interfere with a gathering of the LGBTQ+ community for the Tbilisi Pride Festival in Tbilisi in July 2023. (Photo courtesy of AFP via Getty Images)
Push toward anti-‘gay propaganda’ laws in two former Soviet republics
French LGBTQ rights marchers call for immediate liberation of last colonies