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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
Berlin Pride 2023. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
2024 global forecast for LGBTQ+ rights
2023 World Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights Progress – Part 5: Europe
Police confront gay pride rally in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2017. (Olga Maltseva photo courtesy of AFP/ Getty Images)
Russia’s Supreme Court bans ‘International LGBT Movement’ as ‘extremist’
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (Photo courtesy of the Washington Blade)
Ukraine military has a new transgender spokesperson
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
Ukrainian military medic Ivan Honzyk's most popular post on Instagram. (Photo courtesy of Ivan Honzyk via NBC News)
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