Europe

LGBTI Rights in Europe


ADDED ON: 05/13/2023

Russia fines Google for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ content

Google has been fined three million rubles (£31,000) by Russia after it refused to remove content which the country said promoted same-sex relationships. The penalty was also imposed for Google showing “false…

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ADDED ON: 05/12/2023

LGBT Watchdog Chides Balkan, Central Europe Countries for Rights Setbacks

Europe’s leading LGBT rights organisation, ILGA-Europe has criticised Serbia and Turkey for their handling of LGBT community rights in its latest Rainbow Map and Index. The report says the pushbacks LGBT communities are facing…

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ADDED ON: 05/11/2023

Trans rights gain ground despite rising European rhetoric

LONDON, May 11 (Openly) - Europeans are moving ever closer to embracing equal rights for all despite a rise in anti-transgender rhetoric by many of their politicians, two studies found on Thursday. According…

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ADDED ON: 05/10/2023

Top Spanish court considers far-right challenge to LGBT law

Spain's Constitutional Court said Tuesday it would consider a legal challenge lodged by the far-right Vox party against a new law extending rights for transgender teenagers and encouraging tolerance for sexual diversity…

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ADDED ON: 05/10/2023

Germany proposes ‘self-determination law’ to ease legal changes of gender

The German government on Tuesday presented a proposal for a law that will make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender, ending decades-old rules that require them to…

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ADDED ON: 05/09/2023

King Charles unlikely to ‘support LGBTQ+ community’, activist warns: ‘He’s never been our ally’

Veteran activist Peter Tatchell has warned that Britain’s newly-crowned King Charles III is not a friend of the LGBTQ+ community, saying Charles “acquiesces with our tormentors” through “silence”. King Charles was crowned…

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ADDED ON: 05/08/2023

Russia adds LGBTQ+ human rights group to controversial list

Russian authorities added LGBTQ+ human rights defenders NC SOS Crisis Group to the country’s controversial ‘foreign agents’ registry. The group was put on the list on Friday (5 May) along with the chair…

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ADDED ON: 05/08/2023

Erdogan calls opposition ‘pro-LGBT’ at election rally

ANKARA, May 7 (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan accused the opposition of being "pro-LGBT" at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday, as he stepped up his rhetoric against his opponents a…

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ADDED ON: 05/08/2023

Polish Activists Win Cases Against ‘LGBT-Free Zones’

On April 21, an appeals court in the Polish city of Białystok threw out a case brought by Przasnysz county authorities against four lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists who founded the…

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ADDED ON: 05/06/2023

Czech Republic considers removing ‘barbaric’ trans sterilisation law, but prejudices persist

Czech lawmakers have launched a proposal to remove the sterilisation requirement for legal gender transition, but progress to lift society-wide prejudices is slow. The Czech Republic is one of the few European…

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ADDED ON: 05/06/2023

Artists take aim at Italy’s attack on same-sex parents’ rights

Street art in Italy championing LGBTQ+ rights has sparked controversy as the country’s hard-right government has appeared to clamp down on same-sex parents in recent months. Right-wing commentators and politicians have described…

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ADDED ON: 05/05/2023

Orbán again preaches against migrant and gay rights as CPAC returns to Hungary

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Hungarian capital on Thursday, painting a picture…

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