Europe

LGBTI Rights in Europe


ADDED ON: 04/16/2023

EU warns against unilateral steps after Poland, Hungary ban Ukrainian grain

Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, a European Commission spokesperson said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from Ukraine…

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ADDED ON: 04/16/2023

Ban conversion therapy in Norway delayed

Last week Friday, the Minister of Culture and Equality announced that a new law banning conversion therapy was delayed. Trettebergstuen pointed out that the delay is not too long and that the…

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ADDED ON: 04/16/2023

Russia may deport Chinese man for ‘LGBT propaganda’

The Supreme Court in the Russian region of Tatarstan has rejected an appeal against an order to deport Chinese citizen Haoyang Xu over "LGBT propaganda." The 21-year-old, who is in the country…

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ADDED ON: 04/15/2023

Young Queer People Are Being Put on Trial For Fighting Hate

A Polish activist who faces up to five years in jail for allegedly attacking a van covered with anti-LGBTQ phrases says the case has left them “deeply traumatised” and without hope for…

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ADDED ON: 04/15/2023

Are LGBT Rights Under Fire In Italy?

At the beginning of March, the Municipality of Milan was forced to stop registering children born to homo-parental couples in Italy, also known as rainbow families. This interruption was due to a…

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ADDED ON: 04/15/2023

Hungary passes law allowing citizens to report same-sex parents to law enforcement

Hungary has just passed a law empowering citizens to report same-sex families with kids to local authorities for violating the “constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family.” Hungary’s rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Prime…

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ADDED ON: 04/14/2023

OPINION: Six months after the brutal terrorist attack on a gay bar, nothing has changed in the Czech Republic or Slovakia

Krystof Stupka is a member of the Czech Government's Committee on LGBTQ+ Rights - Every time I go back to that tragic night, my hands tremble with a mixture of sadness and rage. It…

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ADDED ON: 04/14/2023

They’re calling for our extinction’: Uganda activists call on EU to cut aid over anti-gay law

Uganda's LGBT community are living "in total fear" after a new bill was passed last month making it illegal to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Penalties include life in prison…

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ADDED ON: 04/13/2023

People spew hate at me for being an LGBT Muslim – but I know they don’t represent my community

"I find the hate quite funny to be honest," says Hafsa Qureshi. As a loud and proud queer person of faith, Hafsa has developed thick skin to the daily barrage of abuse…

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ADDED ON: 04/13/2023

Italy’s Meloni turns to culture wars after muted debut

(CN) — What country is talking about banning “fake” lab-grown meat and flour made from pulverized insects, blocking ChatGPT, not recognizing the children of gay couples and punishing the use of foreign…

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ADDED ON: 04/11/2023

Hands off our children, Hungary tells Czech FM amid anti-LGBT law dispute

Keep your hands off the Hungarian children, Hungarian State Secretary of Foreign Affairs Tamás Menczer told Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens/EFA) who expressed his regrets that the Czech government will…

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Cabaret Against the Hate Speech

Cabaret Against the Hate Speech is a newly formed collective based in Glasgow working to organize counter-protests against all forms of hate speech across Scotland through the use of live music, song,…