Rights

State of LGBTQ+ Rights in Latvia in 2026

Two years into civil unions, Latvia has moved further than its Baltic neighbors on paper but stopped short of marriage — a constitutional wall that's shaping the next phase of the country's LGBTQ+ rights fight.

By TrueQueer
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Brussels Just Put a Deadline on Albania's Civil Union Law

At May's accession conference the EU turned a long-standing 'to-do' into a closing benchmark: no partnership recognition and gender-recognition law, no finishing Cluster 1. For Albania's LGBTQ+ community — and for us, here in Tirana — that changes the math.

By TrueQueer
Rights

The State of LGBTQ+ Rights in Kosovo in 2026

Europe's youngest country has one of the region's strongest anti-discrimination laws on paper — and a decade of Pride marches to prove it. So why do a legal gender recognition procedure and civil unions still not exist?

By TrueQueer