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Serbia's human rights minister says a Law on Same-Sex Unions is being prepared and could move 'in spring', with a public roundtable promised. Then snap elections were called for October 25. Here's where the law really stands, and why couples have heard this before.
N1, Nova S, Danas and Radar changed hands this summer, and journalists say they are waiting to see what it means for their independence. With Serbia voting on October 25, the outcome matters for a community that pro-government tabloids have repeatedly targeted.
Two months after a deadly attack on Berlin's Pride, voters in the capital made Die Linke the largest party for the first time. On the same day in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the far-right AfD took nearly two in five votes.
Two Balkan elections land within three weeks of each other this fall. Neither is being fought on LGBTQ+ rights directly, but the outcomes will shape whether EU-driven progress on partnership laws and gender recognition continues or stalls.
A presidential and parliamentary vote is set for 13 December, the country's first in a decade. Organisers say elections have always been when homophobia spikes, and that this one arrives with gangs holding most of the capital.
The PAC is attacking five Democratic Senate candidates over trans rights — including several who had already moved to the right on the issue. AdImpact says trans content is unusually dominant in this spend.
The Belfast-born, openly lesbian Labour politician defeated Reform UK's Sian Astley to succeed Andy Burnham, who left the role after becoming UK Prime Minister.
With the suspect in Saturday's deadly Christopher Street Day attack dead and Berlin in mourning, queer Berliners and activists say their next fight is stopping the AfD from using the tragedy to win votes.
Two newly elected French mayors removed rainbow flags and shut down planned Pride celebrations, including one set for April 25 in a Lille suburb. Organizers call it 'an attack on a symbol of unity.'
Péter Magyar's landslide victory ends 16 years of Fidesz rule and Europe's most aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ government. But the new prime minister's record on queer rights is cautious at best.
Prime Minister Kurti pledged to legalize same-sex civil unions by May 2024. The deadline passed, an election came and went, and Kosovo's LGBTQ+ community is still waiting.
Led by INEND and GALCK+, Kenyan queer rights organizations are registering voters and building political power ahead of the August 2027 general elections, insisting their rights are 'fundamentally Kenyan issues.'
