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Civic Platform (PO) leader Donald Tusk, has revealed two legislative plans to support the LGBTQ+ community in Poland.
Speaking In the northwest town of Pia, Tusk made the announcement in response to a high school senior question highlighting the discrimination faced by the LGBTQ+ community under the current administration.
The ruling...
In a significant step forward for LGBTQ+ rights, Latvia has become the first European Union (EU) nation to appoint an openly gay head of state.
Edgars Rinkēvičs, the former foreign minister, was sworn in as the president of Latvia during a ceremony held in Riga on Saturday, July 8th,...
Following his re-election as president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wasted no time targeting the LGBTQ+ community with his divisive rhetoric.
Erdoğan, who has held the presidency since 2014, secured another five-year term after the votes were counted, giving him a clear victory over his opponent, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader...
The European Parliament has hit out at the recent rhetoric from the Italian government, likening Italy and its anti-LGBTQ+ stance to other nations such as Poland and Hungary.
In a recently adopted resolution, the Parliament condemned the dissemination of anti-rights, anti-gender, and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric by influential political leaders and governments...
Luxembourg's openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has condemned Hungary's implementation of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, explicitly targeting the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.
Bettel comments follow Hungary's enactment of a highly controversial Child Protection Act in June 2021, which prohibits discussions about LGBTQ+ individuals in schools and media.
The European Commission has...
A new law recently approved by the Hungarian government could result in same-sex families facing the consequences for allegedly violating the nation's constitutionally recognised definition of marriage and family.
The law, which Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén proposed in February 2023, allows citizens to report same-sex families with children to...
In February EU parliamentarians Abir Al-Sahlani and Fredrick Federley led a group who sent questions to the European Commission on so-called "LGBTQ-free" zones in Poland.
The questions were whether the Commission agreed that these zones violate EU law, what funds it will use to remove the zones and how the...
A new study has shown that 40% of LGBT+ people in EU countries have recently faced harassment, with six out of ten people being afraid to publicly hold their partner’s hands.
The study which was conducted by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) surveyed 140,000 LGBTI people from EU countries,...
