Gay Journalist Murdered, Beheaded In Azerbaijan
Twenty-four-year gay journalist and activist Avaz Shikhmammadov, better known as Avaz Hafizli, was brutally murdered in Azerbaijan last month. Trigger Warning: This story has details …
Posts tagged ILGA-Europe
Polish Bishop Calls For Clinics To ‘Cure’ The Gays
It’s getting harder to be gay in Poland in 2020 as Marek Jędraszewski, Archbishop of Kraków (the second largest city in Poland) suggested in a …
Police Ordered To Reinvestigate Attack On Gay Activists
A court in Armenia has directed the police to reinvestigate a 2018 brutal attack on LGBTQI activists. The Criminal Court of Appeal ruled that the …
YouTube Removes Homophobic Russian Political Ad
YouTube has pulled a homophobic political ad that stirred up a storm ahead of the Russian national referendum. The national vote scheduled for July 1, …
The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQI In Europe
Malta is the best country in Europe for LGBTQI persons, while Azerbaijan, Turkey, Armenia and Russia are the most unequal, an annual rainbow ranking has …
‘Sometimes I feel ashamed to say I’m Romanian’: boycotting the same-sex marriage referendum
Advocates say same-sex marriage will only be possible in Romania if they “can get rid of the plague that is eating the country alive, the Socialist Democratic Party”.
Portugal to ban sex-related surgery on intersex babies
Roughly 1.7 per cent of the population is intersex.