Russists’ hunt for LGBT people and military relatives and kidnapping of children: Life in Kherson in wait for Ukrainian Army
Kherson residents lived in a real hell for ten months before the Ukrainian Armed Forces
arrived. ...
Activism
Kharkiv. War. LGBT+
Co-organizer of KharkivPride Anna Sharyhina introduces four queer persons who stayed in Kharkiv after Russia attacked Ukraine...
Code 103. How prosecution under Article 120 in Uzbekistan really works
How blackmail, extortion, and ill-treatment are part of “sodomy” investigations, and why consensual sex is still criminalised in Uzbekistan, a country that announced 2022 the year of “human interest”.
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The weaponization of homophobia in Kyrgyzstan and Belarus
When countries take authoritarian turns, it is the LGBT community that ends up as the canary in the coal mine......
In the wake of the USSR: LGBT 2022
Russia is a vast country with huge ambitions. Claiming to be the full-fledged heir of the dissolved USSR, the Russian Federation remains a reference point for many of the...
“As a Last Resort, We Will Jump Into the River”.
Among Kurdish youth searching for a better life in Europe, there are also homosexuals who are tired of concealing their orientation. Belarusian journalist Evgenia Dolgaya who spoke to some...
