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Nikki Haley, who is the top rival to Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential nominee race, wears a white outfit as she speaks into a microphone attached to a podium

Politics
Feb 14

Nikki Haley blasts Donald Trump’s threat to dump NATO allies behind on bills

Russia's president Vladimir Putin, who recently attacked the use of gender-neutral and unisex toilets abroad, looks into the camera while wearing a suit and tie

News
Jan 17

Putin claims Russians returning to the country due to gender neutral toilets abroad

Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards (left) and Russian president Vladimir Putin (right)

UK
Jan 25

Brits could fight in a future war with Russia, warns army chief – and the memes are already coming

Russian president Vladimir Putin

World
Jun 16 2023

Russia wants to ban all trans healthcare and gender recognition

LGBT woman censored not able to speak

World
Nov 14

Uzbekistan set to join growing list of countries with anti-LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ laws

Russian riot police detain LGBTQ+ rights activists during a St Petersburg march in May 2019.

Europe
Dec 02 2023

Russian police raid gay bars after Supreme Court ruling brands LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’

US
Dec 06

Candace Owens calls Zelensky a ‘homosexual actor’ and says she doesn’t want Ukraine to win the war

Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has frequently attacked LGBTQ+ and trans rights, wears a suit and tie as he sits at a desk

World
Jul 25 2023

Russia: Putin’s sweeping new trans ban is latest attack in global war on LGBTQ+ rights

LGBTQ+ couple Gela Gogishvili and Haoyang Xu hold each other in a graphic with a rainbow LGBTQ+ Pride flag, barbed wire and the flag of Russia in the background

World
Apr 28 2023

YouTuber arrested for ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda’ in Russia warns Putin’s tactics are working

LGBTQ+ rights activists during a protest in St. Petersburg.

News
Jan 09

Russian singer jailed under LGBTQ+ propaganda laws after nude performance

Paul, a mixed-race man with a greying beard, wearing a beanie hat, denim shirt and a scarf

Books
Jul 01 2023

Gay man who moved to Russia in 90s shares brutal truth of Moscow life: ‘Humanity is being crushed’

Victoria Derbyshire, pictured.

Activism
Dec 02 2023

Victoria Derbyshire apologises to viewers after explicit Russia LGBTQ+ comment on live TV

Side by side pictures of Salman Mukaev, a man who fled Chechnya after he was arrested and tortured by authorities over false accusations that he's gay

Activism
Sep 10 2023

‘Nobody is safe in Chechnya’: Life of torture survivor accused of being gay at risk, activists say

News
Feb 18

Russian police shut down My Little Pony convention for promoting ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda’

A crowd holding Lesbian, LGBTQ+, and Ukrainian flags.

Europe
Sep 16

LGBTQ+ Ukrainians stand in defiance at Kharkiv Pride close to the Russian border

God of Music video

Europe
Nov 10 2023

Russian TV turns ‘LGBT’ rainbow into grey cloud in K-pop music video

Gena Marvin in drag on the underground (left) and out of drag

Exclusive
Dec 07 2023

Meet the queer activist who bravely protests on the streets of Russia in drag

Brittney Griner

US
May 02

Brittney Griner breaks silence about time in ‘mouldy’ Russian prison: ‘I was getting sick’

Collage of St Petersburg's famous church and Mihelina

World
Jun 21 2023

Trans woman pushed to the brink in Russia amid fresh Putin crackdown: ‘I’m scared s**tless’

Education
Aug 16

Bulgaria’s president signs anti-LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ amendments into law