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Croatia
Croatia: First gay foster parents
Ivo Šegota and Mladen Kožić fought against the system for three years, even suing the state – now they have won the battle. They became the first same-sex foster parents in Croatia. The activist of the queer organisation “Rainbow Families” announced on Monday on behalf of the two that they were finally allowed to take two children into their homes.
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Russia
Chechnya: Teenager forced to self-rape on camera
After a Russian youth criticised the homophobic Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, he was forced to strip naked and rape himself with a bottle in front of a running camera. The video went viral in Russia on Monday and caused horror in more liberal circles.
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Austria
Anti-maskers tear up rainbow flag – Vienna responds with solidarity
Are the anti-maskers of the “Querdenken” movement finally showing their true colours? Activists tore a rainbow flag on the stage of a “Querdenken” demonstration of Coronavirus deniers, right-wing radicals, anti-maskers and conspiracy theorists on Saturday in Vienna – and subsequently caused a scandal. Fortunately, there is another way: Yesterday, 1000 – 2000 people gathered spontaneously and demonstrated in Austria’s capital against hate and agitation. But once again the anti-maskers attracted unpleasant attention.
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Russia
Russia wants to erase transgender on paper
A new Russian law could forbid trans* people to change their gender. This would mean that transgender people would no longer exist officially in Russia.
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Great Britain
Cayman Islands: Registered partnership forced
After much to and fro, same-sex couples in the Cayman Islands are now allowed to enter into civil partnerships. The British Governor of the Cayman Islands, Martyn Roper, approved the Civil Partnership Law last Friday.
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Germany
Photos and videos: First German-Polish pride a complete success
Together against hatred: At the first joint Pride of the border cities Frankfurt/Oder and Słubice the German and Polish queer community demonstrated at the weekend with united strength against the difficult situation for Polish queers. In the run-up, queer organisations …
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Ukraine
Ukraine: Neo-Nazis attack pride event
It was to be a peaceful, small parade. On Sunday, a Pride event was hijacked by neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa just ten minutes after the start. Members of the goon squad are said to have carried …
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Poland
Poland: Detained queer activist Margot finally released
After large international protests, the Polish activist Małgorzata “Margot” Szutowic was released prematurely from custody after three weeks. Actually, the court had ordered a period of two months – now a Warsaw court ruled in favor of her lawyers and announced that there were no grounds for remand in custody. Szutowic is accused of having, along with other activists, damaged a queer-hostile propaganda van in mid-June.
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USA
Unwanted criticism: Richard Grenell wants to dry up LGBTIQ* organisation financially
Because Human Rights Campaign criticised Richard Grenell’s style of politics, the former US ambassador to Germany wants to cut off the organisation’s funding. He publicly called on companies to boycott America’s largest LGBTIQ* organisation and stop sending them donations.
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Uganda
State failure after homophobic excess: Officials ignore justice
Those images were most upsetting. It was unimaginable how the “walk of shame” and the subsequent imprisonment affected the victims of a homophobic raid in Uganda at the end of March. 19 of them nevertheless took courage to bring their tormentors to justice.
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