6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (229+ words) Paola Revenioti, a well-known LGBTQ+ activist and visual artist " and the first Greek trans woman to run for political office " has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 68, it was announced on Thursday. Revenioti, one of…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (251+ words) Accompanied by music and flags, hundreds of people on Friday walked through the Kosovo capital calling for equal rights and greater inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people in Kosovo. Attendees included Feride Rushiti, director of the Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (220+ words) Balkan Insight For the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17, Europe Weekly looks at the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the EU. Overall, Europe has strong laws protecting the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1612+ words) Bojan lives with Milan, his partner of 14 years, in a house belonging to Milan's family. He effectively lives in limbo. "If something were to happen to him, I would have no right to stay. I might be able to ask…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (242+ words) Turkey's Ministry of Health has banned Larin Kayatas, the country's first openly trans woman doctor, from practising and has dismissed her from her post for a second time, Kayatas announced on Tuesday. Following the ministry's decision, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (641+ words) I still remember their words so vividly, even after all these years. The countless dehumanising terms, falsehoods and disingenuous representations of LGBTQ+ people. I heard them all throughout Balkan living rooms in the diaspora, with the persistent framing that LGBTQ…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1321+ words) Once, out of curiosity, Dusan entered into a conversation with a profile he suspected was fake. And that's precisely what the account asked for. Presenting it as a business arrangement, the man asked Dusan if they could take the conversation…...

10+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1467+ words) The mainly young men were armed with "life-threatening objects, police said, but instead of keeping them at bay, police chose to ban the Pride event that had riled the thugs so much. The incident occurred in Krusevac, southcentral Serbia, on…...