Turkish police detained at least 50 people on Sunday after Istanbul’s LGBTQ+ community held its annual Pride march. The government led by President Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party has toughened its stance on LGBTQ+ freedoms.
On Tuesday Estonia’s parliament passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, becoming the first ex-Soviet country to do so.
When the World Cup began in Qatar, in November 2022, the many media outlets took the unprecedented step of ignoring its opening ceremony to focus on the controversies that were threatening to engulf the entire tournament.
The Australian government is trying to tackle the problem of conservative extremism by placing a ban on swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus said, “There is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust.”
Sen. Ted Cruz has joined the ranks of public figures condemning Uganda’s new anti-gay legislation, calling it horrific and wrong. He tweeted that any law criminalizing homosexuality is grotesque & an abomination, urging civilized nations to condemn Uganda’s law.
A global survey conducted by Ipsos found that the number of adults who identify as LGBTQ+ is now 9 percent. From February 7 to March 13, Ipsos surveyed 22, 514 adults across 30 countries, including Portugal, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Brazil.
On May 31, Latvian lawmakers picked the country’s long-serving popular foreign minister, a strong backer of Ukraine, as its new head of state in a tight vote.
A far-right group Lehava is gearing up for potential violence at Thursday’s Jerusalem Pride Parade, posting many threatening messages in an internal chat group wishing for the deaths of the pro-LGBTQ+ marchers.
Turkey’s President Erdoğan, who has held the position since 2014, was handed five more years on May 29. He thanked voters for putting their trust in him. He went on to speak out once more against the LGBTQ+ community, he said “In our culture, family is sacred, no one can interfere.
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Canada’s Justin Trudeau spoke at the 49th annual G7 summit, which ran from May 19th to 21st, and saw leaders from the G7 member states – the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and Japan
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