Enrique Anarte Lazo

Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that legalised gay marriage, the White House is reversing a raft of LGBTQ+ rights and Republicans in at least six states are scrambling to ban same-sex weddings.

LGBTQ+ advocates say the right to marry a person of the same sex could be at risk, should judges vote to overturn the Supreme Court's historic 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

Pride marches are increasingly targeted by right-wing extremists and neo-Nazi protesters in Germany, with LGBTQ+ activists blaming the rise of the far-right and anti-LGBTQ+ voices in politics.

Germany is ranked among the highest in Europe for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights by ILGA World, a worldwide federation of organisations campaigning on such issues.

Indonesia's parliament is debating a bill to ban LGBTQ+ content online which, if passed, could lead to job losses in the media and social media industries, while also restricting the community's access to specialised services such as health.

The third-largest democracy in the world is a big market for digital platforms with 143 million active social media users, more than half of its population. While LGBTQ+ visibility on social media has increased in Indonesia over the past few years, activists say digital threats are on the rise.

Spooked by President Donald Trump's crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), some corporate sponsors have shunned Pride marches across the United States this year, and European LGBTQ+ campaigners say they are also taking a hit.

Pride organisers from Greece and Bulgaria, to Estonia and Denmark told Context they had also lost financial support, at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly under attack across the continent.

While President Donald Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, Spain is implementing what it says is the world's most ambitious laws to protect LGBTQ+ people at work.

Spain's centre-left government issued a decree in October requiring companies to protect LGBTQ+ workers, after the country's parliament passed a broad "real equality" law advancing LGBTQ+ rights in 2023.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Russians say they live in fear of discrimination or worse at work, in schools and at medical centres, according to a survey released this week. 

The largest ever survey of LGBTQ+ communities was carried out by ComingOut and the Sphere Foundation, Russian rights groups supporting LGBTQ+ people in the country and abroad, and polled more than 6,400 people from Moscow to Russia's Far East. 

U.S. states are on track to introduce a record number of bills restricting LGBTQ+ rights this year, with conservatives targeting hot topics from Pride flags to bathroom bans.

First in the firing line among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans are trans rights, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

It was a hot Tuesday morning and we were sweating as we filmed a mobile clinic that set up shop in a township in the Namibian capital Windhoek to deliver HIV prevention and sexual health services to some of the city's most vulnerable people.

"Some people might not know that using flavoured condoms for sexual activity like penetration could cause yeast infection for the lady or for their partners," said Beatrix Akuake, who comes to marginalised neighbourhoods like this one on behalf of Namibia's Planned Parenthood Association.

A new spike in mpox cases in Berlin has sparked alarm among German health authorities and LGBTQ+ advocates, with local groups calling for an urgent vaccination campaign to protect gay and bisexual men most at risk from the outbreak.

The German capital registered four times more mpox cases in the first three months of 2025 than in the same period of 2023 and 2024, and unlike many of the cases reported across Europe this year, most of them are not travel-related.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has made access to HIV treatment for men who have sex with men and trans people uniquely difficult, despite a waiver for parts of the flagship President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.

Both groups are among those most at risk of HIV infection and face multiple legal and social obstacles in many of the 55 countries, including Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, that benefit from PEPFAR since it was launched in 2003.