Uzbekistan’s law reforms still criminalize homosexuality Campaigners say new legislation scapegoats and imperils the LGBTQ community brief Mariam Kiparoidze
Anti-lockdown group Querdenken pulls Germans to the far right The Querdenken movement has become a potent political force in run-up to Germany’s national election dispatch Andrew Green
Istanbul student protests are a new frontline for the LGBTQ community Demands for academic freedom have grown into calls for solidarity with an increasingly embattled community dispatch Tessa Fox
How Brexit's biggest booster embraced anti-science populism Nigel Farage rebrands his anti-immigration party to pander to the anti-lockdown brigade feature Isobel Cockerell
Russian investigators single out gay fathers in latest crackdown on LGBTQ rights Gay men who have fathered children with surrogate mothers are the latest targets in a child trafficking investigation dispatch Marina Bocharova
Poland's anti-gay crusade: “The most aggressive homophobic campaign I have seen in my life” As Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party continues to leverage prejudice against LGBTQ communities, those on the frontline say the impact has been devastating dispatch Josephine Hüetlin
Fear, stigma and survival: inside Facebook’s coronavirus recovery groups Around the world, people getting over Covid-19 are finding support and solidarity in the most unlikely of places feature Isobel Cockerell
Anti-abortion activists launch publication to counter the Drudge Report’s “leftward tilt” follow-up Gautama Mehta
Russian prosecutors struggle to protect bruised religious feelings Standup comedians, musicians and gamers have fallen foul of a vague law whose enforcement has become unpredictable and dependent on the whims of private citizens making legal complaints to the authorities feature Felix Light
German far-right group uses YouTube, podcasts and rap to convert Gen Z Ein Prozent is funding nationalist influencers to sway a new generation of ‘patriots’ feature Filip Brokeš
Under lockdown, LGBTQ Russians were more isolated than ever. Then, the Zoom parties started Online queer gatherings offer a virtual escape from Putin’s suffocating traditional values feature Isobel Cockerell
On the run in LA from Russia’s anti-LGBTQ campaign A YouTube producer facing charges under the country’s controversial anti-gay law has fled to the US feature Katia Patin
While Europe is in lockdown, Belarus remains open for business Belarus is the only country in Europe holding off on coronavirus quarantine measures dispatch Katia Patin
Communion in the time of coronavirus Controversy over church rites pits medical science against faith across much of the Eastern Orthodox world dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
