UK Charity Albert Kennedy Trust Asks LGBTQ Youth To Postpone Coming Out

British charities are asking young LGBTQ people to stay in the closet during the COVID-19 pandemic to protect them.

Fermoy in Ireland may suspend its twinning with a Polish town after a major disagreement over LGBTQ people’s rights.

A new survey conducted in the United Kingdom reveals that there is a substantial rise in the number of people identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual (+ 2.2 percent in one year).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated in a recent interview his intention to prohibit marriage equality in the Russian constitution with an amendment.

The French town of Saint-Jean-de-Braye located in the Centre-Val de Loire region had been twinned with the town of Tuchow in south-eastern Poland for 25 years.

The French municipality recently broke this twinning because of their disagreement over the LGBTQ community.

Russia is anti-LGBTQ as you know. The anti-LGBTQ “propaganda” law adopted in 2013 prevents any public existence of our community without fear of arrests and there is increasing violence against LGBTQ+ people.

President Vladimir Putin recently held a press conference, as there may soon be changed in the Russian constitution. They mentioned LGBTQ rights during this conference, and this is what they said:

A few months ago, you learned that Germany had introduced legislation to ban “conversion therapies” to protect LGBTQ people.

Switzerland now protects gay, lesbian and bisexual people from public hate speech, but this isn’t a beautiful victory.

In France, we are getting closer to the possibility for all women - including LGBTQ women - to have children through insemination.

With Northern Ireland finally legalizing marriage equality, which will come into force in January 2020, there was only one tiny British territory, the isle of Sark, which had not legalized marriage for same-sex couples yet.