Kazakhstan: Lesbian Wedding Raises Eyebrows
The industrial city of Karaganda in northeastern Kazakhstan has seen an event utterly out of the ordinary for the former Soviet Union: a wedding between two women.The couple organized the symbolic...
View ArticleGeorgia: Constitutional Court to Hear Suit on Gay Blood Donation Prohibition
A lawsuit challenging a ban on gay blood donations arrived at Georgia’s Constitutional Court on June 25. An LGBT rights group Identoba (Identity), joined by several individual plaintiffs, is suing the...
View ArticleRussian Speakers Celebrate LGBT Pride – in New York
They carried banners advertising a virtual tweet-march through Moscow, where a real Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade was banned in 2012 for the next 100 years, and calling on...
View ArticleKazakhstan's Parliament to Mull Sanctions Against “Lesbianism”
Kazakhstan’s parliament is to discuss the possibility of introducing legal sanctions against “lesbianism,” a member of the lower house revealed on January 14 in remarks that will alarm Kazakhstan’s...
View ArticleGeorgia to Consider a Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Hovering on the brink of closer ties with the European Union, Georgia wants to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. When Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili last week proposed a...
View ArticlePrayer and Protest against Georgia’s So-Called "Gay Law"
A group of Georgian Orthodox priests has threatened to curse those lawmakers who sign off on an anti-discrimination bill meant to introduce legal protections for minorities as part of Georgia's...
View ArticleGeorgia Bracing for Trouble on Anti-Homophobia Day
With the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, already on tenterhooks for May 17, the International Day of Homophobia and Transphobia [IDAHO], tensions are rising over a media report that police officers...
View ArticleGeorgia’s "Invisible" Gay Community Protests Silently
Opting against a public protest, Georgia’s gay community instead staged a “invisible” rally in the capital, Tbilisi, on May 17, the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia. Passers-by on...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Nationalists Again Pushing “Foreign Agents” Bill
Nationalists are renewing efforts in Kyrgyzstan to secure legislation to require non-governmental organizations that receive money from abroad to register as foreign agents.MP Tursunbai Bakir uulu, one...
View ArticleKazakhstan Court Awards Massive Damages over Same-Sex Kiss Poster
The 19th-century Kazakh and Russian cultural icons depicted enjoying a kiss on a poster may be long dead. But that has not stopped a court in Kazakhstan awarding massive damages to a group of living...
View ArticleArmenia: Court Rules Tabloid Can Publish Gay Blacklist
An Armenian court on October 30 rejected a complaint against a newspaper editor who published a gay hall-of-shame list.Hovannhes Galajian, editor-in-chief of the Iravunk tabloid, was standing trial on...
View ArticleKazakhstan Strikes Down ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law After Olympics Outcry
Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Council has struck down a controversial law that would have outlawed “propaganda” of homosexuality to minors, amid signs the legislation was damaging the country’s bid to...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Karimov Calls Homosexuality Vile Western Phenomenon
Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov has joined in with the chorus of gay-bashing sweeping the former Soviet Union by condemning same-sex relationships as a “vile phenomenon of Western culture.”The...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Anti-LGBT Bill Hits the Buffers
A draft bill in Kyrgyzstan aimed at marginalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual communities has once again hit the buffers, raising faint hopes of a reprieve for the country’s embattled sexual...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Authorities Scrap Rainbow Wall Over Suspicions of LGBT Propaganda
Officials in the western Kazakhstan city of Aktobe thought it might be nice to brighten up the look of the place. So about a month ago, municipal workers painted the balconies on an otherwise dreary...
View ArticleTajikistan: LGBT Registry Sparks Outrage
Authorities in Tajikistan have reportedly compiled a registry of hundreds of people in the country’s gay and lesbian community as part of a purported drive to promote moral behavior.RFE/RL’s Tajik...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Gay Couple Arrested for Engaging in Illegal Relations
Two gay men have been arrested in Uzbekistan and face charges of engaging in illegal sexual relations. The incident is a rare example of enforcement of the law banning consensual sexual relations...
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