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The situation of the LGBTIQ community in Poland and Europe, the measures aimed at more effective defending their rights, the draft laws on LGBTIQ rights in the Polish parliament, and the approach of self-governments – those were the matters discussed at the EURACTIV.pl’s webinar “Union of Equality for LGBTIQ. European Commission’s Strategy on Combatting Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia”. The situation of LGBTIQ in Poland is the worst in the whole European Union. For the second year in a row, Poland continues to occupy the lowest ranking in the Rainbow Europe Index by ILGA-Europe...

Earlier this month, a broadcaster in Hungary came under fire for an advertisement the country’s media council deemed harmful to children. The ad in question, part of a campaign by an LGBT advocacy group, sympathetically depicted “rainbow families” and pushed back against anti-LGBT stereotypes. The media authority, run by members of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, announced it would take legal action against the broadcaster RTL Hungary for airing the ad. The move was part of a broader strategy to suppress what Orbán and his allies decry as “LGBT ideology” imported fro...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Parliament is scheduled to debate a resolution on Wednesday that would declare the entire 27-member European Union to be a “freedom zone” for LGBT...

European lawmakers are to debate a resolution declaring the European Union a 'freedom zone' for LGBTQ people, despite rising homophobia in some parts.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament overwhelmingly spoke out in favour of a resolution that would declare the entire 27-member European Union a 'freedom zone' for LGBTQ2S+ people during a debate held on Wednesday.