Transgender advocates applauded the European Court of Human Rights' July 16 landmark decision that Hungary is legally obligated to recognize gender identity.
Poland's anti-gay right-wing president, Andrzej Duda, was forced into a runoff election against his pro-LGBT liberal opponent, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.
The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women made a groundbreaking decision in favor of a Russian lesbian couple against the country.
Eight minutes after midnight on May 26 Alexandra QuirĂ³s Castillo and Daritza Araya Arguedas kissed and became Costa Rica's first same-sex couple to legally marry.
Hungary's lawmakers recently voted 133-57 to pass a bill that defines an individual's sex registered at birth, effectively banning future gender identity changes.
Global LGBT leaders were concerned about the well-being of queer communities around the world when the novel coronavirus pandemic broke out and countries began shutting down to halt the spread of it.
Police responded to about 60 LGBT refugees demonstrating outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee's office in Kakuma, Kenya at the end of last week, as they attempted to disband the protest.