The Supreme Court, as the final court in a series of lawsuits, had to rule on three such cases: those of two gay men and one of a transgender woman. One man worked in a program to help neglected, abused children in Georgia and was fired when he joined a gay regional baseball league. The other was a skydiving instructor…

Russian authorities have declared the most important LGBTQ group in Russia to be a "foreign agent." The LGBT Network has supported lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in Russia since 2006. Now the government is cracking down on it. The LGBT Network, founded in 2006 and active in several regions of Russia, was added to the Justice Ministry's register on Monday.

Thousands of people protested in Poland against the arrest of an LGBT activist. At a demonstration in Warsaw on Friday evening, police arrested about 50 people. Dozens of demonstrators had tried to prevent the police from arresting the activist. They blocked the police car carrying the arrested woman, and according to police reports, some even jumped onto the vehicle.