This week: Paris Chemsex Drug Network Headed to Court, Madrid and São Paulo Host World’s Largest Pride Parades, Trial Begins Over Alleged Vienna Pride Attack Plot — and much more.

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This week: World’s Richest 1% Could End Global Poverty 22 Times Over, Kyiv Court Recognises Foreign Same-Sex Marriage, Pro-Palestine Activists Disrupt London Pride Parade, Two Mexican Queer Rights Activists Assassinated, Boy George Soul‑Pop Single “The World Is Cool”— and much more.

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This week: In Budapest, tens of thousands defy a ban to join the Pride march; in Turkey, over 200 people are arrested ahead of the banned Istanbul Pride March; in the UK, we have our first female MI6 Chief, Blaise Metreweli, who is expected to focus on diversity; Poland seeks to suspend Georgia’s visa-free travel; the ‘Berlin Is Not Salzburg’ Festival pushes back against the neo-liberal idea of culture — and much more.

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