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Visible, but not safe: The situation of LGBTQ+ people worldwide

Friday, Jun 19, 2026

Der Standard

Global queer rights face growing hurdles, declining acceptance, and rising violence despite visible activism during Pride Month.

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The article discusses the global situation for queer people, noting that new data reveals growing obstacles, decreasing acceptance, and increasing violence against LGBTQ+ individuals from Vienna to Washington. Despite discrimination, people continue to protest for LGBTQ+ rights. June is recognized as Pride Month in Austria and many other places, symbolizing visibility and rights, but the text questions how far countries truly are in ensuring equal treatment under the law and how safe queer individuals feel.

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PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

PULSE’s offering also includes the distribution of free content to third-party outlets and the animation of four thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, Europe and other global powers, the green transition, or media and information society.

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved, which produces new journalistic content on European issues in a collaborative way on a daily basis, coming in many languages. A further layer of associated partners and journalists enriches PULSE’s editorial output, which amounts to over a thousand publications per year.