Russia

 NY Times: Putin’s Crackdown Leaves Transgender Russians Bracing for Worse - A new law underscores how Vladimir V. Putin is increasingly using the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T. life, portraying it as a consequence of deviant Western values. By Neil MacFarquhar and Georgy Birger

...a hardship that seems certain to grow as the government leverages the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T.Q. life.