The Side by Side (Bok o Bok) LGBTI film festival held in St. Petersburg was suspended for over an hour due to information relating to a bomb threat.

In 2019, LGBTI artists and art continue to be at greater risk when it comes to expressing themselves artistically.

China’s National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications has blocked three popular e-book platforms over “obscene” content.

Russian authorities have cancelled a youth theatre play for promoting “hatred against men and non-traditional family relations”.

Films with LGBT content or other “inappropriate culture” will not be approved by the Malaysian government’s Film Censorship Board.

A blogger from Tajikistan says he has received threats for the past year and was attacked in Moscow in front of a police officer.

Three student activists were arrested and fined for dressing as police officers with rainbow epaulettes in a performance about homophobia in Belarus.

Schoolchildren’s drawings depicting same-sex couples have been seized by Russian police and checked to see if they propagate “non-traditional values”.

A Chinese author was sentenced to 10 years and six months in jail for writing and selling an erotic novel with gay sex scenes.

Cinemagoers in Malaysia miss out on seeing 24 minutes of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after many homosexual scenes were censored.