2025 marks a turning point: for the first time, criminal and administrative risk no longer requires a public campaign. Everyday life is enough — a meeting, a relationship, an outfit, a private photo, or the wrong gesture.
The research makes clear that anti-LGBT repression in 2025 has outgrown its ‘LGBTQ+ issue’ framing. The book market, film and streaming, online platforms, festivals, and educational spaces are all affected. This is a story about how censorship operates — and why it is becoming more expensive for every consumer.
The report covers not just prosecutions and sentences, but what might be called ‘fear management.’ Alongside formal cases, it documents a substantial layer of threats — criminal and administrative — used as a pressure tool in their own right. These threats are what drive people to go silent and withdraw from public life, without ever setting foot in a courtroom.
