Russia

The Wondros agency, working in conjunction with the Arcus Foundation, is producing a mini-documentary of trans people kissing for the Uprising of Love campaign. These images in the four-minute video will be displayed while Melissa Etheridge's song "Uprising of Love."

Vladimir Luxuria, Europe's first openly transgender parliamentarian and former Italian MP, was detained in Sochi, Russia over the weekend under the country's anti-LGBT, so-called "propaganda law." The following day, she was detained for a second time, and left by authorities in a rural area.