A new report shows how Germany continues to fall behind its counterparts on gay rights, which may be due to its “lack of strong leadership”. Germany was ranked below 15 other countries in Europe for LGBTI rights, placing it on par with countries like Greece and Hungary in a new Rainbow Europe report. Advocacy group ILGA-Europe ranked 49 countries in the annual report, based on their laws pertaining to same-sex marriage, adoption, rights for transgender people, protections against discrimination and more. Germany, for example, allows same-sex partnerships but does not recognize same-sex marriage and gay couples have limited rights when...
