Which governments censor LGBTQ+ content — and they block the local advocates, not just Grindr
Ranking countries by how many LGBTQ+-tagged domains they block NATIONALLY (confirmed across >=3 independent networks), Voidly's /v1/measurement/category-leaders?category=LGBT finds eight countries doing it at the national level — and the two heaviest are the same two that lead almost every speech category: Russia (36 domains) and Iran (34), then Indonesia (20), Turkey (8), Saudi Arabia (7), Thailand (4); India and the Netherlands show a single domain each (thin/incidental). The pattern in the lists matters more than the counts. Two kinds of site get blocked: the global infrastructure of queer life online (dating/community apps Grindr and Blued, blocked in IR/ID/TR) and — more telling — DOMESTIC ADVOCACY: Russia blocks bok-o-bok.com (its own 'Side by Side' LGBT film festival), Iran blocks 6rang.org (an Iranian LGBT-rights network), Turkey blocks kaosgl.org (one of its oldest LGBT organizations). A government that only objected to pornography would not block the local film festival or the human-rights NGO; blocking those is censorship of identity and organizing, and it tracks each country's broader speech-censorship profile. HONEST CAVEATS: counts cover only Citizen Lab LGBTQ+-tagged domains (a curated list, a floor not a census); China's near-absence is a MEASUREMENT ARTIFACT not tolerance (OONI records the GFW as 'anomaly' not 'confirmed', so China barely registers in the confirmed layer despite well-documented LGBTQ+ blocking — the leaderboard reliably ranks high-confirmation DNS-poison regimes RU/IR, not probabilistic ones); single-domain entries (IN pinkcupid, NL hrc.org) are likely incidental/FP, the meaningful set is the six countries at >=4; confirmed layer is a periodic snapshot. CORROBORATION: this matches the 2021 OutRight/Citizen Lab/OONI study 'No Access: LGBTIQ Website Censorship in Six Countries' (same OONI measurement basis) — RU blocked on 172 networks, IR 84, ID 43 — which likewise found IR/RU/SA block LOCAL+regional LGBTQ sites, not just international ones (the 'local advocates' pattern); Russia's Nov-2023 Supreme Court 'LGBT movement extremist' ruling (HRW/Amnesty/OHCHR) is the legal hook behind Roskomnadzor's blocking. Live: /v1/measurement/category-leaders?category=LGBT.