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Added on: 07/21/2022

Three strategies to survive being LGBTIQ+ in Nigeria

07/19/2022

Nigeria’s discriminatory laws against LGBTQI+ people continue to have a huge negative impact on the lives of LGBTIQ+ folks living in the country. LGBTQI+ people are subjected to…

Global News

Added on: 07/19/2022

‘We’re here:’ Queer communities in Africa are struggling to be seen

07/18/2022

Parades, flags and celebrations are all important to queer communities in Africa as they seek greater visibility and acceptance, despite the threats faced by many throughout the…

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Added on: 07/18/2022

LGBTQ communities facing new repression in Middle East

07/17/2022

Most of the people around him don’t know he identifies as queer, the 20-year-old Iraqi student told DW. But life in his comparatively conservative southern city of Najaf…

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Added on: 07/17/2022

Rwanda ‘lies’ on gay rights as activist claims they were told to assure refugees

07/16/2022

Rwanda’s leaders are scrambling to make the country appear safe for gay people, it was claimed yesterday. A senior activist there told the People he was approached…

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Added on: 07/17/2022

UN urged to move Cop27 from Egypt over ‘LGBTQ+ torture’

07/15/2022

A White House adviser and his partner have called on the United Nations to move a key climate change summit from Egypt due to the country’s treatment…

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Added on: 07/14/2022

Zambian Woman Footballer Sex Tested Because FIFA Allows It

07/13/2022

Football authorities blindsided Barbra Banda, a top player on the Zambian women’s team, when they announced she was ineligible for competition in the Women’s Africa Cup of…

Global News

Added on: 07/13/2022

South African queer Muslims denounce hateful fatwa.

07/12/2022

A group of South African queer Muslims and allies have asserted that it is indeed possible to be LGBTQIA+ and Muslim, in defiance of a recent anti-LGBTQIA+…

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Added on: 07/10/2022

Nigerian actor Uche Maduagwu arrested after bravely coming out as gay: ‘I will forever remain gay’

7/9/22

Popular Nigerian social media personality Uche Maduagwu, who previously denied he was gay, has bravely come out in a candid post on Instagram. Maduagwu was riled to…

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Added on: 07/05/2022

What it was like to attend Nigeria’s first-ever Pride event.

07/04/2022

There aren’t many spaces in Lagos where queer people can congregate safely, watch drag performances, listen to queer artists perform, or watch a voguing competition. In 2014,…

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Added on: 07/05/2022

Zimbabwe refuses to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual community.

07/04/2022

ZIMBABWE has refused to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to accept their predisposition. The local delegation led by Justice,…

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Added on: 07/01/2022

Challenging Tunisian society’s homophobia through theatre

06/30/2022

For the LGBTQI+ community in North Africa and the Middle East, Pride Month is bittersweet. While celebrating their love and existence within safe and private spaces, members of…

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Added on: 06/30/2022

Help us free 7 imprisoned LGBT victims of homophobia

06/29/2022

Elmer, Amir, Dick, Martin and Octavia are locked up in Cameroon’s Yaoundé Central Prison, serving sentences for whom and how they love. You can help get them out. Cam…

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Added on: 06/30/2022

KwaZulu-Natal LGBTQI+ community living in fear amid frequent attacks

06/29/2022

The group feels threatened and the continuous attacks have worsened matters. The LGBTQI+ community in KwaZulu-Natal says they are still not safe. This is despite various campaigns aimed…

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Added on: 06/28/2022

LGBTQ+ Nigerians Are Celebrating Pride Month in Defiance of Anti-Gay Law.

06/27/2022

YouTuber Victor Emmanuel knows first-hand how tough life is for people who are openly gay in Nigeria, where LGBTQ+ relationships and even same-sex displays of affection are…

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Added on: 06/25/2022

A photographer’s radical vision of a Black lesbian beauty pageant

06/24/2022

In pageants around the world, beauty and femininity ideals have long been upheld and rarely challenged. A photograph by the artist Zanele Muholi is a bold declaration…

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Added on: 06/24/2022

Should queer Nigerians celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month?

06/23/2022

Each year, the month of June is marked as “Pride Month”, a time when LGBTQ people all over the world partake in Pride marches and attend events…

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Added on: 06/23/2022

Donors free 11 LGBT prisoners in Cameroon. Next, maybe 9 more

06/22/2022

Only 13 months ago, a visitor to the Central Prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon, counted 11 inmates serving time for nothing other than whom they loved. None of…

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Added on: 06/18/2022

LGBTQ Tolerance Billboards Destroyed in Ghana

6/17/22

Rights activists in Ghana are protesting after a crowd, urged on by a member of parliament, tore down a billboard that promoted tolerance toward the LGBTQ community….

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Added on: 06/14/2022

Ugandan vlogger’s homophobic rant puts migrant workers at risk.

06/13/2022

A self-righteous Ugandan national living in the Middle East has released an excruciatingly homophobic online rant blasting Ugandans and other Africans for engaging in adult consensual same-sex…

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Added on: 06/10/2022

LGBTQ billboard is affront to 1992 Constitution, pull it down or we destroy it — Sam George

06/09/2022

One of the sponsors of the anti-LGBTQ bill in Parliament, Samuel Nartey George has given the Police 24 hours to pull down a billboard said be advertising…

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Added on: 06/09/2022

Deliberation on Anti-LGBT Bill not supposed to exceed 3 months – Edem Senanu

06/08/2022

The Chairman of Advocates for Christ Ghana, a Civil Society Organization, Edem Senanu, has added his voice to the growing concern about the delay in passing the…

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Added on: 06/01/2022

“Fully embraced”? Bostwana’s queer struggles since decriminalisation.

05/31/2022

In November 2021, Botswana’s Court of Appeal upheld a landmark 2019 ruling that had decriminalised gay sex. Before the original verdict, same-sex sexual activity had been punishable…

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Added on: 05/31/2022

Anti-gay mob of 100 people beat American man bloody & parade him through the streets.

05/30/2022

Three men have been arrested in the West African country of Senegal after video emerged of a suspected homophobic attack that left its American victim bloodied, robbed…

World Voices

Added on: 05/30/2022

The Kisumu Feminists Society Wants Justice For Sheila Lumumba

Jo Moses

Alturi Contributor

When a Kenyan lesbian is murdered, who avenges their death? Feminists? LGBT activists? Anti-violence campaigners? All of these, argues the Kisumu Feminists Society of Kisumu, Kenya, should…

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Added on: 05/29/2022

History! LGBTQI+ organisation raises Pride flag on Robben Island

5/27/22

Robben Island, located just off the coast of Cape Town was used as a prison between 1961 and 1996. Former president Nelson Mandela spent 18 years of…

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Added on: 05/27/2022

LGBTQI people on the continent are ‘children of the Africa soil’, says activist

05/26/2022

LGBTI activist groups and their allies are gathering in Cape Town this week to discuss the progress being made to advance equality, freedom, and social inclusion for…

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Added on: 05/26/2022

Tunisia’s first LGBTQ play lifts curtain on hidden violence

05/25/2022

The first queer play to be staged in Tunisia has premiered in the capital, Tunis. Director Essia Jaibi’s latest work aims to challenge conservative attitudes in a country…

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Added on: 05/25/2022

Without disruption, Cameroon’s LGBTI coalition elects new leadership.

05/24/2022

The UNITY umbrella organization of Cameroon’s varied LGBTI rights advocacy groups has elected a new board after a spirited campaign. “We all won,” said Sandrine Ateh, the…

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Added on: 05/23/2022

Gay man killed in Cape Town as Parliament considers Hate Crimes Bill

05/22/2022

The family of a man allegedly murdered for being gay is calling for justice as Parliament continues to ponder the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and…

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Added on: 05/21/2022

Nigeria’s LGBTQ Community Fights Restrictive Cross-Dressing Bill

5/19/22

Dressed in rainbow-colored vests, members of the LGBTQ community marched in a risky demonstration in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to protest a bill introduced by lawmakers in Nigeria’s…