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Added on: 10/13/2021

Botswana appeals ruling allowing gay sex, court delays judgment

10/12/2021

Botswanan judges on Tuesday postponed ruling on a case in which the government is seeking to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, saying the matter…

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Added on: 10/12/2021

Ghana church leaders intensify pressure on parliament to pass anti-gay bill

10/11/2021

Dis move dey follow from recent calls by some academics and lawyers who start dey criticize de anti-LGBTQ Bill. Pentecost, Anglican Church state dema position. House of…

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Added on: 10/11/2021

UGANDA RECOGNISES ITS FIRST TRANSGENDER CITIZEN, CLEOPATRA KAMBUGU

10/10/2021

Cleopatra Kambugu, a Ugandan activist who advocates for sexual and gender minorities, has made history as the first transgender person in Uganda to have their new gender…

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Added on: 10/10/2021

LGBTQ+ bill criminalizes persons who promote sympathy for the act, not persons involved — Sam George insists

10/9/21

The lead proponent of the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill which is before Ghana’s Parliament, Sam George has explained that the bill does not criminalize homosexuals but those who promote…

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Added on: 10/09/2021

Alice Nkom, Cameroon’s tireless defender of LGBTQ rights

10/8/21

Nkom’s cane is the only thing that betrays the age of this great lady, whom her young clients call “Mama”. At 76, Nkom may be Cameroon’s oldest…

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Added on: 10/08/2021

How a US group with links to the far-right may have influenced a crackdown on Ghana’s LGBTQ community

10/08/2021

Accra, Ghana (CNN)A safe house was the only place Joe felt protected enough to meet. Tucked away in a neighborhood of Accra, off Aflao Road, a group…

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Added on: 10/07/2021

We’ll campaign against you if you vote against the passage of anti-LGBTQI Bill – Petencost Church threaten MPs

10/07/2021

The Church of Pentecost has vowed to campaign against parliamentarians should they fail to let the anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Bill passed into law with…

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Added on: 10/06/2021

Kenya Banned This Gay Documentary — It Will Now Stream Across Africa

10/05/2021

The Kenyan documentary about the life of a gay man navigating life in the conservative country I am Samuel was banned in Kenya in late September. While…

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Added on: 10/06/2021

Cameroon: Law enforcement officials join workshop on protecting LGBTI people

10/06/2021

The workshop was organized in response to a recommendation that Cameroon should “protect women, girls and all other vulnerable persons from all forms of violence”. That recommendation,…

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Added on: 10/05/2021

Ghana Anti-gay bill dangerous, proponents seek to promote hate

10/04/2021

A professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kwame Karikari, has said the current anti-gay bill which is being promoted by Ningo Prampram lawmaker, Sam Nartey George and…

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Added on: 10/04/2021

Art’s part in being African and queer

10/03/2021

Three years ago the release of John Trengove’s Inxeba (The Wound) set tongues wagging in South Africa. The film, which portrays a troubled romantic relationship between two gay…

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Added on: 10/03/2021

Kenya: It’s a Tough Life for Little-Understood Intersex People

09/30/2021

Few choices would be harder to make than coming round to accept that you are neither male nor female. Add to this the fact not much is…

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Added on: 09/29/2021

LGBTI citizens on edge in West Africa (Part 2: Guinea after the coup)

09/28/2021

The coup in Guinea came in early September, only a few months after a military junta seized power in neighboring Mali. That turmoil added new challenges for…

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Added on: 09/28/2021

Risks multiply for LGBTI citizens of West Africa. (Part 1: Senegal)

09/27/21

In West Africa, military juntas have seized power in Mali (May 24) and in Guinea (Sept. 5) — events that added new challenges for LGBTI citizens in…

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Added on: 09/26/2021

Kenya bans film for ‘advocating same-sex marriage’

9/23/21

Kenya’s Film Classification Board (KFCB) has banned a documentary about two gay lovers. The film, I Am Samuel, is a movie about the romantic relationship between two…

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Added on: 09/25/2021

Kenya film board bans gay documentary, calling it ‘an affront’

9/24/21

Kenya has banned a documentary about a gay Kenyan man’s struggle to be accepted by his family and country, saying it was blasphemous and an affront to…

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Added on: 09/24/2021

LGBT+ conversion therapy thrives even as bans gather pace

09/16/2021

LONDON, Sept 15 (Openly) – Doctors once prescribed long, hard bike rides and testicular transplants to cure gay men of their “sexual abnormality”. More than a century…

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Added on: 09/22/2021

Ghana: LGBT Activists Face Hardships After Detention

09/20/2021

Arbitrary arrests and detention of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Ghana, and a proposed draconian anti-LGBT bill are causing serious economic hardship and psychological…

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Added on: 09/20/2021

Joe Biden Cancels Meeting With HH After Nalumango Gay Rights Snub

09/20/2021

The highly publicized meeting between US President Joe Biden and President Hakainde Hichilema has been cancelled after Vice President Mutale Nalumango told Parliament that Zambia will not…

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Added on: 09/17/2021

Brave Nigerian lesbian couple ‘publicly wed’ and declare their love in defiance of archaic laws

09/16/2021

LGBT+ activist and YouTuber Amara shared a series of photos detailing her symbolic marriage to her new wife, Olayinka, on social media. The beautiful couple can be…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

UCT vice-chancellor apologises to LGBTQIA+ community

9/12/21

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng apologised to the LGBTQIA+ community for a seminar she co-hosted on Sunday, September 4. The seminar,…

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Added on: 09/12/2021

Ugandan government shamefully claims queer people fleeing its homophobia are fake ‘economic gays’

9/12/21

Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by life imprisonment in Uganda, which has some of the strictest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world. Most queer Ugandans survive by staying…

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Added on: 09/09/2021

Anger over UCT Vice Chancellor’s “harmful” webinar on LGBTIQA+ community

09/07/2021

Gender diversity organisations have slammed UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng for hosting a social media seminar described as “harmful and hurtful” to the LGBTIQA+ community. Titled, What does…

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Added on: 08/30/2021

Motsoaledi frees gay Ugandan couple after arrest in KZN

08/29/2021

Durban – Home Affairs Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi and the department’s director-general Livhuwani Makhode have released a Ugandan couple detained for being in South Africa illegally due…

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Added on: 08/21/2021

Gay Immigrant Recalls Tumultuous Escape From Nigeria

08/20/2021

Uchechukwu Onwa, a gay immigrant from Nigeria, said he knew it was time to leave his home country when a group of men brutally raped his teenage…

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Added on: 08/18/2021

President Museveni Refuses To Sign Homophobic Law

08/17/2021

The LGBTIQ community in Uganda has today caught a break after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni returned the notorious Sexual Offences Bill back to the floor of Uganda…

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Added on: 08/13/2021

Ghana’s president in tight spot over anti-LGBT law

08/12/2021

Opposition lawmakers in Ghana are pushing President Nana Akufo-Addo into a tight spot by promoting an anti-LGBT law widely condemned by critics for undermining rights but applauded…

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Added on: 08/13/2021

Homophobic Ghanaian ‘Family Values’ Bill is Odious and Beggars Belief

08/10/2021

Sometimes the human capacity for cruelty takes my breath away. A recently proposed bill on “sexual rights” and “family values” in Ghana is a case study in…

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Added on: 08/13/2021

Amid continued criminalisation, Uganda endorses LGBT access for HIV treatment

08/11/2021

Despite ongoing criminalization of men who have sex with men and transgender people, the government of Uganda is attempting to include them in national plans for the…

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Added on: 08/11/2021

Video Captures Vicious Homophobic Attack in Cameroon

08/10/2021

A brutal attack on two transgender women in Cameroon occurred just weeks after a court ordered the women, Shakiro and Patricia, released from prison pending their appeal…