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Added on: 02/21/2022

Aspiring Community Activist Josh Stols on the South African Testosterone Shortage

Jo Moses

Alturi Contributor

Josh Stols (@jd_justjosh on Instagram) is an aspiring community activist, visiting classrooms across Johannesburg to teach students about what it means to be a South African trans…

Global News

Added on: 02/21/2022

Education Minister tries to ban gay kids from boarding schools

02/20/2022

Kenyan Education Minister George Mahoga has caused controversy with a proposal to ban gay school kids from boarding schools. At the same time as Australia grappled with Citipointe…

Global News

Added on: 02/18/2022

Egypt: Rights Defender’s Imprisoned Father At Risk

02/17/2022

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should urgently provide health care to Salah Soltan, the detained father of a prominent Egyptian rights defender living in the US, or immediately release…

Global News

Added on: 02/17/2022

Gay students to be banned from boarding schools in Kenya?

02/16/2022

Homosexual students in boarding schools in Kenya would have to ensure they don’t infringe on the rights of other learners in order to retain their space in…

Global News

Added on: 02/16/2022

For two gay men, a narrow escape on Valentine’s Day in Cameroon

02/15/2022

Strolling hand in hand on Valentine’s Day in Cameroon nearly led to the death of two gay men at the hands of a homophobic mob. Max and…

Global News

Added on: 02/14/2022

Interview: ‘Zim still not a safe place for LGBTQ community’

02/13/2022

Last year, South African celebrity Somizi Mhlongo was scheduled to travel to Zimbabwe as a guest of honour at the reopening of a top restaurant in Harare….

Global News

Added on: 02/13/2022

Queer Africa has always been an other

2/12/22

Religious studies scholar David Tonghou Ngong recently made the argument on the Africa is a Country website that the roots of African homophobia might be found in…

Global News

Added on: 02/13/2022

LGBTQI+ community calls for more action from Cyril Ramaphosa

2/12/22

The Iranti-organisation says it is disappointed at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s silence on issues facing the LGBTQI+ community during his State of The Nation Address (Sona). Ramaphosa addressed…

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Added on: 02/09/2022

Ugandan court to rule on shutdown of LGBT ally organisation Chapter Four.

02/08/2022

Uganda’s High Court in Kampala has set March 18 as the date to rule on an application seeking to quash the government’s decision to indefinitely suspend the…

Global News

Added on: 02/09/2022

Three found guilty of gang raping gay man in landmark verdict for South Africa.

02/08/2022

Three men have been found guilty of the gang rape of a gay man in South Africa – the first time the country has issued a guilty…

World Voices

Added on: 02/08/2022

Rightify Ghana

Phillip Baumgart

Alturi Contributor

How did Rightify Ghana get started? The national government has long denied LGBTQ Ghanaians respect, protection, and recognition. Rightify Ghana came together to raise awareness about the…

Global News

Added on: 02/04/2022

Bishops in Ghana condemn harrowing anti-LGBT+ bill for being too severe: ‘We must show love’

02/04/2022

The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in Ghana said Friday (28 January) that the draft Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill…

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Added on: 02/03/2022

One Trans Woman’s Fight Against a Bill That Would Criminalise Ghana’s LGBT+ Community

02/03/2022

In a dimly-lit room with racks of women’s clothing, Ghanaian artist and LGBT+ activist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi flipped through photo self-portraits illustrating her transition to womanhood. Transitioning…

Global News

Added on: 01/30/2022

Botswana’s president meets LGBT activists, supports their work

1/29/22

In a landmark meeting with representatives of the LGBT rights group LEGABIBO, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi vowed to protect LGBT persons’ human rights and to fully implement…

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Added on: 01/29/2022

Qtalk counselors call the LGBTQ+ advice app ‘truly brilliant’, ‘a life saver’

1/28/22

In Nigeria, the Qtalk app on Android phones is “a life saver”, “truly brilliant” and “like magic”, according to counselors who use it to provide free confidential…

Global News

Added on: 01/25/2022

Botswana president vows to honour gay rights judgment.

01/24/2022

Botswana’s president vowed Monday to fully implement a 2019 court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, two months after losing an appeal that sought to overturn it. President Mokgweetsi Masisi…

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Added on: 01/23/2022

Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan LGBT ally, flees for safety to Germany

1/22/22

Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi has fled to Germany with her children over fears of government persecution, arrest and torture. “I refuse to…

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Added on: 01/23/2022

Rightify Ghana launches fundraising appeal to expand advocacy for LGBTQI+ people

1/22/22

A leading LGBT advocacy group in Ghana that has put a spotlight on what it calls the “worst anti-LGBTQ bill ever” is seeking donations from LGBTQ rights…

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Added on: 01/21/2022

Second-class citizens’? Namibia rules against gay couples

01/20/2022

WINDHOEK, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Namibia’s High Court ruled on Thursday against two gay couples fighting for recognition of their marriages, with the judge saying she agreed…

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Added on: 01/20/2022

Queer women win West African writing contest

01/19/2022

The Brittle Paper literary magazine has announced the winners of its writing competition for queer women from West Africa. The winning authors came from Nigeria, Ghana and…

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Added on: 01/19/2022

We are your sons and daughters

01/18/2022

TART accepting that transgender people are your daughters and sons, says Namibia’s first Miss Trans Ambassador 2021, Penelope Tatiana Delapoirto (24). “What we can do is to…

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Added on: 01/16/2022

Moroccan ministry worker fired for mentioning ‘sexual orientation’

1/15/22

The head of literacy at Morocco’s ministry of endowments and Islamic affairs has been fired for simply mentioning sexual orientation in adult learning materials. According to The…

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Added on: 01/16/2022

Tunisian LGBT activists fight back after alleged police assault

1/15/22

On October 21, 2021, prominent LGBTQ activist Badr Baabou was brutally assaulted in downtown Tunis by two men, one wearing a police uniform, who left him bruised…

Global News

Added on: 01/14/2022

Kenyan LGBT Students Protest Suggestion They be Banned from Boarding Schools

01/13/2022

NAIROBI — A group of Kenyan LGBT students protested Thursday against a Cabinet minister’s recent suggestion they be banned from boarding schools. The schools are common in Kenya…

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Added on: 01/12/2022

‘I saw myself in RuPaul’: how Drag Race inspired LGBTQ+ Kenyans to find freedom.

01/11/2022

An audience wearing face masks sits around the edges of a nondescript room in an unassuming building in the centre of Nairobi. Sparsely furnished and decorated with…

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Added on: 01/10/2022

Man stabbed, beaten and called ‘batty boy’ by group of boys who suspected him of being gay

01/09/2022

Perry Ato Inkoom told SVTV Africa that in the early evening of 19 December he was attacked by the young people following a birthday party. In Tema, a coastal…

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Added on: 01/06/2022

Ugandan LGBT ally Sylvia Tamale receives honorary doctorate

01/05/2022

Professor Sylvia Tamale, a Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Pretoria in South Africa in recognition of…

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Added on: 01/06/2022

Senegal rejects bid to toughen strict anti-LGBT law

01/05/2022

DAKAR, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Senegalese lawmakers on Tuesday stopped from passing to parliamentary vote a draft bill that sought to toughen already severe laws against same-sex…

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Added on: 01/05/2022

Lawmakers in Senegal Reject Bill to Double Penalties for Same-sex Relations.

01/04/2022

Over the Christmas holidays, parliamentary lawmakers in Senegal rejected a proposed bill that sought to double the jail time for people convicted under the country’s anti-sodomy law…

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Added on: 01/05/2022

‘I’d been set up’: the LGBTQ Kenyans ‘catfished’ for money via dating apps.

01/04/2022

One day after work last month, Tom Otieno went to a shopping centre in Nairobi to pick up groceries before heading home. He got a call from…