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Added on: 09/25/2020

Senegal: Activists seek funds to rescue 10 men arrested by religious police

09/24/2020

Religious police on Sunday night arrested 10 young gay men in the holy city of Touba, Senegal, and threatened them with homosexuality charges. LGBT rights activists are…

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Added on: 09/21/2020

Nigerian activist: Is it time to march against anti-LGBT bias?

09/21/2020

Nigerian human rights activist Samuel Uchenna has suggested that it may be time for public demonstrations by LGBTIQ+ Nigerians pushing back against the country’s anti-gay biases. Sharing…

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Added on: 09/21/2020

The Qwelane case: When human rights meet human rights

09/20/2020

When there is a clash between rights, then equality and dignity must be the stars that guide us on the path to resolution, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC contends…

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Added on: 09/20/2020

‘Love Falls on Us’ explores the intersection of African LGBT rights and American activism

09/19/2020

The book in this installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular — “Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives” —…

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Added on: 09/15/2020

Life getting better for Moroccan LGBTQ community

09/15/2020

Fez, MOROCCO – Having a sexual orientation other than straight in Morocco is complicated at best, but seems to be slowly getting better. Members of the lesbian,…

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Added on: 09/14/2020

New Nigerian song promotes sexual diversity and human rights for all

09/13/2020

Nigerian singer and human rights activist Samuel Uchenna, popularly known as Samuch, has released an empowering new song that promotes respect for all persons regardless of their…

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Added on: 09/12/2020

Covid-19 and LGBTQ women in southern Africa – a test for universal human rights

09/11/2020

Since March 2020, governments in southern Africa have imposed lockdown measures to control the spread of Covid-19 in the sub-region. The measures include the deployment of police…

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Added on: 09/11/2020

Ugandan activists’ coalition boosts condoms as AIDS-fighting tool

09/10/2020

Condom use has declined in Uganda, especially among rural populations, according to a new assessment of condom supplies and funding gaps in Uganda. The study was commissioned…

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Added on: 09/07/2020

Blackmailed with nudes, Nigerian lesbians find safety outside the closet

09/06/2020

After swapping nude photos with Blessing on WhatsApp, Chioma set out to meet her prospective lover but was accosted on the road by a man in military…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

08/28/2020

The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…

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Added on: 08/28/2020

Uganda officials ignore criminal summonses for LGBTQ torture

08/27/2020

A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer each ignored a summons requiring him to show up in court yesterday to face criminal charges of torture…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Virtual Pride Afrique Festival Brings Socially Distant Visibility to Africa’s Sexual Minorities

08/25/2020

JOHANNESBURG – Pride Afrique is the first of its kind, a three-day virtual extravaganza celebrating Africa’s diverse, colorful community of sexual minorities. But behind the glitz and…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Intersex student seeks help after corrective surgery goes awry

08/24/2020

Bewildered, traumatized, terrified, these are words that come close to describing the turmoil facing Ezekiel Mwaleghu, a 19-year old form-one student at a secondary school in Voi…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Nigerian lesbian love film to go online to avoid censorship board

08/24/2020

LAGOS – Two young women fill the screen, reclining on a bed, talking about their hope of having children. They are protagonists in a new Nigerian film…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Intersex Children in Uganda Face Rejection, Violence

8/23/20

KAMPALA, UGANDA — No one wanted to name Nakitto Flavio’s baby. At a traditional ceremony, the infant’s aunt refused because the newborn’s sex was unclear. Flavio’s husband…

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Added on: 08/22/2020

Ugandan officials summoned before court over torture of LGBT+ youth

08/21/2020

A town mayor and senior prison official in Uganda have been summoned to appear before a criminal court over allegations of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment against…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere

08/19/2020

Beverley Ditsie first understood what the word “gay” meant while listening to Boy George. She was a teenager in the South African township of Soweto in the…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

Ugandans face summons over LGBT torture charges

08/19/2020

A Ugandan town councilman and a Ugandan prisons officer have been summoned to face criminal charges of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment connected to the arrest…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Donors free trans woman from jail in Cameroon, help her in new career

08/18/2020

C., the trans woman in eastern Cameroon who is being helped by this blog’s Not Alone Project, has been released from prison early and is preparing for…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Nollywood demonises queer people

08/16/2020

In 2014, the former president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan passed into law a Bill that became the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. The passage of the law gave…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Will SAPS finally release LGBTIQ hate crimes stats?

08/17/2020

South African Police Commissioner Khehla Sithole has indicated that the SAPS is committed to releasing crime statistics that specify LGBTIQ hate crimes. But are these even being…

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Added on: 08/15/2020

First pan-African virtual Pride event takes place to share LGBT+ stories

08/14/2020

The first pan-African virtual Pride event takes place on Friday aimed at bringing together LGBT+ Africans to share their stories of challenge and success from a continent…

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Added on: 08/10/2020

ZimbabweanLivesMatter Hashtag Inspires Gays and Lesbians

08/09/2020

The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign on social media has inspired gays and lesbians to pick up the momentum and also call for their own rights to be respected in…

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Added on: 08/06/2020

Nigerian’s first lesbian love story goes online to beat film censors

08/05/2020

Two naked women lie in bed, stroking each other’s hair and talking about coming out to their parents in Nigeria, where they could be jailed for 14…

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Added on: 08/05/2020

Tunisia: Homosexuality Convictions Upheld

08/04/2020

A Tunisian appeals court on July 28, 2020 upheld the conviction of two men accused of sodomy but reduced their sentence to one year in prison, Human…

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Added on: 08/05/2020

Nigerian singer Simi apologizes for anti-LGBT comments

08/04/2020

The singer, who made the comments in March on her YouTube show “Stoopid Sessions”, has now retracted her words, but members of the community are not letting…

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Added on: 08/03/2020

In America’s summer of discontent, a transgender doctor becomes a flashpoint

08/02/2020

In Johannesburg, three decades ago, the homophobes were out in force: bible-thumpers trying to save our souls; right-wingers with their AWB swastikas. Last week, too, there were…

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Added on: 08/01/2020

Cameroon: Lesbian love affair ends in death, but who was the killer?

07/31/2020

The drama unfolded on July 30 in the city of Bertoua in eastern Cameroon when two young lesbians met in private at a family home. The women,…

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Added on: 07/31/2020

‘Don’t come back, they’ll kill you for being gay’

07/30/2020

For years Mohamed’s family tried to make him more like other boys – tougher, more “masculine”. They even sent him to have a female spirit driven out…

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Added on: 07/30/2020

Ugandan LGBT advocate wins HIV/AIDS global award

07/29/2020

Susan Atuhura was honored for her study of the successes of community-based adherence clubs in reducing HIV levels and increasing the levels of self-care among for men…