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Added on: 05/24/2019

Asia’s Newest Nation of Timor-Leste Is Fighting for LGBTQ Rights

VICE
05/21/2019
On a sunny morning last July, thousands of Timor-Leste residents took to the streets of Dili. Clad in white shirts, gripping rainbow-striped banners and flags, they were…
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Added on: 05/22/2019

Kenya’s High Court to Rule Friday on Legality of Gay Sex

Voice of America
05/21/2019
This Friday, Kenya’s High Court is set to rule on a case challenging colonial-era laws that criminalize homosexuality. The petitioners want the court to declare those laws…
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Added on: 05/18/2019

How LGBT friendly is Ghana?

Yen Ghana
05/16/2019
Ghana, like many other countries in Africa, has not yet entirely accepted the LGBT community into our society. While many groups are defending them, they still face…
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Added on: 05/18/2019

U.N. urges calm after protests by LGBT+ refugees in Kenya turn violent

The Star Kenya
05/17/2019
The United Nations has urged LGBT+ refugees in Kenya to show “calm and restraint” after protests demanding better treatment turned violent, with police firing tear gas and…
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Added on: 05/17/2019

Advocates boycott African human rights conference in Egypt

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/16/2019
The 64th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was a sad time for the African continent’s…
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Added on: 05/15/2019

A Queer Film Festival in Tunisia — Where Being Gay Is Illegal

New York Times
05/14/2019
For four days in March, a sanctuary for queer and trans people sprung up in Tunisia — a country where being gay is illegal. Mawjoudin Queer Film…
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Added on: 05/12/2019

Nigeria: Anglican Church ejects 2 priests for homosexuality

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/09/2019
In Nigeria, LGBT people suffer various forms of discrimination at all levels within the society, even from within the Christian faith. Many Nigerians believe the Bible condemns…
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Added on: 05/07/2019

LGBT in West Africa: Arrests, lynchings, discrimination, denial

Erasing 76 Crimes
05/06/2019
West African nations display a mix of mostly abusive responses to LGBT people, including denial that they exist, lynchings and arrests even without anti-homosexuality laws. The context…
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Added on: 05/05/2019

Edmonton students walk out of school to protest UCP education policies

Openly
05/01/2019
Chanting, “We have voices” and clutching signs reading “GSAs save kids,” more than 100 students walked out of Victoria School of the Arts Friday morning to protest…
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Added on: 05/01/2019

South Africa to host Mr Gay World 2019 pageant after China pulled out

Face2Face Africa
04/30/2019
All roads will lead to Cape Town, South Africa for the 2019 edition of Mr Gay World pageant where 24 finalists will compete for this year’s crown….
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Added on: 04/30/2019

Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBT rights group

The Gurdian
04/30/2019
One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by…
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Added on: 04/27/2019

Abandoned: traditional festival of male beauty in Niger

Erasing 76 Crimes
04/23/2019
Festival in Niamey, Niger, has promoted traditional men’s fashion, local couturiers’ skills and masculine beauty. It has also been a place for social minorities and artists in…
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Added on: 04/19/2019

Opinion: Nigeria is a cold-blooded country for gay men-I have the scars to prove it

CNN
04/17/2019
In 2017, I started A Nasty Boy magazine to validate and affirm the lives and experiences of gay men in Nigeria. I hoped that it could contribute,…
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Added on: 04/01/2019

Uganda: Queer-themed magazine focuses on mental health

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/29/2019
The new 52-page magazine is focused on mental health and intimate-partner violence within the sex worker and LGBTQ communities. Copies are been widely distributed across the country…
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Added on: 03/28/2019

Zambian fleeing from arrest for Homosexuality denied Refugee Asylum in South Africa

Lusaka Times
03/28/2019
A young gay man who left a well-paid government job and fled from Zambia because of his sexual orientation has been denied refugee status by the South…
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Added on: 03/27/2019

LGBT refugees protest Kenya arrests and jail time

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/26/2019
LGBT refugee activists gathered outside a Nairobi courtroom today to protest the mistreatment of 20 LGBT refugees who were arrested at an earlier protest and have been…
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Added on: 03/22/2019

Prominent LGBT+ organisation in Kenya wins right to be recognised as a charity

DeviDiscourse
03/22/2019
A prominent LGBT+ organisation in Kenya won the right to be recognised as a charity on Friday in a Court of Appeal ruling that could give greater…
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Added on: 03/21/2019

These LGBT Refugees Came to Kenya Seeking Freedom. Now They Say They’ve Been Imprisoned and Abused

Intelli.News
03/19/2019
On Feb. 22, activists, reporters and well-wishers from Kenya and all over the world gathered in a courtroom in Nairobi, hoping to witness a historic moment: the decriminalization…
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Added on: 03/19/2019

Dramatic increase in violence against LGBT people in Cameroon

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/18/2019
Humanity First Cameroon and Alternatives-Cameroon are two leading organizations advocating for human rights in Cameroon, with a particular focus on the rights of LGBT people. Working together…
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Added on: 03/19/2019

Will the African nation of Botswana decriminalise homosexuality in June?

Q News
03/19/2019
Botswana’s High Court is considering a challenge to the provisions of the penal code criminalising consensual same-sex relations in the country. It will hand down its judgment…
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Added on: 03/17/2019

No truth for Gambia’s queer people

Mail & Guardian
03/15/2019
Gambia is accounting for its past. Two years after the end of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal 23-year rule, the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission is under way….
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Added on: 03/15/2019

Nigerian lesbian: I need to marry a gay man

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/13/2019
In Nigeria, many LGBTI persons grow anxious as they get older and confront pressures from their families and society to get married. They can’t simply marry the…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

BOTSWANA COURT CASE TO CHALLENGE LEGALITY OF GAY SEX

Jerusalem Post
03/14/2019
Botswana’s High Court will hear on Thursday a case challenging the decriminalization of homosexual intercourse, offering campaigners a rare chance to argue for lesbian, gay, bisexual and…
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Added on: 03/14/2019

Guinea-Bissau’s ‘Big Mamas’ advance gay pride in conservative West Africa

Thomson Reuters Foundation
03/13/2019
Edimilson Silva wears tight jeans, sparkly jewellery and sometimes lipstick – outfits that in neighbouring countries could get him harassed, jailed or even killed. But in his…
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Added on: 03/13/2019

Cameroon university blocks career of LGBTI activist

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/11/2019
Kundy (a pseudonym) is one of the most experienced LGBTI activists in Cameroon. At age 30+, he has had an impressive amount of experience protecting and advocating…
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Added on: 03/12/2019

Egyptian Transgender Woman Forcibly Arrested, at Risk of Torture and Sexual Violence

Morocco World News
03/10/2019
19-year-old Malak al-Kashef, who recently had sex reassignment surgery, has not been heard from ever since she was taken by the Egyptian national security at the early…
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Added on: 03/12/2019

Dutch Reformed Church forced to allow same-sex marriage

Pink News
03/08/2019
A South African court has overturned a decision by the Dutch Reformed Church not to recognise same-sex unions. The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria scrapped the church’s…
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Added on: 03/11/2019

On International Women’s Day: End daily ‘corrective rapes’

76 Crimes
03/08/2019
Today is International Women’s Day #IWD2019: We celebrate and stand in solidarity with all women, noting their tenacity and fortitude, especially those who courageously survive violence and…
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Added on: 03/10/2019

Meet the young Nigerian running an LGBT clothing brand

Erasing 76 Crimes
03/06/2019
Rex Young, a young Lagos-based Nigerian entrepreneur, is tapping into the country’s LGBT market. Young, a professional graphic designer, has delved into an untapped market of making…
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Added on: 03/08/2019

Fears for transgender Egyptian woman held in men’s prison

Independent
03/07/2019
An Egyptian transgender woman arrested for inciting anti-government protests is at risk of torture and sexual violence, activists and rights groups have warned. Malak al-Kashef, 19, has…
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