The prelate of the Methodist church in Nigeria has condemned a decision by the British branch of the Methodist Church in favor of allowing lesbian, ga ...
The prelate of the Methodist church in Nigeria has condemned a decision by the British branch of the Methodist Church in favor of allowing lesbian, ga ...
Petition to Uganda: Let us celebrate Pride peacefully
Ugandan activists are seeking international support for a petition to Simon Lokodo, the homophobic Minister of Ethics and Integrity, urging him to sto ...
Debate: Was it right to bar asylum deniers from UK Black Pride?
LGBTI rights activists in the United Kingdom are divided about the decision by UK Black Pride to exclude the Home Office from last weekend's Pride cel ...
Nigeria’s first lesbian documentary film is finally here
The Equality Hub, a Lagos-based Nigerian human rights non-governmental organization, has produced Nigeria's first lesbian-focused documentary film.
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Roundup of 76 gay African refugees: Desperate, dangerous, confusing times
Confusion surrounds this week's heartless decision to move 76 gay refugees from Nairobi back to the often violently homophobic Kakuma refugee camp fro ...
A leader of Cameroon's transgender community is recuperating from a transphobic attack that almost killed her.
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Lesbophobia breaks apart a family in Cameroon; a sister is left homeless.
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In April, when a Cameroonian man learned that his common-law wife was attracted to women, he assaulted her, raped her lover and threatened to kill th ...
The 2018 report on violence against LGBT people in Cameroon shows a sharp and shameful increase. This alarming situation is due to widespread ignoranc ...
A Malawi court released LGBTI rights activists Gift Trapence and MacDonald Sembeleka on bail Friday, three days after their arrest on fraud charges co ...
Victory for gay rights in Tunisia
The Tunis Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court decision that allowed the LGBT rights group Shams to keep its official recognition as a legitima ...
Advocates boycott African human rights conference in Egypt
Repression of LGBT rights defenders marred the recently held session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
From the African H ...
U.N. experts to Tunisia: Don’t shut down Shams
Four high-ranking human rights specialists at the United Nations are urging the Tunisian government not to close down the LGBT rights organization Sha ...
Death (denied) in Tunisia’s queer cell block
Recent reports, apparently untrue, that a trans woman died in the "Lions' Den" cell block at Mornaguia Prison focused attention on the grim conditions ...
Tunisia targets pro-gay advocacy at Shams
The Tunisian government has appealed a 2016 court decision that granted official recognition to the group Shams, which advocates the repeal of the nat ...
Horror for a young man under the shade of Tunisian palms
Pressure is building to release a young Tunisian man imprisoned for homosexuality. Here's how to join the campaign launched by Shams and All Out.
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