More than five months after her arrest for offending Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, outspoken LGBT and women's rights activist Stella Nyanzi remai ...
A new fiction book that mirrors LGBT life in Nigeria seemingly highlights Nigerian celebrities Charly Boy and Linda Ikeji as two powerful fictional ch ...
Uganda: Five months in prison awaiting verdict
More than five months after her arrest for offending Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, outspoken LGBT and women's rights activist Stella Nyanzi remai ...
Kenyan queer refugees win freedom; hunger strike ends
Reports from Nairobi say that the hunger strike by LGBTQ refugee advocate Mbazira Moses and his supporters has succeeded in winning authorities' promi ...
Uganda: Queer-themed magazine focuses on mental health
Kuchu Times Media Group, a Ugandan LGBT media advocacy enterprise, has launched the fourth edition of its powerful queer-themed "Bombastic" magazine.
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Kenyan refugee leader threatens hunger strike; 20 still in jail
Mbazira Moses, leader of the Refugee Flag Kenya advocacy group, threatened today to wage a hunger strike until 20 jailed LGBT refugees have been relea ...
The 2018 report on violence against LGBT people in Cameroon shows a sharp and shameful increase. This alarming situation is due to widespread ignoranc ...
Officials at the University of Yaoundé II in Cameroon have blocked the academic career of a mature student known as Kundy (a pseudonym) because of his ...
A lovers' quarrel last month led to death threats, a knife attack, a closeted pastor losing his job, and his lover fleeing for his life.
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Northern Cameroon's only gay-rights advocacy group is seeking help with beefing up security after its headquarters was vandalized last week.
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A young Zambian gay man has been denied refugee status in South Africa by authorities who claim that he cannot be both Christian and gay.
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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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Gay Tunisian flees to Europe to avoid prison for homosexuality
Sentenced to prison for homosexuality three times in the past three years, a gay Tunisian fled today to an undisclosed European country.
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1 year in Egyptian prison. The crime? Interviewing a gay man
Egypt thinks merely interviewing a gay man is a crime.
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Tunisia: Raped, robbed, then arrested for homosexuality
A young man in Tunisia was conned by two men on Facebook who met him, raped him and robbed him. When he reported the crimes to police, they arrested h ...