Author: RightsAdmin
Threats blocked Mauritius Pride; petitioners say ‘Enough!’
The organizers of the canceled Pride March in the offshore East African island nation of Mauritius are seeking international support to persuade their [...]
Promising student in Cameroon: Outed, then an outcast
In Cameroon in mid-May, 18-year-old Ades was on track to a university degree and a profitable career. Then his parents learned he is gay.
By St [...]
LGBTI Ugandans prepare for Pride in refugee camp
LGBTI Ugandan refugees in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp are preparing to celebrate Pride on June 16, thanks to $1,500 worth of financial help from indiv [...]
Nigeria: Police arrest over 100 alleged gay and lesbians
Nigerian police have arrested more than 100 party-goers at a hotel in Asaba, Delta State, on charges that they are gays and lesbians.
The incid [...]
Uganda: Anti-gay Pastor ‘Poo Poo’ is back, claiming he’s a victim
Ugandan Pastor Martin Ssempa is back on the warpath against gay rights. In a new video, he states that, after a sabbatical, he has returned to the fra [...]
‘Join us at the first-ever Pride celebration in Swaziland’
LGBT activists in Swaziland are planning the country's first-ever Pride celebration this month, seeking an end to the country's homophobia and its law [...]
In Cameroon, life is hell because I support my gay brother
In Cameroon, if you are a loving, supportive member of a gay man's family, you can become a target for violently anti-gay attackers.
Cameroonia [...]
Nigeria’s first LGBT-focused talk show is here!
Two Nigerians, Chijioke Okoli and Cisi Eze, popularly known as CJ and Cisi, have banded together to launch a radio show that will explore issues relat [...]
Dear Ellen and Portia: Avoid East Africa’s anti-gay police
Good luck to TV personality Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi as they vacation in Kenya and Tanzania, which both have laws against same-sex [...]
Nigeria: Benue State legislators pass anti-gay bill
The rights of sexual minorities in Nigeria are increasingly at risk, as the LGBT community remains a frequent target for politicians seeking favor wit [...]
Cameroon: Anti-gay attackers target families too
In Cameroon, violent homophobes attack LGBT people, but they don't stop there. They also attack the families of LGBT people.
Cameroonian LGBT r [...]
Challenge to Botswana anti-gay law is ready; court isn’t
LGBT rights advocates in Botswana are preparing to challenge the country's law against same-sex intimacy, but the court system in Botswana isn't quite [...]
65 groups protest Tanzania repression, LGBT arrests
A total of 65 civil society groups have challenged the government of Tanzania over "the worrying decline in respect for human rights,” citing persecut [...]
Scott Lively targeted him in Uganda. Now he targets Lively in U.S.
Arch-homophobe the Rev. Scott Lively was a driving force behind the passage of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014, which incited an anti-LGBTQ pa [...]
Ugandan: To win asylum, refugee must persuade Texas judge
The U.S.-based African Human Rights Coalition is raising money to provide expert testimony before an American judge in Texas who will decide whether t [...]
Uganda: Protests greet shutdown of LGBTI rights event
"We will not be intimidated," Ugandan LGBTI leader Frank Mugisha said in response to the May 17 shutdown of the country's celebration of the Internati [...]
Homophobes of the Week: Cameroon’s baton-swinging police
Gendarmes in Cameroon won the dishonor of being selected as Homophobes of the Week by launching a gay-hunting expedition that raided a bar and a movie [...]
Campaign: Free the Yaounde 23. Please share!
Free the Yaounde 23 / Libérez les 23 de Yaounde
That newly launched campaign is aimed at freeing all the men who were rounded up by Cameroon police [...]
Cameroon: Police arrest 25 for suspected homosexuality
Police in Cameroon arrested 25 alleged homosexuals last night at a gay-friendly bar and a gay cinema in Yaoundé, the capital city. Two of them were re [...]
Nigeria: Man facing homosexuality charges languishes in prison
Sick and abandoned, a 26-year-old Nigerian man has been locked up in a cell for the past nine months without trial. He was arrested in August at a par [...]
Homophobe of the Week: whipping advocate Irwandi Yusuf
Indonesian politician Irwandi Yusuf is the recipient of the Homophobe of the Week Award for deciding to continue whippings as a punishment for gay sex [...]
Cameroon: 5 activists skip anal tests, free on bail
Five LGBTI rights advocates have been released on bail at the Dschang city court in western Cameroon, ending six days of incarceration after their arr [...]
2 boys in love: Nigerian activists, moviemakers join forces for film
The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs), a Nigerian human rights group, has collaborated with Nollywood for an LGBT-themed film about two boys who fal [...]