Author: Rob Salerno
Rightify Ghana launches fundraising appeal to expand advocacy for LGBTQI+ people
A leading LGBT advocacy group in Ghana that has put a spotlight on what it calls the "worst anti-LGBTQ bill ever" is seeking donations from LGBTQ righ [...]
Namibia High Court rules against same-sex couples
A High Court in Namibia has ruled against two same-sex couples who were seeking to have their foreign marriages recognized for immigration purposes, c [...]
Tunisian LGBT activists fight back after alleged police assault
A series of high-profile assaults and arrests of LGBTQ activists in Tunisia is drawing attention to the pervasiveness of police abuse, torture, and re [...]
New project aims to document Pride flags all over the world
A global educational project called "Flag in the Map" will document how LGBT people display the Pride flag all over the world. ReportOUT and the Gilbe [...]
Growing movement calls for Morocco to drop laws banning extramarital sex
A growing online social movement is calling for the repeal of all laws that criminalize consensual sexual relations between unmarried people in Morocc [...]
Botswana Court of Appeals unanimously upholds decriminalization of gay sex
In a unanimous decision, the Botswana Court of Appeals upheld the 2019 ruling that decriminalized gay sex in the southern African country, which had b [...]
Sudan LGBT organizations condemn military coup
A trio of Sudanese LGBT human rights organizations released a statement condemning the recent coup in the northeast African country and calling for in [...]
Report pleads: Improve grim living conditions of LGBT refugees in Kenya
A new report highlights the difficult living conditions faced by hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. [...]
Namibia court bans anti-gay discrimination in child citizenship case
A Namibian court has found that the constitution bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, in a case that also found that the two-year-old chil [...]
Introducing 7 African LGBTQ+ activists working for change
Vogue Magazine published an article last month profiling seven outstanding activists fighting to improve LGBTQ+ rights across Africa
The articl [...]
How Nigeria’s Twitter ban shackles the queer community
The suspension of Twitter in Nigeria has had a negative effect on the Nigerian LGBT community, as Twitter was one of the few mass platforms where quee [...]
UPDATE: Namibian government allows gay man’s infant daughters to come home
UPDATE May 19, 2021:
The Namibian government has issued travel documents to the twin infant daughters of a binational gay couple who were born in S [...]
Amplifying the voices of Eswatini’s LGBT people
Voices of Eswatini, a new project from Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM) and All Out, amplifies the voices of the small but strong LGBT com [...]
Tunisian LGBT rights group provides vital services during pandemic
The Tunisian LGBT rights group Mawjoudin (Arabic for "We Exist") has been providing vital services to vulnerable community members through the COVID-1 [...]
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