Category: Central Africa
Cameroon: Attacks hit new group for LBTQ women
Two homophobic attacks have injured leaders of the new LBTQ advocacy group Women in Front Cameroon.
This is a translation of a June 13 press rele [...]
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.
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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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]