Category: East Africa
Kenya lawmakers seek ban on surrogate mothers for LGBTQ people
Kenyan lawmakers are considering a bill to prohibit gays and lesbians from using surrogate mothers to have children.
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Paul Ssemogerere, who says homosexuality is against nature, appointed Archbishop of Kampala
Bishop Paul Ssemogerere, who has previously argued that homosexuality is against the order of nature and the teachings of the Catholic Church, was app [...]
Ugandan LGBT ally Sylvia Tamale receives honorary doctorate
Professor Sylvia Tamale, a Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Pretoria in Sou [...]
Ugandan LGBT ally lawyer Nicholas Opiyo wins Human Rights Tulip award
Ugandan human rights lawyer and LGBT ally Nicholas Opiyo has won this year's Human Rights Tulip Award for his work protecting civil liberties and advo [...]
LGBTI activists live in fear amid renewed protests in Sudan
Queer activists in Sudan say they're living in fear after police on Monday fired tear gas at protesters during renewed pro-democracy protests seeking [...]
U.S. sanctions Uganda intelligence chief over ‘serious human rights abuse’
The United States government has imposed economic and travel sanctions on a senior intelligence official in Uganda, Major General Abel Kandiho, the co [...]
Uganda gay rights activists renew call: ‘End Inequalities, End AIDS’
LGBT rights defenders have reiterated the call to the Ugandan government to fast-track efforts aimed at ending inequalities in access to care, treatme [...]
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 [...]
African rights commission hears appeal to halt repression of LGBTI Ugandans
The government of Uganda has been urged to repeal provisions of the law criminalising consensual same-sex relations because they provide legal cover f [...]
Ugandan transgender community marks Trans Day of Remembrance
The LGBTQI+ community and human rights defenders in Uganda joined the International community on Nov 20 to commemorate the 22nd Transgender Day of Rem [...]
Gay man survives homophobic attack in eastern Uganda
A member of the LGBT community in eastern Uganda was attacked at home on Nov. 25 by men brandishing machetes and chanting homophobic slurs.
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Mauritius: Island nation’s Supreme Court weighs sodomy law
The Supreme Court of the island nation of Mauritius, off the east coast of Africa, is deliberating whether to overturn the country's law that provides [...]
Biden is silent when a loud message on global LGBT rights is needed
COMMENTARY: The United States has missed important opportunities to send a strong, clear, much-needed message about the nation's commitment to global [...]
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.
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Stella Nyanzi: In memoriam for my intersex son
Grace was born intersex, with both male and female sexual characteristics -- a variation from traditional gender norms that his parents tried to corre [...]
Uganda issues corrected national ID document for trans woman
The Ugandan government has issued a national Identification document to Cleopatra Kambugu, a transgender woman, clearly identifying her as a woman, in [...]
Activists want Kenyan gays’ rights on agenda when Biden meets Kenyatta
A section of Kenyan human rights defenders want US President Joe Biden to raise the issue of safety and security of homosexuals in Kenya when the two [...]
Uganda, US faith leaders discuss LGBTQI rights in Africa
Faith leaders from the United States and Uganda called upon churches in Africa to open their doors to LGBTQI persons at a virtual conference organised [...]
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
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Uganda’s Constitutional Court begins hearing challenge to HIV criminalization law
The Constitutional Court of Uganda has begun hearing a landmark case on the right to health, in which LGBT and human rights defenders sued the state f [...]
Ugandan President sends new anti-gay bill back to Parliament
Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni has declined to assent to the Sexual Offences Bill (2021) passed by Parliament in May, which included stiffer pena [...]
COVID-19 complicates access to TB, HIV services for Uganda MSM
Activists in Uganda are saying that men who have sex with men face increased difficulties in accessing essential health services like tuberculosis (TB [...]
Senior Uganda government health rights ally Prof. Anthony Mbonye has died
Prof. Anthony Mbonye, the former Director General of Uganda's Health Services who has been instrumental in advocating for healthcare access for homose [...]
Times are changing in Uganda: Parliament gets a progressive clerk
In what appears to be a positive shift in state policy thinking, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Adolf Mwesige, a liberal and progress [...]
Trans Ugandans issue desperate food appeal as lockdown bites harder
Transgender rights defenders in Uganda have issued a desperate appeal for food for the transgender community amid the ongoing COVID-19 countrywide loc [...]
AIDS conference organisers silent as violence sweeps host South Africa
Organisers of the 2021 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) have remained silent about prospects for [...]
Ugandan clinic denies using donor funds to offer ‘conversion therapy’ to gays
A Ugandan clinic at the center of accusations of covertly using donor funds to offer "conversion therapy" to turn homosexuals straight has issued a st [...]
Uganda lockdown hampers rural LGBT access to life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs
Gay rights activists in Uganda are reporting difficulty in delivering life-saving anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive community members during the o [...]
Anti-gay “conversion therapy” at African clinics run by aid-funded groups
Staff at health clinics funded by the US and international donors in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania offer secret "conversion therapy" that attempts to "c [...]
Gay Ugandans warned to abide by Covid-19 restrictions
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), the umbrella LGBTIQ+ entity in Uganda, wants its community members to protect themselves from Covid-19 by following a [...]
Uganda court OKs bail for 42 arrestees
A Ugandan magistrate yesterday approved release on bail for 42 people arrested May 31 at a party that police thought was a gay wedding.
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IDAHOT 2021: Foreign missions express solidarity with LGBTQI+ Ugandans
Diplomatic missions of the European Union, the United States and the United Nations came out strongly in support of LGBTQI+ people as Uganda and the i [...]
Uganda police arrest 44 at alleged gay wedding
Responding to a report of an alleged gay wedding under way yesterday, police in Kampala, Uganda, raided a party at the Happy Family youth shelter [...]
Uganda: LGBTQI access to health services remains problematic
A study by Uganda's Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) has revealed that LGBTQI persons in Uganda continue to face barriers in accessi [...]
Homophobic leader Rebecca Kadaga dropped by Uganda Parliament
The homophobic Speaker of Ugandan Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has been dropped by her ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party and replaced by [...]
Activists endorse tactics for fighting Uganda’s new anti-gay bill
Gay rights activists in Uganda have issued an advisory on how local and international supporters of LGBTQ+ rights should work to blunt the effects of [...]
U.K. plans global conference to fight anti-gay bias worldwide
The United Kingdom has scheduled a global conference for next year to "tackle" inequality facing LGBT people around the world. The conference chair sa [...]
Ugandan President Museveni hints he may not sign new anti-gay bill
Amid pressure from the United States and the United Nations, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly hinted that he may reject the recently p [...]
Convicted homosexuals to be included in Uganda sex offender registry
Ugandans convicted of having sex with people of the same sex would be included in a new sex offender registry, following the passage by Parliament of [...]
Uganda gay activists urge president to reject new anti-gay bill
LGBT human rights defenders in Uganda want President Yoweri Museveni to refuse to sign into law the Sexual Offences Bill 2019, which Parliament passe [...]
Parliament of Uganda passes new anti-gay bill
Uganda's parliament has passed a new bill aimed at restricting Ugandans' sexual activity.
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Meet the trans Ugandan activist fighting for rights on social media
“If you want to know that [Keem] is a man, just snatch away his phone and run,” taunted an Internet troll under Keem Love Black’s new profile picture [...]
Ugandan church launches ‘All Are Equal Before God’ campaign
Adonai International Ministries, a Uganda-based LGBTQI-led church, has launched a campaign dubbed “All Are Equal Before God".
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Trans Ugandans react to new UNAIDS film about tolerance
A new short film released by UNAIDS to promote tolerance and acceptance of transgender identities is earning high praise from trans Ugandans.
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Retired homophobic archbishop Ntagali apologises for adultery
The retired homophobic archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Ntagali, has publicly apologised for committing adultery, addressing his remarks to C [...]
Kenya: Anger and horror over death of LGBTQ+ arson victim
Activists and U.N. officials are mourning the death of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugee Chriton "Trinidad" Atuhwera, who died April 12 from burns he suffered a [...]
Uganda: Pop star Akon misses ‘200% opportunity’ to boost gay rights
Prominent Senegalese-American pop star Akon missed an opportunity to raise the issue of persecution and discrimination against LGBT people in Africa w [...]
Uganda: ‘LBQ Womxn’ need equal access to health
Freedom and Roam Uganda, a lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) organisation, is about to publish a book urging Ugandan human rights and health-care righ [...]
In documentary, Ugandan religious leaders preach love for LGBTQI people
The activist Ugandans at East Africa Visual Artists (EAVA Artists) have unveiled a video documentary featuring clerics from different faith traditions [...]