Tag: France
Help for LGBT youths in Benin, where anti-gay lynchings are commonplace
Hirondelles Club provides support for homeless LGBT youth in Benin
For the past four years, the Hirondelles Club at the Rehoboth Friendship Centre in [...]
Homophobic Cameroon blocks visit by French ambassador for LGBT+ rights
Throughout last week, a violent anti-French and LGBTphobic campaign on social networks led to the cancellation of a visit to Cameroon by Jean-Ma [...]
Conference in Paris aims to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide
France's new ambassador for LGBTI rights lends his support to African activists.
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I, Issa, transgender person from Senegal
Transgender Senegalese stylist Issa Diatta tells about his struggle to live true to his gender identity, first in Senegal and now while adjusting to h [...]
In 3-2 loss to prison guards, Cameroon’s lesbian footballers advance women’s rights
An inclusive football/soccer match between lesbian rights activists and female prison guards was a highlight of this week's celebrations of Internatio [...]
Two desperate Cameroon refugees’ dangerous trek toward Europe
By the hundreds, gay refugees travel north each year from West and Central Africa in search of the happiness that their home countries deny them becau [...]
France drops homophobic Senegal, Ghana, Benin from ‘safe’ countries list
In a decision mostly focused on the dangers facing LGBT people in homophobic nations, Benin, Senegal and Ghana have been dropped from the list of "saf [...]
Senegal: Prison for 7 men arrested at supposed ‘gay wedding’
A court in Senegal imposed prison sentences Friday on seven allegedly gay men who were arrested Oct. 16 at a celebration that police claimed was a gay [...]
French activists demand travel ban against Senegal homophobe
French LGBTI activists are demanding that France and other Western European nations block visits by the leader of the Senegalese religious police that [...]
Tunisian gay-rights leader flees to France for safety
Mounir Baatour, the leader of the Tunisian gay rights group Shams, has fled to France for safety. Before his decision to flee, Baatour had been a cand [...]
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