Tag: Islam
What does Senegal’s new president have in store for LGBTQ people?
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected President of Senegal on Sunday, collecting 51% of the votes compared to his challenger, Amadou Ba, from the ruli [...]
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 [...]
Homosexuality has always been African, but the term LGBT is new and divisive
By Steeves Winner
Although homosexual practices exist everywhere on the African continent, many Africans reject the idea of a homosexual identi [...]
Niger leader plans to outlaw gay sex, execute married same-sex couples
The president of the West African nation of Niger is laying the groundwork for enacting harsh anti-homosexuality laws in his country, where same-sex i [...]
Gay activist defends Muslim player who shunned rainbow uniform
Professional soccer/football player Idrissa Gana Gueye, a practicing Muslim from Senegal, sparked controversy when he refused to play with the rest of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Senegal: How a gay activist confronts violent Islamic homophobia
Arrests, assaults, rapes, expulsion, exile -- an LGBTQ rights leader in Senegal explains his struggles against violent and hypocritical Islamic homoph [...]
Uganda: Muslim cleric in prison awaiting trial for marrying fellow man
A Ugandan magistrate has sent a Muslim cleric back to prison to await trial on charges of homosexuality despite the imam's protestation that he marrie [...]
Uganda: Muslim cleric suspended for marrying fellow man ‘unknowingly’
In a case likely to test the limits of tolerance of same-sex intimacy among Ugandan Muslims, an Islamic religious leader has been suspended from all h [...]
Gay Muslim is dead, but he’s still barred from Cameroon cemetery
Even after his death, indignities continued for Isma, a gay Muslim in Cameroon. Because of his sexual orientation, religious authorities refused to al [...]
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