The remarkable work of Bombastic Magazine continues this week with the publication of its second issue. Along with its associated African LGBTI media site Kuchu Times, the Uganda-based magazine provides a place where the voice of sexual and gender minorities can be heard in a country, and continent, where they are often silenced or ignored. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Cheers and praise for victory in Nigerian court
Congratulations, thanks and cheers are pouring in for Nigerian LGBTI rights activist Ifeanyi Orazulike and his attorney, Mike Enahoro Ebah, who won a lawsuit against Nigerian police for violating Orazulike’s constitutional rights by arresting and detaining him in 2014. No charges were filed against him. The Federal High Court ordered Nigerian police to apologize publicly … Continue reading
Bias still complicates Mozambique’s battle against Aids
Mozambique took a huge step forward last year by repealing its law against same-sex intimacy, but the country still faces a huge public health crisis that is exacerbated by homophobia. An article in The Guardian makes that clear, even though it gives Mozambique too little credit for repealing its anti-LGBT law, referring to the move … Continue reading
Senegal students attack allegedly gay man
Mamba Online reports: Students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, have gone on a homophobic rampage, threatening to kill a man they accused of being gay. According to reports and video footage, the student was accused of propositioning another man in the showers and was accosted by an angry mob in the … Continue reading
Easter 2016: A prayer for all LGBT prisoners
An Easter message for 2016 Easter 2016 — a time when the Anglican Church of Nigeria refuses even to attend a meeting attended by a few representatives of the inclusive Episcopal Church for fears that, if they did, they would be in the midst of “a well-prepared camp of recruitment, blackmail, indoctrination and toxic relationship.” … Continue reading
Ukraine: City ignored rock-throwing anti-LGBT protesters
Homophobic violence in Lviv, Ukraine, that disrupted last weekend’s Equality Festival occurred after the mayor, city council and police ignored organizers’ pleas for help in responding to growing signs of upcoming trouble, according to the festival organizing committee and the LGBT advocacy group Insight. They have asked the national Security Service to investigate. The Equality … Continue reading
Support for LGBT community grows in Guyana
Official advocacy of fair treatment for LGBT people is gaining popularity in Guyana, even though the nation remains the only South American country on the list of the world’s 76+ countries with anti-homosexuality laws. Although Guyana has an unenforced law that calls for life imprisonment for homosexual acts and another that bans cross-dressing, President David … Continue reading
Egypt crackdown targets human rights defenders
LGBT people aren’t directly targeted in Egypt’s latest wave of repression, but that’s because no advocacy group for sexual minorities enjoys any sort of official recognition there. The latest crackdown in Egypt focuses on staff members of prominent human rights organizations, many of whom have been summoned on charges including “receipt of illegal foreign funding” … Continue reading
Outed! Can LGBT Africans ever be safe?
By Yaw Amanfoh Public exposure of LGBT celebrities is an explicit goal of Ghana’s online Flex Newspaper, where advocacy of anti-gay exposés differs little from the examples set by many other sensationalizing media outlets in Africa and elsewhere. “Trust [us] to expose gays and lesbians in the showbiz industry … when we obtain hard evidence” … Continue reading
How gay-friendly Scots provoked anti-gay ‘hysteria’ in Ghana
The political leader of Scotland has reportedly stirred up a hornet’s nest of anti-LGBT hysteria in Ghana by pressuring Ghana’s president about LGBTI rights without first conferring with LGBTI activists in Ghana, KaleidoScot reports. Regarding the March 18 incident, a leading activist in Ghana said “the pressure on President Mahama was uncalled for. We, the … Continue reading
