Tanzania’s ongoing anti-gay crackdown has led to a series of arrests based on an online video of an event described as a lesbian engagement party. Continue reading
Category Archives: Africa
Interfaith activists seek stronger role in fighting AIDS
Interfaith activists at last week’s anti-AIDS conference in Ivory Coast pushed for an expanded role for progressive faith-based groups in combating HIV and AIDS. Continue reading
Ivory Coast: Anti-gay vandals hit anti-AIDS conference
Anti-gay vandals at last week’s anti-AIDS conference in Ivory Coast temporarily disrupted the work of activists fighting AIDS among men who have sex with men. But “the conference was thronged with energetic African AIDS activists of all ages, and civil society participation was present in force,” scholar/activist Meg Davis reported. Continue reading
Police raid shuts down Ugandan LGBT film festival
Police in Uganda today raided the second annual Queer Kampala International Film Festival after allegedly being tipped off about its secret location. Continue reading
‘Mob justice’: Ugandan artist’s appeal for human rights
The Erasing 76 Crimes blog here presents another piece of artwork by Vincent Kyabayinze, who uses his art to appeal for respect for the human rights of LGBTI Ugandans. Vincent Kyabayinze is director of Uganda-based East African Visual Artists, which uses visual arts to advocate for human rights, working to improve the visibility, dignity and … Continue reading
Secrecy, depression, glimmers of hope: HIV+ life in Nigeria
Secrecy, thoughts of suicide, fears of discrimination, support from a few trusted confidantes — those have been the experiences of four gay Nigerian men who were willing to describe their lives after testing positive for HIV. Continue reading
Kakuma refugees gain supporters, need more help
LGBTI Ugandans at Kakuma Camp in Kenya have found some reasons to celebrate, despite the refugee camp’s food cutbacks and the continuing hostility from other refugees. Continue reading
Not bisexual enough: Nigerian faces deportation from Sweden
Edosa, a bisexual Nigerian man living in Sweden, is currently facing deportation by the Swedish government, which doubts his account of his sexual orientation. Continue reading
Novel explores cruelty of Gambia’s anti-LGBTQ laws
The new novel The Order of Nature invites readers into the lives of characters trapped by a society’s anti-LGBTQ laws . Continue reading
Working to boost African rights advocacy in words and pictures
UNAIDS’s Equal Eyes recap of the world’s LGBT news has highlighted ways people are using written and visual communication to advocate for recognition of human rights, especially LGBT people’s rights, in South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda: Continue reading
