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Category Archives: International pressure for LGBT rights
Jamaican lawsuit seeks OK for gay respect TV ad
‘As a Jamaican, I respect you and I love you.’ Court action got under way yesterday, May 27, in the lawsuit by gay activist attorney Maurice Tomlinson against Jamaican television stations for refusing to air the 30-second advertisement “Love and … Continue reading
Praise for police, organizers of first Kiev Pride Parade
This encouraging account of the first Pride Parade in Kiev, Ukraine, comes from Boris O. Dittrich, advocacy director of the LGBT program at Human Rights Watch: On Saturday May 25, 2013 the first Kiev Pride Parade took place. Some 75 … Continue reading
Cameroon: Drop charges against 2 transgender youths
A press release signed by Alternatives-Cameroun, ADEFHO, CAMFAIDS, Human Rights Watch, and ILGA: Cameroon: Drop Charges Against 2 Transgender Youth Prosecution Based Solely on Bias, Not Evidence (Yaoundé, May 17, 2013) – The Cameroonian authorities should drop the charges against … Continue reading
LGBT rights video: U.S. fundamentalist vs. African mom
‘Faceoff’ The newly launched video “Faceoff over homosexuality” presents performances depicting the contrasting attitudes of a white American fundamentalist preacher and an African mother whose son is gay. The video, produced by the activist media organization Global Dialogues with support from … Continue reading
Final arguments in Belize sodomy case
It’s Day 4 of the constitutional challenge against the Belize sodomy law, Section 53, brought by Caleb Orozco, leader of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (Unibam). Asa DeMatteo, a clinical psychologist living with his same-sex spouse in San Francisco, is … Continue reading
Uganda: As AIDS worsens, archbishop is an obstacle
The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, who fought AIDS in Uganda in the 1990s and then saw it rebound in recent years, returned there recently to work on developing a gay-straight health-care alliance to continue the fight. He made progress, but … Continue reading
Amnesty Int’l demands freedom for Zambian gay couple
Amnesty International has called for the release of two young men in rural Zambia who have been jailed on charges of having sex “against the order of nature.” They are in jail pending the start of their trial scheduled for … Continue reading
Belize sodomy law on trial, Day 2
It’s Day 2 of the constitutional challenge against the Belize sodomy law, Section 53, brought by Caleb Orozco, leader of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (Unibam). Asa DeMatteo, a clinical psychologist living with his same-sex spouse in San Francisco, is … Continue reading
U.S.: Relatively few public LGBT abuses in central Africa
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in central Africa have a chance to live their lives relatively free of obvious public repression, at least compared to LGBT people in more publicly homophobic African nations, according to the accounts recently … Continue reading
Today: Court challenge to Belize anti-gay law
With help from people on the scene in Belize, the Erasing 76 Crimes blog will be following this week’s legal proceeding in the lawsuit seeking to throw out that nation’s anti-sodomy law as unconstitutional. Belize is the only country in … Continue reading
