En français- Un silence en Côte d’Ivoire après des attaques anti-gay
- Le vice président d’Alternatives-Cameroun libéré
- Le vice président d’Alternatives-Cameroun aux arrêts
- Prière pour les prisonniers LGBT
- Mission de grâce au Caméroon anti-gay
- Côte d’Ivoire: L’hypocrisie et la violence contre les LGBT
- Au Cameroun: Emprisonné pour ne pas être une fille
- Souvenirs de Eric Lembembe. Son travail continue
- Cameroun: Maître chanteur anti-gai accusé, libèré
- Attaque anti-gay en Côte d’Ivoire; une blessure grave
Buy the book
Click on the image for link to the book on Amazon.com. Or choose from
other ways to buy it, including Kindle, iBook and Nook formats or from Amazon sites in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Spain.76+ countries where homosexuality is illegal
53 in jail for homosexuality
Stay in touch
Follow this blog’s RSS feeds
- Andy Kopsa on Cameroon
- Report: 4 lesbians arrested in Cameroon March 7, 2014
- My latest at The Nation: dispatches from Yaounde prison in Cameroon – outlawing homosexuality March 4, 2014
- UPDATE: 2/24 Bill Signed – Ugandan President Says He’ll Sign Harsh Anti-Gay Bill | The Investigative Fund February 23, 2014
- Museveni may sign AHB today – need solidarity for Nigeria and Cameroon February 21, 2014
- “Not in Africa” February 20, 2014
- Youth Day Holiday Parade: Marching against Homosexuality February 18, 2014
- UPDATE: LGBT Activist Arrested in Douala Cameroon February 17, 2014
- Yaounde Prison Part IV: The Catholics February 13, 2014
- Discrimination against LGBT people and health risks February 13, 2014
- Yaounde, Douala and a few notes moving forward with these posts February 12, 2014
Personal stories
- Elsewhere: BuzzFeed
- International Olympic Committee To Investigate Use Of Rings By "Pro-Life Olympics" In Russia March 10, 2014
- Nine LGBT Activists Arrested While Protesting Nigerian Consulate in NYC March 7, 2014
- U.S. Conservatives To Go Ahead With "Pro-Life Olympics" In Moscow Despite Ukraine Crisis March 7, 2014
- U.S. Funding Choices Are Challenged In The Wake Of Uganda's Anti-Gay Law March 6, 2014
- Pope's Comments Hint At The Fight Over LGBT Rights Inside Vatican March 6, 2014
- Elsewhere: India (Orinam)
- Man for a Day: film screening March 17, 2014 March 10, 2014
- Statement by Indian groups and individuals on Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, 2013 March 9, 2014
- Tamil Scholar Solomon Pappaiya’s Sexism and Homophobia March 5, 2014
- Gay man from India bravely handles blackmailers he met on a dating website March 4, 2014
- Breaking Barriers: India’s first high school LGBTQI initiative March 3, 2014
- Reflections on Koushal vs. Naz: videos of CPR discussion March 3, 2014
- Statement by Indian groups and individuals on Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 February 26, 2014
- Thirunangai Sudha awarded honorary doctorate February 21, 2014
- Desi-Queering Harvard: Apphia Kumar on building youth leadership February 18, 2014
- IITs against 377 February 17, 2014
- Elsewhere: O-blog-dee
- The U.S.’s Uganda Conundrum | War on Terror or Gay Rights March 10, 2014
- Calling on State Department to Stop Skinners Anti-Gay Watoto Church Uganda Performing in the U.S.A March 8, 2014
- Arrests, Rallies and Speakers Mark Global Day of Action in Support of Nigeria’s LGBT Community March 7, 2014
- Global Day of Action Against Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law March 5, 2014
- Ambassador DeLisi clarifies rumors of Kampala Embassy closure March 5, 2014
- Elsewhere: Gay Star News
- Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer kiss in new The Normal Heart trailer March 10, 2014
- Gay rights activist, 25, ‘stabbed by Nazis’ in Sweden March 10, 2014
- Asia prepares to celebrate LGBTI heroes at awards March 10, 2014
- Jamaica rules gay teens can live in the sewer March 10, 2014
- Orange pulls ads from Uganda tabloid that outed 200 gay people March 10, 2014
Some top posts
Malaysian officials seize pro-gay Muslim’s book Ukraine cops abandon gays; thugs move in
My plan to repeal anti-gay law is stymied ‘Good, bad, ugly’ of gay rights 2012
Ukraine might ban talking about homosexuality Iranian thugs, not gays, sentenced to hang?
What traditional African homosexuality learned from West To fight AIDS, doctors must battle their homophobia
David Kato and $$ needed for LGBT activists Praise, blame greet Obama on gay marriage
Jamaican, U.S. leaders in Hall of Fame Zimbabwe official: Expel gays, seize land
- Elsewhere: Paper Bird
- From Uganda: Guidelines for action against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill March 5, 2014
- Iran: How assaulting eight women and girls can make you a “gay man” (updated) March 4, 2014
- On not being well February 19, 2014
- Iran bans online chats between men and women: True? Or false? January 12, 2014
- White Savior Cat explains the Nordic Model January 6, 2014
Don’t miss these posts
-
“Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same.”
-- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
-
This blog supports the COMPASS Coalition (Coalition on Minority Protection Against Sexual Stigma), through which people of faith are working to eliminate punitive laws that deny LGBT people basic human rights, education, health services and economic security.
-
“To those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, let me say: You are not alone. Your struggle for an end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle.” — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - Faith & Asylum Network
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Tag Archives: Zimbabwe
Court rules for LGBT rights group in Zimbabwe
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) today won a court case that was aimed at shutting it down. Magistrate Don Ndirowei ruled that GALZ was exempt from the registration requirement that the prosecution had accused it of ignoring. “This is … Continue reading
Zimbabwe’s new police powers provoke fear of more blackmail
The Zimbabwean government has authorised security agencies to have wide-ranging access to personal information about everyone in the country who has a telephone or Internet access, effective Oct. 1. Human rights defenders and legal experts say the new regulations violate … Continue reading
Tino’s story: AIDS and the perils of a double life in Zimbabwe
From Zimbabwe, a special correspondent to the Erasing 76 Crimes blog contributes this story about Tino, a man who plans to get married to his fiance but also has sex with men. In one study of three southern African nations, … Continue reading
Posted in Africa (Sub Saharan), Anti-LGBT laws and legislation, HIV / AIDS
Tagged AIDS, HIV, HIV/AIDS, MSM, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Leave a comment
In Zimbabwe, Mugabe resumes his gay-bashing
MUGABE’S LATEST ANTI-GAY TIRADE As has become the norm, as soon as Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was inaugurated for his seventh term in office, he resumed making scathing remarks against homosexuality. During his inauguration ceremony on Aug. 22, attended by … Continue reading
19 in prison for being gay, 18 more awaiting trial
(This is the latest update of a page that is often revised — again and again — as new information is received.) Worldwide, at least 19 people are currently in prison for violating laws that punish those who are born … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-LGBT laws and legislation, Trials / punishments
Tagged Cameroon, Jean-Claude Roger Mbede, Morocco, Nigeria, Roger Mbede, Senegal, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
14 Comments
Confronting a fearful future, some gay Zimbabweans flee
By the special correspondent of Erasing 76 Crimes in Zimbabwe Names have been altered to protect the identity of endangered individuals. His phone rings. Bright, a young gay man in Zimbabwe, answers it with a smile that is quickly wiped … Continue reading
Talk of changing Zimbabwe constitution incites LGBT fears
The Zimbabwean LGBT community has been plunged into fearful uncertainty by news that President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party intends to make changes to the new Zimbabwean constitution. In March, the new constitution won overwhelming support in a referendum. It … Continue reading
Amid protests for Russian gays, remember Africa too
Commentary from Advocate.com: Op-ed: Russian Gays Aren’t the Only LGBTs Suffering While many of us turn our heads toward Russia, we also turn our backs to the plight of LGBTs in Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Have you seen those pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Africa (Sub Saharan), Anti-LGBT laws and legislation, Europe, Harassment / murders, International pressure for LGBT rights
Tagged Cameroon, Davis Mac-Iyalla, Eric Lembembe, Eric O. Lembembe, Eric Ohena Lembembe, Navi Pillay, Nigeria, Robert Mugabe, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Zimbabwe
4 Comments
LGBT people in spotlight as Zimbabwe election nears
As Zimbabwe prepares for watershed elections on July 31, homosexuality has once again taken centre stage. While the President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has taken a stance against homosexuality, vociferously describing it as an evil, the MDC party of … Continue reading
Don’t cut ties with Uganda; that’s an anti-gay trap
The Rev. Canon Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopal priest from Zambia and a project director at Political Research Associates, predicted last month that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni would sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Now that Museveni has done so, Kaoma discusses what’s … Continue reading →