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I sang in the choir, frequented a gay bar and it landed me in prison

LGBTQIA persons in Africa are often compelled by society to lead dual lives.

Gang members roam the streets of Port-au-Prince. (Photo courtesy of US News)
Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians
Bangladesh school principal fired for being gay

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Africa

Illustration of a man wearing a cross necklace with pride colors at the left and jail bars at the right.
I sang in the choir, frequented a gay bar and it landed me in prison
Anti-LGBT surge in West Africa as Mali’s ruling council votes to make gay sex illegal
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Caribbean

Gang members roam the streets of Port-au-Prince. (Photo courtesy of US News)

Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians

Haiti: Youthful mob calls for violence against two gay students

Human rights march in Martinique in 2012, which was organized by the people who founded the LGBTQ+ rights organization Kap Caraïbe later that year.

Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events

Europe

Rainbow photo illustrating Moscow Times article about Yekaterinburg.
Russia’s anti-queer pressure forces LGBTQ+ support center to close
Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Reinette Klever with Gen. Jeje Odongo, Uganda's foreign affairs minister. (Photo courtesy of New Vision and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Refugees could be put at risk in Uganda under proposed Dutch deal
A Georgian Orthodox clergyman attends last spring's Family Purity Day in the conservative nation, which just adopted a Russian-style anti-LGBTQ law. (Photo courtesy of AP)
Georgian parliament adopts anti-LGBTQ+ law that president refused to sign
Salome Zourabichvili, president of Georgia, says she would veto anti-LGBT bill, but such a veto is likely to be overriden. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Russian-style anti-LGBTQ bill in nation of Georgia hits minor speed bump

Asia

Bangladesh school principal fired for being gay
A Muslim cleric and transgender persons attend a prayer ceremony for their murdered friends (Arif Khan photo courtesy of AP)
Two trans women stabbed to death at home in Pakistan
Islamic University students parade through campus with an effigy of Asst. Prof. Hafizul Islam in preparation for burning it. (Photo courtesy of Ajker Patrika)
Academic in Bangladesh barred from teaching in response to anti-gay protesters
Rainbow photo illustrating Moscow Times article about Yekaterinburg.
Russia’s anti-queer pressure forces LGBTQ+ support center to close

Middle East/North Africa

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Supporters of Iraqi militai leader Muqtada al-Sadr burn an LGBT flag in Baghdad's Tahrir square in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Facebook via Middle East Eye)
New Iraqi law calls for prison for same-sex love, gender changes

Americas

Gang members roam the streets of Port-au-Prince. (Photo courtesy of US News)

Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians

Gangs exert power as law and order crumble

Hamlet Nkwain, executive director of Working for Our Wellbeing Cameroon (Photo courtesy of Working for Our Wellbeing Cameroon )
Cameroon LGBTI activist benefits from leadership training at US program
Vladlen Semivolos, Russian ambassador to Uganda (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of RadioTamazuj)
In Africa, Moscow battles against LGBTQ rights, side by side with U.S. religious conservatives
Joy Ruth Aceng (Photo courtesy of Pulse Uganda)
Canada expels Uganda’s homophobic envoy

Oceania

Tonga scene

Anti-gay lawyers seek to oust Tonga’s openly gay chief justice

Tupou VI, King of Tonga

Homophobic South Pacific nation of Tonga gets a gay chief justice

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