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Canada expels Uganda’s homophobic envoy

Ugandan High Commissioner was accused of engaging in partisan politics in Canada

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Anti-gay lawyers seek to oust Tonga’s openly gay chief justice
A report from Ugandan human rights groups Convening for Equality and its Strategic Response Team highlight a “horrific breadth and depth of abuses” that have occurred as a result of the nation’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. To read the report, click the image. (Image courtesy of Kuchu Times)
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Africa

Joy Ruth Aceng (Photo courtesy of Pulse Uganda)
Canada expels Uganda’s homophobic envoy
A report from Ugandan human rights groups Convening for Equality and its Strategic Response Team highlight a “horrific breadth and depth of abuses” that have occurred as a result of the nation’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. To read the report, click the image. (Image courtesy of Kuchu Times)
Open letter urges World Bank not to resume lending in Uganda
Magistrates Court in Harare, Zimbabwe (Photo courtesy of New Zimbabwe)
Zimbabwe: Dispute about money and infidelity leads to sodomy arrest
A crossdresser in a village in Northern Nigeria. (Illustration courtesy of Minority Africa)
Yan Daudu: Traditional femme man confronts Nigeria’s modern homophobia

Caribbean

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

Evangelical Christians block proposed protections for LGBT Haitians

Europe

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
At Amsterdam's Pride Walk in 2017, protesters wore "Erasing 76 Crimes" T-shirts and carried the flags of the then 73 countries they urged to repeal their anti-LGBT laws. (Photo courtesy of Pride Walk)
LGBTQ people in wealthy nations deserve to know how the other half suffers
Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette (Photo courtesy of Causeur)
Homophobia in France stains a would-be role model for equal rights

Asia

Ho Chi Minh Islam (Photo courtesy of X/Twitter)
Bangladesh activist threatened with assault and death as Islamists gain clout
Extremist cleric Jasimuddin Rahmani was released from prison on Aug. 26, 2024.
LGBTQ people at risk: Will Bangladesh be a safe haven for Islamist militancy?
This protest on Aug. 2 was one of those that led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo courtesy of The New York TImes)
Upheaval in Bangladesh could jeopardize LGBTQ rights
Students protesting in Bangladesh (Photo courtesy of Rediff.com)
Bangladeshi top court sets aside 1% of jobs for third-gender people

Middle East/North Africa

Website tracks legal rights for trans people in Middle East and North Africa
Morocco flag and rainbow flag
LGBTQ+ Moroccans endure widespread abuse: 83% were abused online
Qatar: Grindr ‘sting operation’ sees gay man arrested, deported
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

Joy Ruth Aceng (Photo courtesy of Pulse Uganda)

Canada expels Uganda’s homophobic envoy

Ugandan High Commissioner was accused of engaging in partisan politics in Canada

Online image for petition seeking help for Charles Mwangi. (Click the image to see the appeal and the petition.)
Relief for bisexual Kenyan facing deportation from Canada
Uganda LGBTI activist honored by Canadian refugee organization
At Amsterdam's Pride Walk in 2017, protesters wore "Erasing 76 Crimes" T-shirts and carried the flags of the then 73 countries they urged to repeal their anti-LGBT laws. (Photo courtesy of Pride Walk)
LGBTQ people in wealthy nations deserve to know how the other half suffers

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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