Anti-gay Ethiopia eases away from new crackdown
Ethiopia has backed away from the latest plans for intensifying anti-gay repression there. Plans for a large anti-gay…
African LGBTI activists unite at Nairobi conference
About 150 activists from throughout Africa revived the continent’s LGBTI rights organization last month at a conference held…
India Supreme Court opens a path toward LGBTI rights
BuzzFeed reports: A victory for transgender rights in India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday [April 15] may have rescued…
Muslim-ruled Brunei OKs stoning for gay sex
The predominantly Muslim nation of Brunei has adopted a new penal code that calls for death by stoning…
Will UN goals exclude gays, lesbians and transsexuals?
Advocates for women, LGBTI people and other disadvantaged people worldwide have launched a campaign to persuade the United…
Senegal art show to feature LGBT Africans
The Art Newspaper reports: An exhibition about homosexuality in Africa is due to go ahead in Senegal next…
Welcome to a second editor at Erasing 76 Crimes
The Erasing 76 Crimes blog welcomes new editor Denis LeBlanc, who has joined editor/publisher Colin Stewart on the…
Stemming Britain’s tide of exported homophobia
I was proud and elated to witness the first same-gender weddings in the U.K. last week. The historic…
In turnaround, Russian court OKs two LGBT rallies
The Advocate reports: A district court in the Western Russian region of Kostroma on Friday [April 4] declared…
Researcher: In raid, Uganda police were clueless
Ugandan police who raided the U.S.-funded Makerere / Walter Reed health project on April 3 didn’t know enough…