Nigeria criticizes U.N. for seeking end to LGBTI repression
The hate-crime murders of thousands of LGBTI people worldwide aren’t enough to convince Nigerian officials or their anti-gay…
For 1 million people, blog unmasks anti-LGBTI violence
More than a million people have visited the Erasing 76 Crimes blog since its launch in March 2012.…
Demand diversity training for anti-gay reggae singers
Sponsors of the Edmonton Reggae Festival in Edmonton, Canada, are under pressure to drop three headliners from their…
Q&A about ‘Tchindas,’ a ‘new frontier of trans films’
“A community working together to make something beautiful out of nothing” is the description that directors Marc Serena…
U.N. help needed as Kenyans threaten Ugandan refugees
The African Human Rights Coalition reports: Kenyan Mob Attempts Attack on Ugandan Gay Refugees. This morning, four young…
7 years of delay stymie Ugandan anti-bias lawsuit
Uganda’s Constitutional Court has once again failed to act on a challenge to the law that prevents the…
To Kenyan officials: Stop gay-bashing; it boosts AIDS
A group of Kenyan health-care and human-rights organizations delivered a strong message to Kenyan officials today: Stop inflaming…
Anti-gay Kenyans fear upcoming Obama visit
Kenya was already in a tizzy about LGBTI rights even before people’s attention turned to the upcoming visit…
Ugandan trans, sex-worker activists target HIV
Kuchu Times reports: [On July 1] several members of Come Out Post Test Club (COPTEC) gathered for a…
Stop ignoring us, say young LGBTIQ Africans
At the Changing Faces Changing Spaces conference June 17 to 19 in Kenya, young LGBTIQ activists protested that…