2021 in review: Some glimmers of hope for LGBTQ rights
It was year with some glimmers of hope for LGBTQ rights, along with the continued arrests and harassment that many LGBTQ people endure, especially in nations with anti-LGBTQ laws. For more about those grim incidents, see the article “2021 in review: A year of arrests and harassment of LGBTQ people”. For some more hopeful articles from the countries covered by the Erasing 76 Crimes news site, see below:
U.S. okays veteran diplomat as Cameroon ambassador. Also, he’s gay. (Dec. 19, 2021)
‘A Voice Within’: Ugandan religious leaders preach love for LGBTQI people (April 6, 2021)
LGBTI advocates in Cameroon join forces to challenge violence (April 19, 2021)
Pakistan opens school for transgender youths (July 12, 2021)
Times are changing in Uganda: Parliament gets a progressive clerk (July 20, 2021)
Amid continued criminalisation, Uganda endorses LGBT access for HIV treatment (Aug. 11, 2021)
Uganda’s Constitutional Court begins hearing challenge to HIV criminalization law (Aug. 24, 2021)
Cameroon: Law enforcement officials join workshop on protecting LGBTI people (Oct. 5, 2021)
India is on the brink of getting its first openly gay judge (Nov. 18, 2021)
Jamaican health minister calls for an end to anti-LGBT discrimination (Nov. 26, 2021)
Pakistani province guarantees council seats for trans people (Dec. 23, 2021)
PROJECT NOT ALONE (ORGANIZED BY ERASING 76 CRIMES)
- Help us free 11 imprisoned LGBT victims of homophobia (May 26, 2021)
- A celebration of freedom for 11 LGBTQ prisoners in Cameroon (Nov. 15, 2021)
HOMOPHOBES GET INTO TROUBLE
- For vote when gays were abused, U.S. bars Tanzanian visas (Jan, 20, 2021)
- This event counts as grimly hopeful because it occurred in one of many countries where homophobic attackers are often tolerated or even applauded: Senegal imprisons 3 men for gay-bashing (Oct. 26, 2021)
- U.S. sanctions Uganda intelligence chief over ‘serious human rights abuse’ (Dec. 16, 2021)
