Protests against mistreatment of LGBTIQ Ugandan refugees in Kenya have led to a month in prison for 17 of the refugees, who fled to homophobic Kenya to escape homophobic violence in Uganda. Continue reading
Author Archives: Colin Stewart
Activists to Guyana: Don’t put human rights to a vote
Human rights bodies and LGBT advocacy groups in Guyana are speaking out against the government’s proposal to hold a referendum to determine whether same-sex sexual activity should be decriminalized, the LGBulleTIn reports. Continue reading
Video: International protests oppose Chechnya repression
A multitude of demonstrations around the world are seeking an end to the anti-LGBT repression in Chechnya. Continue reading
Cameroon: 7 in prison on anti-LGBT charges; 58 rights abuses
In Cameroon, seven people have been tried, convicted and are still being held in jail for homosexuality, according to a report by the new National Monitoring Center for the Rights of LGBTI people and their Defenders. Among 58 cases of human rights abuses, the report highlights: 16 arbitrary arrests of LGBTI people. Two “corrective … Continue reading
LGBT repression grows in Indonesia, with 141 arrests, public caning
Indonesia has ramped up its repression of LGBT people, with a public caning yesterday in Aceh province and the arrests of 141 men over the weekend at an alleged “gay sex party” at a sauna in Jakarta, the nation’s capital and largest city. The raid occurred three weeks after a similar raid in Surabaya, the … Continue reading
Chechnya investigators told: 26 illegal killings in 2017
The names of 26 Chechen victims of extrajudicial killings so far in 2017 have been delivered to Russian officials conducting a preliminary investigation of human rights abuses in Chechnya, where more than 100 allegedly LGBT people were reportedly arrested, the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported today. Continue reading
Advice for Ugandan schools: Stop expelling LGBT students
Ugandan schools continue to have a narrow-minded, repressive and damaging view of students’ sexuality, but at least one church-related organization has urged schools to stop expelling gay and lesbian students. Continue reading
Bangladeshi repression leaves LGBT community reeling
Increasing desperation in the Bangladeshi LGBT community came to a head Friday, May 19, when police in Bangladesh broke up a social gathering, making 29 arrests in what seems to be part of a government crackdown against the LGBT community. Continue reading
76 countries now have anti-homosexuality laws (or 72)
ILGA and this blog have both issued updated lists of countries with anti-LGBT laws. ILGA counts 72 of them. This blog lists 76. We don’t disagree about where those repressive laws apply, only on how to categorize the countries. Continue reading
For gay refugee, Kenya is tough, but better than Uganda
“From the frying pan into the fire” — that’s how some LGBT refugees described the experience of fleeing to Kenya to escape from homophobic violence in Uganda. Most LGBT refugees in Kenya experienced something like that, even if it wasn’t as extreme as the vivid old description suggests. Continue reading
