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Anti-LGBTQ protest in Senegal. (File photo)
Senegal: The tale of a gay capital turned homophobic state
REFUGEE cadrrying food -kakuma Baz Ratner Reuters
Kenyan LGBTQ+ safe houses ‘overwhelmed’ as cuts hit refugee camps
Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania.
Commentary: LGBT Voice Tanzania is challenging systems, rebuilding hope
Hijras crying after being physically assaulted by an organised group while returning from the Boalkhali Police Station in Chittagong, after submitting a complaint against the same group for demanding extortion money. (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Bangladesh police arrest dozens of third-gender people
Transgender Ghanaian artist Angel Maxine has released a new video, "Coward."
Trans Ghanaian artist releases protest song ‘Coward’
Location of Bangladesh in South Asia. (Map courtesy of GISgeography)
Bangladeshi repression extends far beyond LGBTQ community
Graham Linehan (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Transgender victims of hate speech deserve protection, not more hate
Location of Burkina Faso in West Africa. (Map courtesy of Google)
Burkina Faso’s LGBTQ community fears ‘witch hunt’
Two Tanzanian men with rainbow flags. (Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania)
Report shows impact of anti-LGBT laws on queer Tanzanians
‘No legal prescription’: How trans women in Cameroon access hormones
Ukrainian flag
Ukraine moves closer to enacting a law against anti-LGBTI bias
The world cannot afford to lose UNAIDS
llustration by Rex Opara shows a young man wearing a red HIV awareness ribbon. In the background is shattered glass with a bright white light showing in  the cracks.
Secret health care: A way queer Nigerians get tested for HIV
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Rape of minor reveals how unprepared Cameroon is for male-on-male crime
A scene from last month's Euro-Mediterranean Summer Universities of Homosexualities (UEEH) human rights gathering in Vic-en-Bigorre, France. (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
In Bangladesh, anti-gay intimidation, violence and persecution are escalating
‘This isn’t home for me anymore’: A decade under Nigeria’s anti-gay law