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Ethiopian LGBTQ activist Robel Meseret Hailu. (Photo courtesy of Fatteh / Robel Hailu)
Ethiopia’s fearless gay activist chooses to keep the faith
Four pastors who have reacted to President Mahama's comments on LGBTQ+ issues. (Photos courtesy of GhanaWeb)
Ghana president takes heat for saying anti-LGBTQ bill ‘not a priority’
Two men holding hands. (Photo courtesy of Mimoun Kabdani)
Surviving hate: Gay man speaks out after street attack in Morocco
National Identity Cards are required to access public services and jobs in Cameroon. (Image courtesy idcam.cm)
Cameroon won’t allow trans people to update gender on national ID
Turkey puts LGBT activists on trial, threatens 3-year prison terms
Photo used by Marie Claire for illustrative purposes. (Photo courtesy of FreePic and Marie Claire -- Nigeria)
Nigerian feminism’s unfinished business: queer women’s safety
The launch of the Malawi coalition (Photo courtesy of Africa Brief)
LGBTIQ+ coalition launches in Malawi, vows to push legal reforms
Brenda Biya (Olivier Corsan photo courtesy of Le Parisien)
Does the law apply to Cameroon president’s lesbian daughter?
Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Senegal president signs harsh anti-gay bill into law
President John Dramani Mahama speaks at Temple University Center for Anti-Racism on March 27. (Click the image to see video of his remarks, courtesy of Rightify Ghana)
Ghana’s president plays a double game on anti-LGBTQ bill
Billboard on a street in Lusaka, Zambia, celebrates the nation's mineral wealth . (Arlette Bashizi photo courtesy of The New York Times)
U.S. to halt HIV aid if Zambia won’t share mining wealth?
Illustration shows two cracked restroom symbols with a flow of blood between them. (Rex Opara illustration courtesy of Minority Africa)
‘I thought I was bleeding to death’ — intersex life in Kenya
Ghana's parliament (Photo courtesy of ISSAfrica.org)
UNAIDS and faith leaders oppose anti-gay bills in Senegal and Ghana
Arthur Schaper, the California Mass Resistance field director, speaks in opposition to a California high school's Wellness Center in 2023, claiming that it would encourage students to change their gender.(Vincent Medina photo courtesy of Norwalk Patriot)
Mass.-based U.S. ‘pro-family’ group pushed Senegal’s anti-LGBTQ+ law
Ibtissam (Betty) Lachgar wore her "Allah is lesbian shirt in in a 2022 Facebook post as an act of solidarity with two LGBTQ activists in Iran who were sentenced to death after being accused of promoting homosexuality, promoting Christianity, and communicating with media hostile to the Islamic Republic. (Photo courtesy of Ibtissam Lachgar)
Moroccan activist jailed for ‘Allah Is a Lesbian’ shirt may lose arm
Uganda releases two women arrested for kissing