Colin Stewart

Colin Stewart is a 45-year journalism veteran living in Southern California. He is the president of the St. Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation, which supports LGBTQ+ rights advocacy journalism, and editor / publisher of Erasing 76 Crimes. Contact him at info@76crimes.com.

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LGBTQ rights supporter Duma Boko is in line to become Botswana's next president. (Johannes Simon photo courtesy of Getty /News24.com)
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Justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana (Photo courtesy of GhanaWeb)
Ghana Supreme Court prepares to rule on harsh anti-LGBTQ bill
Word cloud showing the names of the 46 prisoners for whom Project Not Alone has won early release.
Readers’ donations have freed a total of 46 victims of African homophobia
Opposition politician Kissa Besigye has run for president of Uganda multiple times. (Isaac Kasamani photo courtesy of AFP/Getty Images/Washington Post)
Uganda: Husband of LGBTQ rights backer Byanyima arrested in Kenya
In a tradition that's unique to Vanuatu, women in the South Pacific island nation make music in the water. (Photo courtesy of RitmosGlobales.com)
Anti-gay moves in South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu
Rightify Ghana celebrates the nation's LGBTQI+ citizens. (Illustration courtesy of RIghtify Ghana
Despite looming threat, a celebration of Ghana’s LGBTQI+ citizens
Three men charged with killing gay teacher in Bangladesh
Jail cell of the Zabaikalsky Investigative Department. (Photo courtesy of Chita.ru and the Zabaikalsky Investigative Dept.)
Owner of Siberian gay club charged with ‘extremism’ and placed under house arrest
LGBTQ rights supporter Duma Boko is in line to become Botswana's next president. (Johannes Simon photo courtesy of Getty /News24.com)
Botswana election results solidify LGBTQ rights in southern Africa
Franck Blé, a hairstylist who is gay, was beaten by two men while smoking a cigarette in his neighborhood in Ivory Coast. (Arlette Bashizi photo courtesy of The New York Times)
As homophobic influencers peddle lies and hatred, wave of assaults hits Ivory Coast
Cardinal Peter Turkson, 76, is a Ghanaian prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. Photo courtesy of X / YouTube)
Ghana: ‘You criminalize them for what? For just being what they are?’
A Muslim cleric and transgender persons attend a prayer ceremony for their murdered friends (Arif Khan photo courtesy of AP)
Two trans women stabbed to death at home in Pakistan
Islamic University students parade through campus with an effigy of Asst. Prof. Hafizul Islam in preparation for burning it. (Photo courtesy of Ajker Patrika)
Academic in Bangladesh barred from teaching in response to anti-gay protesters
Rainbow photo illustrating Moscow Times article about Yekaterinburg.
Russia’s anti-queer pressure forces LGBTQ+ support center to close
Ayub Ali was found murdered. (Photo courtey of JMBF)
Bangladesh activists demand justice for murdered trans woman
Uganda musician Papa Cidy says he came out of the closet because he's "tired of hiding myself."
Uganda musician Papa Cidy comes out: ‘Tired of hiding’