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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A hijra household in Bangladesh. (Jack Taylor photo courtesy of the Telegraph)
Bangladesh: How are hijras and the LGBTQ+ community different?
Billionaire and former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
Europe: Georgian legislators unanimously adopt Russian-style bill to curb LGBT rights
Tonga scene
Anti-gay lawyers seek to oust Tonga’s openly gay chief justice
A report from Ugandan human rights groups Convening for Equality and its Strategic Response Team highlight a “horrific breadth and depth of abuses” that have occurred as a result of the nation’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. To read the report, click the image. (Image courtesy of Kuchu Times)
Open letter urges World Bank not to resume lending in Uganda
Magistrates Court in Harare, Zimbabwe (Photo courtesy of New Zimbabwe)
Zimbabwe: Dispute about money and infidelity leads to sodomy arrest
Ho Chi Minh Islam (Photo courtesy of X/Twitter)
Bangladesh activist threatened with assault and death as Islamists gain clout
Tupou VI, King of Tonga
Homophobic South Pacific nation of Tonga gets a gay chief justice
Online image for petition seeking help for Charles Mwangi. (Click the image to see the appeal and the petition.)
Relief for bisexual Kenyan facing deportation from Canada
Extremist cleric Jasimuddin Rahmani was released from prison on Aug. 26, 2024.
LGBTQ people at risk: Will Bangladesh be a safe haven for Islamist militancy?
This protest on Aug. 2 was one of those that led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo courtesy of The New York TImes)
Upheaval in Bangladesh could jeopardize LGBTQ rights
At Amsterdam's Pride Walk in 2017, protesters wore "Erasing 76 Crimes" T-shirts and carried the flags of the then 73 countries they urged to repeal their anti-LGBT laws. (Photo courtesy of Pride Walk)
LGBTQ people in wealthy nations deserve to know how the other half suffers
QTalk: Nigerian pastor fights for identity after church rejection
Clare Byarugaba (left) and Pope Francis
Pope meets African activists, supports their struggle for LGBTIQ rights
Jay Mulucha, executive director of FEM Alliance Uganda (Photo courtesy of Rustin Times)
Ugandan trans advocate pleads with international AIDS experts for support
Ghana Supreme Court endorses anti-gay law from 1960
Buhari Abdullahi. Nigerian police spokesperson
Police in northern Nigeria arrest two men for homosexuality