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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Cover image of the report ""Annual State of LGBTQI+ Rights in Bangladesh 2023". To download the report, click this image.
Anti-LGBTQI+ violence rises in Bangladesh
Nigerian career coach Olabode Ifeanyi
Nigerian career coach exposes society’s hypocrisy toward effeminate men
Map shows the location of Abbottabad in Pakistan. (Map courtesy of Encyclopedia Brittanica)
LGBTQ Pakistanis hope to open a gay club
Illustration for the commentary "Why backlash over Sharifa's tale makes the case for more inclusive textbooks" in The Business Standard (Illustration courtesy of The Business Standard)
Trans youth’s story in Grade 7 textbook triggers dispute in Bangladesh
Bobi Wine
Is Ugandan presidential hopeful Bobi Wine a friend or foe to LGBTQs?
Njeri Gateru, head of legal affairs for the NGLHRC Kenyan LGBTI rights advocacy group. (Photo courtesy of YouTube)
10 queer Kenyans caught in Grindr blackmail scheme fight back in court
Alex Kofi Donkor, director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana (Photo courtesy of Ebanman.com)
World Bank is undecided: Sanction Ghana if anti-LGBTQ bill takes effect?
After their conviction in Zambia on Aug. 3, 2018, for gay sex, Japhet Chataba and Stephen Sambo are loaded into a pickup truck to be transported back to jail. (Photo courtesy of Lusaka Times)
Freed from prison, gay Zambian endures poverty and scorn to stay with his mom
Good news for LGBTQ prisoners: You did it! Project Not Alone hits goal in a week.
Lawyer and broadcaster RIchard Sky says the anti-LGBTQ bill violates the Constitution of Ghana. (Photo courtesy of Daily Guide Network)
Court delays action on Ghana’s harsh anti-LGBTQ bill
Justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana (Photo courtesy of GhanaWeb)
Harsh anti-LGBTQ bill heads to Ghana’s Supreme Court this week
Mosque in Gopalpur area of Bangladesh (Photo courtesy of Pinterest)
Bangladesh police arrest 2 lesbians who want to get married
We have freed 36 LGBTQ prisoners. We need help to free 10 more.
Transgender hijra community opens its first mosque in Bangladesh
Radia Teherin Utsha (Photo courtesy of JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France)
Bangladesh takes a toll on its LGBTQ citizens
Supporters of Iraqi militai leader Muqtada al-Sadr burn an LGBT flag in Baghdad's Tahrir square in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Facebook via Middle East Eye)
New Iraqi law calls for prison for same-sex love, gender changes