Africa

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
Arua city official Job Richard Matua claims that the defendants will flee if they are released on bail. (Photo courtesy of YouTube)
Uganda: Two women yanked back into prison for kissing
Edward Mwebaza, executive director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), addresses the media. (Photo courtesy of HRAPF)
Violence against Uganda’s LGBTQI+ community surges in new year
Senegal parliament votes to double prison time for gay sex
How one Nigerian woman risked everything to be herself
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
Archbishop Laurent Mbanda of Rwanda now leads the anti-gay church coalition Gafcon, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. (Photo courtesy of AFP/Getty/BBC)
Anti-gay Anglicans ease off their challenge to female archbishop
Cameroon: Five men freed after 4 months in prison for homosexuality
Microcredit and LGBT+ inclusion: Urgent need for innovation in economic aid
Fox Odoi-Oywelowo at the global equality summit in South Africa in 2024. (Enrique Anarte photo courtesy of Thompson Reuters Foundation)
Uganda’s pro-LGBTQI+ rights legislator loses parliamentary seat
Homeless transgender woman Yas
Cameroon: Homeless trans woman illustrates what U.S. cutbacks have done
A U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight operates out of a Seattle airport in August 2025. (Lindsey Wasson photo courtesy of AP)
U.S. deports lesbian asylum-seeker to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal
Ugandan police arrest 2 women for kissing in public
Senegal government proposes harsh new laws against homosexuality
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters)
Uganda: Don’t see good news in latest election results