Africa

Fueling digital LGBT+ rights activism in East Africa
Sierra Leone queer people forced to margins of economy
Uganda Police spokesperson Rusoke Kituuma (Photo courtesy of Business Times Uganda)
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act creates barriers to justice
DIck Bayford Botswana AG
Botswana officially erases ban on same-sex intimacy
Afrobeats’ uneasy relationship with queerness at home in Nigeria
Zambia: One grim example of how Trump has slashed anti-AIDS efforts
Angel Maxine (Photo courtesy of AfricanArguments.org)
Ghana: Anti-LGBTQ lawmaker wants two trans women arrested
Homeless transgender woman Yas
Cameroon: Trans woman targeted in attempted public assault
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his buddy, Relarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (Photo courtesy of the Atlantic Council)
Belarus adopts law against positive accounts of gay sex
Cameroon trans beauty pageant attacked on Trans Visibility Day
Ethiopian LGBTQ activist Robel Meseret Hailu. (Photo courtesy of Fatteh / Robel Hailu)
Ethiopia’s fearless gay activist chooses to keep the faith
Senegal's gendarmerie released this photo of 12 men arrested on homosexuality charges.
Wave of arrests of gay men in Senegal fuels hysteria about HIV
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’
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
Courtroom scene in the Pikine-Guédiawaye courthouse in Senegal. (Photo courtesy of Dakar Poste)
Young man agrees to sex act for $3.57, instead gets 6 years in Senegal prison
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