Africa

Reporter/activist Steeves Winner (pseudonym) meets with the four newly released gay prisoners in Ebolowa. Their faces are blurred for their safety. (Photo by Steeves Winner)
Project Not Alone’s donors set free 4 gay prisoners in Cameroon
In Senegal, anti-LGBT forces seek longer prison time for gay sex
Congo’s national prosecutor orders crackdown on homosexuality
Burkina Faso leader Ibrahim Traore (Photo courtesy of SamePass.org)
Burkina Faso junta takes a step toward criminalizing homosexuality
Members of Congress Mark Takano (left) and Joyce Beatty (right)
U.S. Democrats’ resolution rachets up pressure on Ugandan homophobes
Cover illustration from the latest report on human rights abuses in Uganda.
Landlords now leading abusers of LGBTQI+ persons in Uganda
Brenda Biya: (Olivier Corsan photo courtesy of Le Parisien)
Cameroon’s lesbian First Daughter: ‘Let my story change the law’
Brenda Biya published this photo of her kissing Layyons Valença (@Laoncita) on Instagram.
Will Cameroon repeal anti-LGBT law after First Daughter came out as a lesbian?
Religious leaders carry anti-LGBTQ signs during July 2023 march against same-sex marriage in Malawi. (Photo courtesy of VOA)
Malawi court refuses to overturn anti-LGBTQ+ laws
Gay, homeless and depressed: The journey of a Nigerian man
Senegal lesbian activists fighting for visibility in a hostile nation
Online drama series highlights the realities of LGBT Nigerians
Two lesbian women from Ebolowa, Cameroon, were released from prison through the efforts of Project Not Alone.
Cameroon: Readers’ donations free 3 innocent lesbians from prison
Namibia decriminalizes sodomy
Joy in Namibia as court decriminalizes gay sex
Map of the 65 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them. 
In a reversal, homosexuality is now illegal in 65 nations
Enioluwa Adeoluwa (Photo courtesy of Paper Magazine)
Nigerian online influencer condemns anti-LGBT violence