Africa

Ghana schools adopt anti-homosexuality policy; homophobia flourishes
Executive Director Chizelu Emejulu and the transwoman with face hidden. (Photo Source: Minority Watch Instagram).
Nigerian trans woman seeks justice; magistrate warns perpetrator
Steven Kabuye in a hospital outside Kampala, Uganda. (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters/Guardian)
Donors raise $5,000 for victim of anti-gay attack in Uganda
PLEASE DONATE: We helped free a lesbian couple in Cameroon
Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye (Photo courtesy of OkayAfrica)
Burundi’s leader revives painful memories of past genocides
2023 World Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights Progress – Part 6: Global Trends
Roman Catholic Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Cameroon: ".'Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, and anything outside of that is witchcraft." (Photo courtesy of Vatican News)
African clergy balk as the Pope okays blessings for same-sex couples
2023 World Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights Progress – Part 4: Africa and Oceania
Ghana's parliament (Photo courtesy of ISSAfrica.org)
Ghana parliament gives up on passing anti-LGBTQ bill this year
Secret LGBT-friendly church offers communion. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Secret LGBT-friendly church welcomes and protects Kenyan worshippers
Sheila Lumumba (Photo courtesy of BBC / WhatsOnQueerBC.com/)
Killer of Kenyan lesbian sentenced to 30 years
People visit the JAV Christmas village during a "turning on the light" event in Abuja, Nigeria in December 2022. (Afolabi Sotunde photo courtesy of Reuters)
At Christmas time, many LGBTQ+ Nigerians dread returning to homophobic relatives
Qtalk: My ex is blackmailing me. What can I do?
Jann Halexander
Gabon: LGBT people worry that post-coup government may reinstate anti-gay laws
Frank Mugisha and other human rights activists await action from the Constitutional Court. (Photo courtesy Nicholas Opiyo / X)
Is harsh Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Law constitutional? Court is about to decide
Sam George, a leader of Ghana's anti-LGBTQ partisans in parliament (Photo courtesy of Ghana Web)
Ghana parliament might prohibit people from marrying their cars