Africa

Abdool Ridwan Firaas (Ryan) Ah Seek (Photo courtesy of 5plus)
African island nation Mauritius overturns anti-sodomy law
Kenyan member of parliament Peter Kaluma keeps pushing for anti-LGBTQ action. (Photo courtesy of The Star)
Fight for LGBTQ rights in Kenya: 1 win in court, 2 new threats in parliament
A report from Ugandan human rights groups Convening for Equality and its Strategic Response Team highlight a “horrific breadth and depth of abuses” that have occurred as a result of the nation’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. To read the report, click the image. (Image courtesy of Kuchu Times)
Reeling from over 500 anti-LGBT abuses, Ugandan activists plead for help from West
UgandaUganda President Yoweri Museveni signs the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. (Photo courtesy of State House Uganda) President Yoweri Museveni signs Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2022, turning it into the Homosexuality Act Law 2023. (Photo courtesy of State House Uganda)
Violence against LGBTQ Ugandans surges after Anti-Homosexuality Act
Pan-Africanism: West African gathering will push for rights of LGBT French-speakers
Roger Ross Williams, director of "God Loves Uganda"
Homosexuality has always been African, but the term LGBT is new and divisive
Nigeria: 69 ‘gay wedding’ suspects to be released on bail
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Cameroon: Money is tight, so LGBTI activists prepare to work smarter
Cameroon: She searches her husband’s phone and discovers he is gay
Office of TranzNetwork after the attack. (Photo courtesy of Chapter Four Uganda/X (Twitter)
Arson destroys offices of Ugandan trans organization
Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships. (Photo courtesy of Parliament Magazine)
United front against homophobic Ugandan law? Europe says no.
Uganda Constitutional Court sets date for Anti-Homosexuality Act hearing
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Cameroon: LGBTI community and defenders remain target of homophobic acts
Qtalk: A Nigerian trans woman’s tale of heartache and hope
Ethiopian LGBTQ people fighting for their lives amid government crackdown
Police paraded arrestees before the public after raiding what they claimed was a "gay wedding". (Screenshot from police broadcast)
Nigerian police make mass arrests at alleged ‘gay wedding’