Africa

India and Trinidad overturned their anti-gay laws in court this year. Kenya and Botswana might do the same next year.
2019 goal: Eliminate two more countries’ anti-gay laws
Location of Chad in African (Map courtesy of Wikimedia)
34 African nations have anti-gay laws; soon dropping to 32?
Forgive Kevin Hart and other formerly anti-gay converts
Commentary: Help LGBT Africans by cutting aid to anti-gay Tanzania
Battered and slashed, gay man seeks escape from Cameroon
Cameroon: Have a male partner? 3 years in prison
Blackmailers force Nigerian student to come out to family
Gay Muslim in a Cameroon prison, ‘almost a slave’
6 years in prison because Abdelaziz loved a man
Tanzania's crackdown on its LGBT citizens began after John Magufuli was elected president in 2015. (Emmanuel Herman photo courtesy of Reuters and Lusaka Times)
Commentary: Aid cut would make gay Tanzanians into scapegoats
Graphic for the fundraising campaign for the new Not Alone / Pas Seul project in northern Cameroon.
Help feed 3 mistreated, hungry gay prisoners
How Canadians promoted homophobia in Tanzania
Liberian Rep. Clarence Massaquoi, sponsor of bill to make same-sex intercourse a felony. (Ida Reeves photo courtesy of BushChicken.com)
Liberia again weighs tightening anti-gay laws
Botswana activists deplore anti-trans attack
Struggling Nigerian musician Waconzy turns to homophobia
In NIgeria last year, lesbian activist Pamela Adie was denied the right to register her organization, Lesbian Equality and Empowerment Initiatives, on the grounds that the name was misleading, offensive, contrary to public policy and in violation of the Nigerian law prohibiting same-sex marriage.
Lesbian activist loses battle in Nigerian court